As predicted, US will squash green efforts, and desperately cling to oil.
The oil we take will then become close to valueless as the rest of the world grows out of their reliance on it
We NEED to Cumpete with CHYNA! Which is Why we’re doing EVERYTHING to Force OTHER COUNTRIES to do Bizness with CHYNA!
-Republicans!
I don’t believe they are just evil, I believe they are actually fucking stupid as well, and short-sighted.
It’s the lead.
I absolutely love that the tyrannical bullying by the US is going to result in a globally-visible solar win.
That being said, now I worry that this administration will simply bomb them from existence to keep it from happening.
It’s like they’re trying to crush a bar of soap that just keeps slipping away.
“The more you tighten your grip, the more [countries] will slip through your fingers.”
Poor US always on the wrong side recently, and with such good intentions too.
Bwahaha… Good intentions, that’s rich
No, you’re thinking of the people keeping us in this mess.
Putin & Trump will be sited as being responsible for the push, by the World, for more solar and electric energies. These oil dinosaurs are forcing people to choose green alternatives just to exist. Which is exactly what they both never wanted. hahahahaha
Exactly, Europe was about to declare gas energy plants as “clean energy” but only thanks to Putin they were able to 180 before ratification
God I’d love to escape reliance on shitty power grids that usually end up torturing its citizens. Maybe once Orange Clown bites the dust we can FINALLY get some proper support for renewable energy like Solar Power.
Solar is already pretty popular in a lot of places, we’re going to have to start building out grid-scale storage and increased transmission capability between the different countries of the EU now if we want to be truly independent of fossil fuels without spending a quadrillion euros on nuclear plants everywhere.
I live far enough north that in the summer we peak at 18 glorious hours of daylight. Electricity prices go negative at times, you have to stop selling to the grid or you’ll lose money. But if you’ve got 18 hours of summer daylight, that means you have 18 hours of pitch black in the winter. The sun rises so low over the horizon that on the few days that it isn’t overcast, solar panels barely produce anything. Solar doesn’t produce anything for about 2-3 months. The difference as measured by a company doing home solar installations, is about 30x between the best and worst month. That’s a company that wants to sell you solar, so they’re not likely to overstate the reduction of efficiency in the winter.
We’re then dependent on our fossil plants (somewhat unreliable), wind (somewhat unpredictable) and Finnish nuclear plants - but those power us through the underwater ESTLINK cables and those don’t have enough bandwidth for heavy consumption periods, nor can the Finns sell everything they generate to us… And worst of all, some of that sweet nuclear power gets passed on to Latvia and Lithuania too. Oh and this is winter, where a lot of people need to run our heat pumps full blast at significantly reduced efficiency over spring/autumn time.
But at the same time, southern Europe isn’t affected as much by the lower solar angles and shorter days. There’s a reduction in generation for sure, but not comparable to northern Europe. If that electricity made its way here, we wouldn’t have to run our fossil plants as much in the winter. With enough storage, perhaps it could even be enough to last through cold winter nights as well.
I am hopeful that after the orange piece of shit eventually goes tits up, I’m really hoping that there will be a hard correction in the other direction.
There will only be a hard correction if we get politicians who are working for the US, and not to make themselves richer. We need to let them know what we expect from them.
meanwhile leaving their own countries lagging behind. “America First” lol.
*cited*
Their alternative is literally to bankrupt their countries, because those stupid fucking idiots put too many eggs in one basket.
Without oil/gas export, they can wave goodbye to their economies as they are today.
Putin made sure Western countries currently don’t want to use Russian fossil products. Ukraine is making sure that they can never be used again.
Truly champions of the environment and the common people. lol
So that “drill baby drill” didn’t just backfire, it backfired spectacularly yo the point where I’m thinking that we still might have a chance to stop climate change. Thanks Cheetos!
Cuba was already on track to build solar farms back in 2023, with planned completion by 2025.
At what point will the USA admit their embargo was and is a huge fuck-up and an embarrassment? It’s become a symbol of how full of crap we are. Has it been fifty years of this?
p.s. I looked it up because I’m dumb, it’s been SIXTY-SIX YEARS. It’s even older than me.
All the USA had to do for a fantastic ally by now is stop being an asshole. We could at least return the illegally seized Guantanamo Bay, which is kept just to insult them, really.
The evil commies win again. Thanks Obama, you’re still ruining America years later.
So they went full solarpunk?
Cuba in Ten Years
Funny how the anti-green energy USA is expediting the adoption of renewables around the world due to their moronic laws, policies and wars.
Can’t wait to see them left behind in the past with all that oil they can’t get enough of, when nobody will need it anymore in the rest of the world.
not the first time for this kind of thing. they have had a lot of things like organic farming to.
Big hotels
Seems like China recognized a pattern about nations that invest heavily in the poorer parts of the world.
Insert “good” meme
Amazing what a country can do when its continued existence depend on residents doing it.
This is gonna be the way. PR too, America’s second-least-favourite protectorate after Samoa (you forgot it existed, didn’t ya?). PR can shore up a bunch with solar power – and whatever one does for things like storm damage mitigation, the other can also.
And let’s do haiti next, although that’ll need to be a whole new secure endeavour out of like an embassy basement or something that can’t be stolen or blown up.
