There is no energy transition, no paradigm shift or green revolution. Acknowledging this stark reality sooner rather than later will allow us to focus on devising strategies for managing the consequences of climate change, and the deteriorating state of earth's biosphere. This week, energy expert Vaclav Smil provided a valuable…
It’s too early for renewables. Once we’ve taken the plunge and given up fossil fuels, whatever spectacularly apocalyptic scenario leads to that finally happening, they’ll be just what’s needed.
Current renewables are fossil fuel multipliers. This is not a basic law of physics, but we’ve almost ran out of time and fossil resources to fix that. What’s worse is that we’re not even seriously attempting it.
We’re not giving up fossil fuels, fossil fuels are (un)fortunately abandoning us. Which of course brings us to that apocalyptic scenario you mention.