To the editor: The ability to store electricity for our grid is necessary to increase the use of clean, renewable energy sources.We need to transition to clean energy since we are already seeing significant negative economic weather-related effects made worse by climate change even in the U.S. Increasing temperatures have led to decreased moisture content in the soil, increasing the intensity of droughts and fires especially in the west, while rain events increasingly have had more moisture to them increasing flooding in many areas in the country.Investing in clean energy and energy storage now will be cheaper than the costs of remediating climate related disasters in the future. Fortunately, there have been significant technical advances in electrical…
