Above, CNBC on Tesla and other’s aggressive moves in energy storage.
Below, Jonathan Koomey on how batteries are competing with natural gas, first by disrupting expensive “peaking units” – exactly the path solar followed 10 years ago.
Above, CNBC on Tesla and other’s aggressive moves in energy storage.
Below, Jonathan Koomey on how batteries are competing with natural gas, first by disrupting expensive “peaking units” – exactly the path solar followed 10 years ago.
Physicist and energy analyst, Mark Mills, has a quite different assessment:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bidens-not-so-clean-energy-transition-11620752282
Do you know how many natural landscapes have been despoiled for fossil fuel extraction over the last 150 years.
Can you guess how much blood and treasure the US alone has spent protecting and acquiring access to oil (for private profit and “national security), starting with the US military protection of Standard Oil in China in the 1890s?
Even these days we’re playing war games with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats in the Strait of Hormuz.
I am never going to pay attention to anyone in the Wall Street fucking Journal whine about anything not being clean and green after all the support they’ve given to petrochemical industries for the past 130 years.
Just looked up the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research: Basically, take any position that favors US corporations over US citizens’ health and civil rights and you have guessed the position of the MIPR.
One of the ideas is to “strip mine” the abyssal plains of the oceans for what we used to call “manganese nodules” but which have other metals besides manganese. The carbon held in those sediments then gets mobilized and becomes “unsequestered” in the process, and ecosystems are wrecked as well.
Solar and wind are highly energy-dilute in their arrival, and the costs in overcoming that fact keep getting glossed over. Our goal, I once thought, was to Save the Earth, meaning our fellow species and the climate they evolved in. But now I see – no. It’s just to exploit another card in the Energy Deck and make way for yet further faster growth for the only species that matters – Home Sapiens. To hell with what it does to any other species, or future generations who will inherit the wreckage.
How do the sediments at >2,000m get “unsequestered” into the atmospheric carbon cycle?
Two very depressing posts above. Can add a few and dispute others but cannot be bothered having hypothetical bumfights.
Let us not give in to excuses for inaction. Not defeated until we surrender!