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Govt Will Brand Climate a 'Public Health Issue' for Power.
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Mark Mills, a senior fellow with the Manhattan Institute and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, wrote an analysis of what it would take(1) to reach net-zero CO2 emissions from energy use by 2050, “The ‘New Energy Economy:’ An Exercise in Magical Thinking,”
Here are a few facts to consider:

When the world’s 4 billion poor people increase energy use to just one-third of Europe’s per-capita level, global demand will rise by an amount equal to twice America’s total consumption.
A 100-times growth in the number of electric vehicles to 400 million on the roads by 2040 would displace just 5% of global oil demand.
Renewable energy would have to expand 90-fold to replace global hydrocarbons in 2 decades. It took a half-century for global petroleum production to expand “only” 10-fold.
Efficiency increases energy demand by making products and services cheaper. For example, since 1995, aviation fuel use per passenger-mile is down 70 percent though air traffic rose more than 10-fold, and global aviation fuel use thus rose more than 50%. Energy used per byte is down about 10,000-fold, but global data traffic rose about a million-fold, and global electricity used for computing soared.
For security and reliability, an average of 2 months of national demand for hydrocarbons is in storage at any time. Today, barely 2 hours of national electricity demand can be stored in all utility-scale batteries plus all the batteries in one million electric cars in the United States.
To make enough batteries to store 2 days’ worth of U.S. electricity demand would require 1,000 years of production by Tesla’s Gigafactory (currently the world’s biggest battery factory).
The physics-based limit for solar cells (the Shockley-Queisser limit) is a max conversion of about 33% of photons into electrons; commercial cells today are at 26%.
Physics limits wind turbines (the Betz limit) to a max capture of 60% of the potential energy in moving air; commercial turbines now achieve 45%.
Energy prices continue to surge to new records from the worst shortage in decades. India has warned it has only 4 days of coal reserves left, German power plants are running out of fuel and China just unloaded an Australian coal shipment despite an import ban and icy relations. Supply is just not there as economies rebound from a pandemic-induced lull, while problems like logistical logjams and transport bottlenecks are adding to the pressure. OPEC didn't come to the rescue despite calls from world leaders, including the White House, to bring more crude on to the market and keep a lid on prices. According to the EIA, average daily crude production in the U.S. has been 6.7% lower than last year, while commercial stockpiles of crude, excluding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, are off by 15% compared to 2020.

That's helping send oil prices to their highest levels in three years. High natural gas prices are also prompting American utilities to switch to coal this year, but their supply is constrained by miners that have been forced to cut capacity by 40% over the last 6 years. This situation is the first major energy crisis of the forced energy transition by biden. It is a warning about how complex the energy transition is going to be.

1. Among other things it will require major technology breakthroughs in hydrogen production and transportation, nuclear generation construction, battery technology, carbon capture and sequestration, agricultural practices and advanced manufacturing processes. This at a time when America is suffering from huge debt and a lack of qualified Science, Technology, Enginering and Math labor.

Excl: Govt Will Brand Climate a 'Public Health Issue' for Power, Says Fox
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Excl: Govt Will Brand Climate a 'Public Health Issue' for Power, Says Fox

Governments will try to brand climate change as a public health issue in order to expand their powers, Baroness Claire Fox warned.