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this is incredibly unambitious of a goal for an island nation that needs to get off fossil fuels. 70% renewable by 2050? that's insane -- the technology for thi
by durkie 8y ago
this is incredibly unambitious of a goal for an island nation that needs to get off fossil fuels. 70% renewable by 2050? that's insane -- the technology for this exists right now and is being rapidly deployed. taking 10 years to do this would already be very generous. 32 is just not even trying.
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- TheSmiddy 8y agoThe entire world could easily be on 100% renewable by 2060. The average lifetime of a coal fired power plant is 40 years so if we don't build another one the last one built will expire around then. In the meantime every time new capacity is needed or an existing coal power plant needs to be decommissioned replace it with solar/wind/solar thermal/nuclear/pumped hyrdo/geothermal/a battery system/wave generator/whatever. Today, with all subsidies removed, and all externalities included, coal is already not an economically competitive source of electricity, governments need to stop propping it up and just let it die.