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This is meaningless on a global scale. Globally, we've added more mega watts of coal power for decades. Doesn't look like it is stopping anytime soon. https:
by testfoobar 5y ago
This is meaningless on a global scale.
Globally, we've added more mega watts of coal power for decades. Doesn't look like it is stopping anytime soon.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-worlds-coal-power-plants https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-worlds-coal-power-plants
- berkes 5y agoThis is not meaningless. It is an important data-point. One that clearly proves it is possible. One that teaches what works and what not. Those data-points are crucial for other countries or political groups to be swayed and convinced. It may be meaningless for global greenhouse-gas emission reduction in itself, true. But for "the movement" it is an important milestone.
- testfoobar 5y agoMeaningless because the lessons of Costa Rica do not apply in the largest carbon generating economies.
- eldaisfish 5y agoWhile meaningless may not be the best choice of word, Costa Rica's success with hydro is borderline useless to the majority of the world that does not have geography for a dam. Hydro energy works, what exactly is novel or meaningful about that? the title here is 100% clickbait as it frames the situation as "renewables" work when the accurate claim is "hydro + a small population" works.