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So we could decarbonize the entire US power grid for what we spent on COVID relief/stimulus? That seems like a good deal, even without economies of scale...

• Scoundreller 3y ago
  Not just decarbonize, but become a major fossil fuel exporter and be all smug about like a certain Nordic country…
  • JohnFen 3y ago
    > become a major fossil fuel exporter Wouldn't doing that undo a lot of the gains from this? If we export fossil fuels instead of burning them, we aren't really decarbonizing. We're just having the carbonization take place somewhere else.
    • justrealist 3y ago
      It offsets significant carbon production elsewhere (especially if we only export natgas), and defunds from some of the worst governments on earth.
      • JohnFen 3y ago
        > It offsets significant carbon production elsewhere Does it? Or does it simply increase the amount of fossil fuels being used elsewhere? > defunds from some of the worst governments on earth. That has nothing to do with decarbonization, though.
    • slt2021 3y ago
      you are right, oil extraction is literally producing carbon (which is then processed and burned at later stage somewhere else) so we need to separate: carbon production and carbon emissions. a lot of so called decarbonized industries are decarbonized simply because they outsourced carbon intensive parts to third world, but carbon is still being produced and emitted. I think this is why some people are supporting De-Growth movement, that just by reducing consumption of nonessential stuff, we would decrease carbon production and emissions globally
• coldpie 3y ago
  Yup. The Georgia plant seems expensive until you remember it cost half of what Twitter did.
  • bryanlarsen 3y ago
    $30B is more than half of $44B.
  • pfdietz 3y ago
    "Cheaper than twitter" is a canonical example of damning with faint praise.