{"id":516626,"date":"2026-06-29T13:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/516626\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T13:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:25:11","slug":"to-decarbonize-quickly-think-beyond-electrification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/516626\/","title":{"rendered":"To Decarbonize Quickly, Think Beyond Electrification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"po-bo__paragraph\">The world is running out of time to kick our fossil fuel addiction and stave off the most destructive effects of climate change. To keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius, climate scientist Kevin Anderson calculates that we need to cut emissions by 8 percent <a href=\"https:\/\/climateuncensored.com\/the-arithmetic-of-climate-failure-an-interview-with-alma-asfalto\/\" class=\"po-bo__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">every year<\/a>, starting now\u00a0\u2014 which means replacing oil and gas with clean electricity, fast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"po-bo__paragraph\">But electrification poses its own problems, chiefly that batteries powerful and plentiful enough to run everything from cars to homes to industry require vast quantities of critical minerals like graphite and cobalt. And at present and projected rates, we won\u2019t be able to mine these critical minerals fast enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"po-bo__paragraph\">Consider an optimistic scenario in which we need 85 Terawatt-hours (TWh) of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/~\/media\/mckinsey\/business%20functions\/sustainability\/our%20insights\/net%20zero%20power%20long%20duration%20energy%20storage%20for%20a%20renewable%20grid\/net-zero-power-long-duration-energy-storage-for-a-renewable-grid.pdf\" class=\"po-bo__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">battery storage<\/a> (compared with 140 TWh or more by some estimates) to electrify the global economy. Bloomberg predicts we will only have <a href=\"https:\/\/about.bnef.com\/insights\/clean-energy\/global-energy-storage-boom-three-things-to-know\/\" class=\"po-bo__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">7.3 TWh<\/a> of battery capacity in 2035\u00a0\u2014 less than 10 percent of what we\u2019d need in this scenario. This pathway is too slow to limit the temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world is running out of time to kick our fossil fuel addiction and stave off the most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-516626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}