Comment on How Fossil Fuel Disruptions Lead to Booms in Solar and Batteries
silence7@slrpnk.net 1 day agoThat’s changing as broader electrification takes hold, and even today, it takes a lot less fossil fuels than just running directly on burning stuff
eleitl@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
It’s not changing, look at the industrial fabrication and supply chain for solar PV and wind. None of that is powered by renewable electricity.
Renewable infra are a fossil multiplier (but not by much), but the total fraction of fossil in primary energy use is effectively constant, because use of fossil fuels is also increasing.
silence7@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
What I see is a system that’s steadily shifting from dieect fossil fuel use to electricity, and with that, reducing the amount of fossil fuels burned. We’re not done making the change, but it has definitely started
eleitl@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Thing is, there is no energy transition. Renewable infrastructure, built using fossil fuels is stacked on top of rising fossil energy use i0.wp.com/…/World-energy-fossil-fuels-vs-add-ons.…
silence7@slrpnk.net 21 hours ago
That’s what the beginning looks like. We’re just at the cusp of where renewables growth gets to be fast enough to start winding down fossil fuel use at a global level and not just for a few big territories or countries