By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Magness
Silly Jilly is back!!!
The world used clean power sources to meet more than 40% of its electricity demand last year for the first time since the 1940s, figures show.
A report by the energy thinktank Ember said the milestone was powered by a boom in solar power capacity, which has doubled in the last three years.
However, dig into the small print, and you discover things are not quite as rosy as Silly Jilly pretends.
That wonderful solar power only supplied 7% last year, with another 8% from wind. By far the biggest contributor is hydro power, at 15%, which has been steadily turning out similar amounts of electricity for decades.
The rest of the claimed 40% comes from nuclear and tree burners, neither of which could remotely be described as “clean” – certainly not amongst Jilly’s bien pensant circle!
In reality of course, electricity is only a minor part of the world’s energy mix, so her figures become even less impressive.
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April 8, 2025 at 03:21AM
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