I'd disagree. Even from a pretty neoliberal kind of economics, fast fasion doesn't factor environmental "externalities" (i.e. the cost doesn't include environmental destruction) so it's massively undepriced, which artificially punps up demand for fast fashion.
In other words, the issue is caused by the way the system is set up. I.e. it's a systemic issue.
I guess what I mean is, renewable doesn't need tibe 100% all the time to lead to that case. The UK is about 50% renewable overall, but if it's sunny and windy (or windy and nobody is using electricity) then that ratio jumps over 90% fast.
I think I'm just geeking out on electricity though, not making a meaningful point.
I guess the pitch is that stuff like making concrete and steel generate crazy loads of carbon, so capturing it at source in theory sounds viable and pretty effective?
That "in theory" is doing a bunch of heavy lifting though, because so far climate capture hasn't achieved anything other than being an excuse not to actually do anything about CO2 emmisions because "maybe some magic technology in 5 years will solve everything for us"
Agree! I don't know why other people don't get how convenient it is to have a distinct character for every single number imaginable.
Me, meanwhile, hanging out on solarpunk memes. . .
This, 100% It's like how people started saying "PC" because personal computer was too long for them, but now I exclusively hear people taking up to a minute on each letter! (peeeeeeee-seeeeeeee)
IMO sounds a bit stupid
Ok, fine I guesss? I'm not advocating for anything, I'm just telling you about something that exists.
So I’m surprised you claim it’s widespread.
This sounds a lot like you're implying that I would make this up, I have no idea why you think this but DFS, balancing service, and the UK balancing mechanism are all UK markets that allow you to do this. The UK isn't unique, but I'm not as familiar with other energy markets.
For a real world example, Octopus energy in the UK will do this with your EV charger if you are on certain tariffs.
Pretty likely that they might be. The logic works differently in a few different markets but essentially:
(obviously only in certain markets, but these are fairly widespread)
Even this is only kind of true! There's markets where you're paid to discharge into the grid, but also most countries have "baselined" markets, where using less electricity than normal at that time is considered the same as an export. Which something lime a powerwall lets you do by being flexible on when you use it vs the grid. Situations like that are pretty much straight win win.
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The majority of European countries are still moving in the right direction, albeit far too slowly. It's mainly just the US that's abandoning any attempt towards sustainability.