Environment & Energy
Related: About this forumRenewable energy is cheaper, creates more growth and creates more jobs than fossil fuel does/will
Itâs amazing how quickly the global narrative has shifted; renewables now outcompete fossil fuels on cost, growth and jobs.
— Ian Hall (@ianhall.bsky.social) 2025-11-14T08:03:03.247Z
If governments get the policy right, the green transition could reduce inequality rather than repeat the mistakes of the fossil fuel era.
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Walleye
(43,186 posts)They are just so into being oil men they cant quit it
applegrove
(129,281 posts)every single way power is used.
Walleye
(43,186 posts)applegrove
(129,281 posts)The Wizard
(13,488 posts)hold sway over legislation. The bribing class writes the laws.
hunter
(40,194 posts)Places with aggressive renewable energy programs, such as California, Germany, and Denmark, have some of the most expensive electricity in the developed world.
The infrastructure required to keep an electric grid with large renewable energy inputs stable is not cheap.
The costs of renewable energy are the same at any scale. I challenge anyone to build an off-grid solar powered home with all the modern conveniences that's "cheap," especially one that doesn't rely on fossil fueled backup power.
Once again, I refer people to this chart:
https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/DE/12mo/monthly
The cost of electricity in "green" nuclear powered France is almost half what it is in brown Germany.
The only reason Denmark's electric grids are green and yellow is that their neighboring nations act as buffers when Denmark's renewable electricity supply exceeds their demand. When Denmark's renewable electricity demand exceeds their supply they import supposedly "green" electricity from neighboring states. Mostly this is all an accounting trick.
Electricity in Denmark cost even more than it does in Germany.
There is no energy "transition." So called renewable energy will only prolong our dependence on fossil fuels, thus doing nothing in the long run to reduce the total amount of greenhouse gasses humans dump into earth's atmosphere.
I'll say it once again, the only energy resource capable of displacing fossil fuels entirely is nuclear power.
Nuclear power is, of course, capable of displacing large scale renewable energy projects too, which forces the renewable energy industry into an awkward alliance with the fossil fuel industry, most especially the filthy natural gas industry.