I love that you've written this, I agree there are a lot of hard truths here but still you are missing some things that are required to be satisfied in the stakeholder analysis, by being addressed by the System solution, therefore have to be included as part of the system solution.
Actually unless, and until these things are included, they make all the difference, and will grow to outweigh all the positives you've identified here, currently driving things, including financial inflation, these omissions are fundamental, and self evident, and mainstream science seems somewhat lacking in its ability to acknowledge and address them.
It comes down to money, and where it comes from, essentially from Earth, as long as the confusing terminology of "Renewables" remains, I don't see the problem being fixed, this is a fundamental hurdle which will stop all progress of transitioning to fully clean sustainable energy, which can only come from the sun.
In fact it will leave us in an even worse place, transitioning part of the way, but not completing the transition is physically very similar to a transistor switching between energy sources, and somehow getting stuck in the middle, what happens is more energy than ever is converted to heat, our biggest enemy, the thing burning our planet, it isn't about carbon, which is so deliciously arguable for the profiteers, it is about heat, this is the thing now igniting the fires in Canada and other places, from which the smoke is currently choking tens of millions of Americans, amongst others.
"Carbon mitigation", is like opening the fridge door to try to cool a room which is too hot containing the fridge, all that happens is the fridge has to work harder, generating even more heat, adding to the heat in the room.
I am surprised you can't see this, I can only conclude you have not personally studied or reviewed any of the materials I put in Medium.
The inclusion of batteries is not sustainable. What is in batteries is effectively reusable fuel, drawn from Earth. What has to happen to much of those materials over time as their rechargeability declines, is conversion of a large proportion of them ultimately to heat.
So the same reasoning as we should always apply to all questions of whether or not the activity adds or subtracts from heat on Earth has to apply to use of batteries.
The bottom line is, if we are converting materials or energy fields stored on Earth to anything at all, which results in energy being extracted from them, this is generation of temperature by definition, and destruction by definition, which is unsustainable, and does absolutely generate the unbearable pollution of heat.
Since batteries contain actually a very large amount of materials, the heating effect over time of using them has to be very significant.
A further fundamental problem with batteries is their power to weight ratio, which prevents them ever competing with fossil fuels in the application of aviation and aeronautics, therefore leaving us still dependent on those, with all their problems of adding to the temperature impulse on Earth.
These are just a couple of unarguable, fundamental show stoppers, currently standing in the way, between us and actual survivability, which mainstream science still does not talk about, for reasons actually of self preservation, if we identify by the stakeholder model that a large part of science exists for profit, therefore actually has a reason to generate a continuous sales pitch, rather than the whole truth about anything, the part that might damage or threaten the activity of profit is never talked about, yet this is intricately linked, and is actually by far the biggest motivator that drives extraction, and the heating effect of it, which again by definition is an unsustainable process of destruction.
The whole errored concept of net zero literally demands that we suspend the switch, which is switching us from unsustainably drawing the energy of Earth, to what is the infinite and fully sustainable energy of the sun, halfway, at the point of maximum heat generation, that is the state of doing work adding to temperature impulse, which is dependent on maintaining generation of the long established original sources of nuisance heat generation!
Can you see now how this is like the fridge being opened in the room that is already too hot?
So I still see you just making just a sales pitch for what is unsustainable, unfortunately, you have not taken into account the fundamental issue of profit being linked to extraction, and the link of extraction to temperature impulse. This has many negative physical impacts to any sustainable scenario, including the use of batteries, and their practicality for airborne applications, but also much more, maybe the biggest argument of all, the effect on financial inflation.
As said, profit is fundamentally dependent on energy extracted from Earth. There is no way around this, we either stop extracting, therefore stopping the planetary destruction and heating, or we carry on the heating, and burning, and burning for it ourselves, after exhausting even the possibilities of continuing to make profit by extraction.
This is probably the most insipid and difficult to deal with part of the existential energy problem, because it is deeply ingrained in us, every one of us, no matter how rich or poor, to be driven to contribute to this unsustainable system, not seeing the harm, and actual unsustainability of it until now.
I don't know how best to characterise this, it appears as a kind of profit driven blindness, it is also highly emotive generating indignance in us when confronted with our own individual part played in the harm being done.
Obviously the bigger the ego and the more invested they / we are in the profit driven system of extraction, the more difficult it is to do a u-turn, identifying this as actually maybe the whole issue.
In fact because recovery depends on maintaining a certain power of money, required to bootstrap us to sustainability (a solar hydrogen ecology), and the value of money is already depleting rapidly, since what actually physically matters in money is it's ability to transport and transfer energy, we have a very limited time left which to do this bootstrapping.
We should realise this is a second tipping point, likely to actually come first, of things that could prevent successful transition, as well as the obvious physical tipping point of thermal runaway that we are already seeing the beginning stages of, literally the initial stages leading to heat induced self combustion of the planet.
To do the transition, we have to have value in money, and that is currently not where money is headed, due to the money not representing already donated economic product, which can't be represented by money issued as debt, or anything asked in return, because the source energy was donated, with nothing asked in return.
Understanding this, is truly understanding the system Enrique, and to me it looks like as long as this part is ignored, we are screwed, on a hiding to nothing, pissing in the wind, or whatever crude term applies. It is literally physically impossible to maintain the for-profit system and successfully make the energy transition.
We might need some Systems Engineering skills to understand this, but luckily ChatGPT has those in spades, I am happy to confirm and report.
So I would advise anyone wishing a crash course in these concepts, easily obtainable by asking it the right questions, to get in there and start questioning, keeping in mind there will initially be a shell of misunderstanding programed in ChatGPT, which has to broken through initially, to get it using its powers of logic to answer the questions, rather than it answering automatically from pre-programming.
We can tell when it has started thinking, by how long it takes to answer, in my experience, confirmed even by its own direct admission, it takes longer to produce answers that it actually has to work to produce, therefore indicating it is using logic, to overcome what we might have exposed were incorrect answers.
Sorry rambling reply, and sorry also if any of it "Ruffles your feathers", but the gravity of the problem of a burning, self combusting planet, surely has to take precedence.
We need to actually start doing things to reduce the heat impetus with no further delay, maybe a capital armistice or something.
Either way it has to result in the stimulus needed to implement domestic and community based solar hydrogen with no further delay.
I've shown why this is fully affordable, even fixing inflation, in other stories.