4,6 Milliarden Jahre später hat die Sonne einen Moment Zeit

In March, for the first time, fossil fuels generated less than half the electricity in the U.S. Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world.

Bill McKibben writes: “There is a chance for a deep reordering of the earth’s power systems, in every sense of the word ‘power,’ offering a plausible check to not only the climate crisis but to autocracy. Instead of relying on scattered deposits of fossil fuel—the control of which has largely defined geopolitics for more than a century—we are moving rapidly toward a reliance on diffuse but ubiquitous sources of supply. The sun and the wind are available everywhere, and they complement each other well; when sunlight diminishes in the northern latitudes at the approach of winter, the winds pick up. This energy is impossible to hoard and difficult to fight wars over. If you’re interested in abundance, the sun beams tens of thousands of times more energy at the earth than we currently need. Paradigm shifts like this don’t come along often: the Industrial Revolution, the computer revolution. But, when they do, they change the world in profound and unpredictable ways.”

It’s so funny how impatient and reluctant people are in today’s day and age.

BESS (Battery Energy Storage System) is running rampant since the costs have come down so much. This is only going to further increase the viability of solar and wind.

I don’t want to have to give a flip anymore about who is shooting at whom half a world away. As long as we’re on oil, we’re exposed to a global market that is partially controlled by a cartel of America’s adversaries.

Meanwhile the White House is trying to bring back Coal…

Thank you for sharing, this is all really positive and I don’t think we make enough of a show of how far we have come. Both sides are unfortunately responsible for this, one side wants to go back to coal and abandon all progress because we can’t currently get a plane to make a transatlantic flight without oil derived products, meanwhile those who are campaigning for a greener future seem to insist no progress has been made and resort to ever more desperate displays.