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The Historic Decline in Renewable Energy

Energy / Fusion power
[h=1]Laser-boron fusion now ‘leading contender’ for energy[/h]From the UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES and the “coming to a power plant near you in 30 to 50 years” department A laser-driven technique for creating fusion that dispenses with the need for radioactive fuel elements and leaves no toxic radioactive waste is now within reach, say researchers Dramatic advances in powerful, high-intensity lasers…
 
The cost of displacing fossil fuels: some evidence from Texas

Posted on December 14, 2017 | Leave a comment
by Peter Hartley
Although technological progress can alter the relative costs of different energy sources, depletion inevitably must raise the costs of fossil fuels leading to their displacement by alternative energy sources. What energy technology will likely be used when fossil fuels are no longer dominant? More importantly, what will be the cost of that alternative “backstop” energy supply?
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Everyone cutting coal use except for most of the world and most of the banks


The situation with our most hated energy asset


Soak in those IEA Key Energy Statistics 2017:
Most of the renewables above will be in the form of underwater turbines on steep slopes near large bodies of water. The other on this graph is not solar PV or tidal power, but Nuclear.
Not dead yet

Growth in coal use has flattened for the last five years, prompting decrees for the eager Guardian that it is variously in decline, at a turning point and on life support. Instead, the IEA predicts that it will pick up again. The situation as it was from 1971 – 2015.
Note the huge impact wind and solar have had on global total energy use in the last 40 years (marked in fluorescent glowing yellow
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4: Other includes heat, solar thermal, and geothermal.
Still a fossil fuel powered world.
 
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