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GliderGuider

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4. Fossil fuel vs low carbon energy since 2000

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Wed Jul 15, 2015, 01:50 PM

Jul 2015

Last year, the increases in fossil fuel energy and low carbon energy were about equal, at 60 MTOE.
However, the world still uses over 6 times as much FF as low carbon energy (9388 MTOE more FF than low carbon to be exact).

That widely-touted exponential curve for renewables had better start ramping up fast, or there won't be a planet left to exploit.

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