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How to solve climate change and make life more awesome
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Global Energy Future Is a Nice North Star
We don't know exactly how it's going to play out in every zip code. What is more similar about places now is their local climate and their population density. If you covered all of Singapore with solar cells, that's not enough energy to power Singapore. There are countries in the world that can't do it on renewables because the population density and the energy intensity of their economies is so high. So I'm just as excited about the New South Wales government Australia showing the way with an economics package and a technology package that makes it work. California could win this race. It's not clear that Texas weirdly won't win.
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