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Written by Otis Scops aka Crash Course on 2025-01-18 at 11:41

Why Cheap Renewables Won't Save Us?

An interesting look at the reasons. Here it is shown, once again I should say, that capitalism doesn't work when it comes to long-term thinking. Capitalism is about short term profit above all.

So, would the world be saved when be could kill the capitalist system?

Well, we would be much better off I'm sure, but unfortunately when it comes to saving the planet, or our civilisation for that matter, I don't think so.

When it comes to the energy transition, there are two main factors that are not mentioned in this explanatory video.

1. Renewables produce electricity. Wind, solar and hydro power all result in electricity production. Unfortunately electricity only accounts for some 20% of our energy usage. The rest is supplied mostly by fossil fuels.

2. More importantly, we are in a severe state of overshoot. We have been using more than our share of minerals, oil and whatever. There are just not enough critical minerals available for the type of energy transition that would be necessary for 8 billion people on the planet.

• And besides energy we also need food and wild nature -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkIMf_hVOfQ

[#]energy #Renewables #PV #SolarEnergy #WindEnergy #Overshoot #Capitalism #ClimateCrises #ClimateChaos #GreenNewDeal #GreenWashing #profit #EnergyTransition #Collapse #CrashCourse

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Written by VegOS on 2025-01-18 at 15:47

@Otis_Scops You are a charlatan! Germany relied in 2024 on 55,8% renewable energy. See here for numbers of different European countries from a recognized scientific source:

energy-charts.info/charts/rene…

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Written by Otis Scops aka Crash Course on 2025-01-18 at 18:32

@vegos_f06

Yes, that's what I said: electricity.

The title of your quoted article:

"Renewable share of electricity load in 2024"

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