In the of vastly climate change, renewable energy would be a good platform for mitigating this problem, renewable energy can serve us source of energy but this type of energy is not sufficient for us.
So renewable energy should be developed more and storage capacity should be developed.
Who told you that? Renewable energy is completely sufficient, but it's much more expensive to produce. That is why governments like to avoid it or dedicate only a small percent of power production to renewables to act like they care.
Renewable energy is for instance water, and you can build several dams on a single river and produce plenty of power. The only problem is cost.
Thats the bad side of renewable energy, the cost of dams the machinery and the plataforms for the production of energy by using the movements of engines propulse by water are huge, besides not every country have a river capable to do this kind of proyect.
That's why there are different types of renewable energy, the best thing I think is for the solar powered panels. Definitely, they can help power up the grid if given a chance to serve its purpose. It also depends on the country, that's why there are different designs also.
It's just not a priority for the world as a whole. It's not even about the monetary cost. The current energy companies are so deeply embedded into politics, that the opportunity for mass renewable energy gets very low on the list. The US spends $700 billion a year on military....that's a higher priority than having renewable energy. The technological constraint doesn't exist anymore.
We are depending on people like Elon, to make it his personal priority to get the needle moving. There needs to be way more billionaires that share the same attitude.
I guess so, it's just not everybodys interest however there are a lot of countries funding those researches that can be of help to the society as a whole, scientists also depend on that. Definitely it's a part of our world, and saying that energy companies are in politics, I agree with that. It's all about the money right there, they wouldn't stop because they are earning from it, never cares about who gets stepped on.
In terms of research, the technology that currently exists for solar panels and batteries is more than good enough. But society as a whole doesn't move in that direction, only individuals do. So it's a very slow movement. Think about cell phones. This was a very fast movement that the whole world got behind. Nothing really stood in its way. The technology was created and constantly improved, and distributed all over the world. That type of movement isn't there for solar. And the current interests in energy don't want to give up the control, power and money to decentralize energy into individuals having their own electricity with no dependence.
Our energy companies are "crown" corporations, meaning they are partly government organizations. These organizations aren't open to the idea that one day they SHOULD be obsolete and replaced with either solar, geothermal, wind, hydro, etc. renewable energy.