Comments by "Archangel17" (@MDP1702) on "NowThis Impact" channel.

@tnbassin8307 He has one million registered volunteers. You don't need to be subscribed on his youtube channel to volunteer for him, lmao. Besides there are plenty of other youtube channels that keep people updated on Bernie too, so you'd need to add up all these subscribers.
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China is one of the nations putting a lot in renewables, both from an economic standpoints as well as an environmental one. And per capita the US is double the pollution than China.
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Old plants, new coal plants are more expensive vs new onshore wind and new utility size solar. Also the costs of coal should include the health cost caused by it, but ofcourse this is never done.
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@thedude5040 Absolutely not. Even now large scale battery cost around 100-180 $/MWh + renewables comes up to a total of 150-230 $/MWh (and you don't need to cover the entire supply with batteries, so total cost per MWh goes down significantly, even more if BEV's are used as storage too). Nuclear is 120-180$/MWh. Gas is 90$/MWh and coal (which is increasing in price) is now around 60$/MWh. And batteries 10 years ago were at 1000$/MWh, even if they drop their costs down by only half in the next 10 years, they'll still be competitive with all other sources. Anyone who claims fossil fuels are here too stay don't know what they are talking about. There are only a few specific parts of the economy fossil fuels might remain, like large boats, though even there if batteries increase enough eventually they'll replace fossil fuels.
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@thedude5040 who is going to pay for the land acquisition? The person who install it obviously, though land acquisition isn't necessary, plenty of land where you can do both solar and the original purpose of the land. Do you have any idea how much land would be required to power new york city? Just New York city? no. The US I believe would need a little less than the surface of West Virginia, for the entire world around the surface of New Mexico. Do you know how far electricity can travel? HVDC losses are around 3% per 1000km, so with losses of 9% you'd get as far as 9000km. Ofcourse if higher losses are acceptable (like 15%), you can go as for as 5000km, which spans the entirety of the US. Ofcourse one of the advantages of solar is that you can produce electricity much closer than even regular plants. Do you know that nuclear power is a viable energy source ready to be deployed to handle the transitions from fossil fuel electricity? Yes, though current new nuclear power plants are very expensive and take long to build. By the time they are ready, renewables + battery might both financially and technologically be more attractive, with the execption maybe in industry to replace coal etc. for heating purposes.
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