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NickB79

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7. By 2030 our global electricity demands will be hundreds of GW higher than today

Fri Jul 22, 2022, 10:02 AM

Jul 2022

By 2050? Possibly 50% more than what we use now. So we'll STILL not be adding enough renewables to start retiring fossil fuels. We'll be covering the new demand, but not the old demand.

People like to point to the potential high electricity demand from EV's, but that's not what worries me. The unspoken elephant in the room is skyrocketing A/C demand as the planet warms. Cheap A/C units are flooding nations like India, and Europeans are going to start installing them like gangbusters here as well. Record heatwaves tend to motivate people to do so.

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