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Yep. It has massive ripple effects for manufacturing, especially as more industry transitions away from fossils for heat generation. Energy accounts for aroun
by alexose 1y ago
Yep. It has massive ripple effects for manufacturing, especially as more industry transitions away from fossils for heat generation. Energy accounts for around 40% of the opex for steel manufacturing, for instance. Zero chance we build more steel mills if the cost of electricity continues to skyrocket.
The Chinese have the right approach: Bringing the cost-per-watt down using massive deployments of renewables and ultra high voltage transmission. We were already in the backseat, and now we're not even in the same car.
- alltheseas 1y ago[flagged]
- sirtaj 1y agoPresented to us by the same people who gave us the film "Climate Hustle" [1] 1. https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/05/climate-hustle-wants-you-to-believe-you-just-cant-trust-climate-science/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/05/climate-hustle-wants...
- alltheseas 1y ago[flagged]
- specialist 1y agoHow do we attain "reliable, grid scale power" without solar and wind?
- 8note 1y agothis reads like youre making an argument that if those western europeans turned off their solar and switched to 100% russian nat gas, that their prices would go down. but, uhh, the war with ukraine is still ongoing, and i think its likely that the main cost driver for those countries is the nat gas because of sanctions
- alltheseas 1y agoSolar and wind driving prices up was true before the Ukr-Rf war as well. See Bjorn Lomborgs work on this prior to the conflict.