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[–] silence7 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

About two more years I think. I'm expecting there to be enough solar to decarbonize by 2050 if we also ramp up wind turbine manufacturing. The latter part is important because the different intermittency of the two renewables sharply reduces the amount of storage needed.

[–] silence7 4 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Mostly, because the manufacturing capacity is constrained still. If the factories currently being built actually go into operation, we'll end up with enough solar to meet peoples' needs (though not enough wind turbines)

[–] silence7 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's worse than that even — the regulator that would be able to punish them, the Georgia Public Service Commission, has had its elections canceled. This leaves Republicans who are bought out by the utility in charge.

[–] silence7 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

For the Atlantic for being willing to run it in a format that confuses readers, the Public Utilities Commissions in the states where the Southern Company operates for letting the Southern Company do this kind of thing with ratepayer money, and the Southern Company itself for trying to mislead people.

[–] silence7 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

For sure...but it's being run as an ad, and people are absolutely awful at telling the difference between this kind of ad and editorial content, even when it's plainly labeled.

[–] silence7 4 points 3 weeks ago

I think that nitrogen is what they're using now. It's readily available, cheap, and fairly easily contained.

[–] silence7 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm aware of the LSD and Ketamine, weed wouldn't surprise me too.

[–] silence7 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'll take electrical power from the heavens any day.

[–] silence7 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's almost like a group focused on climate action isn't actively working on every other issue.

[–] silence7 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There are only tiny numbers of billionaires, and we need to get emissions to zero to stabilize temperatures, so we're all going to need to pitch in, even if that means something like "change how we heat and cook" instead of "switch to sailboats instead of diesel mega-yachts and private jets"

[–] silence7 2 points 3 weeks ago

The individual reporters aren't disreputable at this point; it's the owner and his interference that's a problem.

I'll note that I've provided a link to an archived copy above.

[–] silence7 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Security clearances are nominally the domain of the FBI, rather than the CIA. They tend to see themselves as a right-wing organization though.

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