{"id":8210,"date":"2015-05-17T08:03:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T13:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8210"},"modified":"2015-05-17T08:03:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T13:03:41","slug":"are-we-witnessing-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-fossil-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8210","title":{"rendered":"Are We Witnessing The Beginning Of The End For Fossil Fuels?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"page-title\" class=\"page__title title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2015\/05\/17\/are-we-witnessing-beginning-end-fossil-fuels\" target=\"_blank\">Are We Witnessing The Beginning Of The End For Fossil Fuels?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-04-14\/fossil-fuels-just-lost-the-race-against-renewables\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg recently declared<\/a>\u00a0the era of fossil fuels irrevocably in decline: \u201cThe world is now adding more capacity for renewable power each year than coal, natural gas, and oil combined. And there&#8217;s no going back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sea change in how we power our economies officially occurred in 2013, Bloomberg\u2019s Tom Randall writes in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-04-14\/fossil-fuels-just-lost-the-race-against-renewables\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cFossil Fuels Just Lost the Race Against Renewables.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0That year, there were 143 gigawatts (<span class=\"caps\">GW<\/span>) of renewable electricity capacity added globally, versus just 141\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">GW<\/span>\u00a0of new fossil-fueled\u00a0capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Despite\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/102606851\" target=\"_blank\">low oil prices<\/a>, the trend toward renewables is not going to slow down anytime soon, given that the cost of solar and wind power has steadily fallen to the point that it is now cheaper than grid electricity in some parts of the world, Randall argues. \u201cThe shift will continue to accelerate, and by 2030 more than four times as much renewable capacity will be added.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s for electricity generation, of course, but before you can officially call the race in renewables\u2019 favor, you have to consider transport. Our cars and trucks and planes mostly run on fossil fuels, after all. As Vox\u2019s Brad Plumer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/4\/15\/8420297\/fossil-fuels-race-renewables\" target=\"_blank\">points out<\/a>, \u201cElectricity and heat were only responsible for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/publications\/freepublications\/publication\/CO2EmissionsFromFuelCombustionHighlights2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">about 42 percent<\/a>\u00a0of global\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">CO<\/span>2 emissions from fuel combustion in 2012. For clean energy to truly win the race, it will have to make inroads in other sectors as well, particularly transportation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/media\/workshops\/2013\/egrdmobility\/DULAC_23052013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">analysis by the International Energy Agency<\/a>\u00a0found that the amount of energy used for transport has doubled over the past three decades, and that slightly more than half of all oil is used for transport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are We Witnessing The Beginning Of The End For Fossil Fuels? Bloomberg recently declared\u00a0the era of fossil fuels irrevocably in decline: \u201cThe world is now adding more capacity for renewable power each year than coal, natural gas, and oil combined. And there&#8217;s no going back.\u201d The sea change in how we power our economies officially [&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":[113,5390,1103,328,416,433,1775,674,1859,2654],"class_list":["post-8210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-desmog","tag-electricity","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-iea","tag-international-energy-agency","tag-oil-price-collapse","tag-renewable-energy","tag-solar-power","tag-wind-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8210","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=8210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8211,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8210\/revisions\/8211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}