[magnuspaaske]

The article makes a lot of bold claims of the energy transition happening faster than otherwise and then mostly ignore all the context that kind of goes against the point. The most egregious example of this is saying coal has been in a secular decline for 8 years but somehow a 1.2% increase in coal use last year lead to a record – for most people that would suggest that coal use has plateaued and is not in fact decreasing as the article would otherwise want you to believe.

Elsewhere it mentions 90% of new generating capacity will be renewable over the next years, but that also kind of ignores that there'll still be 10% not renewable capacity coming online and, oh yeah, India might also have new coal plants coming online in the years ahead.

This is pretty important when considering that coal is still the most common source of electricity but also that electricity is only a part of our energy needs – switching to electrified transportation, industry and heating systems will all create more demand for electricity. Seeing as we want to phase out coal we would need renewable energy to account for more than 100% of net new production and we haven't even reached that.

Even with all the speedup in the green transition happening over the past few years it still doesn't happen at close to the speed needed – in fact we're not even close to seeing the end of coal regardless of everything going on.

[Zigurd]

The fact that US natural gas production is in decline even as fracking and LNG demand are in play, one would have to admit, is remarkable.

[cosmic_gigachad]

Define “in play”. The current administration campaigned on blocking all new exploratory leases, which they’ve done (and is now in a confusing legal battle). The current administration also blocked the Keystone pipeline.

So no new ventures, and no cheap transportation from our partners to our north. Seems like the North American industry is being starved.

[pfdietz]

You seem to be deliberately confusing natural gas with petroleum.