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zaputo t1_ivo7h7e wrote

This really highlights why oil is so popular. It's insanely cheap and energy dense. Like, by workers, it's 5x to 6x more effective than renewables, if you go by kwh per employee.

There is a criminal level of disinformation around "clean energy". Germany has been long touted as a clean energy pioneer, yet they are still absolutely hooked on fossil fuels for their grid. France on the other hand, less than 10 percent of their power is from fossil fuels.

The bottom will fall out of the clean tech / renewables energy market at some point. It makes sense for certain areas, certain places, etc. But right now, you can't fly a plane with batteries, they aren't energy dense enough. It's just physics.

I hope to see a massive nuclear Renaissance in our lifetimes. It is a bird in the hand solution to decarbonizing our grid, and now. Not like, in ten years when X Y Z battery breakthrough will save us.

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Narabedla t1_ivofcg5 wrote

Hold up, who touted germany as a clean energy pioneer ever since they completely murdered their solar sector by suddenly just completely ripping all subsidation (which ended in china buying out local companies, taking trade secrets and then closing them)?

The (relative to german politics) conservative CDU had the power for like close to two decades and essentially just fcked over anything not coal, because coal lobby is paying well. (Looking at RWE specifically).

At least in germany i haven't found people who think germany is doing well at all in terms of renewable energy lol.

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thetreecycle t1_ivpfag2 wrote

Where are you getting the kWh per employee data from?

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zaputo t1_ivptkl0 wrote

Math. 80 percent of energy is from fossil fuels and 10 percent more workers in clean than fossil

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