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Renewables are just not serious – Our leaders just don't believe in them
- guerby 3y agoMy favourite part: "Nobody seems to realize that when you have a lot of baseload, you need a lot of flexible capacity everyday, for many hours, to manage the daily peaks in demand above the baseload minimum. In other words: backup is something that the power system knows a lot about, because it needs it all the time, and providing it for renewables is not really more complicated than for our current system - it’s just a different profile to manage. "
- ZeroGravitas 3y agoThis is a bit of a downer, and while it certainly captures the politics in the media, it doesn't really capture the "deep state" of expertise that has been working in the background for decades around the globe. The deep pockets of fossil fuels have been spending a lot of money to hold things back, and despite that we've made amazing progress. If you want to be even more optimistic, the populist right selling out so hard may well discredit them for an entire generation. Which will be a nice bonus if greed hasn't already set off a chain reaction that will destroy all human civilization.