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Re:G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than g... by merpnderp on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @09:48AM (#27368631)
The only way to "cull all politicians and dirty industry leaders" is realize that wind and solar can't provide base power at rates people can afford. And if people have to spend too much on electricity, they'll vote in new "politicians and dirty industry leaders", like Germany's (and soon France's) return to coal burning.

If we started today with nuclear, we could trivially hit the 1.5C IPCC goal. Hell, we could likely hit it if the world started fracking and moved to wind/natgas plants (like the US is doing rapidly). But at least for now, nuclear and fracking are less preferable than >2C warming to nearly all climate change advocates.

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Re:G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than g... by chasd00 on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @02:15PM (#27372079)
I wish someone would do to the energy industry what SpaceX did to the space industry. Prove to the world what is now possible instead of excuse after excuse of defending the status quo.
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Re:G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than g... by rndmize on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @02:39PM (#27372339)
Arguably Tesla is doing exactly that. Solar is cheap and available these days, wind is growing consistently. The main issue is smoothing out the spikiness of these sources as they scale to significant parts of the grid. Tesla is the only company I hear about in a real "boots on the ground" kind of way, with notable projects deployed in recent years and a consistent effort to scale those projects up - everything else I've seen is in development, barely started, or vaporware.
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Re:G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than g... by antisthenes on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @05:55PM (#27374497)
> If we started today with nuclear, we could trivially hit the 1.5C IPCC goal.

Just wanted to point out that this is nonsense. We already have 2C of warming baked in, if we go to net zero today, which is a complete fantasy.

In fact we're likely to reach 1.5C of warming before those nuclear plants (that you propose we get started on) even come online.

Did you even look at the graph in the top post in the thread?

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