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  • Опубликовано: 24 окт 2022
  • Despite at least $5 trillion of spending on non-hydrocarbon globally, the world’s dependence on hydrocarbons remains high, hampering the global energy transition as a result, an expert tells Al Arabiya in an interview on the ‘Future of Energy’ TV show.
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Комментарии • 356

  • @pm9716
    @pm9716 Год назад +9

    Finally someone with a brain on the subject,

  • @eddie1330
    @eddie1330 Год назад +9

    A very sensible man with facts, not fiction
    Something out politicians don't have
    Our politicians don't deal with facts unfortunately
    This will end in tears, with us paying the price

    • @bellakrinkle9381
      @bellakrinkle9381 2 месяца назад

      Folks thrive on delusion - it makes them feel that they are doing the right thing and that they're making the world a better, and safer, place.
      Unless DELUSIONAL THINKING is understood, my words will be interpreted as illogical.

  • @josdesouza
    @josdesouza Год назад +50

    He just summed it up brilliantly: "it doesn't matter what you think about gravity".

  • @77goanywhere
    @77goanywhere Год назад +10

    In the field of "climate change" religious faith rather than reality rules the debate. In fact for most people, they are blissfully unaware of the hard realities that are in the way of these religious aspirations.

    • @dougcard5241
      @dougcard5241 23 дня назад

      Good Grief! Nothing about faith is involved in the transition to renewables, and that is a FACT. smh Why are Republicons content to remain 'blissfully unaware' of reality?

  • @gjward64
    @gjward64 Год назад +19

    Maybe we should slow down the rush to windmills, solar farms, electric cars etc, and just spend more time appreciating the wonderful standard of living made possible by oil, gas and coal. Electric cars are clever, however this climate action nonsense has gone far enough. The world aint gonna end due to a bit more carbon in the air. In fact, as I look out in the back garden everything is looking green

    • @tieflyer3997
      @tieflyer3997 Год назад

      Mark has much in depth to say about the real emissions story on renewables. Follow/search on youtube or better yet, buy his books.

  • @brianrichards7006
    @brianrichards7006 Год назад +21

    You would be wise to have Mark Mills on your show more frequently. Never have I heard such a concise and erudite explanation of the current energy situation, and the lack of factual evidence to support the green new deals which are presently all the rage. It's too bad most Western governments, apparently, do not listen to him, or choose to ignore the facts.

    • @jonb5493
      @jonb5493 Год назад

      Well, who cares about what "Western governments" think? But scientists and engineers understand that his ideas are crankpot BS.

    • @sevencostanza3931
      @sevencostanza3931 Год назад

      Western governments say they will support new green deals, then look at the cost, then nothing happens. So no problemo.

    • @brucefrykman8295
      @brucefrykman8295 11 месяцев назад

      @@sevencostanza3931 The plan is working, China coal usage is now at a record to manufacture all of the solar panels and wind turbines to make our power grid completely unreliable. This will lead to a large peasant population struggling to support the wealth and privileges of the denizens of Washington DC, a city that produces NOTHING for the people whose wealth is robbed by these criminals in charge of everything.

    • @dougcard5241
      @dougcard5241 23 дня назад

      Everything he says is a delusional lie.

  • @vicpower9394
    @vicpower9394 Год назад +41

    It is immensely difficult to identify in simple terms the nuances to support the case that bad energy policy is damaging our economy. This is one of the best presentations I have discovered that covers this issue.

    • @SteffiReitsch
      @SteffiReitsch Год назад +1

      You flunkies don't get it. Damaging our economy? Eventually the climate is going to be so messed up, there's not going to be an economy. It'll be a downward spiral.

    • @chrisbea49
      @chrisbea49 Год назад +1

      Odd he didn't mention the trillions in ongoing oil and gas subsidies when talking about doing it for old tech.

    • @donaldkasper8346
      @donaldkasper8346 Год назад

      The silver reserves do not exist to make a solar world. Solar only works with silver. It doesn't matter what people want or governments decree, unless they find more silver reserves, it won't occur.

    • @donaldkasper8346
      @donaldkasper8346 Год назад

      @@chrisbea49 Subsidies make energy affordable. You want it to be unaffordable so the poor starve. When poor starve they tend to create civil wars because once the government is dead its policy that harms them is over. This, the poor understand very well.

    • @chrisbea49
      @chrisbea49 Год назад +1

      @@donaldkasper8346 Oil and gas has been heavily subsidized for more than a century despite being hugely profitable. It's not the poor being subsidized, it's the wealthy owners. The poor starve when their fields are alternately flooded then parched by the hidden costs of oil and gas that they did not create.

  • @treasuresunderfoot7876
    @treasuresunderfoot7876 Год назад +3

    Geoengineering is the cause of our environmental problems, NOT our hydrocarbon use.
    Large countries are behind this weather manipulation, NOT the average citizen.

  • @dilligafwoftam985
    @dilligafwoftam985 Год назад +4

    Politicians don't develop new energy sources, scientists do. In a world where politicians fund science less and less because it provides "the Real Inconvenient Truth" four year or eight year politicians can have aspirational goals, but they provide no solutions.

  • @grahammewburn
    @grahammewburn Год назад +10

    Modern agriculture is oil dependent.
    Artificial fertiliser and other chemicals made from oil and gas enhance food production.
    Farm machinery is oil powered.
    Transport to our local shops is also oil powered.
    An oil crisis means a food crisis.

    • @pianodarr
      @pianodarr Год назад

      Which is why it's time to stop foolishly and needlessly burning 80 million barrels of the stuff per day when electric will do that so much better. And leave more of the product left to use for the other things we need from oil. Like lubricating the wheels on my EV.

