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‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off
(www.theguardian.com)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
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Probably doesn't help the environment unless a battery is added, the bigger the better.
what?
Effectively cutting 30% of electricity going into the household isn't going to help the environment? It means less transmission losses. It means less grid infrastructure which consists largely of copper and steel, which both produce a lot of emissions in their production.
Even if it did nothing for the environment, local energy independence is still such a massive boon to any community that it can't be overlooked.
Your are mostly wrong. Infrastructure is still required because sun isn't shining through night and short cloudy winter days. Also Germany has plenty of solar and other renewables power already, specially during day. So it could be that almost all the electricity during sunny days are already coming from renewables. This balcony thing is far from independence.