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How Fossil Fuel Disruptions Lead to Booms in Solar and Batteries (www.bloomberg.com)

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Past oil crises forced countries to cut fuel use and pay high prices, but now falling prices of clean tech offer another solution.

For context, China just stopped exporting gasoline and diesel

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[–] zd9@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

It's primarily a political issue at this point. While there will always be some need for fossil fuels, a decent majority of our transportation and manufacturing infrastructure can be electrified.

[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Assertions do not make a reality. Transportation is only a fraction of primary energy use, but even there: ship diesels burning bunker fuel and jets burning aviation kerosene have 40+ MJ/l energy density going for them. Prohibitive for air transport. Ships, look at energy density of sodium ion and the price point of a battery bank needed to cross an ocean.

It's physics rather than politics.

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

lol you didn't even read my comment

[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

Yes. You think it's politics, while the issue is physics.