What The Media Won’t Tell You About The Energy Transition

The hype, and the reality, about the energy transition in 10 charts
"...In these 10 charts, I abide by W. Edwards Deming’s commandment: “In God we trust, all others must bring data.”
The numbers I’m presenting aren’t my numbers, they are the numbers. 

Here’s what the media won’t tell you about the energy transition.

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I’ve said it before, but I’ll repeat it: the concept of the energy transition is essentially a Western conceit. 

The U.S. and Western European countries are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on programs like the Inflation Reduction Act and the Energiewende to fund buildouts of solar, wind, batteries, and tutti-fruity-colored hydrogen, but that doesn’t mean the rest of the world will do the same....