It Costs More to Burn the World
(midwest.social)
CobraCommander
Memes of ProductionThere is a lot of geopolitics to unpack here and I guess the study assumes an "and every gets along forever" approach until we reach 100%. Heads up: I am absolutely for 100% renewables, expecting us to land at about 95% in 15-20 years.
China is so far ahead in integrated manufacturing and technology on solar and batteries (wind I would argue that international competitions might be further ahead), that it would basically mean handing a bucket load of cash to them for the US to land on 100%. This is probably the crux of why the US will not go for renewables in the short term. Old butthole in the president's chair is just doing the bidding of US a) military advisors and b) oil companies. Russia is similar.
Also, the availability of cheap gas in the US means that even aiming for 50% renewables creates a big short term economic question mark. Is this a pathetic argument, of course! Is this also the downside to democracy and election cycles? Probably!
Europe however has 3 choices: 1) get into bed with China and hope to hell it doesn't turn on them, 2) wait for the Ukraine war to end in as favourable position for Ukraine as possible, before getting back to buying Russian gas, or 3) go back to burning dirty coal. Restarting European solar manufacturing isn't going to happen. Hydro is already probably close to max build out and will only get more unreliable and nuclear is basically #2 with less pipeline gas.
Poke all the holes you want, I am not an expert in this, only keenly interested.
The problem with MBAs is that you can never tell if they're intentionally ignorant and lying to you or if they're just that stupid.
Both lol. MBA is basically a negative education 😆
And this benefits the rich how? Capitalism only cares about line-go-up.
Maybe it's time they are reminded of reality
Source:
but the expense will pay for itself in under seven years, according to a new report from researchers at Stanford University.
Such an initiative would create 3.1 million more jobs than if the U.S. stayed on a business-as-usual trajectory, and would save 63,000 lives from air pollution every year, the report said
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/the-global-price-tag-for-100-percent-renewable-energy-73-trillion
Interestingly from 7 years ago so we could already have paid it off?
I mean, I also can pull numbers out of my ass
People act like the problems facing humanity require complex difficult solutions but that's not true at all. Solving our problems is easy, solving our problems without inconveniencing some rich asshole is hard. Solving our problems while making the already wealthy even richer is the standard we are being held to which is essentially imposible.
OK, but how much of the money spent will go to oil billionaires?
