Our Electricity Problem: Getting the Diagnosis Correct
In this presentation, I suggest that the standard diagnosis of the problems facing the energy system is incomplete. While climate change may be a problem, there is another urgent problem that attendees at the conference should be aware of as well–affordability, and the severe near-term impact affordability can be expected to have on the system.
My written summary of this talk is fairly brief. I have not tried to repeat the information shown on the slides. This is a link to a copy of my presentation: Our Electricity Problem: Getting the Diagnosis Right
A finite world is one that is subject to limits. Its economy cannot grow forever for many reasons.
Let’s look at some examples (Slide 4) of how limits work in finite systems. Often there seems to be a change of direction.
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