anlomedadCool episode on #Frankly by Nate Hagens.
The Walrus Movement? That's us, my bubble.
But at 23:45, Nate shocks me saying, we'd need a little oil&gas to run our machine because RE+🔋-eq can't suffice.
wrf? What does he know and I don't? Surely, he's fundamentally wrong here. He also skids into "RE cause ecocidal extractivism", by which he's obviously holding the wrong end of the sword.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejRfnSrY0ok
Now, I can't tell, why he says this, which facts he'd use as base for his argument if he had time to expand on it.
But a) you build RE once every 25 years, maybe 10yrs for batteries. Then you recycle material and replace the old one with the new.
b) You can run your hot water from a non-battery storage like sand, thus reducing wintery electricity demand on that remote farm, where he seems to think, a diesel generator will be needed even in a fully RE-type of civilisation. I bet, given another 10 years, R&D comes up with more heat storage solutions for remote locations. And that'd still be within the transitioning time frame, not a fusion reactor fairy tale.
But as I said, I can't tell why Nate put this into his myth debunking. I might be wrong.
But I think, he is.
And he got it absolutely right: demand-side has to be curbed. Now. Today. Which also cuts the tie to the system of blind over-use.
Otherwise we won't stand a chance to transition in time/in budget.
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