{"id":19228,"date":"2023-07-05T00:50:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T07:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=19228"},"modified":"2023-10-16T00:51:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T07:51:05","slug":"2023-07-05-huge-amount-of-renewables-needed-to-replace-fossil-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=19228","title":{"rendered":"2023-07-05 Huge Amount Of Renewables Needed To Replace Fossil Fuels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The amounts of renewables needed to replace fossil fuels is huge. Up to 17% of the often estimated 51 gigatons per year of the world&#8217;s carbon budget could be used to manufacture PV modules, and that is just for solar &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t count wind turbines. We <em>must<\/em> triple, then double that much production to meet the requirements for meeting decarbonization goals by the required dates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"e3OgLKEQkT\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2022\/07\/03\/solar-scientists-explore-how-to-make-pv-even-greener\/\">Solar Scientists Explore How To Make PV Even Greener<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Solar Scientists Explore How To Make PV Even Greener&#8221; &#8212; CleanTechnica\" src=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2022\/07\/03\/solar-scientists-explore-how-to-make-pv-even-greener\/embed\/#?secret=pYOgI4X34b#?secret=e3OgLKEQkT\" data-secret=\"e3OgLKEQkT\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf we want to hit the decarbonization goals set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, as much as a sixth of the remaining carbon budget could be used to manufacture PV modules,\u201d Matthew Reese said. \u201cThat\u2019s the scale of the problem\u2014it\u2019s a massive amount of manufacturing that has to be done in order to replace the energy sources being used today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The amounts of renewables needed to replace fossil fuels is huge. Up to 17% of the often estimated 51 gigatons per year of the world&#8217;s carbon budget could be used to manufacture PV modules, and that is just for solar &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t count wind turbines. We must triple, then double that much production to<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=19228\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19230,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19228\/revisions\/19230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}