Interesting thread PaulP.
What are the low carbon options, and do they have to be renewable?
Wind
Solar PV
Solar Thermal
Solar Hydrogen
Nuclear
Tidal
Geothermal
The are significant boosters for various technologies, I'm not sure the answer is as clear as many claim.
It'll be 30 years before the 100% renewables can meet the needed demand, so it seems somewhat controversial to cut out other various low carbon options that are tagged as dirty. Accelerating the rate of renewable production makes carbon emissions worse in the short term, there is a cost to rapidly scaling up, that means reductions targets become problematic to startups.
Solar PV and WInd basically come from foreign dirty manufacturing centres, it's hypocritical to claim Solar PV is clean just because the mess that made it isn't in your own backyard. Conveniently for those industries the climate and economic accounting sits strongly locked away behind the red terror.
I'll try and find the study, I'm not well enough informed to verify it's content, but the emissions targets basically set out a group of conditions that meant growing and burning timber continuously was carbon neutral and renewable.
What are the low carbon options, and do they have to be renewable?
Wind
Solar PV
Solar Thermal
Solar Hydrogen
Nuclear
Tidal
Geothermal
The are significant boosters for various technologies, I'm not sure the answer is as clear as many claim.
It'll be 30 years before the 100% renewables can meet the needed demand, so it seems somewhat controversial to cut out other various low carbon options that are tagged as dirty. Accelerating the rate of renewable production makes carbon emissions worse in the short term, there is a cost to rapidly scaling up, that means reductions targets become problematic to startups.
Solar PV and WInd basically come from foreign dirty manufacturing centres, it's hypocritical to claim Solar PV is clean just because the mess that made it isn't in your own backyard. Conveniently for those industries the climate and economic accounting sits strongly locked away behind the red terror.
I'll try and find the study, I'm not well enough informed to verify it's content, but the emissions targets basically set out a group of conditions that meant growing and burning timber continuously was carbon neutral and renewable.
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