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It's trivial on the whole fucking planet, which is burning while the fossil fuel industry works overtime to rebrand itself as "hydrogen."
Thirty years of bullshit about so called "renewable energy" fitting into 50 years of hydrogen bullshit has resulted in the following:
I have every annual issue of the IEA's World Energy Outlook in my files going back to 2009, and in addition those of 1995, 2000, 2006, 2007...
...From back issues of the World Energy Outlook, I have prepared the following table of data (as opposed to soothsaying, which the WEO always includes), showing changes in overall energy consumption by primary energy source type.
The world is pretty much as dependent, in "percent talk" on fossil fuels as it was in the year 2000, but the absolute numbers have all changed for the worse. Since 2000, world energy demand has risen by 222 Exajoules; so much for the promises of bourgeois shit for brains antinuke Amory Lovins.
Years ago, the table reported energy production in units of "MTOE," "million tons of oil equivalent," having switched to the SI unit Exajoule in recent years. In the table all numbers have been converted using the conversion factor 1 MTOE = 0.0419 EJ and are reported in EJ.
The table:
It should speak for itself.
...From back issues of the World Energy Outlook, I have prepared the following table of data (as opposed to soothsaying, which the WEO always includes), showing changes in overall energy consumption by primary energy source type.
The world is pretty much as dependent, in "percent talk" on fossil fuels as it was in the year 2000, but the absolute numbers have all changed for the worse. Since 2000, world energy demand has risen by 222 Exajoules; so much for the promises of bourgeois shit for brains antinuke Amory Lovins.
Years ago, the table reported energy production in units of "MTOE," "million tons of oil equivalent," having switched to the SI unit Exajoule in recent years. In the table all numbers have been converted using the conversion factor 1 MTOE = 0.0419 EJ and are reported in EJ.
The table:
It should speak for itself.
Table of EIA WEO Energy Sources in Exajoules, 2000, 2016-2023
The wind industry grew by 0 EJ and 0% between 2022 and 2023, slower than gas, slower than coal, slower than petroleum. The world can no longer build them as fast as they fall apart.
Congrats to our fossil fuel sales people here and elsewhere:
A Giant Climate Lie: When they're selling hydrogen, what they're really selling is fossil fuels.
Meanwhile, 2024 is shaping up to be the worst year ever for the accumulation of the fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide in history, and still we hear this antiscience bullshit.
The Disastrous 2024 CO2 Data Recorded at Mauna Loa: Yet Another Update 11/10/2024
No sense of decency, none, not among clueless politicians in Scotland, not among people who buy into this absurd line of shit, and certainly not among the fossil fuel salespeople selling this big lie of rebranding fossil fuels as hydrogen.
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