- cross-posted to:
- climate@slrpnk.net
- cross-posted to:
- climate@slrpnk.net
How we get off fossil fuels looks very roughly like this:
- Generate electricity without burning stuff (wind, solar, geothermal, storage, and maybe nuclear if it’s cheap enough)
- Electrify everything we can (electric vehicles, elecrified mass transit, ebikes, heat pumps for home and district heat, nitrate fertilizer manufacturing, etc)
- Stop doing the things we can’t (a few industrial processes)
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Honestly, sounds like a solid plan. The best time to start this would have been a decade ago. The second best time is now. To be fair, we already made good progress into this direction, bit we need to double down, that much has become obvious in the last few weeks.
We could have started 25 years ago at least. I remember watching the documentary “Who killed the electric car?” when it came out in 2006.
In contrast, Trump is betting on oil. This might cause the US to fall technologically behind in the development of green energy.
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Not as much as you may think.
Australia ranks 46th in share of renewable in power generation, with 40.7% renewables
Australia has had some big hydro going for decades, homeowners are taking matters into their own hands installing solar&batteries, and some individual states are taking action,eg SA had the largest battery in the world when commissioned 10 years ago in 2016
Australia has a big conflict in that it also has large exports of coal and gas, with hard lobbying by miners that crosses into local power production, especially legacy coal power plants.
I think Trump bets on getting lots of bribes. He doesn’t gives a shit about US energy infrastructure.
They will “float some measures”. We’ll see what Germany and France will say. So far Germany is still pushing hard for ICE cars because they are to shortsighted to invest in EVs and France is blocking a lot of developments so they can export electricity from their nuclear plants to other countries.
Not shortsighted. Carbrained and corrupt. Also, the time to invest in European EV production has passed. China has got that market cornered now. German carmakers squandered any advantage they might have initially held on building bulky, expensive cars that the average person can’t even afford.
China has got that market cornered now. German carmakers squandered any advantage they might have initially held
Yes, because they were good at building ICE cars and wanted to squeeze as much profit out of it as possible instead of investing in transition into EV. They still look at the next quarter instead of the next decade. So yeah, shortsighted.
Would have been cool to see Europe starting this seriously years ago, instead of titering and waiting for oil situation to explode. But at least it’s happening. Now I hear friends and family back home that were not into electric cars, now finally considering getting one. Now that even the availability of gas at station is not a given. Brighter future!
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