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The State of 2023 Green Energy Technology

The big news regarding the state of 2023 Green Energy Tech may be 1) Renewed reliance on oil & natural gas to support Russian sanctions 2) The continued growth of wind and solar in spite of infrastructure that can barely support it 3) 2035 “net zero” pledges with insufficient technology to back them up (except by adding Hydrogen to the mix) 4) The relative decline in Carbon Capture and Biomass technologies 5) The sanctimonious greenies mission to ban all natural gas (and everything that burns, including net zero biomass), despite the fact that about half of electricity comes from natural gas with little relief in site, and 6) The increased interest in Next Generation nuclear as a partial solution to all of the above.

Germany’s planned phase-out of fossil-fuels in favor of renewables, etc by 2050, is ambitious but similar to that of the US and most Western nations. The US will likely utilize more Photovoltaics than Wind Power by 2050, due to geography. Note how hydropower and biomass growth is projected to be minimal. Note also the full phase out of fossil fuel and nuclear by 2050.

As one might expect in these times, there is considerable political polarity in the “green energy” discussion, with liberals heavily favoring wind and solar, conservatives liking carbon capture of natural gas and coal, and perhaps existing nuclear power plants. Somewhere in the middle are perhaps all of the above, plus perhaps Next Generation nuclear, hydrogen, and Biomass conversion. It would seem that “all of the above” might be necessary to solve our climate change problem (and do a number on Russia & China, whose coal & oil dependence are the Darth…