Its multi faceted like most things are. NIMBY is always present for anything you can see, hear or smell. The "state" has always deemed eminent domain when it comes to power infrastructure. Gas pipe lines, high tension wires, dams, etc..
RE has the additional hurtle that there is no money to be made on fuel supplies by the FFI. Electric utilities like solar as long as they own it. They can profit. But even with that, there is no one making money selling coal, uranium, gas etc. to the utilities. So the OVERALL "picture" is less captialistic. Free energy doesn't fit (But yes, frees for me).
The successful polarization of RE has also allowed the adoption rate to be proportional to the "Party" politics further slowing down adoption.
The graph I attached is one that has been floating around recently regarding CO2 PPM. You take a close look at that and we at no time have made even a ding in the acceleration upward. By 2200 or 2250 we will be at the Cretaceous level of CO2, 1000PPM range. Just no Dinos and probably just the cockroaches and some other cold blooded life.
Honestly we will very likely have a Nuclear "event" long before that which will most likely yield Nuclear Summer (After Nuclear Winter) and run away global heating....
SO as they say, Party like its 1999....
Let the sun shine...
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Original Message:
Sent: 06-12-2023 03:24 PM
From: Ella Nielsen
Subject: Hundreds of US localities restrict renewables siting, with 293 projects currently contested: Columbia report
"The report demonstrates that local opposition to renewable energy facilities is widespread and growing, and represents a potentially significant impediment to achievement of climate goals"
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Ella Nielsen
Membership & Engagement Manager
American Solar Energy Society
Boulder CO
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