Episode 58 - "Renewable Problems"

With the deadline for keeping global warming below 1.5C quickly approaching (at least according to the extremely optimistic IPCC calculations - and we know how we feel about those), the time for renewable energy is yesterday. The transition to these clean sources of energy should be a no brainer, right? Well, as always, the story is more complicated than it would first appear and our addiction to cheap and highly energetic fossil fuels isn't going away anytime soon. Can we break our addiction and create real change?

Chapters

• 00:29 Energy Investment in Southern Mexico
• 10:12 Why is Ashes Ashes hating on renewable technology?
• 16:11 Individual vs Social Change
• 20:56 Energy Density
• 29:35 Hidden Externalities
• 34:57 Grid storage
• 39:37 Struggling to Maintain Renewables
• 46:51 Close Out

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