On: Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? (2020)

[gibolt]

Last I saw, China has 97% of the world's electric buses, and probably a similar figure for taxis.

The scale and transition is crazy and rapid. The savings on fuel alone easily made the upfront cost worth it; growing a new industry and cleaning up the air were nice bonuses

[sfifs → gibolt]

Yes and I've seen the transition happen before my eyes as i have visited China at least couple of times a year ever since the early 2010s till literally the weekend before the Pandemic blew up. I still remember the air pollution of old (which made me decide to NOT take up a role with a promotion offered to me there at one point as my family members are asthmatic) and how one of my direct reports there used to get continuous coughing bouts every winter and hasn't really had them in the last couple of years.

[dathinab → gibolt]

What is also interesting that a lot of this approaches are pragmatic instead of holistic.

I.e. you can pragmatically already use electric vehicles in many places.

But transition away from coal power plants will still take quite a while.

[Ekaros → gibolt]

I used to work with company part-taking public transport infrastructure and the number of projects that regularly popped up was large. And in places most of us have never heard off. In the end all of this electric transport.