@btschumy @benlockwood
Oh yeah, you mean we don't have the infrastructure in place. That's true, but it's also something we can and should start fixing whenever we want. China, for example, is already years ahead of everyone else on this with their huge solar fields. And sodium ion batteries are finally at a point where they're practical, especially for bulk grid storage of power.
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I’ve said it before, but it needs repeating: We already have all the knowledge and technology we need to make an ecological society.@btschumy @benlockwood
We absolutely do have the technology for those things already, it would just be "more expensive" in the sense that the long-term costs of fossil fuels are all externalized.There are certainly a few things we don't have the technology for yet, but mostly in synthetic chemistry, and the amount of fossil fuels used for that is a tiny fraction of global consumption.
The hardest problem would be weaning off of industrial agriculture.