Bill Gates: If you read one thing about climate change, make it this (twitter.com) 12 points by henryaj 6y ago ↗ HN
[–] henryaj 6y ago ↗ Link to the article: https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/7/11/2068861...
[–] boshomi 6y ago ↗ at the picture: waste of fertile land for engery production is a worng way to save the climate...
[–] paulddraper 6y ago ↗ > Government support for energy R&D is one of the best opportunities to fight climate change.To give an idea of the current spend:In 2016, the U.S. spent $11 billion on renewable energy subsidies and $3 billion on energy efficiency. [1][1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/uhenergy/2018/03/23/renewable-e... [–] reddickulous 6y ago ↗ Are government subsidies actually a good way to promote R&D? The U.S. has a couple notable failures there (ethanol/corn, and Solyndra).And Germany has put billions and billions of Euros into their aggressive renewable energy push with very little to show for it.https://m.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-failure-on...
[–] reddickulous 6y ago ↗ Are government subsidies actually a good way to promote R&D? The U.S. has a couple notable failures there (ethanol/corn, and Solyndra).And Germany has put billions and billions of Euros into their aggressive renewable energy push with very little to show for it.https://m.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-failure-on...
[–] xmichael999 6y ago ↗ I've never really spent any time with Twitter, but wow what a frustrating platform. The lead comments range from total insanity to a guy asking for a job, mixed with a few sorta logical comments....
[–] acqq 6y ago ↗ The one thing is how unbelievably hard would be to reach 2 deg target:http://folk.uio.no/roberan/t/global_mitigation_curves.shtmlThe problem is: we should not despair but act and politicians don't like to ask the voters to sacrifice for a goal of making the future less worse.
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[ 413 ms ] story [ 1188 ms ] threadTo give an idea of the current spend:
In 2016, the U.S. spent $11 billion on renewable energy subsidies and $3 billion on energy efficiency. [1]
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/uhenergy/2018/03/23/renewable-e...
And Germany has put billions and billions of Euros into their aggressive renewable energy push with very little to show for it.
https://m.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-failure-on...
http://folk.uio.no/roberan/t/global_mitigation_curves.shtml
The problem is: we should not despair but act and politicians don't like to ask the voters to sacrifice for a goal of making the future less worse.