When it comes to putting energy to use, #
fossil fuels fall short. It costs less energy to get #
FossilFuels, but we can't use them as efficiently.
Even when intermittency, curtailment, and storage are considered, wind comes out well ahead of fossil alternatives.
And that's without taking #
pollution into account...
The study isn't designed to consider all these factors and tell us which energy source is the best; it's telling us whether moving away from fossil fuels for other reasons will create an energy crunch. The numbers here clearly indicate that this won't be the case.
We get more useful energy out of renewables than fossil fuels
It costs less energy to get fossil fuels, but we can't use them as efficiently.
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