Comment on The Amount of Electricity Generated From Solar Is Suddenly Unbelievable
Hirom@beehaw.org 3 days ago
The amount of energy wasted on stupid shit is unbelievable as well.
We need to laud efforts put into renewables, as much as we need to decry wasteful energy usage.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
i saw a nice infographic a while ago which put that nicely:
installing renewable energy reduces our CO2 emission by like 90% if fully implemented,
meanwhile cutting back our bullshit CO2 emission only reduces our total emissions by sth like 3%.
So the much more effective strategy is to focus on renewable energy sources, not so much on energy consumption.
Hirom@beehaw.org 2 days ago
Could you share a link to the infographic? I’d be curious to see the details.
Renewables line solar have a great potential at reducing CO2, but only if solar replace fossil fuels.
As an example, nig tech is wasting so much energy of AI they’re increasing both renewable and fossil fuel consomption to cover rapid rise in energy use. The end result is more pollution.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
i’ve been looking for that infographic for 15 minutes yesterday, but i couldn’t find it anymore, unfortunately.