Renewable energy met all new demand for electricity in 2025, according to a new review of global power generation, halting the growth of fossil fuel-powered generation and highlighting the promise of clean sources like wind and solar.

The authoritative Global Electricity Review released annually by Ember, an international energy research organization, says clean sources — especially solar — are growing fast enough and are cheap enough that they are stopping new fossil fuel-powered electricity generation. Electricity from solar and wind increased while there was no change to the amount of electricity produced from burning fossil fuels.

“We're really talking about a large-scale change in how the energy system works. And solar is among the most scalable technologies that can deliver fast change,” said Nicolas Fulghum, senior data analyst at Ember.

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[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A vast majority of Canadians live in the Windsor-Quebec City coridor. With high quality and affordable HSR, I could travel from my home in Ottawa to any city inbetween for a show, job, whatever and be able to sleep in my own bed that night. Maybe you actually enjoy driving 6-10 hours to the nearest other city but I can assure you that most of Canada would prefer to take a 1-2 hour long train ride where you can sit back and turn your brain off instead of staring at the bumper of the person ahead of you for hours

And Canada is a massive country, yeah, but where does our population mainly live? If you just focus on our main population centres then it's easy to connect us all. Nobody's asking for a rail link to far northern Nunavut.

NOT TO MENTION the fact that we managed to connect the entirety of Canada by rail a century ago with far less advanced technology

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 days ago

I would argue Ontario needs better GO and local transit service before we spend >$100B on a pork barrel project that will link up cities with little/no transit.

And good luck in Winter.