Comments by "ElephantInTheRoom " (@elephantintheroom5678) on "John Anderson Media" channel.

  1. This is ridiculous. The developments over the last two years have proven that we don't need gas, coal, or nuclear. These guys seem to not have heard about the Megapack batteries that are being deployed in Australia, Germany, and around the world, that store renewable energy. Nor do they realise that nuclear is the slowest and most expensive to build and run of all energy sources, or that it failed the reliability test when Putin's gas was stopped, due to constant stoppages for repairs. They obviously haven't heard that 80% of new generation installed globally, in 2022, came from solar and wind, and that the rest (up to the 98% mark) came from hydro and bioenergy, and that, by the end of 2023, all new energy demand will be met by renewables. This development has made the "gas transition" moot (and gas is a fossil fuel, anyway). If they think there is no technology to supply renewable baseload power, they need take a look at Eavor, the easily scalable, small geothermal technology that has recently been funded by the E.U., and which can be installed in closing down coal power plants. Nor do they know that , for the first time, global coal use is on the decline, this year, and it's due to the cheapness of solar, wind and battery combinations, which are now the cheapest energy to install and run, by far. Actually, these guys are discussing how to think about something they obviously know very little about. That doesn't seem "rational" to me.
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