(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Renewable Tuesday 10/10 We're Doing This [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-10-10 Every year the technologies get better. Every year more people come to understand the crisis and the solutions. Every year the markets speak louder. Now we need political will, and a better understanding of exponential growth and the related logistic curve. Too many people in too many governments resist making more forceful commitments to renewables, because they cannot imagine the growth that we already see. The IEA, under Republican Denialist influence, used to be one of the worst, but it has nearly caught up to reality under President Biden. Marketplace, quoting an IEA report: Clean energy investment may have bought a chance to avoid climate catastrophe The consensus among climate scientists is that if the world is going to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change, we need to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. We are well on our way to blowing past that threshold, but there’s still a narrow chance that civilization can avoid it if we keep increasing the proportion of clean energy we use. That’s the takeaway from a report by the International Energy Agency that was released Tuesday. It says we’ve bought ourselves this small window with recent investments in wind, solar and other renewables — $1.8 trillion this year, the agency estimates. But to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, we’ll need to spend [you mean invest] a lot more. About $4.5 trillion a year by the early 2030s, the IEA says. Clean energy would create trillion-dollar market and millions of jobs, IEA says The goals the U.S. and other countries have set to cut greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade are only about 20% of what’s needed to limit global warming to 1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency. Countries need to invest a lot more in clean energy, per the IEA. The organization estimates that investment in clean energy could reap economic benefits, including some 13 million new jobs and a trillion-dollar clean energy market that would rival the size of the oil market currently. That’s just the market for the electricity. It doesn’t address the boost to global economic growth, which will be in the tens of trillions of dollars. x Superb work Switching the world to 100% #RenewableEnergy will cost $62 trillion, but the payback would take just 6 years, writes Professor Mark Jacobson @mzjacobson#ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency https://t.co/ypYvO7dDEb — Prof. Peter Strachan (@ProfStrachan) October 8, 2023 Electric Vehicle Market Size Worth $1,376.09 Bn, Globally, by 2030 | Exclusive Report by The Insight Partners Yes, what that says is more than a trillion dollars, more than a metric terabuck. They again quote the IEA, in this case on the recent $30 billion US investment in EVs. The EV charging-based electricity market value is expected to reach US$ 190 billion by 2030. Also, the public charging infrastructure investment is growing significantly, increasing the global EV market growth. For instance, in 2021, more than US$ 21.5 billion investment in the United States was announced for building the public charging infrastructure, and more than 800,000 new charging ports are expected to be deployed by 2030. United States President [Biden] invested in building charging infrastructure with goals to combat the climate crisis, by building more than 500,000 electric vehicle chargers in North America's highways and communities. The government's path for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 is creating ample opportunity for the electric vehicles market growth. NASA May Have Just Cracked the Code for Replacing Lithium in Batteries: ‘Double or even triple the energy’ During the past year, SABERS’ solid-state batteries have been honed to produce a discharge rate much higher than any other example on the market by a factor of 10—and then again by a factor of 5. Inside the battery, sulfur and selenium cells stacked directly on top of one another without casings allow for greater weight savings. Along with the cells themselves, multiple batteries can be stacked without any separation between them. “Not only does this design eliminate 30 to 40 percent of the battery’s weight, it also allows us to double or even triple the energy it can store, far exceeding the capabilities of lithium-ion batteries that are considered to be the state of the art,” said Rocco Viggiano, principal investigator for SABERS at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. We can beat back opinions formed decades ago about the hopelessness of developing countries. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan first talked about leapfrogging the technology stages of the currently developed countries more than 20 years ago. Some Market Fundamentalists and Global Warming Denialists have trapped themselves in a pseudo-Marxist hypothesis that all countries must go through the same historical-political stages. This has turned out not to be the case. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SHOULD BE USED TO TAP KNOWLEDGE FROM GREATEST UNIVERSITIES TO BRING LEARNING TO ALL, KOFI ANNAN SAYS The challenge facing us today is to build on their commitment to education in a new century in which education is more critical than ever to a nation's progress. Since the most valued resource in this age is intellectual capital, it is possible for the developing world to overcome traditional constraints and to leapfrog long and painful stages of the road to development. I therefore look to you — the leaders of tomorrow — to use your knowledge to educate your societies — here in Ghana and throughout the Continent — and teach them to make education a priority, today and in the future. He was delighted with the laying of fiber optic cables all around Africa, and then to every African country. He was delighted with the prospect of mobile phone technology and universal broadband communications, and Free Software in a hundred languages, as proposed by One Laptop Per Child and its partners. And now we are delighted that solar and wind power can support them all, everywhere. World Bank: Climate action game changers The Solar Story [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/10/2197286/-Renewable-Tuesday-10-10-We-re-Doing-This?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=latest_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/