Serious Question(s) for energy climate people.
Serious Question(s) for energy climate people.
Okay, I’ll bite.
We are walking upon eggs and … the omelet will not be made without the breaking of some.
-T.P. Thompson
Hat tip to
for pointing this out.This is either Gold medal winner for
or the dawn of an awakening. Hopefully it’s the latter.
Vaclav Smil wrote in in the first paragraph of his book Power Density
Modern societies have many concerns about their energy supply. Above all, it would be affordable, reliable, and convenient: affordable in order to drive economic development and improvements in quality of life, reliable as so to be available on demand in its various forms, and convenient to give customers virtually effortless access to preferred household, industrial, and transport energies.”
In othe words:
Access to dependable and reliable electrical energy 24/7/365 is a non-negotiable requirement for civilization. End of story.
Also, consider that when power goes down and people become accustomed to it going down, they will buy generators that....run on fossil fuels. These generators are far less efficient and far more polluting than the a fossil-fuel driving powergrid.
It is certainly possible to have renewable energy and have stable access to electricity. These are not mutually exclusive goals. It just requires that we are smart about how we design the electrical grid and we don't allow ideology to dominate the conversation.
Hi, @greenleapforward You might also like my new article on why EROEI matters.
https://davidturver.substack.com/p/why-eroei-matters