{"id":31222,"date":"2018-02-19T08:52:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T13:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31222"},"modified":"2018-02-19T08:52:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T13:52:16","slug":"burn-out-the-endgame-for-fossil-fuels-dieter-helm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31222","title":{"rendered":"Burn Out: The Endgame for Fossil Fuels. Dieter Helm."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/ergobalance.blogspot.co.uk\/2018\/02\/burn-out-endgame-for-fossil-fuels.html\">Burn Out: The Endgame for Fossil Fuels. Dieter Helm.<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Book review<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, given its theme, as published early in 2017, \u201cBurn Out: The Endgame for Fossil Fuels\u201d shortly preceded the announcement made by President Trump of the withdrawal by the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change, driven primarily by an aim to support the US coal industry, which he maintains has been hampered by environmental policies, and disadvantaged in comparison with other countries, such as China. The book\u2019s title offers \u00a0a punchy proclamation, that the age of fossil fuels is coming to an end: \u00a0this is not as a result of any imminent shortage of them &#8211; far from it &#8211; but an expectation that natural gas will be employed as a cheap and plentiful bridging fuel, \u00a0en route to a dominant electrification of the energy sector, most likely powered by advanced solar technologies, and that such innovations as the Internet of Things (IoT), 3D printing, and robotics will confer a more efficient overall use of energy, hence reducing demand on oil, gas and ultimately renewables.<\/p>\n<p>The author, Dieter Helm, is professor of energy policy at Oxford University, and an outspoken commentator and critic on global energy strategies, including those intended to ameliorate climate change. Thus, this book is in part a consolidation of some views, framed from the viewpoint of an economist, espoused in his various writings on the subject, and an extension of some of the themes covered in his previous books. Helm remains thoroughly censorious of the peak oil concept, and bangs the drum that \u201cpeak-oilers\u201d have got it wrong. He stresses that there is no shortage of \u201coil\u201d (or indeed of the other fossil fuels), and in terms of the large quantities of carbon-rich fossil materials that lie in the ground he is quite correct.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burn Out: The Endgame for Fossil Fuels. Dieter Helm. Book review &nbsp; Ironically, given its theme, as published early in 2017, \u201cBurn Out: The Endgame for Fossil Fuels\u201d shortly preceded the announcement made by President Trump of the withdrawal by the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change, driven primarily by an aim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18687,18689,18688,8604,328,554,595,18686,617,827],"class_list":["post-31222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-burn-out-the-endgame-for-fossil-fuels","tag-chris-rhodes","tag-dieter-helm","tag-energy-balance","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-natural-gas","tag-oil-production","tag-paris-agreement-on-climate-change","tag-peak-oil","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31223,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31222\/revisions\/31223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}