Massive global growth of renewables to 2030 is set to match entire power capacity of major economies today, moving world closer to tripling goal - News from the International Energy Agency
    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 days ago

      Emissions in China are now in structural decline https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/13/chinas-carbon-emissions-set-for-structural-decline-from-next-year

      However, wealthy Western nations are leading this expansion and issuing the majority of new oil and gas licenses https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/1-Trillion-LNG-Infrastructure-Boom-Threatens-Climate-Goals.html

  • vegeta1 [none/use name]
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    5 days ago

    I had worries about the energy to extract the materials but then I saw somewhere that the weight needed to get to 100 percent is the amount in weight extracted for gas/coal etc in just 6 weeks. The energy must be absolutely dwarfed by that.