Environmental Aspects of Batteries

• Lead acid is 99% recycled today. Lithium ion is hardly recycled - [1]
• Lithium batteries rely on strategic resources and are not great for the environment - [2]

Lithium vs Lead Acid Life

• If low depth of discharge - only 20% - lead acid lasts a long time. 7000 cycles, or 20 years. [3]

Generation Costs

• The renewable revolution has been won - [4]. Polsky is a wind power billionaire, says '“If you’re just making money, you can only go so far,’’ he says. “When you have a mission, a conviction, you perform on a completely different level. You believe so strongly, you don’t take no for an answer.”'