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Originally Posted by sendler
Elektrek is not nearly as bad. Green Car Reports is pretty honest.
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I actually made my first every report to Facebook for fake news the other day. 350.org of all organisations. They shared a BS article by some unkown click baiter site with the headline " 30% of world energy now supplied by renewables". This is off by almost a factor of 10. I wrote messages to them and they tried to spin their way out of saying "The transition is happening. We are well on our way".
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Hydro is pretty well topped out, wind has almost become visible on the chart. solar is still not visible.
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The secret, intellectual dishonesty of that graphic is hiding in plain view.
The quanta reflect 'primary' energy,which includes 2nd-law of thermodynamics,which aren't associated with renewable energy,as their input energy is 'free.'
If you look at the net,useable energy available,after the conversion of fossil-fuel chemical energy,to actual 'work',you'll find that renewables are up to 300% higher than reported in this graphic.
It's also why we don't need to build out capacity equal to this 'primary' data point.
This is a perfect example of obfuscation on the part of the authors.