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Craig in Maine's avatar

Considering the enormous political efforts and public funds spent during the last few decades to encourage renewable energy sources to grow fast enough to replace fossil fuels, it’s a testament to the astonishing ineffectiveness of our policies.

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Thomas J. Pfaff's avatar

Sort of. In Quick Takes on Thursday, https://briefedbydata.substack.com/p/qtrs-april-3-2025, I added a graph that shows fossil fuel production per capita is stagnant and that without renewables we would see increases in standards of living, even if small.

As for replacing fossil fuels, well, renewables aren't doing that.

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