> Utah Leaders Are Hindering Efforts to Develop Solar Despite a Goal to Double the State's Energy Supply
toomuchtodo•1h ago
The US will be dragged kicking and screaming to renewables, it has no other option.
brianwawok•52m ago
Ehhhh we are pretty dumb
toomuchtodo•42m ago
We are, but luckily, we’ve backed ourselves into a corner. Coal generators are too expensive to keep running forever due to reaching the end of service life. LNG export expansion means US electrical consumers using fossil gas for power will be competing with global LNG consumers. 92% of new power installed last year in the US was renewables.
m4ck_•28m ago
I think the only way we're going to see that happen is if first we do exactly what the right-wing hivemind truly believes to be the only solution: eliminate any and all environmental regulations. They're going to fight tooth and nail until they're made to understand that the "rivers-literally-so-polluted-they're-on-fire" era wasn't so great. So they're going to have to re-live it, the unbreatheable air in any populated area near industry; extremely loud and dirty diesel engines dumping soot everywhere, no limits on emissions from things like the paper/steel/oil industry, etc.
hn_acker•1h ago
> Utah Leaders Are Hindering Efforts to Develop Solar Despite a Goal to Double the State's Energy Supply