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In 2019 we built ~500 large renewable energy projects. Total 180GW, or about 2 per day. We can and should built about x2-x3 more. Current bottlenecks is NIMBY,
by algo_trader 7y ago
In 2019 we built ~500 large renewable energy projects. Total 180GW, or about 2 per day.
We can and should built about x2-x3 more. Current bottlenecks is NIMBY, competing fossil assets, and transmission.
It will be hard, so feel "ill but hopeful".
- revax 7y agoWhat does a "renewable energy project" means?
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- greglindahl 7y ago180GW / 500 = 360 megawatts average, does that help set the scale?
- natch 7y agoThe numbers were referring to carbon capture and sequestration projects, not renewable energy projects. Both help with getting carbon out of the atmosphere. But they are not the same thing. Energy projects generally produce or help deliver energy for the locale that creates and funds them. That means there is political will for them, locally. CCS projects benefit the global climate, but not the local taxpayers directly. I’m all for them but your average climate denier is not going to be onboard. It’s way beyond being a hard sell. Hopeful is not the feeling that naturally arises here.
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- acidburnNSA 7y agoIs that 180GW of capacity or of generation? With renewables these values are often different by ~4x due to intermittency.