Post #4357001
2026-08-03 13:20 UTC
…Renewables are currently famously cheaper than fossil fuels at point of consumer use.
But that’s a function of the catastrophically cheap price of fossil fuels (https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/114318199772501074) upon which all the infrastructure to make renewables has been built.
In the coming years, maybe beginning in just a few weeks, the price of fossil fuels will increase dramatically, at which point the price of renewables inflates too, because they are made and deployed with them…
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@urlyman@mastodon.social 2026-08-03 13:27
…Of course these diagrams are woefully simplistic and inadequate at expressing the complex interplay, including with many factors not mentioned. But none of them mean I am not *for renewables*. It’s just that the tech is a wholly inadequate lever to pull. I should make clear that the primary reason for the impossibility of ‘fit’ in the “Renewables-powered future” circles is our *on-going incontinent use of fossil fuels*. We need #degrowth or we get increasingly unforgiving #postgrowth