IEA: Electricity 2024 - Executive summary

[NNadir]

1. I opened the first link, which predictably was soothsaying. Wind grew by 0 EJ (0%) in 2022-2023, hydro fell by 1 EJ.

The table again with data on one side, soothsaying on the other:




IEA World Energy Outlook 2024
Table A.1a: World energy supply Page 296.

Let me explain something: There are three columns designating years that have already occurred. 2010, 2022, and 2023. They are something called "data." The four columns, designated 2030, 2035, 2040, and 2050 are soothsaying.

The bar graph you show - a little education might help one to understand how trivial this growth because of the units chosen on the abscissa, in TWh. 1 TWh is equal to 3.6 Petajoules. The macroscopic unit of energyis the Exajoule. A Petajoule is equal to 0.001 Exajoules.

Note that every so called "renewable energy" plant will require a redundant plant to back it up when it isn't working. That's missing from the picture,

The soothsaying graphic about 2025 demonstrates trivial numbers, nothing to write home about, far too little, far too late. As I mused elsewhere, wind construction and wind turbine failure seem to have reached secular equilibrium: Should the Phoenix Arise; the Bateman Equation and Wind Energy.

We live on a planet where energy consumption was, as of 2023, consumed 642 Exajoules.

I generally direct my reading at the behest of scientists, usually scientists whose work I've read, but often at verbal requests for professional reasons. I find reading the rambling nonsense of nonscientists, or poor scientists - I know some - and/or reading requested by credulous rubes to be uninteresting.

Technetium-tungsten alloys have interested me a long time, because of the low solubility of tungsten in liquid plutonium; reading about that, writing about that, discussing that with my son is, um, interesting and pleasant. Addressing the rambles of people reading university press releases and carrying on about how 8EJ solar +8EJ of wind is important on a planet consuming 642 Exajoules is tiresome, boring as hell actually. It took me about a half hour to write the post, including getting to the sexy parts. I enjoyed it immensely, far more than I might enjoy reading tenuous drivel. I am familiar with the contents of IEA WEO reports, as I've been working with them for over 20 years and I couldn't care less about what credulous rubes take away from them.

The results of having listened with a shaking head to more than two decades of drivel here about how fast so called "renewable energy" is growing, usually expressed in "percent talk" is here: The Disastrous 2024 CO2 Data Recorded at Mauna Loa: Yet Another Update 12/03/2024

Have a nice day. Three weeks to Christmas!