100% renewables doesn’t equal zero-carbon energy, and the difference is growing

Re:100% renewables doesn’t equal zero-carbon energy, and the... by TeMPOraL on Saturday May 25, 2019 @06:01PM (#20011729)

There is a middle ground, you just can't get there by asking nicely. Humans aren't capable of this level of coordination.

You can reach this middle ground by e.g. building more nuclear plants, introducing emission taxes, subsidizing electric cars to speed up their adoption and other top-down measures that realign the markets with desired social goals.

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Re:100% renewables doesn’t equal zero-carbon energy, and the... by thatfrenchguy on Saturday May 25, 2019 @06:49PM (#20011985)

There is actually. The US today has a CO2 emission per capita that's twice the CO2 emission per capita of Germany (not really a good example too). You'd also note that electric cars are also probably not a great solution because their total footprint is still around 15 to 30% of the footprint of a gasoline car (https://www.theicct.org/publications/EV-battery-manufacturin...) and we can't really afford that.

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Re:100% renewables doesn’t equal zero-carbon energy, and the... by imtringued on Saturday May 25, 2019 @07:00PM (#20012039)

I don't understand what we can't afford. Electric vehicles already have to be charged with carbon neutral electricity to reduce their emissions so it is not exactly a huge leap to expect that the electricity used to manufacture them is also carbon neutral.

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