Bicycling Monterey 💚🌎🌍🌏<p>David Schmalz's report, currently the cover story of Monterey County Weekly, got us thinking about our first real awareness of some <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Battery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Battery</span></a> Storage challenges. It was former U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu who raised our awareness, in 2009. </p><p>BTW, in contrast to current Cabinet appointments:</p><p>"Chu's nomination to be Secretary of <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Energy</span></a> was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate….Chu is the first person appointed to the U.S. Cabinet after having won a <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/NobelPrize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NobelPrize</span></a>.” </p><p>"On February 1, 2013….in his resignation announcement, he warned of the risks of <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> from continued reliance on <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a>, and wrote, 'the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions.’”</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Chu#U.S._Secretary_of_Energy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_C</span><span class="invisible">hu#U.S._Secretary_of_Energy</span></a></p>