The strong version of this argument seems false (eg Habryka’s comment), but I think the weak version is true. That is, energy put into “purposely and deliberately develop a technology Y that is fundamentally different than X that does the same role as X without harm Z but slightly less competitively.” is inefficient compared to energy put into strategies (i), (ii), and (iii).
Please read carefully what I wrote—I am talking about energy consumption worldwide not electricity consumption in the EU. Electricity in the EU accounts only for a small percentage of carbon emissions.
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As you can see, solar energy is still a tiny percentage of total energy sources. I don’t think it is an accident that the electricity split graph in the EU has been cited in this discussion because it is a proxy that is much more rose-colored.
Energy and electricity are often conflated in discussions around climate change, perhaps not coincidentally because the latter seems much more tractable to generate renewably than total energy production.
The strong version of this argument seems false (eg Habryka’s comment), but I think the weak version is true. That is, energy put into “purposely and deliberately develop a technology Y that is fundamentally different than X that does the same role as X without harm Z but slightly less competitively.” is inefficient compared to energy put into strategies (i), (ii), and (iii).
Please read carefully what I wrote—I am talking about energy consumption worldwide not electricity consumption in the EU. Electricity in the EU accounts only for a small percentage of carbon emissions.
See
As you can see, solar energy is still a tiny percentage of total energy sources. I don’t think it is an accident that the electricity split graph in the EU has been cited in this discussion because it is a proxy that is much more rose-colored.
Energy and electricity are often conflated in discussions around climate change, perhaps not coincidentally because the latter seems much more tractable to generate renewably than total energy production.