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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Mar 7

    In retrospect, it's amazing the oil shocks of 1970s led to only brief attempt to shift to renewables & the standard policy instead became massive military intervention in middle east (with well known consequences). What would world look like if renewables path had been followed?

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      1. Bryon D Bothun  🇸🇱  ⚡️‏ @Inchhighprivate Mar 7
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        I remember that Carter put solar panels on the White House roof and Reagan made great ceremony of removing them.

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      2. Mark Holum‏ @MarkHolum Mar 7
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        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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      3. Matt “Plz Get Vaxxed” Gordon‏ @DrMattyG Mar 7
        Replying to @MarkHolum @HeerJeet

        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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      2. David McLaughlin‏ @DavidMcLA Mar 7
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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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      3. praXimo‏ @allanimus Mar 7
        Replying to @DavidMcLA @HeerJeet

        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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      1. Jeremy Wallace‏ @jerometenk Mar 7
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        France moved to nuclear.... Also, this is @JeffDColgan 's new book, Partial Hegemony.

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      1. John Munro‏ @johnjamesmunro Mar 7
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        A world without the domination of car culture and #CarbonAutocracy?

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      1. Nona #BansOffOurBodies‏ @NotGr8flJstDead Mar 7
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        GOP hated Carter so much they turned popular opinion against renewables.

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      1. akronaut‏ @reddyrooster1 Mar 7
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        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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      2. Chris Turner‏Verified account @theturner Mar 7
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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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      3. Some Lady from MoCo, MD‏ @MoCoRando Mar 7
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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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