Friday, October 25, 2024

Fossil Fuels



For the first time since the Black Death in the 1300s, Eberstadt writes in Foreign Affairs, Earth’s population is going to decline. A lot.

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The vast majority of Prussia, the founding father of modern Germany, is no longer part of Germany

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Fossil Fuels

The West continues to distort its economies with EVs and alternative energy programs. Yet global electricity demand is surging, driven by electrification efforts such as electric vehicles, AI, and heat pumps.


However, renewable energy isn’t growing fast enough to meet this rising demand, leading to increased reliance on...coal. Despite advances in clean energy, coal consumption is at record levels and is projected to remain high, especially in China and India. Record levels!


This may highlight the uneven progress of the energy transition, with fossil fuels still persisting and dominant in certain power sectors. But if the objective is to eliminate fossil fuels within a certain time period, a partial result is not progress, it is failure. And that is the responsibility of the plan's creators.

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