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Re:Governments 'not on track' to cap temperatures at below 2... by alach11 on Monday September 03, 2018 @03:54AM (#17901126)
Things aren't so bleak as you think. I work in O&G and there are huge amounts of "swing production" in the form of new wells which may be drilled or not drilled, depending on the price of oil and gas.

If the price for energy from renewables becomes cheaper than the price of energy from these wells, they won't be drilled.

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Re:Governments 'not on track' to cap temperatures at below 2... by konschubert on Monday September 03, 2018 @04:02AM (#17901163)
That makes me hopeful. What do you think needs to happen for renewables to become cheap enough?
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Re:Governments 'not on track' to cap temperatures at below 2... by alach11 on Monday September 03, 2018 @03:29PM (#17904431)
In the short term a carbon tax would do the trick.

In the long term technological breakthroughs in renewable technology will hopefully bring the cost down.

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Re:Governments 'not on track' to cap temperatures at below 2... by bigbugbag on Monday September 03, 2018 @04:26AM (#17901256)
The fun thing is that oil and gas are actually renewables given enough time and what we label renewables are not actually renewable, do not scale or do not fit our energy use.

There is no cheap energy production once you factor in costs that are not money.

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