The problem with renewable energies is that they're just not reliable enough.
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@schratze we're just one strait short of demolishing the economy. Between oil, shipping, and AI shortages I'm sure we could ruin it real good
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It's wild how the "intermittency" criticism of solar and wind keeps raising its head, like a centipede that won't die.
meanwhile, China's like: ok, smell ya' laters!!
@gardengeek @schratze also I love how china went from "there's no point in us doing anything because china burns all the coal" to "well china managed to do it, why aren't we?"
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The problem with renewable energies is that they're just not reliable enough.
Where is your wind and solar power supposed to come from now that the strait of Hormuz is blocked?
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@disisdeguey @rune @schratze i'm afraid we're long past the point where we could accidentally ”give them ideas” with our morbid joking
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@gardengeek @schratze also I love how china went from "there's no point in us doing anything because china burns all the coal" to "well china managed to do it, why aren't we?"
@emily_s @gardengeek @schratze a Chinese VC corrected this for me with the most scary thing: "china is building more coal plants than ever before"
Last year was an 18y high according to Forbes. Chills me to the bone tbh.
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@emily_s @gardengeek @schratze a Chinese VC corrected this for me with the most scary thing: "china is building more coal plants than ever before"
Last year was an 18y high according to Forbes. Chills me to the bone tbh.
@iwein @emily_s @gardengeek @schratze Nevertheless the share of China's energy that comes from coal is declining fast and will continue to do so
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-energy-source-sub?country=~CHN
Furthermore, some of the new coal plants replace older inefficient ones and produce fewer emissions.
One would almost think the Chinese have expected trouble in t' gulf and planned accordingly.
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The problem with renewable energies is that they're just not reliable enough.
Where is your wind and solar power supposed to come from now that the strait of Hormuz is blocked?
@schratze I would say that we have many mathematical models for predicting renewables too. But I'd not be surprised it that was the case for fossil fuels too
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@emily_s @gardengeek @schratze a Chinese VC corrected this for me with the most scary thing: "china is building more coal plants than ever before"
Last year was an 18y high according to Forbes. Chills me to the bone tbh.
@iwein @emily_s @gardengeek @schratze
lots of conflicting stories going around. hard to know what to believe. according to these two sources, china has been decreasing coal use for the last four years.https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/chn/china/coal-usage-consumption
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@emily_s @gardengeek @schratze a Chinese VC corrected this for me with the most scary thing: "china is building more coal plants than ever before"
Last year was an 18y high according to Forbes. Chills me to the bone tbh.
@iwein @emily_s @gardengeek @schratze Yeah, though I did hear they have to *because* of the massive growth in renewables because reasons (or something - sounded reasonable when I heard it, sounds laughable as I type it - but do think their trajectory is towards fully renewables, and astonishingly fast).
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The problem with renewable energies is that they're just not reliable enough.
Where is your wind and solar power supposed to come from now that the strait of Hormuz is blocked?
@schratze The sun definitely giving us solar today, first time it’s truly been sunny this year.
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The problem with renewable energies is that they're just not reliable enough.
Where is your wind and solar power supposed to come from now that the strait of Hormuz is blocked?
@schratze I write to you, heartbroken and in tears, for my dear mother.
I’m Kholoud from Ga🥺za. My 90-year-old mother is blind, immobile, and recently had a stroke. She cries from painful sores because we ran out of diapers. Pleease heeelp us with the cost of diapers and one package of her stroke medication (Eliquis) only
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@iwein @emily_s @gardengeek @schratze
lots of conflicting stories going around. hard to know what to believe. according to these two sources, china has been decreasing coal use for the last four years.https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/chn/china/coal-usage-consumption
@fishidwardrobe @iwein @emily_s @gardengeek @schratze
My understanding is that at least part of the confusion is due to China building both new coal plans and renewables at a very high rate.
They are adding a lot of new coal plants, but the proportion of total energy produced by coal still declines when you factor in all the new solar and wind they're doing at the same time.
I am not a reliable source (although I do my best)! I think @parismarx discussed this in a recent episode of the #TechWontSaveUs podcast on the #GreenTransition
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