TendiesMeWant

TendiesMeWant t1_j5z042t wrote

Reply to comment by Redbeard_Greenthumb in Who's laughing now by RetardGoneDumb

Maybe this is some crazy psy op to make right wingers want to buy electric vehicles. In any case it has the same effect lmao, keep going Elon. He can win pyrrhic victories on Twitter all he wants as long as he's advancing the green energy front and making it palatable to the climate change denying right.

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TendiesMeWant t1_j09xl1s wrote

Reply to comment by Direct-Ad-7922 in World to deploy as much renewable energy in the next five years as the last 20 by CobaltEmu

You think governments spending countless billions around the world haven't thought of that? There are innumerable methods of storing energy during the off hours. And I don't know what articles you're referring to, all I see is those two linkedin links. Furthermore, I don't see how the misinformed idea that you can't store energy during the off hours makes renewables "unsustainable". The future will likely be a mix of multiple sources of energy for generations. We absolutely should be attempting to replace unclean and expensive energy with clean and cheap energy. It makes no sense not to.

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TendiesMeWant t1_j0774au wrote

Reply to comment by Direct-Ad-7922 in World to deploy as much renewable energy in the next five years as the last 20 by CobaltEmu

They wouldn't make a solar farm of anywhere near that scale if they just wanted to show off and promote their tech. The investment is going to cost them a ridiculous amount of money and when 2030 rolls around the tech isn't even going to be state of the art.

No. But I think they've seen the same data I have and concluded that solar energy is cheap and abundant and not subject to the whims of OPEC+.

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TendiesMeWant t1_j05d1c8 wrote

Reply to comment by Direct-Ad-7922 in World to deploy as much renewable energy in the next five years as the last 20 by CobaltEmu

Fellow electrical engineer here. Then explain why China, a no nonsense country filled with engineers that only cares about profit, is converting the Gobi desert into a solar farm that will produce twice the amount of energy from solar in the U.S. by 2030? The last thing this volatile world, that's constantly at risk of destruction via nuclear war, needs is an abundance of fissile material in human hands.

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