Look at what countries are actually starting with.
France gets 69% of its electricity from nuclear. Norway gets 90% from hydro. The U.S. gets 40% from gas. China still gets more than half from coal. Australia’s largest source is coal at 43%.
Chile has reached the point where solar alone is its largest source.
And Kenya sits on the East African Rift and gets more electricity from geothermal than anything else.
These aren’t simply different energy policies.
They’re completely different physical starting points.
Rivers gave Norway hydro. Geology gave Kenya geothermal. France spent decades building nuclear reactors. China built an industrial machine around coal. America sits on enormous natural gas reserves.
So the idea that 190 countries will somehow travel one neat path from fossil fuels toward the same energy system was always a little strange.
The world isn’t in fact going through one energy transition.
In reality it’s trying to solve 190 different engineering problems under one deadline.
Source: @OurWorldInData / Writer: Oliver
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