Have we finally gone over the edge?

That's brilliant. Can't tell on my screen if the 24% is non contracted or water power. Also what is non contracted?

Found the US. Still heavy on coal.

Well, it looks like you guys are doing very very well holding your end of the bargain!

In order to put a dent in the pollution problems related to climate change , 2 countries will need to participate. At this point I think the participation of the 2 is minimal.

3 studies concluding the problem of the 2.




Top 500 dirtiest cities by particulate concentration according WHO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-polluted_cities_by_particulate_matter_concentration

Top 50 polluted cities

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/the-most-polluted-cities-in-the-world-ranked/

Top 50 most polluted cities

https://www.iqair.com/us/world-most-polluted-cities

The "where is the electricity coming from" argument occurred to me long ago in a different regard. California has been setting their hills on fire with hot sagging transmission lines and/or undergoing rolling blackouts every summer when they all turn on the AC. How the heck are they going to charge millions more EVs, too?

One area that makes pulling the fragile Earth from the possible brink is the aspiration to raise the standard of living in the two most populous countries of the world. China and India have made it a point to raise their standard of living. The path to this for the two is energy. Energy production and consumption makes the progress possible. Massive alternative energy production for billion plus populations would be astronomically expensive. So the thrust here is, how does the West convince a burgeoning middle class project in these two countries to convert? Green has it limits. Limit your countries prosperity for the population at the behest of those that have it. Gonna be tough road to hoe. Time will tell.

Very true. An already at the limit power grid in most cases. Putting horse before the cart. Resources should be targeted at power sources and the grid. Then build the cars.

Another conundrum.

“The amount of electricity fed into the electricity grid must always be equal to the amount of electricity consumed, otherwise there's a black-out.”

Dialing up and down solar and wind resources is much more complex and problematic. There would have to be a more controllable aspect to the input into the grid. Nuclear power seems the most sensible, just the leftover shit that is toxic for a couple billion years is what screws the pooch,

Hi all,
I really am not trying to upset or freak anyone out. I was 61 in May this year yet can clearly remember in the late 70's when Greenpeace first started to warn the world on what was happening and saying we needed to make changes and fast to avoid a bleak future. Many just dismissed them as fear mongers and loonies whilst others were happy to declare
" Don't worry the scientist's and their brilliant minds will fix it"
Here we are some 40 odd years later and what exactly have the scientist's and the government's and the big corporation's of the world fixed? Absolutely nothing is the sad answer to that, the really sad thing is what we experience today is a consequence of what was done 10,20 or even 30 years earlier and as time progressed we polluted and destroyed more not less and are only now experiencing and paying for things done that long ago so there is more and worse still to come.
The simple fact is mans desire to make money outweighed everything and to be brutally honest IMHO it is now to late to do much of anything that can and will have an impact and the desired effect. Quite simply even if we could get all the Government's and corporation's of the world to start to change today it's just all to late now and by the way that's never going to happen either. The time to change and fix things is now long gone and it's not going to get better by planning changes coming in another 10-20 years.
I could clearly see what was happening back then in the 70's and made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children or get married and many thought I was nuts many may still do. But I am glad of my decisions as would hate to of brought kids into this FFFe'd up planet and society and have them have to face this new reality even my 90 year old mother now agrees with my decisions I made back then and thinks I was right after all.

Marc

Just a side note here. Guess I’ll show my ignorance of Tesla battery packs that I had a few years ago.

This is a Tesla battery, there are over 7,000 in Tesla battery cell. I assumed the Tesla battery was a single large battery, not a mass of batteries. I always wondered, what happens if you put in one backwards. I know my flashlight won’t work.



I would rather have a couple kids than a Tesla. Kids are great. Stewards of our future

We didn't fix global warming or the increasing level of CO2 in the atmosphere, but the ozone layer is healing.

Unless we become aware and take action... a yearly phenomenon ?
🤔
February 2022: Electric Vehicle caused fire onboard huge roll-on/roll-off cargo ship " Felicity Ace " , it sank to 3000 m (coast Portugal)
July 2023: Electric Vehicle caused fire onboard huge roll-on/roll-off cargo ship " Freemantle Highway " (coast the Netherlands)
...
Both ships carried 2800 fossil fuel cars and about 25 EV - Electric Vehicles, of which just one caught fire 😲
unquenchable fire

I’ve given up my long only investment strategy. Now I’m buying and selling drugs to make as much money as quickly as I can and to decimate what’s left of our miserable species as quickly as I can.

Bring on the comets.