Why There Will Be No Energy Transition

And why Vaclav Smil may know more than your experts

So, who is Vaclav Smil? Start with Wikipedia or use your favorite search engine.

And consider an excerpt:

The most obvious way to start assessing the progress of the required energy transition is to look at what has been accomplished during the past generation when the concerns about global decarbonization assumed a new urgency and prominence. Contrary to common impressions, there has been no absolute worldwide decarbonization. In fact, the very opposite is the case. The world has become much more reliant on fossil carbon (even as its relative share has declined a bit). We are now halfway between 1997 (27 years ago) when delegates of nearly 200 nations met in Kyoto to agree on commitments to limit the emissions of greenhouse gases, and 2050; the world has 27 years left to achieve the goal of decarbonizing the global energy system, a momentous divide judging by the progress so far, or the lack of it.

And that’s what you need to know about that.

And for more excerpts:

Vaclav Smil on why there will be no energy transition | Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse
Preservation of Knowledge, peak oil, ecology -energyskeptic.com

Oh, but deep geothermal, He3 mined on Moon, fusion reactors, thorium fission reactors the size of a washing machine to power your home, cars, vast solar arrays in space, and AI servants quarters… and meanwhile the pace of planetary destruction will not stop… until it does post-Anthropocene.