Re:US undermining 'last chance' climate talks, experts charge
by ThomPete on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @06:35AM
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Renewables arent going to solve our increasing demand for energy and thus not really more important than to make oil cleaner and nuclear more popular. Renewables er themselves not as clean and certainly not as scaleable as nuclear.
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Re:US undermining 'last chance' climate talks, experts charge
by eigenstuff on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @09:16AM
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Our demand for energy is NOT increasing, at least not in the US. Demand has flatlined since 2007 and more efficient appliances, bulbs, etc are to blame. I have TVA and they have been egregiously self-sabotaging their own solar program in all sorts of ways because the dang sun is a threat to their monopoly and would cut into their revenues. And renewables are so much cheaper, TVA has shifted $1.4 billion of their operating costs from large industrial to residential customers to further disincentivize their switch.
Honestly it's outrageous.