Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Whatever time I have left I'll be giving to my colleague Mr. Serré.
Welcome gentlemen. As neither a scientist nor an engineer, I would ask that you take pity on me when you answer. Ha, ha!
The current challenge seems to be the storage of clean energy, electricity, so that we can use it when we need it. I'm going to stray from the subject slightly for the sake of an analogy.
A while ago, I was on a plane reading an article about the technology used in electric cars. In response to environmentalists, the authors were arguing that the environmental damage caused by the battery of a single electric vehicle was equivalent to that caused by the manufacturing of three Hummers. I never forgot that figure. Perhaps I was naive, but I'm telling you what I read; I'm not being critical.
This storage solution really comes down to building a giant battery. Have you done a cost estimate or assessed the environmental impact? Of course, we want to use and store clean energy, but there are costs to building that kind of mega-battery. Have they been measured? Is it worth it? It's an innocent question.