Debating the transition | Simon Michaux & Nafeez Ahmed
Planet: Critical
How to Switch Everything Out to Replace It to Do the Same Things
I think one of the things that emerged in our dialogue, you know, I wrote my piece, I came out swinging, Simon responded, I responded every email, we had a dialogue. And I think what emerged is we both realized that actually what was being proposed would never happen. The way policymakers do think about this is very linear. It is very much how do we keep doing the same thing in a different way with solar PV systems or geothermal? We need an extra 37,000 terawatt hours to produce exactly the same amount of power as before. That's not usable energy when you're burning fossil fuels and usually there's a lot of heat generated through it. You have
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