The Cheap Energy Revolution Is Here, and Coal Won’t Cut It Fifteen charts about how Trump is building a dangerous “age of plenty on steroids.”
From Bloomberg
Wind and solar are about to become unstoppable, natural gas and oil production are approaching their peak, and electric cars and batteries for the grid are waiting to take over. This is the world Donald Trump inherited as U.S. president. And yet his energy plan is to cut regulations to resuscitate the one sector that’s never coming back: coal.Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-26/the-cheap-energy-revolution-is-here-and-coal-won-t-cut-itClean energy installations broke new records worldwide in 2016, and wind and solar are seeing twice as much funding as fossil fuels, according to new data released Tuesday by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). That’s largely because prices continue to fall. Solar power, for the first time, is becoming the cheapest form of new electricity in the world.
But with Trump’s deregulations plans, what “we're going to see is the age of plenty—on steroids,” BNEF founder Michael Liebreich said during a presentation in New York. “That’s good news economically, except there’s one fly in the ointment, and that’s climate.”
Here’s what’s shaping the future of power markets, in 15 charts from BNEF:
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natural gas and oil production are approaching their peak,
Thats not true, with the use of fracking technology the we have greater proven reserves right now than we have had at any time in history. Not only that but there is evidence that oil is replished deep underground. Some evidence suggest that some kind of natural process makes it down there and it's not dinosaurs or rotten vegetation. If this is true then it's an infinite resource.
As for coal...
At the present day and projected 'worst case' rate of depletion, it will last a thousand years.
Shall we talk about Thorium?
Effectively infinite.
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