DIY-HP-LED
Well-Known Member
A unified global front might not be working out, but individual efforts by major global players are going ahead anyway and countries like India and China are included in that and should make cheap renewables available for poorer people and countries. Even a solar panel and a small battery bank can run LED lights at night and charge phones and cheap school tablets, which are replacing textbooks in many places. Things have to make economic sense for people to switch to greener ways and with cheap solar, cheap batteries are all that stands in the way of anybody living in the tropics or subtropics to have a range of systems from a basic one to provide lights and charge devices or run a TV, to larger ones like we will see here.global climate policy at risk from the collapse of multilateralism
Multilateralism is broken
The EU is doing little to prevent the tragic death of global governance.www.politico.eu
I think extreme weather events will drive the transition more than anything else other than cost/benefits. With increasing utility rates in many places and prices for systems dropping there will reach a point where it makes economic sense. In many undeveloped countries with no or little power infrastructure, it makes sense or will to start to with small community or individual solar and batteries. IMO poor people will need to generate enough power for their domestic needs including cooking, hot water and perhaps AC. In the tropics and sub tropics with more even days year-round and milder temps, this should not be a big issue or an expensive one with cheap stuff from India and China