The problem with renewable energies is that they're just not reliable enough.

[gardengeek@mstdn.social]

@schratze

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!!

[rune@social.sound-city.dk]

@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

[luci@twoot.site]

@schratze geothermal keeps my bomb shelter powered and warm

[stoori@polyglot.city]

@rune @schratze strait to the bin with this economy

[rune@social.sound-city.dk]

@Stoori @schratze building that Evergreen future

[stoori@polyglot.city]

@rune @schratze wishlist:

Hormuz
Suez
Panama
Malacca
Sunda
Gibraltar
Bosporus

[rune@social.sound-city.dk]

@Stoori @schratze be the economic downfall you want to see in the world.

Also, Gibraltar would take one biiig boat

[stoori@polyglot.city]

@rune @schratze perhaps all we need is a war between spain and morocco

[rune@social.sound-city.dk]

@Stoori @schratze but spain are like sooo anti war right now they kicked out the US troops that were supposed to participate

[stoori@polyglot.city]

@rune @schratze well that's a glimmer of hope at least

[emily_s@mastodon.me.uk]

@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?"

[oldoldcojote@climatejustice.social]

@schratze

[disisdeguey@expressional.social]

@Stoori @rune @schratze Heeey don't wish this kind of things. I'd blocked th Gibraltar strait myself if we can avoid that

[stoori@polyglot.city]

@disisdeguey @rune @schratze i'm afraid we're long past the point where we could accidentally ”give them ideas” with our morbid joking

[iwein@mas.to]

@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.

[samueljohnson@mstdn.social]

@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.

[workshopshed@mastodon.scot]

@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

[fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk]

@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

https://www.worldometers.info/coal/china-coal/

[freequaybuoy@mastodon.social]

@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).

[nusher@mastodon.scot]

@schratze The sun definitely giving us solar today, first time it’s truly been sunny this year.