    • @dudeatx
      @dudeatx Год назад +4

      @@pianodarr Unfortunately, it's neither foolish nor needless. To fully transition to renewables would require us to burn 6-7 times the fossil fuels that we currently do. For example, even if there was enough copper, lithium and cobalt on the planet (which there isn't) you have to use fossil fuels to extract, refine and transport them - it takes a lot of energy to extract metal from ore when there is only about 1-2% in there at best. So it's never going to happen. Even if we did make the transition there is nothing higher yielding, nor utilisable, as gas & oil - there would have to be a population decline to adjust to the lower yield and utility. By the way there are vegetable based lubricants - this is really not a problem!

    • @pianodarr
      @pianodarr Год назад

      @@dudeatx None of that's true. We're not going to run out of copper (we're very good at capturing it), more lithium on land than we could ever use (there's very little in a battery, my plugin hybrid has 2lbs worth) and the ocean has 5,000 x as much. The new batteries don't need cobalt and most cobalt is used for oil processing anyway. Less oil processing, less cobalt needed (also easily recycled).
      Read:
      "Assigning all 328 million Americans equal share of our fossil fuel use, every American burns 1.6 tons of coal, 1.5 tons of natural gas, and 3.1 tons of oil every year. That becomes around 17 tons of carbon dioxide, none of which is captured. It is all tossed like trash into the atmosphere.
      The same US lifestyle could be achieved with around 110 pounds each of wind turbines, solar modules, and batteries per person per year, except that all of those are quite recyclable (and getting more recyclable all the time) so there is reason to believe it will amount to only 50-100 pounds per year of stuff that winds up as trash.
      That is a huge difference: 34,000 pounds of waste for our lifestyles the old way versus 100 pounds the new, electrified way.
      …the scale of resource extraction in a decarbonized world will be vastly, vastly smaller than what’s required to sustain a fossil-fueled society. Close to 40% of all global shipping is devoted to moving fossil fuels around, a gargantuan source of emissions (and strain on the ocean) that clean energy will almost wipe out. In a net-zero economy, there will be, on net, less digging, less transporting, less burning, less polluting.
      The fact is, fossil fuels are a wildly destructive and inefficient way to power a society. Two thirds of the energy embedded in them ends up wasted.”
      www.volts.wtf/p/minerals-and-the-clean-energy-transition?

    • @dudeatx
      @dudeatx Год назад +1

      @@pianodarr There is nothing with greater energy yield and utility than oil & gas are you denying this basic fact?

    • @dudeatx
      @dudeatx Год назад +3

      @@pianodarr ...also for a time there must be more digging, more transporting, more burning and more polluting until all this was brought on line. I'm still waiting to see how exactly a battery powered earth mover looks. And fossil fuels dump co2 into the atmosphere but scrapped hardware will all end up land fill - tell me how, for example, one would recycle the fibreglass that wind turbines are made from? Have you ever tried to dismantle a solar panel? If we can't recycle panels and turbines now - how do you suppose we ever will - especially when energy has become more expensive and precious?

  • @hrvojelasic5794
    @hrvojelasic5794 Год назад +8

    I am a mechanical engineer and have been talking similarly for years and most of my college engineers think the same. They just don't understand it that you need time to `transit`.

    • @jonb5493
      @jonb5493 Год назад

      But that's not his argument, or his agenda, which are actually: renewables and EVs are bad and we should forget about the whole idea.

    • @hrvojelasic5794
      @hrvojelasic5794 Год назад +4

      @@jonb5493 then you don't understand wah he says. He simply claims that at this moment this is a bad idea, and it is. I am an engineer, and I apply what is possible at this moment - it sucks. Scientists should do the research and slowly make progress toward applied engineering. You need time to transit.

    • @justinelliott3529
      @justinelliott3529 Год назад +3

      Engineering with Rosie doesn’t agree lol

    • @dougcard5241
      @dougcard5241 7 дней назад

      Dumbest post of the year. 'They' don't understand. lol

  • @2Oldcoots
    @2Oldcoots 3 месяца назад +2

    If 5 Trillion had been invested in various types of Nuclear Power would more than 2% of the problem have been solved?

  • @airsearch9192
    @airsearch9192 Год назад +8

    We climbed to the top of the food chain because we were the first animal to manage fire - our first use of "externalized" energy. Now 300,000 years later, we continue to use externalized energy, in ever greater quantities.

    • @andrewradford3953
      @andrewradford3953 Год назад

      We need to go directly to the source and focus our machines that gather energy on the Sun. Burning the intermediaries have to many side effects.

  • @duckbizniz663
    @duckbizniz663 Год назад +2

    Appreciate Mr. Mark Mills for bringing up some important facts. Hopefully they are facts. Mr. Mark Mills seems to make sense and he seems to be a technically oriented person. I noticed he was asked whether he believes in climate change, and Mr. Mills indicated that he studies energy and not climate. Mr. Mills seems to be a honest science-oriented person and not a pseudo-scientist with an agenda that has nothing to do with energy. Thank you Mr. Mills and Al Arabiya English.

  • @donaldkasper8346
    @donaldkasper8346 Год назад +4

    To be a superpower requires energy. Being a superpower increases your standard of living.

