Going 100% Green Will Pay for Itself in Seven Years, Study Finds

[bcwarner]

The paper referred to in the article: https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(19)30225-...

[gexla]

Thank you, this is a productive answer to the comments critical of paywalls.

[nickik]

Whenever I read headlines close to this or a study that find such insane conclusions I automatically dismiss it out of hand. You can only get to numbers this extreme with lots, and lots of hidden assumptions that you need to totally spin your way to get there.

In a world with limited time you need to think about what to study and after many studies that I find totally unrealistic, diving into another one is just not what I'm gone be doing.

[downerending]

Along those lines, if the break-even time on the investment is really just seven years, why isn't everyone doing it already?

[woodandsteel]

So what do you think we should be doing? Staying on fossil fuels indefinitely, or moving to renewables more slowly or what.

[colejohnson66]

You’re right. There will be downsides, but your snide remark at “liberals” was uncalled for. Not every person has the same beliefs. Limping every left leaning person into a “liberals” category is demeaning.

[deeviant]

> jeopardizing reliability...

Like being without power for a week and half, like my elderly mother was, because pg&e can't upkeep their transmission lines? Pretty sure microgrids would make this problem better not worse. And shield against a state-level attack on our very fragile national grid.

> It really makes me wonder if the Liberals of the 60s-90s wouldn't have made it so difficult to build Nuclear power plants, if this all would be solved by now.

And I really wonder, if every country in the world used nuclear power as it's primary power source, if there would still be a human-habitable world today.

[pstuart]

I propose you reconsider what "green" means.