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In response to your first point, you don't account for the very real possibility that these developing countries, which are already disproportionately affected
by Floegipoky 10y ago
In response to your first point, you don't account for the very real possibility that these developing countries, which are already disproportionately affected by climate issues, will instead invest heavily in sustainable energy sources as they continue to become cheaper than fossil fuel alternatives.
- earthtolazlo 10y agoThey'll invest in whatever is cheapest. For the foreseeable future, that means oil, coal and natural gas.
- ben_w 10y agoSolar's the cheapest these days. The rest are only backups.
- nikdaheratik 10y agoThe issue with energy, especially electrical, isn't strictly about cost per KWH. There's the fixed cost of existing power plants that are expected to return a (highly regulated) profit, the problem of getting enough baseline power to run the grid, and also the fact that some sources of fossil fuels are cheaper to extract than others. These are huge problems that can't be fixed by any one group and are going to need solved in the next 10 years before we can replace most or all of our existing power plants with renewables.