The details of this transition are spelled out in a new, must-read, 4000-word article in the Financial Times, “The Big Green Bang: how renewable energy became unstoppable.”
What is most remarkable about the article is that it appears in the Financial Times. The free-market oriented paper is the “most important business read” for the world’s top financial decision makers and “the most credible publication in reporting financial and economic issues” for global professional investors, according to surveys.
Electric cars that were hard to even buy eight years ago are selling at an exponential rate,” explains FT’s environment correspondent Pilita Clark, “in the process driving down the price of batteries that hold the key to unleashing new levels of green growth.”
Indeed, one key reason the clean energy revolution is unstoppable is the dramatic and ongoing improvements in battery cost and performance. Advanced batteries are game-changing not only for the electrification of transportation, but also for the continued rapid penetration of renewables.
Just another reminder that though it appears at times that we are in the craziest of times politically, we are also witnessing the dawning of a new age technologically.
And in fact it is this very technology that will undercut the funding from fossil fuel companies that traditionally favor conservatives, and even remove the main reason for meddling in the affairs of Middle Eastern countries to gain access to their oil supplies.
Despite what Donald Trump has promised coal is not going to see a resurgence, and it will be President Obama's investment in renewable energy that will see us to a brighter, and less polluted, tomorrow.
Look out, G, many Rebiblicans believe the sun is like a battery. So many solar cells pulling energy from it will cause it to die.
ReplyDeleteKinda like the idiots who actually believe condensation trails from jets at high altitudes is the government spraying mind altering chemicals on the population.
DeleteSimilar to tRump's idiotic exercise theory.
DeleteI love my Prius. My friend sold his big gas guzzler that cost 500 to 700 a month for gas now spends 88.00 with his Prius. Suck that republicans.
ReplyDeleteI find that Prius owners for the most part are really bad drivers like Subaru owners. Prius drivers either drive too slow or think they are Mario Andretti. There is no redeeming quality for a Subaru owner. All of those people are idiots who should have never been allowed to drive.
DeleteIs there a contest for the dumbest comment of the day today?
DeleteIf so you may have just won.
I find people who make anonymous comments using opinion as data to be not my cup of tea.
DeleteWhere is your data proving bad driving habits of specific brands or models? Oh yeah! You don't have any otherwise you would have posted it.
Get a bigger pair of pants anon. The ones you are wearing are ready to split.
@ 5:21, I spend most of my time during the winter laughing at the morons in their SUVs stuck in snow banks because they are such bad drivers :)
DeleteI just sail right by in my 50 mpg Prius with a smile on my face.
Yep, as someone who built my own competition 4x4 in the 1970's, and currently drive a low emg or bike, I find it hysterical to watch those in trucks and SUV's "skirt" puddles on paved roads (and a couple of times cause head on collisions.
DeleteNow who's the bad driver. IDIOT at 5:21?
I laugh at the guzzlers that have to fill their tanks twice because the pumps only go up to $99. Do people really think gas is going to stay this cheap? Just wait until Trump's "Insult the World" tour is over and we reap ( and pay for) the increased prices from those he's pissed off.
DeleteI live in the rural Midwest, but drive 72 miles round trip every day to my state's capital for work. I can't wait until the technology of electric cars become more advanced and affordable so that it's feasible for me to own one. I'm hoping to be an electric car owner in 5 years or so.
ReplyDeleteOnce there are charging stations at your state capital, you're set. Install one in your garage and you're more than set. You have an array of EVs to choose from.
DeleteI currently drive a 2008 Prius with 65,000 miles on it. when I replace it (in the next 5 years) I'll be replacing it with an EV.
ENERGY>Oh Shit! "If HE took a dump on HIS desk, would you defend it?" If Trump pulled down HIS pants and went to the bathroom on HIS desk, HIS supporters would praise HIM for HIS independence and smart saving of personal ENERGY by not walking to the restroom."
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/05/20/anderson-cooper-jeffrey-lord-president-trump/101910560/
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Help?"will collaborate with biomedical and pharmaceutical companies to develop solutions to the crisis. President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price "strongly supported" the idea" For each partnership, the NIH and the companies pool tens of millions of dollars, with the agreement that the resulting data will be public and the companies will not immediately patent treatments." I think that we could increase the number of effective options to help people get over addiction" think about this the way we thought about HIV/AIDs in the early 1990s, where people were dying all around us in tens of thousands. Well, that's what's happening now with opioids. This ought to be all hands on deck—what could we do to accelerate what otherwise might take a lot longer? It's interesting talking to the drug companies, who have really gotten quite motivated and seem to be determined to make a real contribution here. There are quite a number of new drugs that are in the pipeline somewhere, and they haven't been moving very quickly, because companies haven't been convinced there was enough of a market"—it's not something that's caught up in politics most of the time."<RIGHT?
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I have to disagree the rest of the world doesn’t know it.
ReplyDeleteIt is the republicans in the USA that don’t know it, the rest of the world has progressed much further in this area, mostly because of the high gas prices compared to the USA.
In fact every time the price of oil hence gas drops in the US, the sales of those gas guzzling trucks and SUVs goes up.
From what I've followed, most companies let their coal fueld energy converters die a natural age related death. Replaced with natural gas or renewable fuel power generation. Nobody is going bacck to building coal anything - too expensive in oh so many ways.
ReplyDeleteThe only way to put a hold on the worlds energy thirst and pollution problems, whether related to energy production or not, is for the world have a lot less people on it.
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