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"It’s increasingly common to hear from experts and the general public that the
global shift away from fossil fuels is glacially slow, or even nonexistent.
As the view goes, the meteoric rise of clean energy is only supplementing
fossil fuels rather than pushing them out. Repeated with increasing frequency
by many – including the fossil fuel lobby – this view is not only incorrect,
but dangerous. If accepted as truth, it will encourage climate fatalism.
In reality, we’re living through the fastest energy transformation in human
history. Every previous large-scale shift in energy – from muscle power to wood
to coal to oil – has taken decades or even longer. But the “renewable
revolution” is happening far faster.
It’s only in the past ten years that renewables have become cheap and reliable,
and only in the past five that energy storage has become cheap and widely
available. Solar farms, wind turbines and grid-scale storage can be built
remarkably quickly. Net-zero cities are becoming possible. The iron laws of
economics have kicked in. These cheap forms of electricity generation are
already displacing more and more fossil fuels."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
