It’s not, to provide 2 weeks of storage (a reasonable amount to cover a period of no wind in winter) for the UK would cost about 2,000 Billion USD at current Li-ion prices.

Intermittent renewables are great as a component of energy generation but storage costs become prohibitive as you get to large fractions of intermittent power generation.

“Let me help subsidise a company paying below minimum wage” totally normal not batshit insane idea.

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They certainly cant do that in places with actual consumer regulations, ToS and EULA mean nothing if they go against the law.

and then the same amount of energy is used in just burning gasoline (never mind diesel and kerosine)