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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
Yeah its really dropping like a meteor.
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This exact graph is why I shake my head when people say we should replace oil with renewables.
Renewables first target is coal. Because they nearly perfect substitutes for one another. The primary energy form that both produce is electricity. I'm not saying its as simple as a bunch of brownfield coal plant replacements, but the backbone of the grid is already there.
Oil, on the other hand, is primarily used to generate kinetic energy. To transform renewable energy sources into kinetic energy will take a massive infrastructure overhaul to get solar rays and moving air molecules transformed into kinetic energy in my car. Hundreds of billions of dollars (trillions?) of infrastructure.
Then add on the fact that coal is a massive (the largest?) source of CO2 emissions.
Tinordi, why is oil your target for renewables? Why doesn't it make more sense to target coal first?