Re:Australia wildfires: 500M animals and plants killed as gl...
by macspoofing on Friday January 03, 2020 @01:01PM
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>FYI to anyone else reading, this is the other side of science-denial coin, the doomer side
Why not the 'realist' side?
>wind, solar, and batteries have invalidated several of the assumptions about future growth in coal and oil demand.
Did they now? Coal and natural gas growth have outpaced solar and wind deployments. There is still no grid-level storage solution to actually make solar and wind viable replacements, and there isn't one forthcoming anytime soon (right now, places like California, and Germany simply use natural gas backup).
Why not the 'realist' side?
>wind, solar, and batteries have invalidated several of the assumptions about future growth in coal and oil demand.
Did they now? Coal and natural gas growth have outpaced solar and wind deployments. There is still no grid-level storage solution to actually make solar and wind viable replacements, and there isn't one forthcoming anytime soon (right now, places like California, and Germany simply use natural gas backup).