Interesting. I'll have to look into it more closely. Sounds like the "climate crisis" (don't like that term but everyone knows what it means so it's convenient) is basically solved if everything you've said is true.
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Yeah, it's always been a political problem, not an engineering one.
If you're effectively getting paid to release carbon into the atmosphere, then you're going to release a lot of carbon into the atmosphere. You're also going to get really pissed if someone wants to start charging you for it rather than paying you.
Luckily there were enough people who pushed for renewable subsidies to get them over the hump where even supervillains would use them for their own selfish profit.
Still to be seen whether we left it too late, how long disinformation and lies will hold us back still and so on, and whether any petro-states will start a big war to distract from the new reality but I'm generally positive (or as positive as you can be when you realise some of the largest corporations in the world and their pet politicians were literally gambling the future of the human race just so they'd get a fat bonus while making everyone else sicker and poorer, again).