humus wrote:ABC2019 wrote:
This is precisely the intellectual scam (very widespread) I was talking about.
Global energy consumption is only growing, see Jancovici curves for example.
Renewable energy would not be there, global energy consumption would still be
more more carbonaceous from year to year, instead of simply being
more.
except that the reserves being finished, the consumption will inevitably end up stinging one day or the other, anyway, it is also what Janco says. And replacing part of the fossils with renewable energies (or nuclear) pushes back the peak, but it does not change the integral extracted.
The intellectual scam does not come from renewable energies, it is in the maintenance of an energy - intensive economic model incompatible with a drop in energy consumption.
Energy sobriety is not only insulating houses, it is also changing the economic model to switch to an a-growing global model.
even an "a-growing" model does not prevent fossils from being extracted at a constant rate, and therefore from exhausting them - with the same integral at the end, therefore the same CO2 concentration, therefore the same climate. The only thing that changes is the time it takes, but since we are probably already almost at the peak, the leeway on the date of the peak is very low anyway.
Intellectual scams are:
- not enough ENR
- not enough and even not at all of energy sobriety.
- and claim to resolve / contain the RCA
but I have just demonstrated to you by A + B that the RCA does not depend on the quantity of ENR or on energy sobriety, because as long as we need fossils, we will end up extracting them anyway. Take 5 minutes to think about the arguments instead of wrapping up your original idea.
Unless you know how to get CO2 production down to ZERO and get TOTALLY fossil-free, but I don't think that's the case.
Yet it is easy to understand: if you have 50 bottles of wine in your cellar; and if you keep drinking wine, you will end up drinking your 50 bottles (or your heirs)
however fast you drink them. And you will have produced 50 waste empty bottles by the end.
Do you at least agree with this last assertion I hope?
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