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Re:Microsoft’s quest to go ‘carbon negative’ inspires $1B fund by skc on Friday January 17, 2020 @09:35AM (#22074881)
The devil here is in the details.

Solar energy (and you left out, crucially, storage) still isn't feasible for the worlds poor yet, though it is the obvious solution to the problem.

My biggest issue with advancements in solar power + storage is that because so much R&D is happening out West, everyone builds for grid tie use cases.

Can't help but think we'd be much further along if we assumed the current grid didn't exist at all (which might as well be true for the worlds poor)

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Re:Microsoft’s quest to go ‘carbon negative’ inspires $1B fund by ben_w on Friday January 17, 2020 @10:00AM (#22075117)
Batteries are also cheap now. Heck, if you’re talking about literal shanty towns, a bag of rocks on a chain attached to a dynamo bolted to the ceiling can store enough energy to be useful.
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