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IMF Fossil Fuel Subsidies Data: 2023 Update

Global fossil fuel subsidies hit $6.7 trillion in 2024. Only 11% were explicitly undercharging for supply. 89% were implicitly undercharging for biosphere damage including pollution costs. In contrast, the global renewable transition is estimated to cost around $1 trillion to $2 trillion annually, meaning subsidy redirection could fully fund the green shift. According to research […]

The Incredible Inefficiency of the Fossil Energy System

The shift from primary energy to useful energy is the fundamental game-changer of the energy transition. Rather than fixating on replacing total primary energy inputs, which are currently inflated by massive fossil-fuel waste heat, the core of the transition is to generate clean, highly efficient useful energy — which ultimately reduces to motion and heat. […]

Net Zero by 2050: A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector

1 Summary The Net Zero 2050 transition represents a fundamental structural optimization of the global energy architecture. Traditional energy models rely on raw primary energy inputs rather than delivered useful energy, creating a massive misinterpretation known as the Primary Energy Fallacy. Because thermal fossil combustion loses approximately 63% of its initial energy to unwanted heat […]

Why Battery Electric Vehicles Win

Is it possible to include the following additional fuel costs of ICEV’s as reduced efficiency items: Exploration and delivery costs All military costs including degraded quality of life and loss of lives protecting the supply chains Pollution and biosphere degradation costs Addition healthcare, reduced quality of life, loss of life costs Millions of years of […]

Power World by Solar Energy from 1% of Sahara

In a single hour, the amount of energy from the sun that strikes the Earth (120 x 1012 kWh SI) is more than the entire world consumes in an entire year. SMG has a solution to the Energy Storage Challenge. The nuclear option: does this article provide convincing evidence that the actual costs of: construction, […]

The Sustainable Development Goals 2022

The Future is Now! Science is Our Only Option for Achieving Sustainable Development! The Goals and Divisions of SE3LLC will Mirror the Sustainable Development Goals of this Report.

The Storage Necessity Myth

What we have learned about renewable energy storage from this and other studies: As with all investments, an energy portfolio is based on a selection of a hierarchy of investments with the greatest ROI. At the top of that RCIT & electrical supply hierarchy are EEU investments. In energy as in all investments, FTF. The […]

The Carbon Bathtub

A very simple overview of the major human mechanisms producing a rapid increase in atmospheric carbon unprecedented in 800,000 years, and the major natural  mechanisms capable of absorbing only ~45% of that production.