▲ 599 ▼ US grid adds batteries at 10x the rate of natural gas in first half of 2024 (arstechnica.com) submitted 2 years ago by SeaJ@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world 120 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Eiri@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (2 children) Wait they're still adding natural gas? Geez. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] sweetpotato@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) The moment you realize that any clean energy we produce and have been producing for the last 20 years, that the renewable industry boomed exponentially, only serves as additive energy and not as a replacement for non-renewables, because our demands in energy have been exponentially ever-increasing since the 1950s, as the economy doubles in size every 20 years since then. So no matter the remarkable advances in solar and wind, we still needed more energy than that, because that's how exponents work. But yeah, let's continue doing business as usual, this will definitely work. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Eiri@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago I wish you were wrong. But... permalink fedilink source parent [–] iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) This was my first thought. I guess if you're replacing a coal plant it's not completely terrible, but be prepared to turn it off in 10 or 20 years. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Eiri@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago A Climate Town video convinced me natural gas actually manages to be worse. Natural gas is methane, and it's extremely hard to handle that without having any leaks, ever. And since methane is a very powerful greenhouse gas, it doesn't take that much leaked gas to cross the line into "worse than coal". And there are lots of leaks. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sweetpotato@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) The moment you realize that any clean energy we produce and have been producing for the last 20 years, that the renewable industry boomed exponentially, only serves as additive energy and not as a replacement for non-renewables, because our demands in energy have been exponentially ever-increasing since the 1950s, as the economy doubles in size every 20 years since then. So no matter the remarkable advances in solar and wind, we still needed more energy than that, because that's how exponents work. But yeah, let's continue doing business as usual, this will definitely work. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Eiri@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago I wish you were wrong. But... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Eiri@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago I wish you were wrong. But... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) This was my first thought. I guess if you're replacing a coal plant it's not completely terrible, but be prepared to turn it off in 10 or 20 years. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Eiri@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago A Climate Town video convinced me natural gas actually manages to be worse. Natural gas is methane, and it's extremely hard to handle that without having any leaks, ever. And since methane is a very powerful greenhouse gas, it doesn't take that much leaked gas to cross the line into "worse than coal". And there are lots of leaks. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Eiri@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago A Climate Town video convinced me natural gas actually manages to be worse. Natural gas is methane, and it's extremely hard to handle that without having any leaks, ever. And since methane is a very powerful greenhouse gas, it doesn't take that much leaked gas to cross the line into "worse than coal". And there are lots of leaks. permalink fedilink source parent