Changing to renewable energy is both very expensive as we don’t have a good way to store energy and provides systemtic risk because sun and wind are unreliable in many geographies and especially as more of our infrastracture depends on electricity instead of oil an electricity outage of one or two week produces bigger problems.
There were studies that modeled hydropower plants as being able to store a lot of energy and release it when needed but that’s not how hydropower plants work. If a hydropower plant releases much more energy then on average in a shorter timeframe it floods the regions further down the river.
The electricity system requires that the amount of energy that gets pulled from the system is equal to the electricity that’s put into the system. If that equality breaks down, the system breaks down. We don’t have good mechanisms to reduce power consumption, so if not enough energy gets produced we usually have to create full power outages in a region.
There’s not enough political will to switch our energy system to either renewable energy or nuclear plants in a timeframe that’s enough to prevent undesirable climate changes on it’s own. Given that a single actor can implement geoengineering, geoengineering will be used starting between 2030 and 2060 decades to reduce climate impact.
Nitrogen and phosphorus pollution should likely get more attention as it’s currently getting as those lifecycles are not working well.
Coal kills many people through direct airpollution. In cities non-electric cars emit both airpollution and noise pollution. That means that it’s desireable to switch to electric cars and less coal plants besides climate change concerns.
There’s a good chance that the great stagnation is partly caused by the stagnation in energy prices that good cheaper year-by-year before the great stagnation. This means it’s very valuable for future technological growth to have cheap energy.
Both AI safety, bio-safety and global peace seem more important cause areas as they have more associated risk then climate change.
Human acitivies contribute to climate change.
Changing to renewable energy is both very expensive as we don’t have a good way to store energy and provides systemtic risk because sun and wind are unreliable in many geographies and especially as more of our infrastracture depends on electricity instead of oil an electricity outage of one or two week produces bigger problems.
There were studies that modeled hydropower plants as being able to store a lot of energy and release it when needed but that’s not how hydropower plants work. If a hydropower plant releases much more energy then on average in a shorter timeframe it floods the regions further down the river.
The electricity system requires that the amount of energy that gets pulled from the system is equal to the electricity that’s put into the system. If that equality breaks down, the system breaks down. We don’t have good mechanisms to reduce power consumption, so if not enough energy gets produced we usually have to create full power outages in a region.
There’s not enough political will to switch our energy system to either renewable energy or nuclear plants in a timeframe that’s enough to prevent undesirable climate changes on it’s own. Given that a single actor can implement geoengineering, geoengineering will be used starting between 2030 and 2060 decades to reduce climate impact.
Nitrogen and phosphorus pollution should likely get more attention as it’s currently getting as those lifecycles are not working well.
Coal kills many people through direct airpollution. In cities non-electric cars emit both airpollution and noise pollution. That means that it’s desireable to switch to electric cars and less coal plants besides climate change concerns.
There’s a good chance that the great stagnation is partly caused by the stagnation in energy prices that good cheaper year-by-year before the great stagnation. This means it’s very valuable for future technological growth to have cheap energy.
Both AI safety, bio-safety and global peace seem more important cause areas as they have more associated risk then climate change.