What Happens Between Now And A Fully Clean Future

David Roberts: [14.062 sec] is Volts for March 4th, 2026. [19.062 sec] The fate of fossil fuel systems in the mid-transition. [24.082 sec] I'm your host, David Roberts. [27.342 sec] It is easy to imagine a fully clean, fully electrified future in which copious solar energy is stored in abundant batteries backed up by wind and geothermal and advanced nuclear power, and energy-related greenhouse gas emissions have effectively been eliminated. [50.222 sec] If we manage not to kill ourselves, dumb ourselves back to the Stone Age, a disturbingly large if, I even think we'll get there someday. [63.342 sec] Maybe 2060, 2080, the year 3000, who knows, someday. [69.342 sec] But what happens between now and then?