February 5, 2021 (American Thinker) — Net Zero, Climate Action, Build Back Better, and the Great Reset are some of the names for policies aimed at expediting the transition of the global energy sector from fossil fuel to renewable technology. The goal? Saving the planet from climate apocalypse.
But there is a huge hurdle to make this transition a reality. Most of the world’s primary energy comes from coal, oil, and gas.
Fossil fuels dominate the global energy sector, and there is a reason for that: they are reliable, abundant, and affordable. Further, with constant innovations, the amounts of pollutants emitted from burning them have been reduced considerably.
Japan’s clean-coal technology and improved combustion engines in automobiles are two of the many technologies that have reduced pollutants in emissions, making fossil fuels all the more desirable.
Wind and solar will usher in chaos
In contrast, wind and solar make up an insignificant percentage of the world’s energy consumption.
The renewable contribution to global energy consumption in 2017 was less than 2%. Solar and wind contributed just 7% of the world’s electricity in 2018.
There is a reason for that. Besides being expensive, they are highly intermittent and so are unreliable. Further,
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