Get Real All You Gretas.22 May 2021 15:04
Here’s some snippets on what the IEA realistic outlook is.
“ The IEA anticipates that, by 2050, the energy world will look completely different with global demand around 8 per cent smaller than today.
However, it will be serving an economy more than twice as big and a population of two billion more people.
The IEA believes that by 2050 almost 90 per cent of electricity generation will come from renewable sources, with wind and solar panels accounting for almost 70 per cent. Most of the remainder will come from nuclear power, it said.
It also predicts that solar will be the world's single largest source of total energy supply, with fossil fuels falling from almost four-fifths of total energy supply today to slightly more than one-fifth.
Fossil fuels that remain, it believes, will be used in goods where the carbon is embodied in the product such as plastics; in facilities fitted with carbon capture; and in sectors where low-emission technology options are scarce.”
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-9591201/Ban-gas-boilers-2025-net-zero-heat-homes.html
It’s only a estimate but come what May it looks as if they are predicting plastic still being produced in 2050. Granted burning it releases 50% of the carbon so long as it’s done in Uskmouth and not poone in India etc. And hopefully SAE will be able to improve on the 50% release by some sort of CC technology. I don’t fancy leaving it for my great great grandchildren to be tasting it in the water they drink. It’s definitely time the adult Grettas out there showed their age and started letting us take the baby steps we need to clean up the environment instead of insisting in pipe dreams.