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https://cleantechnica.com/2024/03/15/indias-report-card-against-short-list-of-climate-actions-is-better-than-most-realize/>
"For several years I’ve been iterating
The Short List of Climate Actions That
Will Work. The work of organizations like Mark Z. Jacobson’s Stanford team
around energy and
Carbon Drawdown’s around everything are excellent in
different ways, but also indigestible to most people.
The short list really is that. It’s broad, covering energy, transportation,
agriculture, and industry. But it doesn’t try to be deeply nuanced. In fact, a
few bullet points are enough to get the idea across.
* Electrify everything
* Overbuild renewable generation
* Build continent-scale electrical grids and markets
* Build pumped hydro and other storage
* Plant a lot of trees
* Change agricultural practices
* Fix concrete, steel, and industrial processes
* Price carbon aggressively
* Shut down coal and gas generation aggressively
* Stop financing and subsidies for fossil fuel
* Eliminate HFCs in refrigeration
* Ignore distractions
* Pay attention to motivations
None of this is particularly surprising to anyone who has been paying attention
and isn’t stuck deep into one of the swirling maelstroms of misinformation or
motivated thinking. Regardless, committed climate action analysts, leaders, and
researchers often find things to get deeply annoyed about with it.
For example, sharp eyes will notice it doesn’t mention efficiency at all.
Enormous effort and time has been spent on efficiency programs as a great
requirement. Negawatts and building envelope evangelists decry it being missing
every time I publish an iteration. But unless electrifying is the point with
efficiency being a Pareto-optimized expenditure to make the business case work
better, efficiency by itself usually doesn’t do much. A study of 55,000 UK gas
heated homes which had been insulated with governmental grants found that gas
consumption was very close to pre-insulation levels within two years and fully
back up to those levels at four years. Jevons Paradox cuts deeply.
Similarly, many people choke on electrify everything. A European national
energy strategist commented that they dismissed the list out of hand because
that was the first bullet. Many people assume that electrification has much
more significant limits than it does, when those limits aren’t remotely
technical in the vast majority of cases, but economic."
Via
Fix the News:
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https://fixthenews.com/good-news-child-deaths-clean-cooking-conservation-southern-ocean/>
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
