The same drop in energy needs applies to the EV too, along with sharply reduced emissions associated with manufacturing it.
The exact figure, no, but you can literally see the wind turbines and solar panels showing up in satellite images. They're installing the bulk of the world's renewable energy right now.
They're doing it in places with no oil to just get the heat.
There may be issues with what's used for fracking granite, bit probably won't be the issues with hydrocarbon leakage or waste injection
Should be but actually doing something about that means winning in court.
Even better of course. Not that there are many on the market in the US; automakers are increasing the size of every model.
Actually making it work means not just drilling a hole, but drilling two holes and then connecting them with a network of cracks which doesn't leak too much. This lets you circulate water through a huge volume of rock and engage in depletionary extraction of the accumulated heat. This wasn't really possible before the advent of fracking, and even then, it required a bunch of additional research to figure out how to make it work in the kinds of igneous rocks you find in the craton instead of the sedimentary rocks you find oil deposits in.
Democrats tend to be a lot more willing to comply with the laws requiring disclosure, and from what I can tell, are mostly feeding legit campaign expenses instead of allowing it to all be siphoned off.
It's more that the owning family is incredibly wealthy, and believes in regularly presenting their viewers with right-wing views.
Actual biomass power plants operating today are buying forests to burn them. Those which run in the manner you describe are exceedingly rare.
The problem is that much biomass burning happens in the form of "take a mature forest, which existed for other reasons, and burn it for the purpose of generating electricity." This means that you go from having a large mature forest, to having large areas of immature forest.
This on net adds CO2 to the atmosphere until several decades after it stops.
They actually brought in somebody who isn't a regular columnist to make this claim; even Dowd isn't this bonkers.
There were a couple decades of thinking it through first. There's a real history of all sorts of fish ladders and stuff not working adequately.
We can't get back exactly what we had — temperatures are higher now, and that affects evaporation and salmon, but this seems like the right decision in this location.