Taps Coogan – September 8th, 2021

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The following chart shows the worldwide production of energy from various sources since 1860, based on data from Our World in Data.

Amazing timeline of energy production by source. pic.twitter.com/nw9h38pSiT

— Kevin Stevens 🔋⚡️ (@kevindstevens) August 31, 2021

Despite decades of enormous hype and trillions of dollars of investment, wind and solar remain a tiny portion of humanity’s energy consumption. Make of that what you will, but any plan to reduce carbon emissions that doesn’t rest on coal-to-gas switching and nuclear is just a bill of goods.

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