The 2022 World Energy Outlook: World demand is now 624 EJ/yr. up by 32 EJ, with solar growing... [View all]

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...in the "percent" talk" advocates of so called "renewable energy" use to excuse it's grotesque failure to address climate change, 0% as fast as coal, the use of which grew by 8 Exajoules (EJ).

After the expenditure of trillions of dollars on it in this century, the solar industry produced 5 EJ of energy, the same as it produced in 2021. The wind industry grew by by an astounding 16%, from 6 EJ to 7 EJ, in more "percent talk," 12.5% as fast as coal.

Combined, solar and wind, after half a century of wild cheering, the expenditures of trillions of dollars in this century, and inclusion in all the "stated policies" soothsaying by Governments around the world, are producing 11 EJ of energy, in "percent talk," 1.7% of world energy. (The soothsaying continues, as will be clear in the following table, a new world State Religion, the "Renewable Energy Will Save Us" faith.)

The use of dangerous petroleum grew by 11 EJ, that of dangerous natural gas by 7 EJ. In other words, the increase in the use of dangerous natural gas was equal to the total energy produced by solar and wind after half a century of cheering and the expenditure of trillions of dollars.

The table of data, found on page 435, of the 2022 IEA World Energy Outlook



Source: 2022 IEA World Energy Outlook

I had an English professor in college who stated that what one reads depends on what one brings to the text.

If one reads through this table this without weeping, one isn't really reading it.