Lack of access to banking or familiarity with cryptocurrency mechanics? If it is the only thing they know how to use and are scammed into using it, guess what they are going to use?
There’s no chance nature can adapt at the current rate of change. Eventually the rate will settle down and nature will catch up, but I expect a lot of pain and suffering in the meantime.
Gravity storage is cool when nature has already made most of the work, I/E pumped hydro where nature has already built this huge canyon with a river in the middle just waiting for someone to put a dam at the end.
The real problem: if this technology is viable, it will immediately be attacked with disinformation campaigns (“but it kills dolphins!”), lobbying against it, government red tape, and tariffs.
Solar, wind, and storage can solve most of our energy needs, TODAY, but look at how it’s being treated.
