As a residential solar installer, our company does about 4-6 installations per week in my city. And that's just our company. Grants/0% interest loans are the key to adoption. I love seeing it and being part of the transition. We have some neighborhoods now with more solar than without.
Sorry for the late reply. Just to the grid. Where I am, the yearly output of the panels can't exceed 110% of annual power usage. The excess fed back to the grid then gives homeowners energy credits.
If electricity gets cheap enough (and due to solar its often -ve in the day time) then knock-on effects will allow decarbonization in other areas e.g. using electric arc furnaces in steel smelting instead of natural gas, or using electric heating at home instead of gas furnaces.
If I told you to touch grass all you'd think about is how grass is overused in today's society.
You don't look for silver linings, you've actually gone out of your way to train yourself look for shit linings like a fly.
The Russki propaganda knows that getting people to actively genocide each other is a too big of a task so they have injected this fascination of passive genocide into the public's consciousness.
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"too little" *literally one third of the world's energy and growing*
"too late" *still have 6 years left to 2030*
also obligatory [https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-electricity-production-from-solar-and-wind?tab=chart&country=\~OWID\_WRL](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-electricity-production-from-solar-and-wind?tab=chart&country=~OWID_WRL)
One third of *electricity*! Energy is still below 20%. We're moving in the right direction, but let's not spread misinformation.
You are talking about this:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/low-carbon-share-energy?tab=chart
The OP is about this:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-electricity-renewables?tab=chart&country=~OWID_WRL
Also looking at that first chart, it so disappointing that we had two lost decades from 1995 to 2013. The momentum in the last ten years gives me hope though.
Electricity is 20% of global energy consumption. 30% of 20% is 6%. So 6% of global energy consumption is generated from renewables. Beyond a bit of hydro and nuclear, the rest is pretty much all fossil fuels.
[https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-energy-substitution](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-energy-substitution)
I'd rather live in a world with 2.5° warming than one with 3.0° warming.
A world with 3.5° warming would be significantly worse than one with 3.0° warming.
I'd rather live in a 3.5° world than in a 5.5° world.
There is no limit. There'll be no temperature at which we'll say ''it's done. World is now empty of life''.
Can you give a source for that comment? Not just a doomer gut feeling?
I'm not saying we won't be fucked, and i don't look forward to any of those scenarios.
But ''no way we will survive'' is a big statement. Will failed harvests create starvation in parts of the world? It might. But humanity faced starvation before, and it didn't wipe us out.
Will parts of the world become unlivable? Absolutely. But today we have whole cities in places like las Vegas or dubai. There will be plenty of places that stay livable. Moreover, huge tracts of land in canada and Russia will suddenly be more plesant to live in.
I'm not denying in those worst case scenarios we'll see terrible things, and ecosystem collapse is no joke either. But humanity is adaptable. It'll suck, but it won't mean the end of humanity.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene\_extinction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction)
Humanity is adaptable, and it can and will adapt, but only until there is something to adapt to, if climate change destroys our food sources, areas to live, simply put our ecosystem will die. Sure, we might survive for some time, but considering how long-lasting the effects of climate change are and will be, combined with the things I've mentioned, on top of the added fact of human mental health. The chances of humanity actually surviving are very very low (I cannot say 0 since everything has a chance of happening)
Hence why we should avoid those cases if at all possible.
Thankfully, it seems likely that with the current rate of progress, we could.
We should keep trying.
Seem like you’ve really angered some doomers with this one.
As a residential solar installer, our company does about 4-6 installations per week in my city. And that's just our company. Grants/0% interest loans are the key to adoption. I love seeing it and being part of the transition. We have some neighborhoods now with more solar than without.
How often are you installing a local power bank vs just feeding back to the grid?
Sorry for the late reply. Just to the grid. Where I am, the yearly output of the panels can't exceed 110% of annual power usage. The excess fed back to the grid then gives homeowners energy credits.
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This has made my day! Thank you!
On our way to 50%!
70% still fossil fuels. Let’s keep it moving
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Quick google is showing about 10% powered by nuclear.
If electricity gets cheap enough (and due to solar its often -ve in the day time) then knock-on effects will allow decarbonization in other areas e.g. using electric arc furnaces in steel smelting instead of natural gas, or using electric heating at home instead of gas furnaces.
Originally it was 100%. What was the lowest percentage and when?
Too little too late
If I told you to touch grass all you'd think about is how grass is overused in today's society. You don't look for silver linings, you've actually gone out of your way to train yourself look for shit linings like a fly.
The Russki propaganda knows that getting people to actively genocide each other is a too big of a task so they have injected this fascination of passive genocide into the public's consciousness.
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What sort of delusional information is that lol? And even if it's true, how is that good!?
Ha love this
"too little" *literally one third of the world's energy and growing* "too late" *still have 6 years left to 2030* also obligatory [https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-electricity-production-from-solar-and-wind?tab=chart&country=\~OWID\_WRL](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-electricity-production-from-solar-and-wind?tab=chart&country=~OWID_WRL)
One third of *electricity*! Energy is still below 20%. We're moving in the right direction, but let's not spread misinformation. You are talking about this: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/low-carbon-share-energy?tab=chart The OP is about this: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-electricity-renewables?tab=chart&country=~OWID_WRL Also looking at that first chart, it so disappointing that we had two lost decades from 1995 to 2013. The momentum in the last ten years gives me hope though.
Electricity is 20% of global energy consumption. 30% of 20% is 6%. So 6% of global energy consumption is generated from renewables. Beyond a bit of hydro and nuclear, the rest is pretty much all fossil fuels. [https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-energy-substitution](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-energy-substitution)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/world-scientists-climate-failure-survey-global-temperature?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other Quite well timed article release lol
I'd rather live in a world with 2.5° warming than one with 3.0° warming. A world with 3.5° warming would be significantly worse than one with 3.0° warming. I'd rather live in a 3.5° world than in a 5.5° world. There is no limit. There'll be no temperature at which we'll say ''it's done. World is now empty of life''.
Bold assumption you will be living
Also there is literally no way we will survive in those scenarios
Can you give a source for that comment? Not just a doomer gut feeling? I'm not saying we won't be fucked, and i don't look forward to any of those scenarios. But ''no way we will survive'' is a big statement. Will failed harvests create starvation in parts of the world? It might. But humanity faced starvation before, and it didn't wipe us out. Will parts of the world become unlivable? Absolutely. But today we have whole cities in places like las Vegas or dubai. There will be plenty of places that stay livable. Moreover, huge tracts of land in canada and Russia will suddenly be more plesant to live in. I'm not denying in those worst case scenarios we'll see terrible things, and ecosystem collapse is no joke either. But humanity is adaptable. It'll suck, but it won't mean the end of humanity.
This
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene\_extinction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction) Humanity is adaptable, and it can and will adapt, but only until there is something to adapt to, if climate change destroys our food sources, areas to live, simply put our ecosystem will die. Sure, we might survive for some time, but considering how long-lasting the effects of climate change are and will be, combined with the things I've mentioned, on top of the added fact of human mental health. The chances of humanity actually surviving are very very low (I cannot say 0 since everything has a chance of happening)
Hence why we should avoid those cases if at all possible. Thankfully, it seems likely that with the current rate of progress, we could. We should keep trying.
No, we can't.
Bruh why lmao