The section about renewables, raised as some kind of counterbalance to the constant firehose of complete bullshit coming from Trumpworld, is in fact misinformation itself.
I wish your average Republican alternative facts met the following bar:
> What is true is that solar panels have become very cheap to manufacture, such that a well-located utility-scale solar plant is cheaper to build than a fossil fuel plant that generates the same amount of electricity over the course of a year. This is a true fact with some genuine economic significance, and it explains why a country like China that doesn’t appear to care much about climate change is building a lot of renewable energy infrastructure.
But apparently there's an inference!
> But the inference progressives wanted to draw from this LCOE framework - that there were no economic downsides to trying to strangle fossil fuel extraction — is totally wrong.
And by inference he apparently means pathetic straw man he's invented.
"Strangle"? How violent.
But anyway, his point is that Democrats fooled themselves into making 100% renewable pledges, Biden couldn't deliver and so they deserved to lose.
Except, he doesn't link these pledges and when I Google it I find people forgetting 100% carbon free (i.e. including nuclear) by 2040.
Which is totally reasonable and still 15 years away.
I wish your average Republican alternative facts met the following bar:
> What is true is that solar panels have become very cheap to manufacture, such that a well-located utility-scale solar plant is cheaper to build than a fossil fuel plant that generates the same amount of electricity over the course of a year. This is a true fact with some genuine economic significance, and it explains why a country like China that doesn’t appear to care much about climate change is building a lot of renewable energy infrastructure.
But apparently there's an inference!
> But the inference progressives wanted to draw from this LCOE framework - that there were no economic downsides to trying to strangle fossil fuel extraction — is totally wrong.
And by inference he apparently means pathetic straw man he's invented.
"Strangle"? How violent.
But anyway, his point is that Democrats fooled themselves into making 100% renewable pledges, Biden couldn't deliver and so they deserved to lose.
Except, he doesn't link these pledges and when I Google it I find people forgetting 100% carbon free (i.e. including nuclear) by 2040.
Which is totally reasonable and still 15 years away.