The United Kingdom has a Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero… who knew? His name is Ed Miliband, and last month he gave the keynote speech at the annual Energy UK conference.
He referenced an energy “tri-lemma”:
- affordability
- security
- sustainability
Here’s the security part:
Granted, oil imports are a bigger deal for the UK than for the U.S.A. But do you really want to have to worry about what Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Russia are up to, and how that will affect oil prices here, when there are clean alternatives?
What about affordability? Here’s Ed again:
Clean renewables are cheaper. No need to “drill, baby, drill” when you can just build more solar arrays and wind turbines, and higher capacity batteries… cheaper, with much less impact to the climate.
And they’re not just cheaper and cleaner, they’re also safer.
[Article that accompanies the two charts above from OurWorldinData.org is here. ]
The faster we go, the better off our world will be. Ed knows that:
Let’s make every day a sun-day.
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