Energy Transition Crisis - Episode 8: My 6-Point Plan for Energy Transition

Chapters:

00:00 Episode 8: My 6-Point Plan for Energy Transition
01:50 (1) Build a global grassroots community
06:52 (2) Recognize that “Just Stopping Oil” isn’t a productive goal
09:30 (3) Re-commit to Investing in Oil & Gas Exploration and Production
10:14 (4) Get the Word Out About Deep Geothermal
11:04 (5) Get the Word Out About Advanced Nuclear
12:15 (6) Dispense with the Propaganda and make a Serious Plan to build 80k TWH of new clean electricity by 2050
14:33 Erik’s Thoughts on Energy Transition
15:35 Wind/Solar Caveat
22:13 Title Card “Energy Transition Needs Your Help!”

In this final episode of Energy Transition Crisis, I’ll lay out my 6-point action plan to accomplish energy transition and achieve net-zero climate goals by 2050. What follows are my personal opinions about what we as a society should do to fully replace fossil fuels by 2050. Please engage with us in the comments below this video and the earlier episodes in the series to express your own ideas on this most important subject of the 21st century.
First and foremost we the people need to work together to navigate the coming crisis. We must resist our politicians’ attempts to divide us by making energy transition a partisan political issue. We should all take an interest in what’s at stake, and we should all strive to personally understand the most important issues rather than just trusting our politicians to make the right decisions for us.
Specifically, we need to promote better public awareness of energy’s importance to our standard of living, and why our standard of living is now in decline as a direct result of increasing energy costs due to peak cheap oil.

The Energy we get from fossil fuels literally ended human slavery and makes it possible for most of us not to have to work on farms just to survive. So abundant energy is a very, very good thing for humanity, and we should want more of it, not less.

The problem is just that we’re getting our energy from the wrong sources.
Energy transition away from fossil fuels in favor of clean energy is the single most important challenge humanity faces in the 21st century.
But we’re becoming divided by politics—let’s not allow that to happen!
What Americans perceive science to say about Climate Change literally depends on what political party they’re a member of, because both parties have aggressively subjected their constituents to messaging designed to persuade them the other party has the science wrong.
Everyone has the right to make up their own mind, but no one has the right to make up their own facts!

We the people need to get in touch with just how badly governments are screwing up this energy transition, and we need to find a path forward that unites us around a common goal we can all believe in rather than trying to divide us into factions who see one another as enemies.

I propose that Energy transition (rather than Climate Change) could be the uniting strategy that can bring us all together as a unified movement.
For those who believe climate change poses an existential threat to humanity, nothing could possibly be more important than building the green energy supply we need to end our addiction to fossil fuels. So it should be a no-brainer for those concerned about climate change that Energy Transition away from fossil fuels is the single most important challenge we face in the 21st century.

For climate skeptics who are sick of climate hysteria and are more concerned about what climate policy is doing to gasoline prices, the logic is completely different, but the conclusion is ironically the same. While climate policy might be aggravating gasoline prices short-term, the true underlying cause of long-term high energy prices is peak cheap oil.

[cameronbrown]

What I really like is that this series sidesteps the climate debate... there are folks (such as myself) that have come around to the idea that CO2 isn't bad and there's a lot of hysteria around climate change; however, WE STILL NEED TO TRANSITION! The framing you took engages folks that are more on the side of climate change and it engages folks that aren't so much.

Good all around!

[toddwinton]

Thank you Erik for donating your time and money to such an important message that is important to all of us.

[Maderatrr]

Thank you for this series. My own goal that I've set for myself after watching this series is to spread public awareness of need for base load renewable energy, safe nuclear energy proliferation, and possible reorientation of current fossil fuel companies to deep geothermal drilling research.

