Yeah having one of your major energy suppliers get cut off will do that.
this post was submitted on 18 May 2026
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Cutting off your own energy supplier AND having your friend cut off your other energy supplier will have one searching for relief in odd places
I'm just going to do what they do when China does amazing things and say that they haven't done nearly enough.
But what produces the remaining 40% of power though? I hope they haven't just legislated that "clean coal" or whatever doesn't count as a fossil fuel so it isn't counted anymore.
Nuclear and hydro?
It's stated towards the bottom: 24% nuclear, 17% "other renewables" which is hydroelectric, geothermal, and biomass.
It really feels like we could still avert most of the worst effects of climate change if we just got rid of the u.s. military and coordinated a global effort to transition to 100% nuclear, wind and solar power, but we're just not going to
The only nuclear transition we're getting is to a nuclear winter 
You could run society just fine and be plenty comfortable on 0.2 kWh of power generation per capita, spread between solar, hydro, and biomass/biogas.
But this would never happen under capitalism, which requires an ever-increasing amount of power generation.
Not good enough
never, ever good enough.
Cool, now do primary energy sources