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Also that utility storage batteries suddenly got cheap enough to compete with peekers. California now can shift a couple of GW of power from mornings and mid da
by Gibbon1 3y ago
Also that utility storage batteries suddenly got cheap enough to compete with peekers. California now can shift a couple of GW of power from mornings and mid day to the early evening. It's maybe 10% but that capacity was all added in the last 4 years.
Also population growth has declined more rapidly than predicted and in places where it wasn't expected. Which brings it's own issues most of which have to do with finance and sustainability of rentier capitalism, but not being able to feed and house people.
Partly due to policy makers fuckups around the 2008 financial crisis birth rates in US dropped. Which means today's 14 years olds are going to enter the best job market in three generations.