  • @jeanlefranc3817
    @jeanlefranc3817 Год назад +5

    You put it right. At planet level, not little local markets, there is no and never was energy transition. Humanity simply kept piling up wood, coal, oil, natural gas, wind and solar, geothermal equipment over hundreds of years.
    Anyone applying the simple Kaya equation to United Nations development goals, in a world where population will gain another billion people before 2050, will see that reducing GHG emissions by cutting the use of fossil fuels will simply not happen. There is no judgement, this is not a political opinion, just basic arithmetics.

    • @Apjooz
      @Apjooz Год назад

      What about whale oil.

  • @william53
    @william53 Год назад +9

    Very worthwhile discussion!

  • @JoeZorzin
    @JoeZorzin Год назад +10

    very informative discussion by your guest!

  • @Thewestslope
    @Thewestslope Год назад +1

    Net zero is a dumb target. The proposed time frames to 'solve' climate disruption are completely unrealistic.
    The amount of base metals required for this wished 'transition' is mind boggling. Average copper mine grades have been declining. It will take 100s of massive open-pit mines to come anywhere close to satisfying the amount of copper required for the 'transition'.
    Not In My Back Yard (NIMBY) politics are already making it difficult if not impossible to commission greenfield mines in so-called friendly jurisdictions such as Alaska and British Columbia. The Pebble Mine project in Alaska has ground to a halt. Future copper mines in Argentina and Chile will likely require large desalination plants.
    The 'transition' is a good idea for reasons unrelated to anthropogenic climate disruption: health and declining hydrocarbon reserves.

  • @h.e.hazelhorst9838
    @h.e.hazelhorst9838 11 месяцев назад +1

    It is not a matter of high demand or whether we want a transition or not: we will change our behavior or perish. This is a typical example of well informed and educated people who simply are not (yet) able to connect the dots.

    • @jordanparanihi1947
      @jordanparanihi1947 10 месяцев назад

      You cannot do anything effectively without taking into account all considerations and consequences of actions of your plan - he's laying out the limitations of the green energy plan. It's absolutely about joining dots. Hidden ones, that aren't getting talked about. If you think the world is going to perish, then shouldn't you at the very least want to have the most refined plan in order to attempt for it to not?

  • @elrolo3711
    @elrolo3711 Год назад +4

    Dumb questions...Smart answers.

  • @jrstsb1353
    @jrstsb1353 Год назад +4

    The easy cheap energy is gone, more oil producing countries have peaked than have not. Every opec country has overstated reserves since the 1970s. Nothing on the horizon can replace this energy. We're about to find out the party doesn't last forever.

    • @anthonymorris5084
      @anthonymorris5084 Год назад

      There has never been a greater ratio in history between known reserves and consumption. We are awash in oil and finding it everywhere.

    • @jrstsb1353
      @jrstsb1353 Год назад +2

      @@anthonymorris5084 wishful thinking

    • @anthonymorris5084
      @anthonymorris5084 Год назад

      @@jrstsb1353 This is born from data, easily found, from authoritative sources. Climate zealots have a propensity to invalidate, dismiss and willfully ignore any science, data, or evidence that they don't like. You have no interest in truth, your sole interest is to defend the narrative at all costs.

    • @peredavi
      @peredavi Год назад

      No shortage of Malthusians.

    • @jrstsb1353
      @jrstsb1353 Год назад +2

      @P Davison No shortage of eternal optimist either, it can go on forever..lol

  • @coolworx
    @coolworx Год назад +2

    I heard it best described my Simon Michaux:
    _Oil and gas are like a sirloin steak wrapped in bacon, renewables are like lettuce_

  • @rustymason3860
    @rustymason3860 Год назад +2

    The contrast in intelligence and knowledge between Mark and this interviewer is like day and night.

  • @NamekGregory
    @NamekGregory Год назад +2

    True, OPEC has 80% of the oil underground and they are producing full capacity. The world challenge is the world and OPEC included has recoverable oil reserves limited to around 1.7-1.8 trillion barrel and the world need 100 millions barrel oil every day (probably more). This all together is around 50 years supply with these rates. Unfortunately the technologies used from oil industry shows a decline 5-7%/year and pumping more dollars and drilling more wells accelerate even more the decline and on addition to these more salty water is produced. Pumping this underground again need more and more energy and oil industry ERoEI is declining. On other side the world is experiencing CO2 emission and on the same time investing on renewable energies which suck capital and have even lower ERoEI. This may be adjusted by "phasing out" light vehicles and peoples using public transportation which must increase the fleet, let say with electric buses or hydrogen buses, but all these need energy generation and storing. The discussion goes on and on and the world is running out for energy scarcity. Phasing out fossil fuel industry is not a solution, it is suiciding or better "killing" working peoples who work and get less. The future always is better, but the world need solution at least for these century and beyond. The real solution is new technology which increase oil production from existing reservoirs where the world has more than 13 trillion barrel underground, but existing technologies have "damaged" the reservoirs by injecting water without criteria, and this has made wells today to produce more water than oil. To have an idea about depletion of oil reservoirs get around 1 million striping wells in USA which may produce 5-10 bbl/d each and altogether around 5 mm bbl/d oil and more than 58 mm bbl/d salty water. These reservoirs have oil underground but water is produced more than oil. This need inventions and innovations, this is the solution to keep the economy running.

  • @oliveoil7642
    @oliveoil7642 Год назад +2

    Clean energy is NOT clean

  • @billhammett174
    @billhammett174 6 месяцев назад +1

    Solid analysis - he knows energy, and geo-politics as well...

