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by bayindirh 131 days ago
There are currently no power efficient and scalable ways to remove carbon dioxide from air or water.

Renewables are considered woke technology which mock old and masculine fossil fuel tech, which feel threatened by all these white spinny things, hence renewable energy projects are being actively discouraged or canceled altogether.

You know, we'd be all woke and weird if our cars don't have 8 cylinders and make wroom sounds. Same for our chimneys and power architecture. Woke electrons should be banned. We need masculine, fossil based electrons, which are more powerful per electron than wind/solar based fluffy/hippie ones.
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exitb 131 days ago
The rich don’t care which side you’re on, as long as you’re fighting each other.
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theossuary 131 days ago
Both sides aren't fighting each other, one side has turned themselves into a weapon for rich pedophiles to attack the other side with.
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exitb 131 days ago
Notably, both sides held that exact view in recent times.
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bayindirh 131 days ago
I don't play that game. I only do what I can do with what I have and don't care about losing time with pointless fights.

I may not be able to save the whole planet, but at least I'll leave my area a bit better as my capacity and time allows.

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swiftcoder 131 days ago
> Renewables are considered woke technology which mock old and masculine fossil fuel tech...

This is mostly a US problem at this point. The rest of the world is adopting renewables considerably faster than anyone expected (and despite the best efforts of the current administration, the adoption curve is accelerating even in the US).

That said, it's still apparent that even optimistic estimates of renewable energy adoption aren't fast enough to fix the climate crisis on their own.

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bayindirh 131 days ago
> This is mostly a US problem at this point.

Yeah I know, and I'm not from that side of the ocean. I worded my comment like that since most users here are from the US.

electricitymaps paints a nice picture, though. We'll be using them in a project, so I'll be able to see the nitty gritty details soonish.

At least some of us are trying. Maybe we'll fail, but not all of us are that ignorant, and that's better than nothing.

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