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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 7 months ago (10 children)

Imagine if we did this with climate change. Imagine if we tried to switch to renewable energy en masse 20 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (8 children)

Problem with that is that in comparison the alternative to CFC was not that more expensive and then a cheaper one was invented shortly after.

For climate change you basically can double our energy costs and therefore double the cost of almost everything.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

But that isn't true anymore, right? Renewables are now way cheaper per produced Watt. And still, we're stuck with people pretending that's not true.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

It's not so simple. They're cheaper than building non renewable, but are they cheaper than keeping the current plants running? Also, energy consumption keeps growing, and in many places, new generating plants using renewables usually only take care of the growth, and doesn't allow for room to take older plants out of operations. If we don't make huge efforts to reduce our energy consumption, I doubt we're going to get rid of non renewables so soon...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Currently they are cheaper despite the financial support for fossils but back then it was not and not enough was spent on research

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