  • @leswallace2426
    @leswallace2426 Год назад

    Yeah they'll be telling us cars will replace horses, PCs replace typewriters and mobile phones replace phone boxes next!!!! The idea that a grey, cold miserable country like Australia could ever create significant amounts of energy from putting solar panels on roofs is CRAZY!!!! Why ever should African villages use solar panels coupled with LED lights right now when they could wait years for coal power stations to be built and transmission lines to be put in to eventually bring in electricity they struggle to pay for? It's only development when the usual suspects can still keep the money rolling in stuff the actual poor. Tar sands, open cast coal mines, oil spills, deep drilling and oil refining are of course not even worth mentioning compared to mining for additional minerals for renewables and batteries IF that has to happen.

  • @philchoy1283
    @philchoy1283 Год назад +3

    Excellent

  • @mauriziolagaxio4954
    @mauriziolagaxio4954 Год назад +4

    This man is right 1000%

  • @dodiewallace41
    @dodiewallace41 11 месяцев назад

    Our energy goals should be security, affordability, and environmental protection. Unfortunately, many, including governments have made our energy goal renewable energy instead.

  • @opubogbenebo6954
    @opubogbenebo6954 Год назад +1

    The use of Solar and Wind Energy Technologies certainly will be constrained by the availability of mineral resources; however, the expansion of Algae "use-"Processes with circular re-use of nutrients minerals will remove that constrain on green energy use expansion as well as the imposition in the availability of the minerals for use in other economic activities.

  • @kimlibera663
    @kimlibera663 Год назад

    I have yet to see any of these electrical meters go up for the general public. Oh sure some parking garage will put in 15 & some workplace will install 20 but the govt really does not want to do the stuff for the little people. They want you to use your own electricity.

  • @michaelgoodrich2111
    @michaelgoodrich2111 Год назад +2

    Chicken and egg.
    To create a new energy system requires energy and materials.
    The energy available today is fossil fuels.
    So we'll need fossil fuels for a while.

  • @AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc
    @AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc 11 месяцев назад

    5 trillion spent for 2% total energy used is stupid waste of money.
    Poverty would drop incredibly with that kind of support!

  • @jamesstrawn6087
    @jamesstrawn6087 11 месяцев назад

    An international market in oil (or any other commodity) is like a lake with a water level. It does not much matter where the water enters or exists the lake, the level is uniform regardless. Imagine, for example, how a country like Russia might hedge their own product by buying and selling on the futures markets. The oil probably (in some cases) does not even have to be physically exported.

  • @MajMat073
    @MajMat073 Год назад +1

    Is there a limit to fossil fuels?

  • @doodledoodledo
    @doodledoodledo Год назад +1

    This whole argumentation is non sensical in many ways. He speaks for the current reality, it's like in 2000s someone saying that renewables are very expensive so they won't satisfy energy needs without going bankrupt in the long run. What used to be a reality now it's changed. No one can predict the future, also the previous time we had an energy source transition there were many doomsayers saying that oil won't work and coal it's cheap, more easily transferred etc etc. Every time there is a transition you will always have people (for whatever interest) saying it's wrong

  • @garywheeler60
    @garywheeler60 11 месяцев назад +1

    The over building of wind energy is destroying the environment faster than its fixing anything.

    • @jerryoliver7963
      @jerryoliver7963 5 дней назад

      I’m with you on this point. Wind turbines are great, but only if they are out at deep sea where you can’t see them. This way they can tap into ocean currents as well. Wind is way more consistent and reliable over the oceans.

  • @frankfarley2480
    @frankfarley2480 Год назад

    Excellent.

  • @PatrickKelly-fd7rp
    @PatrickKelly-fd7rp Год назад

    In the world economy you have to break down into regional and country structure to solve energy problems, so this seems broad in spectrum and wind and solar deliver, like in Texas and California!

  • @cyrilriceball2294
    @cyrilriceball2294 Год назад +6

    Fossil FUEL Rules. Natural Gas is natural (clean and cheap). Wind/Solar are unnatural acreage HOGS. Wells have low surface blueprint.

  • @dragon72tube
    @dragon72tube Год назад +1

    No need to change into electric concept. Forbidden knowledge should be given to the sheepo. Poeple of the world weak up to the new world of free energy. It always been here.

  • @mrbardel4363
    @mrbardel4363 Год назад +1

    LESS PEOPLE .

  • @Marko-qy5eg
    @Marko-qy5eg 11 месяцев назад

    So let’s talk about the minerals scare tactic. Let’s compare: ev vs gasoline cars. An electric car uses about 2 tons of minerals, 4 solar panels will power average driving of about 14000 miles per year. Scarcely 100 pounds in 4 solar panels.
    The ice car uses about 1.5 tons of minerals to make it but then oil the fuel is considered a mineral too. The average car on the road gets 28 miles to the gallon so 500 gallons of fuel. How much does a gallon of gas weigh 6 lbs. so total weight for fuel minerals is 3000 pounds. Yeah! That’s right. You’re burning your cars weight in gas every year! So after the 2 months mark you’re breaking even on the amount of minerals consumed.
    I hope that shows how back of the envelope math shows that the minerals argument is flawed completely. It’s a scare tactic.

  • @johnsmith1474
    @johnsmith1474 Год назад +2

    Much better than this is the full associated white paper: The “Energy Transition” Delusion: A Reality Reset by Mark P. Mills. Just run a search and read it.

    • @jonb5493
      @jonb5493 Год назад

      Yes, "better" in the sense that it has even more straw-men, non-sequiturs, stale data , and simple falsehoods.

