Very well structured and balanced post. I confess to rolling my eyes at the obligatory "climate catastrophe" warning. (I criticized the 'existential threat' mania in my latest post. Yes the climate is changing, but there is huge unacknowledged uncertainty on the extent to which it is driven by emissions.) But since you talk about a decades-long adjustment, i will hold further disagreement for when we discuss the costs trade-offs... Excellent discussion on what heeds to be done to integrate renewables in the energy system; I agree that technologies will keep improving. I would add as a note of caution that even with the improvements of the last 10 years, and massive investments, we are burning more fossil fuels, not less -- globally and in a fully-committed geographies like California. So we need these technologies to improve a lot faster. But again, thanks for sharing a well-researched and balanced contribution to the debate.
Very well structured and balanced post. I confess to rolling my eyes at the obligatory "climate catastrophe" warning. (I criticized the 'existential threat' mania in my latest post. Yes the climate is changing, but there is huge unacknowledged uncertainty on the extent to which it is driven by emissions.) But since you talk about a decades-long adjustment, i will hold further disagreement for when we discuss the costs trade-offs... Excellent discussion on what heeds to be done to integrate renewables in the energy system; I agree that technologies will keep improving. I would add as a note of caution that even with the improvements of the last 10 years, and massive investments, we are burning more fossil fuels, not less -- globally and in a fully-committed geographies like California. So we need these technologies to improve a lot faster. But again, thanks for sharing a well-researched and balanced contribution to the debate.
Very well structured and balanced post. I confess to rolling my eyes at the obligatory "climate catastrophe" warning. (I criticized the 'existential threat' mania in my latest post. Yes the climate is changing, but there is huge unacknowledged uncertainty on the extent to which it is driven by emissions.) But since you talk about a decades-long adjustment, i will hold further disagreement for when we discuss the costs trade-offs... Excellent discussion on what heeds to be done to integrate renewables in the energy system; I agree that technologies will keep improving. I would add as a note of caution that even with the improvements of the last 10 years, and massive investments, we are burning more fossil fuels, not less -- globally and in a fully-committed geographies like California. So we need these technologies to improve a lot faster. But again, thanks for sharing a well-researched and balanced contribution to the debate.
Very well structured and balanced post. I confess to rolling my eyes at the obligatory "climate catastrophe" warning. (I criticized the 'existential threat' mania in my latest post. Yes the climate is changing, but there is huge unacknowledged uncertainty on the extent to which it is driven by emissions.) But since you talk about a decades-long adjustment, i will hold further disagreement for when we discuss the costs trade-offs... Excellent discussion on what heeds to be done to integrate renewables in the energy system; I agree that technologies will keep improving. I would add as a note of caution that even with the improvements of the last 10 years, and massive investments, we are burning more fossil fuels, not less -- globally and in a fully-committed geographies like California. So we need these technologies to improve a lot faster. But again, thanks for sharing a well-researched and balanced contribution to the debate.