Environment & Energy

...my computer worked all through Covid. I was in contact with people all around the world at the time also during Covid. I remember an Italian client telling me that the US was where Italy was a few months before it shut down, but our conversation, such as it was, was on Zoom. During her "shut down" her lights and computer were on.

Those German antinukes burned coal through the whole thing, for example, and were happily buying gas from their Putin Pal who employed the "nuclear phase out" heroic ex-Chancellor of Germany, Gerhardt Schroeder, as a Gazprom executive, a job I believe he still holds.

Ukraine can thank Germany for its recent wonderful initiation of civic remodeling efforts, shades of 1941-1943.

Some time ago, I prepared a table from several editions of the World Energy Outlook in my files.

It's here:



The 589 EJ of energy used in 2020, dominated by the dangerous fossil fuels about which all of our antinukes couldn't care less, was vastly higher than the use in 2000, when people were running around predicting a solar and wind miracle "by 2020."

Maybe it's just me, but it doesn't look like solar and wind reached its goal of destroying the nuclear industry, and of course, there was no interest in phasing out fossil fuels, which have been growing in both in real numbers and "percent talk," all through this century, the minor blip in 2020 notwithstanding, not that the advocates of solar and wind ever gave a rat's ass about fossil fuels. They didn't in 2000, nor in 2010, nor in 2020, and they don't in 2025 either.