  • @thebaldyhippy
    @thebaldyhippy Год назад +1

    People who want to stop oil and gas do not realise that it just isn't about burning oil and gas.
    Both these products have by-products like nitrogen for fertiliser, oil has other by products like natural gas. Spirits, grease/oil for engines electric or otherwise and for metal working in general. It's not a choice of one or the other. We need all of the above. Even hydrogen is made from natural gas, hence why these fuels are called hydro-carbons, the clue is in the name, you ain't getting your hydrogen without releasing carbon. Back to the drawing board *big time*

    • @anthonymorris5084
      @anthonymorris5084 Год назад +3

      Agreed. Oil produces energy, fertilizers, pharmaceuticals and plastics. There are over 6000 individual products made from oil. People could not get through their day without them.

  • @stephencuskley5251
    @stephencuskley5251 Год назад +2

    Mark Mills and Doomberg.
    Great minds think alike.

  • @randylplampin1326
    @randylplampin1326 Год назад +2

    Nothing like a presentation by someone that knows what the heck he is talking about.

  • @lkwrmwtr
    @lkwrmwtr 10 месяцев назад

    Good job fighting cheaper electricity....keep up the good work Mr. Energy Expert. Wind and solar keep demand for Nat Gas down. Which keeps the price of Nat Gas down. Hence the name Inflation Reduction Act. Nat Gas jumper 300% last year. Caused 90% of inflation.

  • @charlesashurst1816
    @charlesashurst1816 Год назад

    What is the USA but one big story of transition? Haven’t we prospered by being a can do nation who can meet challenges with practical solutions? Greenhouse gas emissions are a practical problem we can solve if we don’t defeat ourselves right out of gate.

  • @JaseboMonkeyRex
    @JaseboMonkeyRex Год назад

    Also why the hell is the guest not properly accredited , like what's his name, what paper is he taking about why are these not in the description?

  • @briggsquantum
    @briggsquantum Год назад +2

    Mark is far more intelligent than most people, and more rational in his discussions and evidence. The interviewer is less intelligent than most people. The gap is difficult to understand in it's extent.

  • @phillipmiddleton9335
    @phillipmiddleton9335 Год назад

    No mention pf the economics of overshoot

  • @fancynancymacy
    @fancynancymacy Год назад

    Brilliant

  • @dan2304
    @dan2304 Год назад

    The science of geology of fossil fuels especially but commodities geneally has been understood for decades. More exploration spending will find little more. So declining production of fossil fuels, minerals and metals is the future reality.

  • @spex357
    @spex357 Год назад +1

    Warm periods don't last for ever and this one will end soon enough, will they have a limit on how cold the next period will be?
    All previous era's had it warmer than us, the Minoans warmer than the Romans, the Romans had it warmer than the Medieval warm period, the Medieval warm period warmer than us, are we seeing a pattern there. Are we on a cooling rock, yes, do we have a dying star providing light and warmth, yes, it is freezing cold in space, yes. Can they reliably measure the globes temperature, no.

    • @spex357
      @spex357 Год назад

      @José Mercado What's that got to do with anything?

  • @thomasboswell841
    @thomasboswell841 Год назад

    What transition. The only alternative are salt reactors. Wind and solar is not practicle

  • @grahammewburn
    @grahammewburn Год назад +1

    Europe imports 14 million barrels a day
    China 11 million
    USA 6 million

  • @jasonsbiri
    @jasonsbiri Год назад +1

    I watched this guy and appreciate his thoughts but I don't know what his point is? He seems to like the sound of his own voice and . . . OIL... surprise surprise

    • @gregoryryan762
      @gregoryryan762 Год назад

      Fossil fuel shilling 101: downplay transition efforts, set up the energy transition effort to sound insurmountable even if the entire world focused on that as the paramount global issue, conclude that because climate goals are insurmountable/unrealistic (a supposition they literally just assumed by using a couple scary and misleading statistics) that we should all just take a step back, withdraw gov't funding, and slow down all the silly energy transition efforts.

  • @huna1950
    @huna1950 Год назад +2

    I showed mr Mills work to a mate who teaches economics to 14-16 year olds
    He’s been giddy on alternatives for years and after giving him Mr Mills book he’s not been in touch with me again 👶🏻

    • @jamesesselman283
      @jamesesselman283 Год назад +1

      Hi John...people who think we're switching to wind and solar power do not understand the big picture. It's not going to happen.

  • @larryfinley9221
    @larryfinley9221 Год назад +2

    EVs are inevitable because $10.00/gallon gas is eventually coming due to the continued depletion of oil, a finite resource, and a worldwide population growth. This is Economics 101. And this is in the not too distant future.

    • @jamesesselman283
      @jamesesselman283 Год назад +3

      EVs are a waste of money....Where does the energy come from that will charge them up?...Wind mills and solar panels? What will supply the energy for ships, planes, trucks, heavy equipment and heavy industry? The only EV that makes sense is an EV golf cart. Just like the wind and solar industry the EV industry will collapse, it's just a matter of when.

    • @Propelled
      @Propelled Год назад +2

      Did you not listen to this video? There aren’t enough mined materials. Period.

    • @jamesesselman283
      @jamesesselman283 Год назад

      @@Propelled Right..The WHOLE concept of EVs is terminally flawed...Whether you see the collapse of EVs due to raw material limitations or whether EV collapse will be due to failed attempts at large scale wind and solar energy the people who believe EVs are the answer are clueless. If you charge up an EV with energy from a fossil fuel power plant you defeat the purpose of an EV. If you believe the world will change to non-continuous, expensive and unreliable wind and solar energy "to save the planet" you are likewise clueless. The bottom line is we all better hope hi-tech can get fusion on line before fossil fuels run out.

