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Re:Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? by WanderPanda on Thursday December 03, 2020 @02:54AM (#25286628)
It is already almost uninhabitable and has been for a long time. Nevertheless ~10M people live there. Technology is solving this, either the root cause or the symptoms
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Re:Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? by Red_Leaves_Flyy on Thursday December 03, 2020 @09:41AM (#25289249)
Air conditioning the outside is almost assuredly not sustainable.
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Re:Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? by arjun-menon on Thursday December 03, 2020 @03:28PM (#25294307)
Not sure what you mean “the outside”. Only indoors are air-conditioned (using electricity). And in the UAE, right now, electricity generation is slowly being switched over solar energy (away from natural gas), which is clean / renewable / sustainable. (https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/worlds-largest-...)
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Re:Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? by Red_Leaves_Flyy on Thursday December 03, 2020 @09:15PM (#25298159)
It was Qatar that I was thinking of.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/world/climate-e...

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