Forget the energy transition: there never was one and there never will be one

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2. There is reality and there is chanting.

I could easily post links claiming that Jesus will save the world. Nothing has served the fossil fuel industry quite so well as the claim that so called "renewable energy" is sustainable and clean.

To my mind, "renewable energy will save us" is precisely equivalent to "Jesus will save us."

The outcome of this cult thinking, among other things, has been the revival of the coal industry in Germany, following decades of funding Putin to keep German gas plants running.

The planet's burning, and bullshit links to delusional chants by advocates of this disaster will do nothing to put it out.

Now, the work cited in the OP is about the real issue is material and land, the demands of which obviate why so called "renewable energy" is nothing more than a disastrous reactionary fantasy. The cited work points out that these same issues were understood in the 18th century.

We are burning more coal than ever before. Numbers don't lie, but people lie, to themselves and each other.