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Tangential to this, there is the Morocco solar project - where the plan is to export via HVDC link to the UK - will this result in UK energy prices influencing
by kzrdude 5y ago
Tangential to this, there is the Morocco solar project - where the plan is to export via HVDC link to the UK - will this result in UK energy prices influencing those of Morocco? "Ideally" the production site should have access to cheaper energy since it's "their resource".
- ZeroGravitas 5y agoThats a good example. It would be better for 'global' warming if Britain just bought carbon credits from Morocco and skipped the transmission line. Morocco gets cheap, clean energy independence and industrial investment, the world gets less fossil co2 and even if they get taken over by Martians in the future that don't respect human laws, the climate benefit is already delivered and can’t be "cut off". However, the same groups that have poisoned the well on carbon "taxes", seem to have really done a number on the whole concept of offsets and emissions trading. Free market economics? Not acceptable if it hurts fossil fuels and helps the poor, only vice versa it seems.
- pabs3 5y agoThe Gold Standard organisation funds projects that reduce carbon emissions and helps the poor: https://www.goldstandard.org/our-story/gold-standard-featured-projects https://www.goldstandard.org/our-story/gold-standard-feature...
- kzrdude 5y ago"Free market" economics are broken for nonrenewable resources, since they misprice them - don't take future scarcity into account at all, and encourage an all-you-can-extract economy.
- ZeroGravitas 5y agoThey're relatively easy to fix though. But fossil fuels oligarchies destroy society and civilization just as much as they destroy the environment. Faith in government, science, rule of law, democracy and economics have been polluted as thoroughly as the air.