I remember that Carter put solar panels on the White House roof and Reagan made great ceremony of removing them.
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renewables weren't really possible in the 70s besides nuclear... and the oil shocks coincided with a wave of nuclear accidents that made nuclear not particularly appealing.
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Definitely not solar, but what was stopping us from building wind? In some ways, the US of the 70s was better prepared for large infrastructure investment than we are now.
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With one notable exception: France and nuclear power. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/readings/french.html … "France's decision to launch a large nuclear program dates back to 1973 and the events in the Middle East that they refer to as the "oil shock." "
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Canada thought nuclear was the future too. So much so, they paid for the construction of reactors in developing Commonwealth nations like India. Who then went and used the technology to make weapons. They still refuse to sign the NPT.https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/1974-canada-blamed-for-indias-peaceful-bomb …
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France moved to nuclear.... Also, this is
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A world without the domination of car culture and
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GOP hated Carter so much they turned popular opinion against renewables.
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Carter’s “Crisis of Confidence” (AKA “Malaise”) speech from July ‘79 laid it out. Caveat that it still relied too heavily on coal.
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Not so amazing. They still had a loooong way to go down the cost curves and the economics still looked iffy in the early oughts (and needed a huge economic boost from Germany and a couple others even then)
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For one thing we didn’t have the grid battery technology we have now and it made sudden peaks and drops in variable renewable output very difficult to handle safely.
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