Why is PV the only villain here? I thought wind energy is supplanting coal more quickly than PV, not to mention inroads made by "clean" natural gas. Greg
>________________________________ > From: Andrew Lockley <[email protected]> >To: geoengineering <[email protected]> >Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2014 3:06 AM >Subject: [geo] The scary tipping point nobody talks about here > > > >A personal view : >Solar costs are falling precipitously. And this makes geoengineering more >urgent, not less. To quote from the article linked below >"Citigroup said solar already competes in the growing regions of the world on >"pure economics" without subsidies. It has reached grid parity with >residential electricity prices in Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Australia >and the US southwest. Japan will cross this year, Korea in 2018. It forecast >that even Britain will achieve grid parity by 2020, a remarkable thought for >this wet isle at 51 or 52 degrees latitude." >http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/11046842/Oil-industry-on-borrowed-time-as-switch-to-gas-and-solar-accelerates.html >Solar power is not only cheap, it's available everywhere (if not everywhen). >After years of fruitless negotiations, we're about to see technology hand >decarbonisation to us on a plate. >When the transition comes, it will be frighteningly fast. I suggest that we'll >see large scale grid decarbonisation within a decade of the crossover, and >this will take vehicles with it. Only winter heat and air travel will be >stubbornly resistant, as EV batteries buffer demand through the day. >Herein lies a problem. The tropospheric aerosols are going to go away, and >fast. They're shielding us from a substantial fraction of present warming. >We have until around 2030 to decide what to do about this. Nothing anyone can >say or do will defer this day of reckoning. We'll need to be deployed on >adapted by then, and I don't think adaptation will happen. >What's your view? -- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >"geoengineering" group. >To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >email to [email protected]. >To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
