“As our transition away from fossil fuels accelerates”
Hmm. I read that world consumption of fossil fuels continues to increase.
Hmm. I read that world consumption of fossil fuels continues to increase.“As our transition away from fossil fuels accelerates”
IMHO consumption of fossil fuels does not constitute an emergency.OTOH production of available energy via solar, or other practical “renewables,” is also not a problem. We have plenty of CO2 in the atmosphere now, so plants can grow readily.
The thing to understand is that generation of electricity from solar is a rapidly advancing technology. Whereas heat engine technology is quite mature. Each time you double the number of units of something that has ever been made, Wright’s Law projects that cost and quality will improve by a consistent factor (Mr. Theodore Wright identified the cost improvement factor as being 28%, for the particular case of the production of a given structural component of an aircraft).
Because so many billions of heat engines have been made over the past century plus, it takes a lot to double that number, and improvements come slowly. Solar panels basically started from scratch around 1960, and for a long time they were a niche product without much of a market. But now enough solar panels have been made to sustain so many halvings of the cost of production that the cost-effectiveness of solar panels has turned the corner, and the production rate has accelerated in a serious way.
It has gotten to the point where the use of solar panels should always be considered any time you have sun-facing room for them and good use for the electricity.
“Hmm. I read that world consumption of fossil fuels continues to increase.”
What does that have to do with anything? Don’t you know that the world revolves around the United States?