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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When a community says no to a solar farm, but the state says yes anyway, who should get the final word?”
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Well said about the indifference and inaction. I feel that, and even focusing our attention on it now is a tiny attempt of mine to move out of that freeze.... - stephen...
IIRC the Ocean Cleanup Project has begun operating and is actually pulling quite a bit of plastic out, scaling up. It's not exactly new tech, but it's encouraging. They might actually clean up the Pacific Garbage Patch within several years.... - JP69...
Brand new to UpTrust. Not sure how all of this is supposed to work. I read your introduction but to be honest, I did not read your book or click all the links. Yet. First, I want to better understand your position.... I think you're absolutely right, that that is part of it for now. But I think the bigger picture... Why they are so insistent on building thousands more than any other country in the world is much more complicated than that.... - onVenezuela only has a window of opportunity of maybe 5 to 10 years to make money off its oil. Solar and battery technology is catching up fast, and if the country waits too long, its oil resources will no longer be worth much. It will need every cent it can get to repair its economy.byEric Stevens...
This is a thoughtful analysis, but I think there is a missing layer that changes how we answer the final question. First, when we talk about renewable energy, we need to be honest about what it is made of.... Yeah for a couple of decades I’ve felt like we’ve been missing a "moonshot" to rally behind, and that that moonshot should be not just renewable energy cheaper than oil/gas, but free or positive sum energy....