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A strong argument for the existence of a diety is hilarious-if-true outcomes like the Ayatollah getting to have both oil & lithium to remain fully hedged through the EV transition. Too improbable for a fictional movie, but here we are. Life, as always, is stranger than fiction.
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Yeah because wanting basic human rights is just something "the West" wants
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The degree to which we’ve been blessed with resources and opportunity to do the right thing (and have consistently chosen to do the dumb thing) never fails to amaze me. Infinite power from the sky that’s cheaper than fossil fuels; vast reserves of lithium to help oil-producing nations smoothly transition us away from oil; huge and unusually-enriched Uranium deposits we could use to build power (but instead used to bu…
> Infinite power from the sky that’s cheaper than fossil fuels but it isnt though, if it was, it would be happening all over, without massive subsidies and strongarming from government.
Utilities are slow. And not so bright. They are using old technology that hasn't changed for decades, has reached its peak, and doesn't advance. Utilities are conservative.
If something new comes out and is better, it's going to take them a decade to even realize what's happening. Then it's going to take decades for the old multi-decade existing equipment to age out.
And if the technology is cheaper, there's a very good chance that utilities will heavily resist providing cheaper electricity because in many markets they are regulated monopolies, with a fixed rate of profit. Cheaper energy prices mean less profit.
In reality, solar is cheaper energy today. Providing 99% of our energy by solar, wind, geothermal, and storage is cheaper than our current energy mix in California:
https://energycentral.com/c/cp/our-path-247-renewable-energy...
And nationwide in the US, it's cheaper to shut down a paid-for coal plant and replace it with solar than to continue buying fuel:
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30012023/wind-solar-coal-...
And year after year, solar, wind, and storage get cheaper, and we have not yet reached the inflection point of the logistic curve yet. The genera form of Moore's law is Wright's law, and it applies to renewable energies, and is no longer in effect for fossil fuel tech.
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You can't fix the problem by not talking about it. It wasn't an unfortunate natural disaster.
You're trying to portray people that joke about war as though they are trying to bring a thoughtful discussion. They aren't and you aren't being helpful by muddying the discussion by presenting them as such. These are reddit quality comments that don't belong here.
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Musk already admitted to being involved in one Coup https://www.telesurenglish.net/amp/news/elon-musk-confesses-...
He made an insensitive joke tweet when people were accusing him of getting lithium from Bolivia. Last I checked, Tesla denied sourcing any lithium from Bolivia, and no external investigators have managed to show a connection. He deleted the tweet as soon as his ambien/amphetamine cocktail (or whatever tf he's been on lately) wore off.
US could impose the upper limit to buy lithium from Iran, as they did with Russian oil.
Which means China will buy it. And that might be good: right now China is the largest carbon emitter in the world, so everything that helps them transition rapidly helps us too.
It would probably be better to help the countries that have a combination of high per capita emissions and large populations that are being slow about transitioning.
For example, suppose we wanted to cut total CO2 emissions by 2.5 billion tons of CO2. There are 3 countries that could in theory cut their emissions by that amount: China, US, and India.
For China to do that, they would need to cut back to where they are similar to Spain, Italy, or Great Britain when it comes to how green their energy sources are and how much of what they do depends on emitting CO2.
For the US to cut CO2 emissions by 2.5 billion tons of CO2, we'd have to cut back to where we are where China is now on green energy and processes. That's how far the US is behind in transitioning. (Largely because the US is the only high emitting large population first world country that regularly changes its mind about whether or not there is any need to transition). (There are countries way farther behind like Qatar and Kuwait, but their populations are small enough that it doesn't really matter at this stage).
For India to cut 2.5 billion tons of CO2 they would pretty much have to stop doing anything that emits CO2 because their total emissions are just a bit over 2.5 billion tons.
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As opposed to an anti-mullahs, anti-Russia, and anti-Hezbollah outlet that would be a normal geopolitics website?
not what i said at all. it's obvious that the cradle is a whitewashed organ of a dictatorship that pretends to be neutral.
But not too excited.