World surges past 40% clean power in record renewables boom
World surges past 40% clean power in record renewables boom
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World surges past 40% clean power in record renewables boom
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A recent study performed by actuaries, not environmental scientists, predicted a possible 50% global drop in GDP by 2070-2090. 50%! Scientists have been sounding the alarm for decades, but you know it’s bad when actuaries are doing the same thing. When the alternative is certain collapse, the alternatives become priceless. No matter what happens at this point, global society cannot exist in its current form in the future.
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Shame that AI and data centers are offsetting all that good.
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For the moment in the current AI boom, but not expected to in the long run. Just make the progress less fast. Still not ideal, of course, but don't get into the mindset that we can't make any progress at all when we still can and are doing so
From the article
Ember’s report shows that clean generation growth is set to outpace faster-rising demand in the coming years, marking the start of a permanent decline in fossil fuel generation. The current expected growth in clean generation would be sufficient to meet a demand increase of 4.1% per year to 2030, which is above expectations for demand growth.
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Hopefully AI means more investment into renewables, as well.
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Not Merica, drill baby drill. Roll dem coal
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Just in time for Trump to try and reignite coal! 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
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Bad time to be trying to sell a lot of power I guess
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Good! More oil for us to burn! /S
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Pretty telling how change happens in the blink of an eye as soon as it’s financially convenient.
It becoming financially convenient was a result of decades of intentional policy. It's now snowballing once it got there
It would have taken far longer to get here without government involvement if applications like space travel were the only reasons for earlier research and manufacturing
Oh I’m aware. I fully expect the same thing will happen to meat once we have cheaper meat substitutes. Yes, a ton of research money went into it but in the end, price is what matters for global adoption.
That's quite the understandment.
Non renewables have been subsidized for a century but now that renewables have become so cheap, the protection racket could no longer hold the technology back.
That's.. that's how change.. works?
The observation is that capitalism isn't any good at efficiently allocating resources