How we get off fossil fuels looks very roughly like this:
- Generate electricity without burning stuff (wind, solar, geothermal, storage, and maybe nuclear if it’s cheap enough)
- Electrify everything we can (electric vehicles, elecrified mass transit, ebikes, heat pumps for home and district heat, nitrate fertilizer manufacturing, etc)
- Stop doing the things we can’t (a few industrial processes)
In contrast, Trump is betting on oil. This might cause the US to fall technologically behind in the development of green energy.
I think Trump bets on getting lots of bribes. He doesn’t gives a shit about US energy infrastructure.
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Not as much as you may think.
Australia ranks 46th in share of renewable in power generation, with 40.7% renewables
Australia has had some big hydro going for decades, homeowners are taking matters into their own hands installing solar&batteries, and some individual states are taking action,eg SA had the largest battery in the world when commissioned 10 years ago in 2016
Australia has a big conflict in that it also has large exports of coal and gas, with hard lobbying by miners that crosses into local power production, especially legacy coal power plants.