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Originally Posted by RedDevil
That graph ends 2 years ago (and we've already seen it several time to boot), also it puts everything on a global scale. If you take recent data and zoom in on countries like Sweden you'll find renewables can and do make up a large part of the energy market.
But not enough yet. It must grow big time.
Also, we need to electrify the transport sector. That would reduce its power consumption 2 to 3 times for the same utility.
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I think you must be still conflating total primary ENERGY with total ELECTRICITY. Which is only a small part of the total energy the world uses...So we see a defensive reply that we have also seen many times before, that a chart from 2017 is totally outdated. Which it is not. Only one year has passed and growth of World energy consumption is still far outpacing actual added solar and wind PRODUCTION (which is also constantly conflated with added CAPACITY). There is only 1 year newer data possible. And please see that the newest chart that I just posted just came out for Germany and is showing the 2018 (we are still in 2019 by the way so there is no way to get a newer annual total) total primary energy by source. They are a World leader in spending per capita on solar and wind buildout and are now up to 4.6% of their ENERGY consumption from these sources. We are being admonished by the strikers to 'Tell the truth". Facts are facts.