> Fossil fuels might have served as a bridge resource to a sustainable track. To date, this has not been seriously persued or attained.
Isn’t what we are we doing/trying to do now exactly that?
I haven’t seen anybody making the suggestion to go cold turkey and go to 100% renewables overnight.
Most solar cells and wind farms are built using (mostly) fossil fuels.
Also, many countries close down coal power plants but keep gas plants running, knowing that they need fossil fuel to get to 100% renewables, but trying to minimize their impact (because of the difference in pollution effects, it’s better to end up with X MWh equivalent of coal than with X MWh equivalent of gas in the ground)
(and yes, there’s all kinds of exceptions, such as Germany closing down nuclear plants, but keeping brown coal mines open)
Isn’t what we are we doing/trying to do now exactly that?
I haven’t seen anybody making the suggestion to go cold turkey and go to 100% renewables overnight.
Most solar cells and wind farms are built using (mostly) fossil fuels.
Also, many countries close down coal power plants but keep gas plants running, knowing that they need fossil fuel to get to 100% renewables, but trying to minimize their impact (because of the difference in pollution effects, it’s better to end up with X MWh equivalent of coal than with X MWh equivalent of gas in the ground)
(and yes, there’s all kinds of exceptions, such as Germany closing down nuclear plants, but keeping brown coal mines open)