The material in this post has been updated and transferred to https://netzero2050.substack.com/p/difficulties-with-solar-and-wind.

This article is based on the post Wanted: Imagination.

Following the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers the New York Times journalist Tom Friedman said that our failure was not lack of knowledge (we knew quite a lot about terrorist organizations). Our failure was lack of imagination — we simply could not imagine that people would voluntarily fly a commercial airplane directly into a building.

The material in this article is taken from the post An Energy Evaluation System: Part 4 — An Energy Grid.

We continue our series of posts on how to evaluate and compare different energy sources. The first three posts in the series are:

• Part 1 — An Overview

The following is taken from the post Net Zero Gradients. 

On Tuesday of this week we learned that the ExxonMobil company has adopted Net Zero goals.

We are publishing a series of posts to do with evaluating alternative sources of energy. This article is based on the post Energy Evaluation: Properties describes a method by which different fuels and energy sources can be compared.

The material in this post has been transferred. Please visit Net Zero by 2050 for information to do with Net Zero programs.

The material here is a summary of the post Lithium and Its Limits.

Supply and Demand

Classical economics states that supply will always meet demand. If the demand for a resource or product increases then the price of that resource will probably go up, but it is taken for granted that the supply is always there. In other words, supply and demand are fundamentally a financial issue.

Shown below is a summary of the post Industry Leadership.