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Good thing ! 60 % to go urgently.

The US has the biggest responsability on this planet, being the largest rich country, having emitted more than twice the CO2 per capita of Europe in the recent decades.

Can't expect pour countries to go quicker than the US.



Much more than 60% to go, as all the non-electricity fossil fuel use (heating, transport, industry) will also need to be replaced by emissions free electric alternatives.


On the bright side, this makes intermediate progress simpler in some ways.

You can replace say, gas powered heating with heat pumps and transfer the gas to storage for use in electric generators for when demand and supply diverge.

These transitions can be done in parallel but once you hit a certain degree of carbon free electricity it makes sense to redirect focus to shift towards electrification as things that may have been borderline become viable.


It doesn't have to be electric, thermal is fine too where appropriate.


Yes, but that doesn't really change my point much.


What is both thermal and appropriate?


Solar water heaters. And district heating that uses waste heat. (E.g. waste heat from data centers or industrial processes).

Besides that you could run smelting ovens, internal combustion engines, and other furnaces of hydrogen. Though that hydrogen will probably come from electricity if it isn't polluting.


Geothermal heating too.


Yeah I roughly guesstimate we need about 4 to 5 times as much as we currently have installed. Bright side is the various technologies we need are developed and in production.


This is just wrong. Looking at 2016, the US isn't even in the top 10 per capita, and it's behind 4 EU states.

https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-pe...




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