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Renewables surprisingly "on track" to meet net zero by 2050::undefined

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[–] nyar 11 points 2 years ago (11 children)
[–] BombOmOm 34 points 2 years ago (10 children)

The core issue is grid-scale storage. Adding 10 or 30% renewables is easy and is where we currently are, getting to 100% means we need to solve that technology issue which we don't currently have a solution to.

Nuclear + renewable is the current way to de-carbonize the grid. Build both heavily until we solve the technological issue with grid-scale storage in the coming decades.

[–] eleitl 0 points 2 years ago

Adding even 10% of renewables (minus biofuels since fake renewable) to primary energy use of major industrialized countries is by no means easy. Which is why world fossil fraction of primary energy use is nearly a constant.

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