Batteries are their own problem. They aren't some magical bullet as some would lead you to believe. Battery storage is also extremely expensive.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/lith...ronment-impact
https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/fea...mental-impact/
Batteries don't just magically appear out of thin air, they are made of metals that are toxic to the environment, and uses extreme amounts of water and a destructive process to mine / extract.
The amount of lithium, cobalt and and nickel needed to build a grid level battery system and cost would be immense.
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/tra...45t-wo/557832/
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Last month, the energy research firm Wood Mackenzie estimated the cost to decarbonize the U.S. grid alone would be $4.5 trillion, about half of which would go to installing 900 billion watts, or 900 gigawatts (GW), of batteries and other energy storage technologies. (Today, the world's battery storage capacity is just 5.5 GW.)
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No problem, just multiply the world's current battery storage capacity by 180 to meet one country's demands. Boom solar grid!