Ramping up wind turbines, solar panels and electric vehicles can’t solve our energy problem

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Date of Publication: February 3

Year of Publication: 2023

Publication City: Kennesaw, GA

Publisher: Our Finite World

Author(s): Gail Tverberg

Many people believe that installing more wind turbines and solar panels and manufacturing more electric vehicles can solve our energy problem, but I don’t agree with them. These devices, plus the batteries, charging stations, transmission lines and many other structures necessary to make them work represent a high level of complexity.

A relatively low level of complexity, such as the complexity embodied in a new hydroelectric dam, can sometimes be used to solve energy problems, but we cannot expect ever-higher levels of complexity to always be achievable.

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