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squashkin@wolfballs.com 2 years agoIt isn’t clear at all how we can change all the stuff we need to change and to do it sustainably because fossil fuels are incredibly useful.
well I think currently allegedly like a fifth of energy is renewables. so if push came to shove we might have to cut consumption by 80%. or boost up effeciency to cover the loss. not sure how feasible it would be to do that. or if there would still be things you can't just swap fossil fuels out of.
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years ago
Yeah, it's really hard. A lot of stuff we consider renewable only works because of a massive fossil fuel subsidy, and anything we do with renewables is a lot harder than it is with fossil fuels. In my example, you replace 2% of natural gas use with a third of all nuclear and renewables worldwide. Imagine if we have that sort of efficiency with other life critical industries.
A big thing I think we need to do is suck it up and build lots of hydroelectric dams. There's places all over that we can, and if we do that then you can produce large amounts of renewable electricity that can also be used in the processes that maintain the same dams.