Why Net Zero Is Failing and What Comes Next15 Nov 2025 12:14
And then you’re in Asia. You look at the Asian nations, China, a huge coal country, India, a huge coal-country. Indonesia, a huge coal county. Then you have Southeast Asia. Right? You have Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Bangladesh. These countries all depend on imports. They don’t have enough resources themselves. So what do you do? You import. What do you import? LNG or coal. LNG is always more expensive. Much more complex. It depends on infrastructure you don’t have. Coal is easy and around the corner. So of course you have to go for coal. But they are told to move to LNG for climate reasons. Right. And that is wrong. If one believes the IPCC and the IEA, then LNG is the same or worse than coal for the climate. Right. If someone believes that. So who has an interest here? What’s going on? Why are we being influenced in these ways by politics? That’s a great question. Each nation has to make their own decisions, independent of some UN body, how they run their energy systems. That’s each nation’s right to choose that. If they want to energy security starts at home or hydro, if they have hydro, they have great river flows, they’re lucky, like Norway, right? And I mean, there’s all these things, they want you solar or winded, be my guest. So why does the UAE have one of the newest nuclear power stations? Why does the UAE have one of the newest cold power stations which just converted to gas if they have so much sun? I mean, are these guys stupid? I don’t think they’re stupid. No. Using the solar panels to produce green hydrogen. There’s the export at large amounts to Germany and Japan, but they don’t use themself because they’re not stupid, right? I mean, they keep the energy cheap. So you see, there’s all these things happening and I’m lucky enough to be able to travel the world with my job and see, you know, the Americas, Africa, Middle East, Asia all the time. And I get a sense of what’s going on. And it’s incredible. How misguided many governments are by consulting lobbies. I used to work for the Boston Consulting Group for six years, so I’m very familiar with that industry. Nothing against it, I love my job. But there is large consulting bodies who are funded and tell the governments what they want to hear, how to make an energy system working with wind and solar, plus battery and hydrogen, that doesn’t work.
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