Re:Carbon dioxide now more than 50% higher than pre-industri...
by mattnewton on Monday June 06, 2022 @10:44AM
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> There is no climate benefit to opening a wind farm. The climate benefit comes when a wind farm causes a fossil fuel power plant to be shut down.
Or when a new fossil fuel power plant is _not_ built, or when demand spikes but the renewable sources handle the load and make fossil fuels less attractive.
We aren’t socially set up with the mechanisms to make this change overnight. Basically no society is, we have to move people there with a viable alternative to them going without energy, or they will find ways to burn the earth to keep warm as the previous generations of all of us have.
Or when a new fossil fuel power plant is _not_ built, or when demand spikes but the renewable sources handle the load and make fossil fuels less attractive.
We aren’t socially set up with the mechanisms to make this change overnight. Basically no society is, we have to move people there with a viable alternative to them going without energy, or they will find ways to burn the earth to keep warm as the previous generations of all of us have.