Comment on About 40% of the world's power generation is now renewable
Haagel@lemmings.world 11 months ago
I’d love to know how much that percentage fluctuates with seasons, but on a global scale. Does summer in Australia compensate for winter in America, and vice versa, so that the sum is still 40% throughout the year?
R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Definitely not. There’s much less land mass in the southern hemisphere, so there’s also less utilisation of natural energy. Speaking as an Australian we’re also not super great at embracing the whole renewables thing so that definitely comes into it too lol.
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Erm… Australia has the highest (per capita) number of rooftop solar installations in the world and one of our states (south Australia) is already 99.8% renewable when the weather is favourable (and they are still rapidly deploying more - expecting to get to 100% even in shitty weather long before almost any other country in the world).
set_secret@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Erm, you’re forgetting our massive coal exports which we have to take into consideration. Our rooftop solar doesn’t count for shit if we’re providing excess co2 tp the rest of the planet.
Additionally we’ve never had a year of lower emissions yet, we’ve only achieved to slow the rate of increase.
R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
We’ve made some strides on the renewables front yes but it’s never been enough. We’re still increasing our carbon output year on year, due mostly to the political willpower for renewables simply not existing. Two years ago we had a prime minister who didn’t acknowledge climate change. The fact that we’ve got any renewables at all is simply because of the economics of it. We get so much sun it’s impossible for us to not lead the world on solar, and yet our government still drags their feet on renewables (yes, even Labor are barely any better on environmental issues).
set_secret@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ww emit the same level of CO2 as the USA. And we’re increasing that every year
climatetrace.org/inventory
YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 11 months ago
Coal billionaires are getting more money tho, so who’s to say if it is all that bad.
set_secret@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, at least those billionaires are able to exploit the natural resources to gain more money each year. I guess we should be thankful for that.