Renewable Energy Sources are Making Gains

[BillTre]

 

[Ken Fabian]

Tipping points on costs have been crossed and nothing will be the same. No Canuting this tide, which at this point is largely driven by 'free' market choices, ie cost. With, I suspect, advantage of convenience; whilst waiting on some kind of overarching long range plan from policy makers that may never come... add some more solar and wind, which growth gives strong incentives to the storage side, with batteries the emergent quick and ready interim solution to bottlenecks that is morphing into a longer term, larger scale option.

That doesn't assure we can successfully decarbonise sufficiently to stabilise the climate system and still maintain high levels of prosperity, let alone do so in a timely manner but it does undercut the more egregious alarmist fears of economic harms from commitment to trying.

Even where there is political opposition and obstruction (to 'save' economies from having to change how they make and use energy) the urge towards climate accountability and decarbonising isn't going to go away.