| ▲ | toomuchtodo 2 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Industry can electrify or sunset. “Work is hard.” The energy potential is well above the demand curve, just have to build the orchestration infrastructure (low carbon generation, batteries, transmission, district heating, flexible load demand response, etc). Enough sunlight falls on the Earth in thirty minutes to power humanity for a year, the inability to harness this potential energy is the problem being solved for. It's easy to go faster: simply direct fossil fuel capital and subsidies to the technologies I enumerate above. To not go faster is a choice. We could make different choices. https://cleantechnica.com/2026/08/30/poland-coal-capacity-tr... https://ember-energy.org/countries-and-regions/poland/ https://pyrtkoanalytics.com/poland-in-the-energy-transition-... https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/29/poland-projected-to-r... https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/PL/fifteen_minutes https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/installed-solar-pv-capaci... (already out of date due to solar PV deployment velocity, >3TW of solar PV has been installed globally as of this year) The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone [3TW] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151977 - August 2026 (Poland is expected to add 3-4GW of solar per year, and has hundreds of GWs of combined wind [onshore and offshore] and solar PV potential) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | usrnm an hour ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> Industry can electrify or sunset The much more realistic third option is just moving somewhere else | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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