You think shadows?
Seems to me every single conflict of note comes from one bunch or another getting grandiose ideas and causing mayhem before eventually going down in flames.
And linguistic and cultural unions only last as long as they have credible external threats.
Consider the MOST successful ones in history, like the Medes and Persians, and some Indian and Chinese federations

I mean in the sense of how far the US has pasted everyone else in military power, if a german/french union (they wouldn't do anything tho). We could just destroy them before a world war started (if we wanted).

We have the start of the Green New deal https://twitter.com/mattsideashop/status/1093751905375858689?s=21

@I Know a Fat Guy Green New Deal Resolution Calls for 100% 'Clean, Renewable and Zero-Emission Energy Sources'

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/green-new-deal-resolution-calls-for-100-clean-renewable-and-zero-emission-e

@I Know a Fat Guy read it and look at the comments. There are a couple insane ones.

I'll look...I'm thinking of being in favor as long as I can be one of those people who get money cause I can be unwilling to work

Lol

That hamster charging the phone is the cutest thing I’ve ever seen

I want to make one.

Lol

You want to make a hamster?! Stop trying to play God!

He wants to make a charging

lol i know

I was being absurd

Charging isn’t even a noun

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@I Know a Fat Guy @amlam https://cleantechnica.com/2019/02/06/can-you-guess-how-many-times-trump-mentioned-clean-energy-climate-change-the-environment-in-the-sotu/

This is an insane one. Very crazy.

I would’ve liked trump to mention the fact that our carbon emissions have reduced while carbon emissions from many Paris Accord signing nations like China have increased in the past year. But other than that I don’t see why he would comment on climate hysteria

@amlam It doesn’t matter because the economy is already de carbonizing. It’s just not happening fast enough for the crazies.

It’s not happening at the point of a government gun so they’re upset

Well, it sort of is in some states, but it isn’t federal

The biggest thing....Even if you grant them everything and US gets to 0 CO2 in 10 years. Their own estimates are that it will have NO significant impact. Thats a lot to gamble for no significant impact

Well. That’s not the issue I have. The us electric grid will already become mostly de carbonized by 2030 business as usual. No joke. It’s probably going to be close to 50% renewables by then. Wind and solar are really growing fast.

It’s a meaningless proposal.

And it pisses me off because they want to pass this and it probably won’t affect things too much.

It’s like with the clean power plan. Utterly useless because coal was already uneconomical. Utilities were planning on switching to gas or renewables anyways

It did absolutely nothing. The US complied with the midpoint the first year the plan was implemented.

I don't think solar and wind will get to 50% that fast.....Its just they have so far to go....

@I Know a Fat Guy I was including other renewables too. Wind and solar are growing fast, but it’s impossible for the country to get to 100% renewables in 10 years. Nobody actually knows how to get past 80% with the current technology.

wind and solar also have their own issues. Solar is as environmentally damaging as Hydro, maybe a little more when you take out the off-gassing that stems from Hydro, and ontop of that you also have the damn energy storage systems to create for night-times and winter. Solar is also awful in smaller nations because it takes up perfectly fine farmland (meaning you have to import it in). A lot of the de-carbonisation efforts stem from better control over emissions (alot of which are being reused in heat-exchange units (((I have forgotten the proper name lol))) or in some cases solidified for burial/burning).

I am a little unsure about the de-carb efforts because a few things I have seen based their calculations off of carbon-capture technology and energy-efficiency savings as well as an increase use of gas. Carbon-capture is one thing, but we are pretty much tapped out on the energy-efficiency side of things, there is improvement to be made but it wont be like what we have seen over the past 20 years.

Side note: People focus a lot of China's pollution, but the Japs and Koreans are in the top five as well (I think 3 and 4 respectively). Neither nation has any gas reserves nor suitable wind or solar locations. With Japans plan to get rid of all nuclear facilities by 2025 and the Koreans cancelling the few nuclear projects they had under construction/planning this problem is only going to get worse.

wind and tidal seem to be the best renewable options for the moment but wind has a problem with shifting wind patterns. I haven't read that much into it yet but from what I understand a few wind farms have reported much lower generation rates than expected because of changes in the atmosphere. I dont know if it is a long term trend they didnt take into account or simply an annual thing.

Eh. Solar isn’t as damaging as hydro. It doesn’t actually ruin the land. The current form of solar technology does take up a bunch of land, but that will change in the future. Storage is only necessary if you want to go 100% renewables; not so much if you want to integrate with other sources, like nuclear.

Off shore wind, in my opinion, has the most promise.

solar is damaging when you into into account the recycling as well as production. It doesnt ruin the land but it does take it up. In the US and Aus that isnt too much of a problem. But in places like Singapore it is totally impossible.

Steady wind and it isnt subject to crazy changes. Plus, it’s closer to load centers and you can build it where people can’t really see it.

Eventually, solar may end up being integrated into roofs.

I don’t think that recycling will comparatively that destructive.

off shore is the best, I agree fully. They just built a huge one off Scotland and it is going to end up taking up a significant percentage of the national grid

solar roof technology makes a lot of sense. That is the stuff that should be pushed hard.

Yeah.