[MariaSantos-uubk]

This episode marks the culmination of an insightful journey through the intricacies of energy transition. Erik Townsend masterfully outlines a comprehensive plan to achieve net-zero climate goals by 2050. The episode serves as a crucial guide, emphasizing the need for unity, public awareness, and a pragmatic approach to overcome the challenges posed by fossil fuel dependence. It's a roadmap for collective action, urging us to prioritize clean energy sources and upgrade global infrastructure. In my opinion every one should see this serie about this important topic that is our future. Together we can make a change. Thank you for this videos.

[fver]

This is an amazing and exceptional series by an equally exceptional thinker on the topic! Thanks Eric and team.

[SD-zgky]

I dare to say that this docuseries should be mandated in the public education system at the high school level. It seems to me that would be the only way to educate the masses as you have educated me. One problem i see with that is how you have correctly identified government ineptitude. Those same governments control the education curriculum 😕

[chengranxie]

Good to see an action oriented plan to solving the energy crisis with practical steps.

[danielvonbose]

What I got was this. The oil industry has the drilling infrastructure to get to deep geothermal and should be encouraged to do so. The nuclear industry should try to take up the slack as much as possible between supply and demand while pursuing modular reactors, molten fuel, and thorium. There should be a plan to phase out water cooled reactors. Renewables should get what they need to continue development.

[extremelybroad]

Eric, thank you for not disappointing in your thorough investigation and documentary.

[terrancehawkins]

This is a great series. Thank you Eric! Somehow you got to get this documentary to our U.S. Congress and POTUS!

[edwingunn]

Great series! Something everyone should watch no matter how you feel about climate change.

[danielrobinson]

Thank you Erik. The knowledge you share in these videos is so important to the future of our planet. It's infuriating to think of how much further along we'd be if it weren't for government corruption and malinvestments into the wrong energy sources.

[artmzv]

Thank you for this series! Honestly, before watching this I was absolutely clueless and had no idea how important cheap and affordable energy really is! This way eye-opening for me.
It is quite sad that politicians and celebrities are not taking the right action here, however I am sure that in some time they will. After all, nobody wants a crisis on their term...
Raising awareness of this issue is key here. These few hours of watchtime do, in fact, educate people on the matter, hence, I believe this series can wipe all the climate change misconceptions away if gained enough traction.

[BenjaminClissold]

Thankyou for this fantastic series - the whole collection should be a must watch for politicians who wish to be involved in decision making around energy policy in any country - and would be a wonderful way to educate our children about the future. The next decade looks worrying but I hope the people who matter see the light. Of course educating the general population will be fundamental - thanks again

[JackApfel]

Great series. Thanks for making it available. I particularly enjoyed the episodes about Geothermal and Nuclear. I learned a lot from them!
One thing I missed a bit was carbon capture technology. Would have loved an extra episode about that.

[BurntToast]

Great series Erik. It’s definitely validated my gut feel that wind and solar alone cannot possibly be the only solution we should be seeking. Reserving lithium batteries for transport also makes a lot of sense. In fact, I think all your recommendations make sense.

[alberthartl]

Congratulations Erik on the effort you have put into this series. You came so close to getting it right! The geothermal breakthrough has actually arrived. In 2019 Eavor Technology demonstrated that AGS works. GA Drilling developed plasmabit and Quaise Energy developed mm wave drilling heads. Both devices vaporize hard rock and vitrify the bore hole. Both of these technologies allows for economical drilling in 400°C hard rock. While geothermal is expensive, it is a fraction of the cost for nuclear. A major Eavor loop commercial project has begun in Germany. The Department of Defense has awarded Eavor a contract to supply electricity to military bases in Texas. So open your check book for AGS and pass on nuclear.

[lophiz]

As a climate skeptic, I'm all for this. Regardless of the climate, we all want clean water and air.

[njaalsturlasson]

Thanks, Erik! Great work. I’m a Macrovoices listener since many years, and listened to some of your draft versions. Turned out really well!

[TotalIgnition]

Thanks Erik, I've shared the series with friends and family in the hopes of it taking off