Energy Aware

Lowering CO2 emissions while also increasing energy consumption and GDP is an impossible dream.

The additional land use for wnd and solar is approximately 24 million square kilometers or an area about the combined size of Russia and Australia. The cost would be more than $51 trillion.

Simply switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy is not a solution to climate change, certainly not in our time window of urgency.

Net Zero is a naive and unscientific fantasy that is largely untethered to physical reality.

An energy transition will have little net effect on society’s material footprint on the planet.

The conclusion is clear: carbon emissions and overshoot of planetary boundaries are unlikely to decrease as long as world GDP and population continue to increase.

We should not realistically expect any of the current approaches to climate change to result in productive outcomes. We must first be honest with ourselves.

The solution to climate change may not really be about logical arguments, cost-benefit analysis, or good versus evil. It’s a psychological problem.

That is not a win for fossil fuels but rather a reflection on of how difficult it will be for humans in a renewable energy-based future. Pretending it is otherwise is simply not helpful.

Civilization should already be in collapse at the oil EROI of 4.2 that Murphy et al incorrectly calculate.

Reading Fossil Future was a painful experience for me not because of Epstein’s positions but because the book is flawed and dishonest journalism.

Epstein’s case is based on a deep state organization that has created and spread fake news about fossil fuels and climate change.