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How we get off fossil fuels looks very roughly like this:

  • Generate electricity without burning stuff (wind, solar, geothermal, storage, and maybe nuclear if it's cheap enough)
  • Electrify everything we can (electric vehicles, elecrified mass transit, ebikes, heat pumps for home and district heat, nitrate fertilizer manufacturing, etc)
  • Stop doing the things we can't (a few industrial processes)
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[-] No1@aussie.zone 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Not as much as you may think.

Australia ranks 46th in share of renewable in power generation, with 40.7% renewables

Australia has had some big hydro going for decades, homeowners are taking matters into their own hands installing solar&batteries, and some individual states are taking action,eg SA had the largest battery in the world when commissioned 10 years ago in 2016

Australia has a big conflict in that it also has large exports of coal and gas, with hard lobbying by miners that crosses into local power production, especially legacy coal power plants.

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