The thing that I find interesting about "green energy" and its use is the blind eye we seem to turn towards storage impacts. I love the idea of solar and wind and such to augment the grid and make me more independent. I also like the idea of local storage to allow an interruption of power when the sun isn't shining or the wind isn't blowing. This requires battery storage and everyone is looking at the Li battery as the main solution.
I tend to be generally skeptical and think along the lines of, "ya? well how good is that for the environment?" Anyone who takes the time to read anything will see that the harvesting, use, and disposition of something like Lithium is not great either. Here is a simple read from an
environmental activist group called Friends of the Earth Europe but this same information is available everywhere.
https://www.foeeurope.org/sites/default/files/publications/13_factsheet-lithium-gb.pdf
So when we talk about "green energy" why does the conversation never include information like this? To listen to the media or whoever, all you have to do is buy a home Tesla battery, throw on some solar panels on your roof and you did your part to save the earth. Did you really? Or did you in many ways just change from adding some CO2 to the atmosphere to adding water vapor from evaporation ponds, toxic metals to water contamination, social issues to 2nd or 3rd world countries?