  • @lkwrmwtr
    @lkwrmwtr 10 месяцев назад

    wind and solar already at 14% last year. 20% next year. maybe higher.

  • @julienb5815
    @julienb5815 Год назад +1

    1:50
    - scientist : "the stats show that we are not transitioning but rather piling up our energy sources"
    - "journalist" : "are you a climate change denier?"
    ........ 🙄🙄🙄🙄
    Fun thing, in my country we have 2 pretty famous "green" speakers who talk about how we destroy the environment, and they both very much agree with that first sentence. It's not being a "climate change denier duh" to state that, quite on the contrary it's acknowledging we have a problem.

    • @jonb5493
      @jonb5493 Год назад

      scientist : "the stats show that we are not transitioning but rather piling up our energy sources"
      - "journalist" : "are you a climate change denier?"
      - "pol": I don't know my a$$ from my t$$ but EVs+windmills are BAD.

  • @YordanGeorgiev
    @YordanGeorgiev Год назад

    Such a fast contrast to the message of Elon Musk during 01.03.2023 Tesla's Investor Day

  • @maxthemagition
    @maxthemagition Год назад

    This is correct.
    99.999% of vehicles on the roads use internal combustion engines and burn fossil fuels...fact.
    Also the same for aeroplanes. and ships, heating etc...
    So one can say we burn fossil fuels for 100% everythig today and little will change over the coming decades.
    It is obvious that the quickest way to deal with this, is and cut down the use of fossil fuels is simply to cut down to use of motor vehicles.....But the opposite is happening as most people now work in cities and because the cost of living and housing in cities is growing exponentially as is the number of people living there, more and more people use more and more fossil fuels to travel back and forth to work as they live further and further away from the centres.
    The roads have never been busier.
    The use of all forms of transport using fossil fuels have never been higher and it will increase unless drastic action is taken,
    The demand for Energy (which uses fossil fuels) rises exponentially....
    In reality therfore, there is no action being taken by any governments other than encouraging the use of EVs which as we know is driven by money and profit and nothing else. (same with heat pumps, solar energy and wind turbines).
    If climate change is real, then there is nothing being done about it, other than seeing it as a way of making money and profit.....
    That is the reality...

  • @Top12Boardsport
    @Top12Boardsport Год назад

    Well now prices are dropping on oil and minerals. Even with production losses from Russia. Who could have predicted that. 😂

  • @fancynancymacy
    @fancynancymacy Год назад

    It would be nice if you introduced who Mike Mills was

  • @FlameofDemocracy
    @FlameofDemocracy Год назад

    Plasma based technology offers far more energy density, along with ease of access. There are no collateral damage portfolios, or toxic flows, as well.
    Burning things, via incineration will become passe within a generation. Go with pyrolysis, instead.
    The smart money will cash in.
    Think ahead.

  • @joemccarthy7120
    @joemccarthy7120 Год назад

    I doubt that wind/solar have reduced need for fossil fuels at all. Any calculation must include the fossil fuels used both to create wind/solar plants and to run the backup generation. In the end, it is likely little more than a dead loss. The fact that they need to be heavily subsidized to come into creation and operation should tell us all we need to know. I would like to be proved wrong on this.

  • @Dulc3B00kbyBrant0n
    @Dulc3B00kbyBrant0n 8 месяцев назад

    Dude i love this guy

  • @opubogbenebo6954
    @opubogbenebo6954 Год назад

    Mark Mills is wrong, it is a money allocation issue. Algae Cultivation Process Companies funded pervasively will definitely change the dynamics. The key word here is "Process" and not "Farming". Money had been unwisely spent to fund Algae Farming instead of Algae Growth Processes hence the stark failures as recorded.

    • @iron-farmer
      @iron-farmer Год назад

      u want to industrialize the landscape and produce things that way? oh great....

  • @1p6t1gms
    @1p6t1gms Год назад +3

    It has always been very clear, human populations have become to high because of hydrocarbons. One orientation or another human populations will decrease eventually because of hydrocarbons.

  • @grahammewburn
    @grahammewburn Год назад +2

    Rystad Energy reported that only 4.7 billion barrels of oil were discovered in 2021. Mankind consumes 3 billion barrels a month. 6 billion barrels in 2 months. 36 billion barrels PA. So 4.7 billion barrels is 31.3 billion barrels short of what's needed to maintain our high energy lifestyle.
    Our high energy lifestyle is unsustainable..

  • @jonb5493
    @jonb5493 Год назад

    Mr. Mills shows us brilliantly how you start with an agenda and manipulate the facts and arguments to fit it. He's a master politician! On the other hand, a scientist does exactly the reverse: start with the facts, see if there's any arguments, try and find patterns.

  • @michaelgoodrich2111
    @michaelgoodrich2111 7 месяцев назад

    You need energy to transition. So unless you conserve drastically as you transition, you will need more fossil fuel energy. Oops.

  • @johnmcbirnie3203
    @johnmcbirnie3203 Год назад

    Elon in his Master Pla part 3 doesnt agree. It is all based on innovation and scale of mining, processing and refining battery based minerals especially Iron and lithium.

    • @peredavi
      @peredavi Год назад +1

      Elon has perfected mining the government.

    • @MASTERSMITJE
      @MASTERSMITJE Год назад

      If they find a location where there are rare resources, it wil take 15+ years to get the plant ready for mining so you do the math. And then it comes down to who finds it first and how ritch the mining site is and what the price wil be. Elon is doing good work, but his stuff is not the highest quality so this comes down to more production but also more strain on mother nature. and that is one of the big problems solar and wind are not the holy grail, it's a start yes. but we need better stuff.

