The guy that wrote is is a big Oil lobyist, and the Manhattan Institue is a conservative/big oil think tank
It is like someone from the early 1900s saying: Combustion engines will never take over, steam is 98% of power... etc.. etc..
yet in 10 years they did take over, first cars, then larger vessels (trains and boats). Coal/Steam power generation for trains was seen as a super polluting thing and unwanted in cities anymore.
Same thing is happening again, this time it is the combustion's engine turn to get replaced with something cleaner
Well, I sure hope you are correct on this and we will see a green utopian future. What concerns me is the finiteness of non-renewable resources both oil and the materials used to produce wind and solar power. Processing of ore to produce the rare metals used is very power intensive and polluting. What happens in say 2050 when all this green power tech needs to be replaced?? Is there enough raw materials left over to continue the production of green energy tech ??
It is like someone from the early 1900s saying: Combustion engines will never take over, steam is 98% of power... etc.. etc..
yet in 10 years they did take over, first cars, then larger vessels (trains and boats). Coal/Steam power generation for trains was seen as a super polluting thing and unwanted in cities anymore.
Same thing is happening again, this time it is the combustion's engine turn to get replaced with something cleaner