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Fox News clearly trying to spin the article for their audience (herp derp, renewable are vaguely insufficient! Take our implication that fossil fuels are neces
by scottLobster 8y ago
Fox News clearly trying to spin the article for their audience (herp derp, renewable are vaguely insufficient! Take our implication that fossil fuels are necessary and run with it!), here's the link to the less biased original:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/what-it-would-really-take-to-reverse-climate-change https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/what-it-would-re...
To oversimplify their point, shoving current renewable technologies into existing grids helps, but it isn't going to do the job for a variety of reasons. So we need radically different grid infrastructures, technologies and economics to get truly sustainable power generation.
Fundamentally the issue is CO2 sticks around in the atmosphere for a century or more. Reducing emissions is good, but until/unless they drop to a sustainable level we're just buying time.