Eli5: How do countries run out of electricity? We have solar, wind, ocean, fossil fuels type of power, but some parts of countries will not have power for some time?
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Solar doesn’t work well in countries that don’t get much light. Wind doesn’t work when it isn’t windy. Ocean doesn’t work for landlocked countries. Fossil Fuel mining is becoming abhorrent. You also need to build the expensive infrastructure and batteries. If you live in a country that can’t afford infrastructure for green energy, you rely on Fossil Fuel. All the major world Govts are doing their best to shut that down for the popular green vote without thinking about actual ‘now’ consequences.
Fossil fuel is a finite resource, it will run out. We are currently in a phase where we are using more energy per person than ever before and demanding that it be green energy (which isn’t actually green, it just moves the pollution to the manufacturing countries and there is still no economical way to recycle green energy hardware like solar panels yet). There are also more people than ever before, the population doesn’t seem to be going down any time soon and this will continue to eat more and more resources. Science hasn’t caught up yet. There are still many gaps in our knowledge. This is a young industry. Given the span of human existence, this isn’t even half a second. It will take time, co-operation and some smart people to figure out.
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