For most countries around the world, sourcing energy entirely from wind, solar, geothermal, and hydropower by 2050 would reduce their energy needs and costs, improve air quality, and help slow climate change, according to a study in Environmental Science & Technology.
  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I’m confused why this is even a question that needs to be answered.

    We need renewables and carbon capture to even have a slight chance of having a barely livable planet.

    There’s no single solution out there that fixes things

    • MrVilliam@lemm.eeEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Yeah but stupid people are plentiful and overly confident that they can spitball a better idea for solving the problem than literal experts with decades of expertise can because “they’re too close to the problem” or “they’re paid off by big [fill in the blank] to gum up any progress” or whatever. They just don’t believe in complicated solutions or complicated problems because most people aren’t doing anything particularly complicated with their lives. Incurious people aren’t interested in any explanations or nuance.

    • gnome@programming.devEnglish
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      6 days ago

      True, though, we do need a quicker solution with a lower barrier to adoption ASAP. Carbon capture could be a good long-term approach to augment CO2 management, provided we figure out the details of CO2 solution “loads”/proportions, costs, maintenance, and capture locations.