  • @carlosaugustoerthal8098
    @carlosaugustoerthal8098 Год назад +1

    A maldição chamada REALIDADE...

  • @SuperTonyony
    @SuperTonyony 11 месяцев назад

    😅 Someone should tell this dude about Jevons paradox. If we get more efficient at burning fossil fuels, we'll burn more fossil fuels, not less.

  • @koskos758
    @koskos758 11 месяцев назад

    Some old guy never heard about innovations, technology and disruptions (also S-curve) and is talking gibberish. Nobody can dethrone Kodak, Nokia, Horse cars, Landline phones, Fax machine, CRT monitors/TVs, Magnetic harddisk, floppy disks, Steam engine, Coal plants, etc.- good luck with that.

  • @drewtronics7406
    @drewtronics7406 Год назад

    Listen to mark mills. He speaks the truth, and the truth is all that matters.

  • @muskduh
    @muskduh Год назад

    no such thing as clean energy

  • @janklaas6885
    @janklaas6885 Год назад

    3:42

  • @user-nx6ji9tk8i
    @user-nx6ji9tk8i 6 дней назад

    misleading title. Mark Mills argues that there is no transition. Oil, gas and coal ( & indeed wood ) all increasing. Green energy is an addition. 82% the world,s energy is from oil, gas and coal. All needed to fuel the green machine. And mining is a limiting factor. Just watch what happens to demand for Cu.

  • @carlospenalver8721
    @carlospenalver8721 Год назад

    Kind of sucks when one of the organisations considered evil amongst the tree huggers a voice of reasoning arises. Expect other”evil corps” to echo the real facts, maybe because the time is ideal, the time being “too late” so move on.

  • @SD-jd6ix
    @SD-jd6ix Год назад

    The only clean energy is when you want less if something not Brocken why fix it clean energy is not keeping up with the Jones if your fine why upgrade if your house comfortable why use more energy to change it we want to much stuff

  • @sranney1
    @sranney1 11 месяцев назад

    Green is foolish look at the EV deal burning up and not able to get charged and not much range

  • @lv4077
    @lv4077 11 месяцев назад

    Let’s see,most of the western countries are de-industrializing ,decreasing the supply of reliable energy resources through expenditures that are almost unfathomable and still having no impact on fossil fuel production or demand.Meanwhile the world’s largest Co2 emitters continue to industrialize and expand energy production,using coal and oil and gas . These countries continue to supply our inefficient,ridiculously expensive 19th century technologies which have virtually no impact on energy production.The good thing is that the Co2 producers are in many cases our geopolitical enemies.Yeah,that sounds like a brilliant plan for future success in the west.

  • @optimisticfuture6808
    @optimisticfuture6808 Год назад

    Forget green, we need to protect resources. We will need these fuels for aviation, shipping and trucking. Preserve natures ultimate solar energy by conserving and well thought out renewables.

    • @SteffiReitsch
      @SteffiReitsch Год назад +1

      Fossil fuels were a one time gift of nature allowing humans to breed like rats and overrun the planet. One way or another, the Fossil Fuel Age is going to end. Fossil fuels are a finite resource that are going to dwindle. Humans are currently burning through ~100 million barrels of oil/day. That's unsustainable. But there's still way more than enough FFs to wreck the climate before they run out. There's going to be a huge population crash beginning in the second half of this century. It's going to be ghastly.

    • @slimjimnyc270
      @slimjimnyc270 Год назад

      Don't forget we use natural gas to make fertilizer for growing food.

    • @SteffiReitsch
      @SteffiReitsch Год назад +1

      @@slimjimnyc270 That's right. Another nail in our coffin.

  • @eclipsenow5431
    @eclipsenow5431 Год назад +1

    In the next 10 to 15 years we will see exponential growth of all renewables and EV's. Remember how exponential curves start of really slow for a long long time, and then suddenly everything happens at once. EG: The old example of bacteria in a petri dish. Assume you know it doubles every minute, but the dish will be full in an hour. When is the dish half full? In 59 minutes! The bacteria has been almost invisible for 50 minutes then in the last 10 minutes goes from a tiny blotch to 1/16 the dish, 1/8 the dish, 1/4, 1/2, and suddenly the dish is full! Right now - solar is just becoming "visible". It’s been doubling for a while. But now that they are so cheap - the exponential is taking off. We will be SHOCKED at how fast things happen. 10% of all new cars sold globally are EV's. By 2030 that should be about 50%. Australia will be 80 to 90% renewable by 2030!
    theconversation.com/theres-a-huge-surge-in-solar-production-under-way-and-australia-could-show-the-world-how-to-use-it-190241

  • @hellboystein2926
    @hellboystein2926 Год назад

    Russia is dependent on the influx of Oil+gas+coal (´Nickel, Bauxit,..) money, if they try to strangle 'the hole worldmarket' they will go bankrut first, the west WILL have to pay even more for that commodities, have more inflation,.. but can replace them(at least for the duration of a war), but russia has barley other sources of income than of these commodities.

  • @anthonymorris5084
    @anthonymorris5084 Год назад

    Gosh, you mean we actually can't live without fossil fuels? Go figure.

  • @TheToledoTrumpton
    @TheToledoTrumpton Год назад

    How did these climate alarmists manage to make the argument about just the climate changing, instead of about whether the climate is changing enough to be a bad thing?

  • @manuelmanolini6756
    @manuelmanolini6756 Год назад +1

    THIS SAUDI CHANNEL IS SALIVATING ABOUT ANYONE WHO OPINES THAT THE WORLD WILL CONTINUE TO DEPEND ON SAUDI OIL. NOT EXACTLY IMPARTIAL.

