BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind,

and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. Well today we're mostly in oil and gas.

We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in

2023. VP.com slash and not all. The Economist.

Hello and Welcome to the Intelligence Frog.

Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist.

I'm your host Rosie Blore.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world. While many European capitals bemoan the on-stort of tourists,

Asian countries are happily welcoming more and more of them,

both from within the region and further afield.

And we're all going to have to get to grips with artificial intelligence,

not least because for many of us, our kids are already using or encountering it.

This week we answer another listener question.

How should parents talk to their children about AI?

But first. Renewable energy is a wonderful thing and we're using more and more of it.

There's just one problem.

Whereas coal and gas sit there. There's just one problem.

Whereas coal and gas sit there storing their energy until the moment you switch on the generator,

the sun only shines in the daytime, and the wind doesn't always blow,

which means there are gaps in the coverage. There's a temptation to turn back to

reliable old fossil fuels, but instead we can now keep the lights on using batteries, giant ones.

Energy storage has always been a promising idea, a tantalizing way to solve the problem of wind and solar intermittency,

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