The Raw Materials That Fuel the Green Revolution

[NeoGreen]

http://www.visualcapitalist.com/raw-materials-fuel-green-revolution/

The Raw Materials That Fuel the Green Revolution

Records for renewable energy consumption were smashed around the world in 2017.

Looking at national and state grids, progress has been extremely impressive. In Costa Rica, for example, renewable energy supplied five million people with all of their electricity needs for a stretch of 300 consecutive days. Meanwhile, the U.K. broke 13 green energy records in 2017 alone, and California’s largest grid operator announced it got 67.2% of its energy from renewables (excluding hydro) on May 13, 2017.

The corporate front is also looking promising, and Google has led the way by buying 536 MW of wind power to offset 100% of the company’s electricity usage. This makes the tech giant the biggest corporate purchaser of renewable energy on the planet.

But while these examples are plentiful, this progress is only the tip of the iceberg – and green energy still represents a small but rapidly growing segment. For a full green shift to occur, we’ll need to 10x what we’re currently sourcing from renewables.

To do this, we will need to procure massive amounts of natural resources – they just won’t be the fossil fuels that we’re used to.

Emphasis added.

[NNadir]

1. To What "Green" Revolution Are the "Visual Capitalists" Referring?

The use of dangerous fossil fuels is rising, not falling.

The wind and solar industry combined, after half a century of bullshit cheering and the consumption of precious resources on a vast scale - a multi-trillion dollar scale - can't produce even 2% of the world's energy.

IEA 2017 World Energy Outlook, Table 2.2 page 79

Unfortunately, we bet the entire planetary atmosphere on this scheme, this "Green Revolution" that um, never happened, and it didn't work; it isn't working and it won't work.

Do the um, "Visual Capitalists" have the slightest fucking idea how steel is made? Aluminum?

Sorry guys, a game of three card monte, a shell game, is just wrong.