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Originally Posted by accord1999
It's actually much farther away than most people think, simply due to the extreme difficulty in storing electricity necessary to support unreliable renewables like solar and wind if hydro is not available like in most areas. In the end what happens is you also need a separate electricity generation fleet made of up reliable generators, like nuclear, coal, natural gas or hydro that's able to meet peak demand by itself. Even the richest countries like Germany can't even afford it.
And electricity is only a lesser portion of world energy usage.
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These are problems that can be changed. Calling it difficult doesn't mean it can't be done and done quickly (relatively).
If we had been working with this technology as serously as we have with oil for the last 100 years, it'd probably be done already. If humanity focused much of it's scientific efforts to solving this problem, IMO, it would blow people's minds how fast it happens.
Lets stop making a new iPhone every 6 months and get some of those folks working on real problems. And yes, that would go against many corporations interests and the idea of profit in general. If we can't get past that, we're already screwed IMO.