This lecture was provided during the fourth ERBE seminar event. A series co-organised by the ERBE Centre for Doctoral Training and the CIBSE Young Energy Performance Group to encourage knowledge sharing and mutual support between academics, industry, and government.
Robert Lowe discusses the history of global energy system transitions and the implications of past transitions on the net zero by 2050 target. The lecture focuses on the concept that the constraints on growth at the end of an energy transition must mirror those at the start. This relates to the growth of supply chains, competition between great powers for resources, and massive reorganization of patterns of trade, of military p...