The momentum of the solar energy transition - Nature Communications
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Nijsse and colleagues find that due to technological trajectories set in motion by past policy, a global irreversible solar tipping point may have passed where solar energy gradually comes to dominate global electricity markets, without any further climate policies. Uncertainties arise, however, over grid stability in a renewables-dominated power system, the availability of sufficient finance in underdeveloped economies, the capacity of supply chains and political resistance from regions that lose employment.

Due to technological trajectories set in motion by past policy, a global irreversible solar tipping point may have passed where solar energy gradually comes to dominate global electricity markets, without any further climate policies

  • keepthepace@slrpnk.net
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    11 months ago
    1. Count per kWh. Countries like France who managed to standardize models get cheap costs.
    2. Air cooling is a possibility and water availability not a problem. If water becomes scarce or warm to the point where we can’t warm a percent of a stream up a few degrees, we will have much more serious problems than electricity.
    3. France started mining uranium locally. We stopped because Niger was cheaper and with less labor rights. But blockade France and the uranium mines can get reopened.