The solar, wind, battery, and electric car “miracles” have gone mainstream.
The competition for the biggest clean energy story of 2017 is intense.
Building and running new renewable energy is now cheaper than just running old coal and nuclear plants. The lowest price for solar power last year is the highestprice now. Battery prices were cut in half just since 2014.
And who could have imagined — just a few years after Tesla put a defibrillator to the flat-lined electric vehicle market — that China would announce plans to join the rapidly expanding list of countries planning to phase out fossil fuel-burning cars in the next decade or two, a list that by year’s end included the UK, France, Norway, and India?
It must always be repeated that the clean energy revolution can’t prevent catastrophic climate change without far more aggressive government policies to speed the transition off fossil fuels. And President Donald Trump can at least temporarily slow the revolution in the U.S. with his pro-polluter policies.
Think Progress – Joe Romm – 12.14.17
Posted by: Nelson Bailey
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