11-26-2025, 01:15 PM
At the risk of derailing this furhter (and mods, feel free to move this elsewhere), how much of the produced fossil fuel is used for transportation (planes, trains, automobiles, ships), and how much is used for everything else (eg plastics production)?
This particular web page from Visualizing Energy suggests that about 10% of fossil fuels are used for non-energy uses, and mainly in petrolium (or as low as 6% depending on data source). That would suggest that should the global economy continue down the path of inexorable decarbonizing the energy sector, that there will still be market for fossil fuels in the world, just not for burning for short term energy harvesting like moving a vehicle from A to B.
On another positive note, global solar and wind generation capacity grew faster in the first half of 2025 than energy demand grew in the same period (403TWh added, 369Wh growth in demand).
I believe the federal government said that they would not necessarily stand in the way of a new pipeline to the west coast, but they wouldn't finance it.
I look forward to the eventual electrification of the railways in Canada, including HSR and HFR.
This particular web page from Visualizing Energy suggests that about 10% of fossil fuels are used for non-energy uses, and mainly in petrolium (or as low as 6% depending on data source). That would suggest that should the global economy continue down the path of inexorable decarbonizing the energy sector, that there will still be market for fossil fuels in the world, just not for burning for short term energy harvesting like moving a vehicle from A to B.
On another positive note, global solar and wind generation capacity grew faster in the first half of 2025 than energy demand grew in the same period (403TWh added, 369Wh growth in demand).
I believe the federal government said that they would not necessarily stand in the way of a new pipeline to the west coast, but they wouldn't finance it.
I look forward to the eventual electrification of the railways in Canada, including HSR and HFR.