Alex Epstein

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Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein

For solar/wind to rapidly replace fossil fuels would require magically, immediately fixing their intractable problems providing electricity, then providing the 4/5 of world energy that isn’t electricity, then doing that for the world’s far greater energy needs going forward. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 31, 2022

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Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein

The popular idea that we can use mostly or all solar/wind with sufficient battery backup is not being tried anywhere because it’s economically absurd. Batteries are so expensive that just 3 days of global backup using @elonmusk’s Megapacks would cost $400T, >4X global GDP. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 31, 2022

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Unfortunately, there are opportunistic anti-fossil-fuel activist academics who have been feeding the absurd fantasy of rapid global replacement of FFs via unreliable solar and wind. These academics are squarely responsible for today’s global crisis of insufficient FF supply. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 31, 2022