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Is that actually true? I just can't believe it is, when there is no backup source of power for overcast/windless days. can you show that this is actually accura
by mikemotherwell 7y ago
Is that actually true? I just can't believe it is, when there is no backup source of power for overcast/windless days. can you show that this is actually accurate?
I can see where places with bad power supply currently, with the rolling brown and blackouts, might move to renewables, especially if 1st world countries subsidize it. "Oh, these are flaky and power is intermittent? So business as usual?"
But is coal really being moved out in the 1st world? Still the largest source of power in Germany.
The pie chart here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption shows that over 54% of the world's energy came from carbon. AFAICT as primary energy, that excludes motor vehicles (the graph above has oil higher than coal). I'm not sure if a reduction of 10% from carbon sources would represent a decrease in total carbon, given the rate of growth of energy usage world wide which https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption#/media/File:World_primary_energy_consumption_in_quadrillion_Btu_by_region.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption#/medi... demonstrates.
In any case, is it true that, globally, "non-carbon energy sources will, faster than most of the world currently thinks, force carbon energy sources off the market"?
- rossdavidh 7y agoThe turning point is quite rapid. I like to get my updates on renewable energy from oilprice.com, because I don't think it has the "rah-rah" excessively optimistic bias on renewables that some other online new sources can. If "oilprice.com" tells you renewable is starting to displace coal, it is likely true. https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Renewable-Energy/Renewable-Capacity-Moves-Ahead-Of-Coal-In-The-US.html https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Renewable-Energy/Ren...