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Unintended consequences of war in Iran are helping the climate (www.abc.net.au)
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The Iran war is turbocharging global electrification. But experts say the global grid needs to roughly double in size, as infrastructure bottlenecks prevent a clean energy revolution.

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[–] Tango@piefed.ca 2 points 7 hours ago

I watched a Rory Sutherland video the other day and he mentioned a very clever ad for electric cars: a person starts their petrol-powered toothbrush and starts choking on the exhaust fumes, then they turn on their petrol-powered razor and are deafened... the ad points out that most machines in your life are already electric, your car was only ever a matter of time.