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Energy Transition Crisis

1 points by noch 3y ago

ZeroGravitas 3y ago
If only we could harness the boundless energy of nuclear bros somehow to put it to some socially useful purpose. > Politicians want you to believe they already have a viable plan to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050, and that we’ve already made enough progress in this energy transition to begin phasing out fossil fuels. > They’re lying! > They talk up their policies of subsidizing wind and solar energy development to appeal to your emotions, hoping you’ll conclude that great strides of progress are already being made. They never mention that every single wind turbine ever built combined with every single solar farm ever built supplies less than 2% of our energy needs. > The politicians never admit that achieving their stated goals by 2050 with wind and solar alone would require building 50 times as much new wind and solar in the next 25 years as we were able to build in the last 25 years. > They never tell you that the Electric Vehicle revolution will require unprecedented increases in environmentally destructive mining operations needed to supply all the copper, lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese required to build all those electric vehicles. > They never acknowledge how much economic inflation will be caused by the policies they falsely claim will achieve this energy transition by 2050. If the politicians have this under control, why has almost no real progress been made after two full decades of broken promises? > Our politicians are paying lip service to energy transition to get your votes and stay in power. But in reality, almost no actual progress has been made toward reducing our dependence on fossil fuels > And that’s not even the worst of it. I predict that well-intended but badly ill-conceived climate policy will directly cause a global energy crisis in the mid-2020s that could easily have been avoided with sound energy policy. It's all very sad that these older engineers fell so hard for the "you're more intelligent than the sheeple" propaganda and now are left looking so foolish.

1 points by noch 3y ago

If only we could harness the boundless energy of nuclear bros somehow to put it to some socially useful purpose. > Politicians want you to believe they already have a viable plan to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050, and that we’ve already made enough progress in this energy transition to begin phasing out fossil fuels. > They’re lying! > They talk up their policies of subsidizing wind and solar energy development to appeal to your emotions, hoping you’ll conclude that great strides of progress are already being made. They never mention that every single wind turbine ever built combined with every single solar farm ever built supplies less than 2% of our energy needs. > The politicians never admit that achieving their stated goals by 2050 with wind and solar alone would require building 50 times as much new wind and solar in the next 25 years as we were able to build in the last 25 years. > They never tell you that the Electric Vehicle revolution will require unprecedented increases in environmentally destructive mining operations needed to supply all the copper, lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese required to build all those electric vehicles. > They never acknowledge how much economic inflation will be caused by the policies they falsely claim will achieve this energy transition by 2050. If the politicians have this under control, why has almost no real progress been made after two full decades of broken promises? > Our politicians are paying lip service to energy transition to get your votes and stay in power. But in reality, almost no actual progress has been made toward reducing our dependence on fossil fuels > And that’s not even the worst of it. I predict that well-intended but badly ill-conceived climate policy will directly cause a global energy crisis in the mid-2020s that could easily have been avoided with sound energy policy. It's all very sad that these older engineers fell so hard for the "you're more intelligent than the sheeple" propaganda and now are left looking so foolish.