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Yup. We have more than enough harnessable solar power to allow every single person a clean energy budget higher than a typical American, offset all other indust
by mrshadowgoose 3y ago
Yup. We have more than enough harnessable solar power to allow every single person a clean energy budget higher than a typical American, offset all other industrial carbon production, and start to unwind the last century of humanity's carbon impact.
But instead of working towards that end-state, a lot of people (even people on this site) seem to be more interested in shaming others into using less energy, and attacking others for "immoral" uses of energy.
- peterashford 3y agoUsing less energy makes perfect sense until we achieve this desirable future state of abundant excess energy. That state is not right now, however.
- mrshadowgoose 3y agoNope, because all the carbon production until that point can be unwound. The shitty uncomfortable life that the "use less" camp wants me to live, cannot.
- benj111 3y agoBut currently we aren't on a course to actually unwind that carbon production in time. It's like saying there's an oasis 2 days walk from here, so don't worry about having a shower and possibly using all your drinkable water. You still need to save enough water to actually get to the oasis, and at the moment, we're kinda sorta having a conversation about whose job it is to actually make the trek, so in reality it's going to be at least another day before everyone decides that they need to start marching, and as we only currently have 2.5 days of drinking water. That shower is really irresponsible.
- pjc50 3y ago"can be" is very far from "is going to be" and even further from "is going to be paid for". Also, we have a lot of solar energy .. during the day. The storage/transmission problem is solvable but not solved.
- adrianN 3y agoWho’s gonna pay for the unwinding though?