No silver bullet on energy
By Ronald Stein |April 3rd, 2021|Energy|1 Comment
With some energy literacy, folks may realize that there may not be a silver bullet answer for all of humanity’s energy needs. Whether you ultimately drive an internal combustion engine vehicle or an EV, and get exposed to electricity from wind, solar, coal, natural gas, nuclear, or hydro generation, will depend on you or your community’s wealth.
Most people in the world want both prosperity and nature, not nature without prosperity. They are just confused about how to achieve both.
A complex trade-off associated with policy choices of moving too quickly into intermittent electricity from wind and solar is that abandoning fossil fuels will further deprive and/or delay from providing at least 80 percent of humanity , or more than 6 billion in this world living on less than $10 a day, from enjoying the same products that benefit the wealthy and healthy countries.
Energy poverty is among the most crippling but least talked-about crises of the 21st century. Billions live with little to no access to electricity . Electricity is the one of the simplest solutions to improved health, economic opportunity, education, nutrition, and comfort in the developing world, especially for women and girls.
https://www.cfact.org/2021/04/03/no-silver-bullet-on-energy/
