Loading ...if they are telling you that silver, or solid state batteries will “literally take over all battery / energy storage / energy production functions moving forward” then we know that they’re lying to us. Because they are expensive, and they have a limited life. There will be recycling problems. We still don’t have a commercial method of recycling lithium batteries.
Maybe they will be suitable for mobile applications – cars, tools, planes etc., but for the last hundred years the go to battery for static energy storage has been iron nickel batteries. With a little bit of maintenance including regular (say every 20 years) replacement of the alkaline electrolyte these batteries last forever. Some of Edison’s originals are still in use. They don’t care about cycling. They aren’t so fussy about charging voltages, compared to every other type.
Over the last 25 years there have been many promises of new battery technologies, sodium, magnesium, redox, etc, so forgive me if I park the silver battery along with them in the “wait and see” category. Even the now ubiquitous lithium battery took 25 years from invention to commercialisation.