Did you know that fossil fuels are history’s most cost-efficient fuels? Or that nuclear power is the safest and cleanest form of power yet discovered? Do you know which new energy technology is the most promising (no, it isn’t solar or wind)?
If you didn’t know these facts, or more than a dozen others, then you need to take a gander at a Twitter thread by energy expert and author Alex Epstein.
Without further ado, here it is:
Fossil fuels are uniquely cost-effective: the only form of energy that can provide every type of energy need (electricity, mobility, industrial heat, residential heat) at low cost, on-demand, for billions of people.
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— Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) February 2, 2022
Only 1/5th of the world uses what Americans would consider a modest amount of energy. 3 billion people use less electricity than a typical American refrigerator.
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— Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) February 2, 2022
Nuclear energy is the cleanest form of energy ever created.
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— Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) February 2, 2022
There is no low-cost, scalable way, in existence or on the horizon, of capturing CO2.
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— Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) February 2, 2022
Contrary to the idea that today’s designated climate experts have been "too conservative" in their predictions about climate change, they have been far too catastrophic—predicting a dramatic increase in climate-related deaths, when the opposite happened.
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— Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) February 2, 2022
Many leading "studies" claiming to prove climate catastrophe totally ignore human beings’ incredible ability to adapt to and master negative climate changes.
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— Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) February 2, 2022
The “greenhouse effect” is a diminishing effect: new CO2 emissions have less of a warming impact than earlier CO2 emissions.
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— Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) February 2, 2022
We have no near-term mechanism of reaching even one fourth the historical high of CO2.
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— Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) February 2, 2022
Planetary warming is concentrated in colder parts of the Earth—it is not truly global.
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— Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) February 2, 2022
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