The United Kingdom is likely to have barely a quarter of the energy in 2050 promised by the Government and its Climate Change Committee if all the legal obligations of Net Zero are followed.
This shocking news is forecast by the latest energy review recently published by UK FIRES.
Government-funded UK FIRES writes that the “whole excitement” of its project has been to recognize that such a shortfall is close to a certain reality. [emphasis, links added]
Excitement is not perhaps a word that comes immediately to mind when contemplating Britain’s almost certain economic and societal collapse.
As we have noted before in the Daily Sceptic, UK FIRES bases its recommendations on the brutal, and many would argue, honest reality of Net Zero.
It does not assume that technological processes still to be perfected, or even invented, will somehow lead to minimal disturbance in comfortable industrialized lifestyles.
Speaking to architects in 2021 at a RIBA climate conference, UK FIRES leader Cambridge-based Professor Julian Allwood said the UK Net Zero strategy is as unrealistic as “magic beans fertilized by unicorn’s blood”.
It can be argued that the £5 million of taxpayer funding to UK FIRES is money well spent since its honest Net Zero appraisals contrast with the fanciful stories and deceit that surround many other claims by Net Zero promoters.
The above graph shows how UK FIRES expects only one-quarter of electrical power to be available in 2050 compared with all other forecasts.
By 2050, electrical power will be the primary source of all energy. It notes that all other scenarios depend on negative emissions technologies such as carbon capture to deal with ‘residual emissions’ – shown in the graph in orange.
UK FIRES notes that it reflects the reality that to date, no such technologies are operating in the UK, and therefore it states that by 2050, “we should continue to anticipate that they would not exist.”
Allwood and his colleagues from a number of universities including Oxford and Imperial College are dismissive of many of the proposed Net Zero mitigation technologies, noting, for instance, that biofuels are unsustainable since they threaten biodiversity.
In 2021, Allwood observed that delivering Net Zero by 2050 “will require governments to utilize all available abatement opportunities, yet current policy largely ignores socially-driven mitigation in favor of technological innovation in the energy sector”
In plainer English, these government-driven social “abatement opportunities” might reference the World Economic Forum’s advice that you will eat bugs, own nothing, and, it need hardly be added, be happy.
As we have previously reported, UK FIRES promotes a world with no flying and shipping by 2050, drastic cuts in home heating, bans on beef and lamb consumption, and a ruthless purge on traditional building materials such as bricks, glass, steel, and cement, to be replaced with materials such as “rammed earth”.
The UK Government is committed to reducing emissions by 68% from 1990 to 2030. Most of the easy cuts have been made with a switch from coal to gas, and the offshoring of a great deal of British manufacturing capacity.
But the easy cuts, and the ubiquitous virtue signaling that goes with them, have ended. To comply with legal requirements going forward, a massive ramp-up of green energy is required, and there is little evidence that it is occurring.
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Will they all be forced go back to using Whales Oil all over aa totally fake Crisis? Maybe those Eco-Freaks should all go live in a Grass Hut
In 2050, British housing will be made of sod, and the occupants ( drunk on homemade swill) will sleep with their goats on straw under thatched roofs.
The Brits have so much nostalgia in their future.
“…under thatched roofs.”
Notice that the “Black Death” (Plague) hasn’t struck London since the ‘Great Fire” in 1666. Many of the houses destroyed had thatch roofing, great living space for the rats carrying the bacillus. When rebuilding, slate was used for roofing.
A return to thatch roofing – another way to reduce the human population.
Cutting UK’s energy to 25% of what they have currently is very consistent with the goal of degrowth. This is a good example of how agendas that can not make on their own merit can be successful as a hitchhiker on the climate change movement.