{"id":31421,"date":"2018-02-22T07:08:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T12:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31421"},"modified":"2018-02-22T07:08:44","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T12:08:44","slug":"inconvenient-energy-fact-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31421","title":{"rendered":"Inconvenient energy fact of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-metadata\">\n<div class=\"fontsizer normal\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aei.org\/publication\/inconvenient-energy-fact-of-the-day\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+aei-ideas%2Fcarpe-diem+%28AEIdeas+\u00bb+Carpe+Diem%29\">Inconvenient energy fact of the day<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"fontsizer normal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aei.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/renew.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-972883 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aei.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/renew.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aei.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/renew.png 960w, http:\/\/www.aei.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/renew-768x744.png 768w, http:\/\/www.aei.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/renew-150x145.png 150w, http:\/\/www.aei.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/renew-500x484.png 500w, http:\/\/www.aei.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/renew-301x292.png 301w, http:\/\/www.aei.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/renew-650x630.png 650w, http:\/\/www.aei.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/renew-320x310.png 320w\" alt=\"\" width=\"700px\" \/><\/a>In 2016, solar and wind provided just 0.8% of the total world\u2019s energy (Total Primary Energy Demand (TPED)), even after trillions of dollars in taxpayer-extracted subsidies, and will reach only a 3.6% share of energy in 2040, according to the International Energy Agency World Energy Outlook 2017 forecast (see graphic above). The world\u2019s energy future of tomorrow, even almost a quarter century from now in 2040, will look very much like it does today, with fossil fuels supplying the large majority of our energy (81% today vs. 75% in 2040) and solar and wind playing a relatively minor role as energy sources.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bjornlomborg\/photos\/a.221758208967.168468.146605843967\/10156494580633968\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bjorn Lomborg<\/a> and Matt Ridley (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rationaloptimist.com\/blog\/shales-impact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cShale is the Real Energy Revolution\u201d<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inconvenient energy fact of the day In 2016, solar and wind provided just 0.8% of the total world\u2019s energy (Total Primary Energy Demand (TPED)), even after trillions of dollars in taxpayer-extracted subsidies, and will reach only a 3.6% share of energy in 2040, according to the International Energy Agency World Energy Outlook 2017 forecast (see [&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":[13129,268,328,416,433,18842,674,1564,884],"class_list":["post-31421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-american-enterprise-institute","tag-energy-production","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-iea","tag-international-energy-agency","tag-mark-j-perry","tag-renewable-energy","tag-solar-energy","tag-wind-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31421","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=31421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31422,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31421\/revisions\/31422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}