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Batteries, grids & nuclear facts

Storage isn’t sci-fi—it mostly moves energy through time. And when headlines count reactors, there’s a go-to reference librarians love.

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Cloudy afternoon, gusty evening—why should you care about giant batteries or pumped hydro? The IEA links storage to things like:

Balancing supply and demand and fitting wind & solar into the gridDeleting every power line on EarthMaking new power plants unnecessary foreverLocking everyone’s electricity bill to one number