If Donald Trump wins the White House again, his love of fossil fuels and hatred of renewable energy could translate into an absolute catastrophe.
  • MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml
    401·
    2 months ago

    This shouldn’t surprise anyone. The guy loves coal, oil, and gas, he hates anything renewable with almost the same passion as he hates immigrants. He will literally defund the EPA because in his mind the environment is fake news and because it will make him popular amongst rich business owners who get even richer from deregulation.

    • zigmus64@lemmy.world
      16·
      2 months ago

      I think you attribute more intent to his actions than he deserves. He “loves” coal, oil, and gas because that’s what his base wants to hear. Defunding the EPA has nothing to do with his pro or anti-climate goals. It has everything to do with the fact that the EPA is a regulatory body that increases costs for industry. Fewer road blocks, better cash flow.

      It’s not that he loves or hates any of these things… it’s all in your last sentence. The rest is just a means to an end. He just doesn’t care beyond the fact that it might keep him from him getting what he wants

      • MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml
        7·
        2 months ago

        So Trump is basically like an AI that has no will of his own and is just a predictive algorithm that is trained on his fan base? That makes a surprising amount of sense when listening to his speeches, they make as much sense as a tripping LLM that was mostly trained on other AI generated text.

        • floofloof@lemmy.caOPEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          And the fan base is trained on him. So Trump’s verbiage is like a preview of the internet to come: crappy articles written by AI trained on crappy articles written by AI, and reality ever receding.

      • MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml
        4·
        2 months ago

        At this point I’d be surprised if there was a single oil billionaire who hasn’t donated millions to his campaigns.

  • penquin@lemm.ee
    402·
    2 months ago

    I’m so fucking sick of seeing this dude’s face or gaping mouth wherever I go. Can he just fucking disappear?

  • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
    11·
    2 months ago

    Maybe if enough people can point out to him that there’s only like 3 letters of difference between “wind power” and “white power”, he might have a change of heart and decide it’s not so bad after all.

    • bremen15@feddit.de
      14·
      2 months ago

      German here. We import power because it is cheaper then nuclear. Also we export more than we import. The majority of imported energy is from renewables from Norway and Sweden.

        • bremen15@feddit.de
          8·
          2 months ago

          Germany does not aim to be energy-self-sufficient, it aims to be integrated into a European grid, which is self sufficient.

          Wind and solar give plenty of energy, storage is the trick. The need for huge storage goes down in a European grid, because there are always parts with enough wind and sun.

          • DelightfullyDivisive@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            I would love to understand this better. I have worked in power generation before (writing maintenance software for a nuclear plant, so I picked up a few things). I don’t understand the distribution side at all, though.

            Can you suggest a book or article on the subject?

            • bremen15@feddit.de
              3·
              2 months ago

              This particular detail I picked up at a recent scientific conference on precisely this topic. It was a reoccurring theme across several talks. I am not aware of any general book on this, though.

    • MonkderDritte@feddit.de
      5·
      2 months ago

      You cannot create a resilient electrical grid with just solar and wind.

      People still saying that, despite entire countries running on it already?

    • DelightfullyDivisive@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Renewables are an important part of the mix, but seems like nuclear is more important right now. It’s the best way to move industry away from coal and gas in the long run, though it’s something we in the US should have started on 30 years ago.

      I’m aware that nuclear power has it’s own set of complications, but they’re more solvable than reducing emissions without it