California officials, The Verge pointed out, have set out a policy goal of 1.3 gigawatts of storage by 2020.

Gigawatts is a unit of power. One does not store power, one stores, consumes, and pays for energy. The conflation of the two is a principle bait-and-switch employed by green fraudsters in rosy capability assessments published in the popular press, as in “enough energy to run 20,000 homes” — as though it were actually working 24/7. How many GWh do they propose to store? (Batteries are typically rated in ampere-hours, which is a proxy for watt-hours.) It’s absolutely vital this bullshit be called every single time it appears, because it is central to the fraud of green energy “sources”. My own axiom is this: we will know an energy source is worth a damn when politicians seek to tax it.