• lntl@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    we’re tripling by 2030. by what factor would we need to increase to match fossil fuel production output? how close are we?

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      7 months ago

      If it happened instantly, we’d need about 12x more renewables than we have now to replace all final energy consumption. Total final energy consumption is likely to go up over time though, so by 2030, we’d need more than 12x current numbers.