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Re:Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? by alliao on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @05:42PM (#25282744)
isn't that the game plan for hydrogen powered vehicles? so they can build a plan to absorb all these excess from over provisioning at a lower rate to produce hydrogen for their fleet
Re:Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? by ncmncm on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:49AM (#25287339)
This is especially attractive for aircraft, but it will take awhile to happen. We probably need new aircraft.

Hopefully civilization will not collapse first, from refugees driving fascist governments into power, and former democracies self-surveilling themselves into locked-in dictatorships.

On the upside, collapsed civilization will have lower energy demands, and will find carbon extraction and transport harder to organize.

Re:Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? by bregma on Thursday December 03, 2020 @08:10AM (#25288452)
Sure. Find some way to break up CO2 from the atmosphere and bond hydrogen to the carbons. It creates a relatively safe, easy-to-use hydrogen storage medium and it reduces greenhouse gases at the same time. The cars would just need to break the carbon-hydrogen bonds to release the energy once again, and the process is GHG-neutral.