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As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world. About 1C of total warming. Second chart: about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability. Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases. About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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Grid batteries reach stunning new peak of 44 percent of evening demand in California, the world's fourth biggest economy by GDP (reneweconomy.com.au)
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The fossil fuel economy is finished.

The only question is whether it manages to drag a lot of human civilization into it's grave

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[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

From GP comment:

We really should replace wind turbines with solar panels and batteries, or some other method of storing the energy.

That's wrong, wind can provide a steady energy source (you see that in the plot from the OP article), it is available during the night and, depending on geography, can match some energy demand quite well.

It is not competing, it is complementing each other in a way that less storage is needed.

For example, in coastal Northern Europe, there is lots of wind power in winter, when electricity is needed to power heat pumps.

California specifically has a long coast line exposed to west winds from the Pacific ocean.

Batteries complement these.

An ideal fourth complement would be wave power like the Pelamis type. (Pelamis was shelved by E.ON, a fossil energy company, but probably copied by the Chinese.)

[–] 5715@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Les mal meinen Kommentar im Kontext noch mal, ich glaub du hast da was durcheinander, das sage ich doch gar nicht

[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

Ich bin mir nicht sicher, ob ich den richtig verstanden habe.