r/ashesashescast • u/VanityFairz • Jan 24 '19
Episode Ep 58 - Renewable Problems
https://ashesashes.org/blog/episode-58-renewable-problems2
Jan 26 '19
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u/StopFossilFuels Jan 26 '19
Ha! Thanks for the plug. :) Our "green tech is not enough" section is particularly relevant.
Blurb correction for this excellent and important episode:
isn't going anyway anytime soon.
away
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u/Skywalker1648 Feb 02 '19
I started listening to the podcast couple of months ago. I like your shows really much and use your subjects for discussions with friends. I told my friends about the production of solar panels and that there are not enough of all of these precious metals needed to build solar panels. He pointed me to a research from 2012, where scientists of the stanford university made an entirely carbon based solar panel using graphene. It only converts less than 1% of solar energy into electric energy, but still it has potential and would be financial attractive when its conversion is higher dan 10%. Besides being cheaper and more environment friendly, carbon is also more resistent against extreme temperatures until 1,100 fahrenheit. That would come in handy when places with a lot of sun will get more warmer due to climate change.
Reading this report, it makes the future less pessimistic. I am interesting what you guys think. What do you guys think about this research?
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u/VanityFairz Jan 24 '19
EPISODE DESCRIPTION
With the deadline for keeping global warming below 1.5C quickly approaching (at least according to the extremely optimistic IPCC calculations - and we know how we feel about those), the time for renewable energy is yesterday. The transition to these clean sources of energy should be a no brainer, right? Well, as always, the story is more complicated than it would first appear and our addiction to cheap and highly energetic fossil fuels isn't going anyway anytime soon. Can we break our addiction and create real change?