  • @grahammewburn
    @grahammewburn Год назад

    OPEC HAS 80% of the oil still in the ground. Subject to estimates being correct.

    • @johnsmith1474
      @johnsmith1474 Год назад

      And your point is ...?

    • @grahammewburn
      @grahammewburn Год назад

      @@johnsmith1474 eventually they will control oil

    • @NamekGregory
      @NamekGregory Год назад

      True, OPEC has 80% of the oil underground and they are producing full capacity. The world challenge is the world and OPEC included has recoverable oil reserves limited to around 1.7-1.8 trillion barrel and the world need 100 millions barrel oil every day (probably more). This all together is around 50 years supply with these rates. Unfortunately the technologies used from oil industry shows a decline 5-7%/year and pumping more dollars and drilling more wells accelerate even more the decline and on addition to these more salty water is produced. Pumping this underground again need more and more energy and oil industry ERoEI is declining. On other side the world is experiencing CO2 emission and on the same time investing on renewable energies which suck capital and have even lower ERoEI. This may be adjusted by "phasing out" light vehicles and peoples using public transportation which must increase the fleet, let say with electric buses or hydrogen buses, but all these need energy generation and storing. The discussion goes on and on and the world is running out for energy scarcity. Phasing out fossil fuel industry is not a solution, it is suiciding or better "killing" working peoples who work and get less. The future always is better, but the world need solution at least for these century and beyond. The real solution is new technology which increase oil production from existing reservoirs where the world has more than 13 trillion barrel underground, but existing technologies have "damaged" the reservoirs by injecting water without criteria, and this has made wells today to produce more water than oil. To have an idea about depletion of oil reservoirs get around 1 million striping wells in USA which may produce 5-10 bbl/d each and altogether around 5 mm bbl/d oil and more than 58 mm bbl/d salty water. These reservoirs have oil underground but water is produced more than oil. This need inventions and innovations, this is the solution to keep the economy running.

    • @grahammewburn
      @grahammewburn Год назад +2

      @Namek Gregory
      We might have 50 years supply.
      MIGHT.
      The problem is flow.
      The flow of oil from the Earth is slowing. In fact we would have been in crisis years ago except for shale oil and gas. A decline in shale oil or gas and mankind will be in crisis.
      An oil crisis means
      A food crisis.

    • @NamekGregory
      @NamekGregory Год назад

      @@grahammewburn Again I agree, however all these flow problems you mention are a) crude oil flow has decreased and water flow increased and this need water injection or water disposal, b) gas oil ration is increased and this decrease oil flow and increase gas flow and reservoirs deplete faster, c) when CO2 or other gases are injected, then gas flow even faster and oil industry say this is breakthrough problem. d) drilling more on reservoirs accelerate the decline rate, e) Drilling more and fracking more increase cost of production and oil flow decline faster, f) crude oil from conventional oil reservoirs is good feedstock for refineries and give gasoline, diesel, kerosene to keep transportation, aviation, shipping, trains, and even tanks running, and light oil from unconventional is good but has not these composition on abundance. These are some, other may be listed. The core challenge is the oil industry suffer from missing the right technology to push crude oil from pore space underground and bring more oil to surface. The world geological reserves are very high, but the world recoverable reserves are only estimated 1.7-1.8 trillion barrel and production of these amount is flowing with around 85 mm/bbl/day and decreasing 4.5% to 7% per year and this for all refineries is less output on gasoline, less output on diesel, less output on kerosene and from these the world may have less energy for agriculture, less energy for industry, less food on table, less jobs for peoples. And all these come because many oil companies can not keep production flowing with technologies they use worldwide. Considering here the fact that all the world has discovered around 15 trillion barrel crude oil and underground these days are more than 13.5 trillion barrel oil, the fact that reserves are 1.7 trillion barrel shows directly the sour fact that industry is unable to increase recoverable oil and keep supply demand balanced. This is technology crisis and can be solved only with technology. If you are on oil industry know all these facts, but if you are outsider then you can learn these fact intuitively of from experts who talk, they who do not talk hide the challenges. And solutions exist, adopting technologies the world know with know-haw which are proprietary from few experts who are looking for partnering with government and industry who control oil and gas and all activities.

  • @kkrolik2106
    @kkrolik2106 Год назад

    5 Trylion dollars will be better spend on new Nuclear Power plants

  • @SD-jd6ix
    @SD-jd6ix Год назад

    When comes to Russia thy insurance companies have sanctioned insurance for Russian ships no insurance no shipping

  • @lawrencetaylor4101
    @lawrencetaylor4101 Год назад

    I disagree with him since there was a radical transition in 2005 to move to fracking and tar sands. This caused a 6 to 7 fold increase in everything, infrastructure, energy and electricity as well as millions of tons of toxic chemicals. And it ruined our economy. A frack site has a 30 year ROI, but is worthless after 18 months. So it's sold off to a Pension Fund or another bank. They blamed the 2008 crisis on homeowners, and it's ongoing. In 2019 they were giving $1 Trillion dollars a day, and then stopped talking about it.
    And Fossil Fuel Fools like this guy say that renewables have to replace today's levels. We only have to replace the levels before the 1990s.

  • @JohnSwihart
    @JohnSwihart Год назад

    Nuclear

  • @peterharris3096
    @peterharris3096 Год назад

    If you don't know the difference between an electric motor in any configuration and a diesel engine or any ice. then you might as well stop offering an opinion supporting a transition.