re: Exxon Mobil CEO on the ‘dirty secret’ of Net Zero

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Not to be contrary (we’re kinda splitting hairs) but I work in energy. I work with this stuff daily. The prices of consumer goods will be untenable without .gov interaction in a low carbon system, without generational technological breakthroughs. The taxpayer will fund that .gov interaction.

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I don't follow the logic to the same conclusion.

I agree that the renewable like solar and wind won't work. Anyone closely following the issue now realizes that. See Germany over the last dozen years. See batteries and energy storage being years away. See the spatial, technical, and resources required to create duplicate energy grids when some of it is only available intermittently.

But the subsidy part is also wishcasting. The amount of energy needed and the required cheapness of energy required just is not possible by government subsidy. Even if our ability to subsidize "green" energy wasn't limited by the debt to GDP issue.

Heavy investment in nuclear might work in the longer run but that would also require the people who say we're dying in 15 years from global warming to stop blocking nuclear power use through a thousand different legal shenanigans.