I’ve been thinking this for a few weeks now. It would be incredibly ironic if Trump ended up as one of the primary agents of the the transition away from fosil fuels due to him causing a price spike at a time when there is a viable alternative to oil for a lot of energy uses.
Putin managed to do something similar before. The issue is that high fossil fuel prices also mean massive profits for fossil fuel companies. Since green technologies take time to deploy, this means fossil fuel companies have a lot of money for corruption.
The good news is that there are tipping points. Things like fossil fuel jobs are cut and companies leave countries. For example the UK has no longer coal power plants. So the coal lobby is going to be extremely weak in the UK.
Ya love to see it
Well, you kind of don’t, because war and fertilizer and all that other stuff.
But on the other other hand, IRGC is basically what MAGA wishes it could be, so no sympathy there.
But on the other other other hand, Israel’s having a blast invading people and I fuckin hate that.
Just a big pile of conflicting values, innit.
Yeah, it’s almost all negative, this is really the only positive (that and the erosion of Trump domestic support)
No, as I mentioned, we also got to see Ayatollah die in a fire.
So it fell due to closure of Hormuz or due to growth of solar and wind generation? Title is fucked up
Good time for the US to mothball (or better yet, bulldoze) all those AI data centers.
Given how long they’re viable for (obsolete GPUs in 2 years or less, high likelihood of needing significant retooling for the next gen) you can’t mothball them. Given how few exist in any way other than on paper there will be little to bulldoze.
On the plus side counties are scrambling to decouple their economies from the US and hopefully it’s just the trickle before the flood, so when the US economy tanks from the AI bubble pop it’ll have less effect on the rest of the world.
Friendly reminder that correlation does not mean causation. I find it hard to believe that the Hormuz closure had much impact on these figures.
Renewable energy at a measurable scale takes years to permit and implement. And this YOY increase is more likely the result of the rapidly rising build out of renewable infrastructure around the world.
This war is a tragedy and a mess, but I do hope that maybe this is a wake-up call for a lot of people and may have significant impacts on future projects.
