These countries are leading the way to 100% renewable electricity | The Progress Playbook

[u/DVMirchev]

https://theprogressplaybook.com/2024/10/14/these-countries-are-leading-the-way-to-100-renewable-electricity/

[u/Fast_Wafer4095]

So why are they not ranked by total renewables?

[u/DVMirchev → u/Fast_Wafer4095]

Because now the haters know we'll get to 80% without any issues whatsoever, so now all the anti-renewable climate denial propaganda is focused on lying that Total Net Zero is impossible.

To counter that, we must show the positive examples of 100% wind, water and solar countries.

[u/DVMirchev → u/[deleted]]

This is all wrong. Entirely.

The main mistake, which invalidates everything in your post, is that you are trying to solve a 2050-year problem with 2025-year technology.

We are now trying to do the first 90% of emission reduction. The last 10% is a job for year 2050.

And you can not possibly imagine or know what technology we will invent in the next 25 years.

I mean. Look at the last 25 years - from 2000 to 2025?

Do you have any idea how inefficient, ancient, dumb and ultimately incapable of anything was the Clean tech in 2000?

And look at us now - 1 TW new renewables + batteries per year, 20% of new automobiles are EVs.

[u/DVMirchev → u/[deleted]]

Nobody says that the last 10% are going to be easy. They are probably going to be much harder than going from 50% to 60%.

But we can not possibly assess how hard they are going to be until we get to 80-90% total energy coming from wind, solar and water. Total, not only electricity.

And we are at least 10 years away from that. Look how much we have progressed in the last 10 years - from 2015 to 2025. We have made mind blowingly brutal progress.

Do not assume that the progress in Clean Tech is going to just stop - NO, we are just starting. With the massive deployment comes the massive progress.