Environment & Energy

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...operates maybe 20% of the time on so called "renewable energy!!!!!"

We're saved!!!!

Last year's WEO indicated world energy demand at 642 EJ, which works out to an average continuous power demand of 20.34 trillion watts.

Let's do math: (0.2 * 2.5 X 10⁶Watts)/(20.34 X 1010¹³ Watts) = 1.2 X 10^-7.

Wow!!!!! 2.4 hundred billionths of the world energy demand devoted to stupid toys hyped by the fossil fuel industry.

The 642 EJ figure comes from the World Energy Outlook:

The numbers are here: 2023 World Energy Outlook published by the International Energy Agency (IEA), Table A.1a on Page 264.

Can't wait for some tiresome fossil fuel loving bullshit artist to pipe in with "better" numbers, probably from an inability to distinguish the scientific units Joule from Watt. (Happily I won't see it; I love DU's ignore list)

I don't think Australian hydrogen toys will prevent that country, or any other country, from burning in massive fires because the so called "renewable energy" scam that has successfully entrenched fossil fuels hasn't done a fucking thing to address extreme global heating.