Britain likely to generate more electricity from wind, solar and hydro than fossil fuels for the first year ever in 2023::There are many milestones to pass in the transition from a high to low-carbon sustainable energy system. There is the first hour without coal, or oil, or gas generation (or all of them together) and the point when the last …
You have Canada doing their part, and now another English speaking country. Plus most of Europe seems to be on the right path. When will the rest of the world just finally shun the US for a being little removed? Or idk like punish us with tarrifs or whatever idk…This coming from a disgruntled US citizen, I fucking hate this place.
Must admit I hate online arguments about the cleanliness of electrically powered heating, transport, or whatever because you’ll always get an American stating that “it’s all just fossil fuels at some point”.
No, just because your power generation is stuck in the last century, doesn’t mean we all are.
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Carbon credits are already a thing. I expect that that will be priced into tariffs going forward, so countries that aren’t lifting their weight become less competitive.
I look forward to this happening
I tend to go off the https://grid.iamkate.com/ website which is a good day by day look at power generation and summarises the year. Renewables have so far surpassed fossil fuels 10.7GW compared to 10.3GW with other sources taking 5.9GW of which biomass is 1.52GW. I don’t personally think biomass is renewable because its burning old forests and at a rate far faster than the wood is replanted and we know that old forests store much more CO2 than new ones. With hydro and Nuclear its a pretty close run thing if we consider them green renewables are the majority of power production.
Still a way to go, obviously more capacity is required and more storage and this will inevitably lead to excess power in the summer which is how renewables will work and hopefully we will find a good use for free power capturing CO2. A lot of projects are held up by the grid in the UK, more than enough to complete this transition, companies want to install the production its just the grid holding everything up with plans out to 2035.
How much less electricity is UK using in 2023 vs 2022? Or pre-pandemic years.
This version actually contains the chart that the text mentions: https://theconversation.com/britain-likely-to-generate-more-electricity-from-wind-solar-and-hydro-than-fossil-fuels-for-the-first-year-ever-in-2023-219936
Yes, despite what the eco nuts tell you, Britain is actually very good at decarbonisation.
Lmao “eco nuts”, you fucking shill
Yes, because supporting this decarbonisation means I’m pro-oil. Obviously.
The eco nuts I’m referring to are the “Just Stop Oil” and “Extinction Rebellion” types, who like to pretend we’re up there with the likes of India, China and the US in terms of pollution.
When you outsource all your manufacturing, it’s easy to be eco friendly at home.
And the oil companies are wholly dependent on you continuing to think that way. That is why you are a shill
“Hey, we’re not as bad as these excessively bad polluters.” 🥈
What it means is, the UK can go fully renewable and it will make almost no difference to global emissions.
Climate action doesn’t work unless every country is involved.
Climate action doesn’t work unless enough of the most polluting countries act to kurb emissions.
As it turns out, the most developed countries are the largest polluters.
It also turns out that the most developed countries also have the most influence in geopolitics.
Why are you framing the UK like it’s in a vacuum?
If the UK does go fully renewable and carbon neutral or even carbon negative, that does have an impact because it will make the UK a leader in sustainability. That’s a lot of expertise in the whole range of PESTEL (Political, Economical, Social, Technological, Evironmental, and Legal) market forces across many industries that will be exported to other countries.
Ditch the Doomerism. When push comes to shove, humans will move heaven and earth to survive and reduce suffering. So start pushing and shoving those with the capital and political connections into making the better choices.
The future is built not gifted.
Climate action doesn’t work unless every country is involved.
Gotta start somewhere, my guy.
