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The Way Humans Get Electricity Is About to Change Forever

posted by martyb on Sunday June 28 2015, @03:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the but-using-same-old-approach-for-non-humans dept.

Phoenix666 writes with a story from Bloomberg News:

The renewable-energy boom is here. Trillions of dollars will be invested over the next 25 years, driving some of the most profound changes yet in how humans get their electricity. That's according to a new forecast by Bloomberg New Energy Finance that plots out global power markets to 2040.

Here are six massive shifts coming soon to power markets near you:

  1. Solar Prices Keep Crashing
  2. Solar Billions Become Solar Trillions
  3. The Revolution Will Be Decentralized
  4. Global Demand Slows
  5. Natural Gas Burns Briefly
  6. The Climate Is Still Screwed

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @05:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @05:59PM (#202918)

    My Grandmother had a coo-coo clock that didn't need batteries. You would pull a wight up once or twice a day and then it would change that potential energy to mechanical energy to use for the rest of the time. I can't think of a more 'peaky' power source than one that is only available for 30s each day.

    It seems that such a weight system should be scalable.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @07:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @07:53PM (#202974)

    > It seems that such a weight system should be scalable.

    It is not.