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The energy transition may have tipping points if we don't plan ahead (www.volts.wtf)

submitted 1 week ago by Dippy@beehaw.org to c/environment@beehaw.org

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The economics of running fossil fuel infrastructure rely on having an economy of scale. As that scale decreases, the cost efficiency will plummet, leading the public sector to abandon them, most likely. We will either need to nationalize some of these things and run them at a loss as the sunsetting happens, or people will be left behind on the old fuels they can no longer access.

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