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[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (12 children)

Yes, but energy density doesn't matter for most applications and the waste it produces is highly problematic.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Thats a chicken/egg peoblem. If enough renewables are build the storage follows. In a perfect world goverments would incentivice storage but in an imperfect one problems have to occure before somebody does something to solve them. Anyway, according to lazard renewables + storage are still cheaper than NPPs.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 5 months ago (93 children)

Slow, expensive, riddeled with corruption, long ago surpassed by renewables. Why should we use it?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Come on, don't be that guy...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Maybe you should read up on the topic and not just repeat baseless falsehoods.

That would be so nice...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (12 children)

Propagandist propagandizes.

More news at 11

[–] [email protected] 88 points 6 months ago (7 children)

It wasn't even an accident, he just killed a cyclist because he wanted to drive on a bicycle path without being, rightfully, called out for it. Bonus points for having his child in his car.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Some critics argue that the prestige of the Prize in Economic Sciences derives in part from its association with the Nobel Prizes, an association that has often been a source of controversy. Among them is the Swedish human rights lawyer Peter Nobel, a great-grandnephew of Alfred Nobel.[40]

Nobel accuses the awarding institution of misusing his family's name, and states that no member of the Nobel family has ever had the intention of establishing a prize in economics.[41] He explained that "Nobel despised people who cared more about profits than society's well-being", saying that "There is nothing to indicate that he would have wanted such a prize", and that the association with the Nobel prizes is "a PR coup by economists to improve their reputation".[40]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

No idea what you mean and not gonna read the ipcc report now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Ok, bask in your american exceptionalism if you please.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Those data centers would soon be somewhere else due to... economics. And even if not, wouldn't be significant.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

Maybe if you start heating your homes by burning car tires in your gardens. But otherwise, no. You are already so far behind the curve that economics really don't allow CO2 emission increases on a global significant level.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16239452

IEA: Clean energy investment to reach $2 trillion in 2024

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), more money is being invested in solar power than in all other sources of electricity combined.

Global investment in clean energy will reach $2 trillion (€1.84 trillion) this year, twice the amount invested in fossil fuels, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

"For every dollar going to fossil fuels today, almost two dollars are invested in clean energy," said IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol.

Clean technologies include renewables, electric vehicles, nuclear power, grids, storage, low-emissions fuels, efficiency improvements and heat pumps.

Meanwhile, total energy investment is expected to exceed $3 trillion for the first time in 2024, the agency said in its annual World Energy Investment report.

In 2023, combined investment in renewable electricity and grids surpassed the amount spent on fossil fuels for the first time.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/3086311

In the first five months of 2024, 87% of the electricity consumed in Portugal was green

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