Not feasible for the amount of energy needed to power cities.Um, battery storage?
Where does one pick of a multi thousand megawatt capacity battery?Um, battery storage?
At the risk of repeating myself, when that happens electrical utilities will switch based on profitably as they did when gas turbines became more economical than coal.Now is actually a good time to make the switch to renewables as the economic arguments flip and international finance disinvests from big coal and big oil.
So in your world the only alternative to using toilet paper is to "just wipe with your hands and then wash them"??? Really? I am afraid to ask of your other ideas of personal hygiene.Using toilet paper is causing deforestation and destroying the environment.
Coronavirus pandemic worsens environmental damage from toilet paper
The only solution I see is that you all should just wipe with your hands and then wash them. Obviously, I won't be doing this....that's gross....but you all definitely should if you're serious about the environment. Switching to solar is nice....but it won't matter if we destroy all the trees.
At the risk of repeating myself, when that happens electrical utilities will switch based on profitably as they did when gas turbines became more economical than coal.
The idea along those lines I find most interesting is a Manhattan Project like effort to make fusion power a realty.
A non-starter in this political climate.
The current political climate is a far bigger danger than the changing climate is.
Why does it need to be a system?Where does one pick of a multi thousand megawatt capacity battery?
Uh....that is literally the East Indian bathroom culture as far as I know.So in your world the only alternative to using toilet paper is to "just wipe with your hands and then wash them"??? Really? I am afraid to ask of your other ideas of personal hygiene.
Oh and FYI this thread is not about personal hygiene, it's about solar energy providing the cheapest electricity in history.
Because the majority of people live in cities. Unless we go full year zero we have to build out energy infrastructure to support that kind of life style.Why does it need to be a system?
But if individual houses are able to keep themselves in spades, then certainly neighbourhoods could too. I could see certain industries would need more than solar and wind could generate but in situ battery storage is feasible on a large scale (if not full scale)Because the majority of people live in cities. Unless we go full year zero we have to build out energy infrastructure to support that kind of life style.
It may be but it's still not the only alternative to toilet paper.Uh....that is literally the East Indian bathroom culture as far as I know.
Possibly the biggest alternative and it's very big and growing. And it proves my point to the other poster who says the only alternative to toilet paper is using and washing hands. There are many other alternatives, anyway.I guess there's the new bidet craze.
I don't know if THAT is my scene though.
The climate crisis is the most urgent item on the international agenda. All else is insignificant in comparison.
I completely disagree. The climate will continue to change no matter how many wealth redistributive policies the international agenda proposes nor how many dollars government dolls to favored interests to fund expensive proposed solutions that do nothing more than enrich charlatans preying on the fearful . You see the climate doesn't much care about the distribution of wealth around the planet or the amount of money given to companies to not solve the climate problem. So it won't stop changing in response to an international agenda prioritizing the redistribution of wealth via government spending and taxation. I understand why so many people are invested in trying to appease the climate by advancing a political ideology that prioritizes wealth redistribution and wasting money over real solutions.
Gaia has an infection of psychotic apes and will have a fever to get rid of the infection, one way or another.You're operating off an assumption that the response to climate change is about "wealth redistributive policies" and an "international agenda prioritizing the redistribution of wealth via government spending and taxation". It isn't. It's about preventing what is already a (man made) problem from becoming a catastrophe.
Also, climate scientists (and those with anything more than a passing understanding of climatology) understand and acknowledge that climate will continue to change. As it has always done.
What is concerning about climate change is the rate and consistency in direction of the change being experienced at present, and the rate and consistency in direction that the data indicates the climate is headed in.
Simply put, the world is heating up more rapidly than at any other point in human history. And, the data shows that this heating up will continue to accelerate, potentially for at lease another century. At least 90% of this change is due to the emissions humans are putting into the atmosphere.
Gaia has an infection of psychotic apes and will have a fever to get rid of the infection, one way or another.