When I first read the titile, I thought that the US is going to have to build A LOT to triple global production. Then it occured to me that the author means the US is pledging to make deals and agreements which enable other countries to build their own. Sometimes I think the US thinks too much of itself and that’s also very much part of American branding.
Where are my renewable bros at? Tell me this is bad.
Fuck no. Why not real green energy which does not produce nuclear waste that has to be stored safely for thousands of years and where most places dont have a place to store it in?
Every place has a place to store it. It’s pretty safe and easy to store and does not need to be significantly contained for that long of a period. It’s relatively safe. “Real” green energy also produces a lot of waste and dangerous byproducts that “need to be” (read, should but often not) contained. Do you think solar panels grow on trees? No, the resources need to be mines and refined.
Besides, solar photocells have a limited lifetime. Recycling them is possible but expensive so people just make new ones instead. Kind of like plastics if you think about it.
Because that’s not a real issue. Not only is it true that we do have a perfectly-good place to store it that we refuse to use for no good reason, we don’t actually need to store it at all because we ought to be reprocessing it instead.