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by Qem
902 days ago
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> We don't have a choice, we don't have serious replacements to fossil energy. Not sure of that. I think we actually have, we are just not serious enough about deploying them. At this point we should be already deploying new solar panels, wind turbines and nuclear reactors at crazy rates (~10% per year). The Apollo project of our era. Yet we don't. Anyway, a good treatment on the potential for collapse is "Before the Collapse: A Guide to the Other Side of Growth", by Ugo Bardi. I recommend the reading, despite being left in a doom mood after finishing: https://terebess.hu/keletkultinfo/coll.pdf |
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Renewables are growing like crazy, that's true. They are just totally based on fossil fuels (check the total energy that was used in order to produce and bring your photovoltaic panel on your roof) and completely marginal. We have never deployed renewables at the scale of fossil fuels in history, I don't get how nobody seems to believe it may be hard. I believe it just doesn't scale at all.
And we actually have good examples: look at Germany in the last decade. They removed their nuclear plants and spent a ton on renewables. And they had to re-open coal mines because... well because when there is no sun and no wind, you need something else. Not even talking about LNG imports.
Nuclear reactors are nice, but for some reason people don't want them (Germany spent a decade removing them, Spain is apparently considering doing the same). Still they won't replace fossil fuels, but I do believe that we will need nuclear reactors (on top of our reduction in energy consumption).