IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first
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Re: IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first
#2Sooooo....you're telling me there's a chance! Solar FTW!
Re: IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first
#3Maybe "accidentally killing fossil fuels" will be DT's singular good deed
Re: IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first
#4Maybe "accidentally killing fossil fuels" will be DT's singular good deed
You can't really attribute to someone something they did unintentionally while trying to do the opposite.
Re: IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first
#5Maybe "accidentally killing fossil fuels" will be DT's singular good deed
In a long run - hopefully but in a short run big oil (outside the gulf) collecting windfall profits and Asian countries returning to coal.
Re: IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first
#6"Overall, renewables and nuclear together met nearly 60% of the growth in energy demand".
That's not enough. It's obvious this is going in the right direction but adoption is still too slow, considering how cheap renewables are now (and will be).
Re: IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first
#7Maybe "accidentally killing fossil fuels" will be DT's singular good deed
You can't really attribute to someone something they did unintentionally while trying to do the opposite.
I mean.. we do all the time no? Hitler tried to make Germany great and made it shit. Mao tried to make China great and killed tens of millions. Stalin, Pol Pot.. the list goes on.
If we attribute accidental evil, why should we not attribute accidental good?
Re: IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first
#8Very misleading title: it should be "Solar leads global energy growth for the first time".
Still good news, but a long, long way from solar becoming the world's primary source of energy.
Re: IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first
#9"Overall, renewables and nuclear together met nearly 60% of the growth in energy demand". That's not enough. It's obvious this is going in the right direction but adoption is still too slow, considering how cheap renewables are now (and will be).
Cost is the barrier
Re: IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can't really attribute to someone something they did unintentionally while trying to do the opposite.
I mean.. we do all the time no? Hitler tried to make Germany great and made it shit. Mao tried to make China great and killed tens of millions. Stalin, Pol Pot.. the list goes on. If we attribute accidental evil, why should we not attribute accidental good?
If Hitler was trying to find a gold mine under Germany and instead found a bomb there that killed a bunch of people, we wouldn't blame him for murder, it was an honest mistake.
Murdering millions of people wasn't exactly "accidental evil", it was very deliberate. Which parts of what these guys did do you think were accidental?