For most countries around the world, sourcing energy entirely from wind, solar, geothermal, and hydropower by 2050 would reduce their energy needs and costs, improve air quality, and help slow climate change, according to a study in Environmental Science & Technology.
  • Korkki@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Water is wet, researchers find

    Like basic thermodynamics can tell you that carbon capture sucks efficiency wise. It’s more work to pour water on the floor and then mopping it up and putting a back into the bottle, than just not not spilling the water in the first place.

    • leisesprecher@feddit.orgEnglish
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      8 days ago

      And even more basic: renewables are consistently cheaper.

      It’s not really rocket science that adding a costly postprocessing to an already more expensive solution makes that solution even morer expensiver.