Is any such transition actually in progress? No. Robert Bryce has the numbers.
No such transition is taking place in the U.S.; on the contrary, last year natural gas-fired electricity generation increased 9.5 times as much as wind and solar combined: But that's nothing! The U.S. is rich enough to waste absurd amounts of money on pitifully inadequate wind and solar developments.
Fossil fuel use is increasing 3.4 times as fast as "Green" energy.
Why? Because fossil fuels are vastly better: cheaper, more reliable, and far more energy-intensive: Trillions of dollars can't save expensive, unreliable and downright stupid methods of producing energy.
With all the hype about carbon dioxide destroying the planet-actually, it is necessary for virtually all life on Earth, but put that aside for a moment-and after governments spending trillions of dollars, ostensibly to promote a transition to "Clean" energy, are carbon dioxide emissions actually declining? Well, they have declined in the U.S. But that is irrelevant, as China produces most of the world's CO2 emissions.
India has no intention of remaining poor by forgoing the world's best source of energy, and therefore of wealth and societal well-being-fossil fuels.
So if all this is true-and it is-where does the idea of a "Green" energy transition come from? The answer is, from the American and international press.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/05/what-energy-transition.php
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