the issue is that this would only replace oil for electricity generation. They also need fuel for driving around cars and goods etc. To replace that too you don’t just need a lot more solar panels, converters etc but also a whole lot of very expensive electric cars and trucks. At very least a lot of electric (cargo) bicycles. Anyway, the amount of $$ needed to replace oil and not feel the blockade is probably a lot higher than $8bn.
I agree with the core of the article tho: wealthy developed countries paying poor countries peanuts amounts of money (in the big scheme of things) to transition almost fully to renewables is a no-brainer quick-win in a save the planet logic. Unfortunately most politicians and their electorate are very stuck in a geopolitical ‘my country yeah!!!’ logic and can’t grasp the idea that gifting a few billions worth of solar panels to a dirt poor nation actually benefits everyone in the world.
If the blockade ends, China steps in and sells them a big fat Belt and Road loan + a load of solarpanels, windturbines, EVs instantly. But they won’t step in as long as it’s a ‘hot’ situation. It’s a shame. You could even reason that it would be, long term, probably a lot more worth while for USA-taxpayers to fund solar on Cuba instead of funding the military ships, ammunition and sailors to blockade the countries’ ports. Just die already mr Trump, what’s taking you so long?
China already tripled their solar capacity in one year and will continue to deliver more.
IDK what they tell you there about ‘hot situations’, China doesn’t care.
And they can deliver the cars too.
They are actually cheap, not ‘very expensive’ as you say.
It’s protectionist taxes that makes them expensive here since the west can not compete in the least with them.
They are not only cheaper but way more advanced too.
So price won’t be an issue in Cuba.
It would be great if they became energy independent.
Another weapon gone out of the hands of the US terrorist state.
This western think tank mouthpiece can fuck off.
They are not there to ‘help’
the issue is that this would only replace oil for electricity generation. They also need fuel for driving around cars and goods etc. To replace that too you don’t just need a lot more solar panels, converters etc but also a whole lot of very expensive electric cars and trucks. At very least a lot of electric (cargo) bicycles. Anyway, the amount of $$ needed to replace oil and not feel the blockade is probably a lot higher than $8bn.
I agree with the core of the article tho: wealthy developed countries paying poor countries peanuts amounts of money (in the big scheme of things) to transition almost fully to renewables is a no-brainer quick-win in a save the planet logic. Unfortunately most politicians and their electorate are very stuck in a geopolitical ‘my country yeah!!!’ logic and can’t grasp the idea that gifting a few billions worth of solar panels to a dirt poor nation actually benefits everyone in the world.
If the blockade ends, China steps in and sells them a big fat Belt and Road loan + a load of solarpanels, windturbines, EVs instantly. But they won’t step in as long as it’s a ‘hot’ situation. It’s a shame. You could even reason that it would be, long term, probably a lot more worth while for USA-taxpayers to fund solar on Cuba instead of funding the military ships, ammunition and sailors to blockade the countries’ ports. Just die already mr Trump, what’s taking you so long?
China already tripled their solar capacity in one year and will continue to deliver more.
IDK what they tell you there about ‘hot situations’, China doesn’t care.
And they can deliver the cars too.
They are actually cheap, not ‘very expensive’ as you say.
It’s protectionist taxes that makes them expensive here since the west can not compete in the least with them.
They are not only cheaper but way more advanced too.
So price won’t be an issue in Cuba.
It would be great if they became energy independent.
Another weapon gone out of the hands of the US terrorist state.
This western think tank mouthpiece can fuck off.
They are not there to ‘help’