Collapse, Renewal and the Rope of History | by Angus Hervey | Future Crunch | Aug, 2021 | Medium
In large, populous nations, the complete reliance on these renewables would require what we are still missing: either mass-scale, long-term (days to weeks) electricity storage that would back up intermittent electricity generation, or extensive grids of high-voltage lines to transmit electricity across time zones and from sunny and windy regions to
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It comes on top of more visible good news—the IEA said this weak that oil demand around the world is softening because of “surging” sales of electric vehicles. In China, demand for gasoline will peak this year or next and then decline sharply. Britain, where the coal era was born, will close it’s last coal-fired power plant at the end of this month... See more
Bill McKibben • Silent Solar
Many forecasters of the future simply haven’t been to the lab in a while – there are feasible opportunities in the pipeline to make a positive impact on climate according to Chris