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Ed Reid's avatar

Energy Realist. The developing economies responsible for the increases in emissions will not have achieved their economic development goals and reverted to zero emissions by 2050, though that might happen by 2100. Today, the developed world is attempting to achieve net zero using technologies which are "not ready for prime time" and might never be ready.

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Roger Caiazza's avatar

I am an energy realist. In today’s political climate I can accept the ecomodernist approach because society wants to do something and the approach of developing new technology and nuclear energy is something that might work. Actually we need new technology because the resources we depend on now are finite. As an energy realist, I would exclude any attempts to use wind and solar. They cannot work because energy storage is required and energy storage, on the scale necessary, needs to repeal the laws of physics first.

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