Recent Angewandte Chemie Editorial
'Sustainable Chemistry for Energizing the Planet'
by Marc Fontecave
Fontecave: "I have to to tell that which I strongly believe to be the truth"
My summary of Fontecave:
a. all renewable energy implementation before the year 2045 is a huge waste of money because the current renewable technologies are just too primitive.
b. the western leaders have dramatically underestimated the difficulty of transitioning away from fossil fuels and nuclear
c. the energy transition will take much longer than anyone expects.
d. huge research efforts are required in many different challenging directions
e. enormous risk of populist movements to further entrench fossil fuel and/or nuclear technologies thus leading to a loss of window of opportunity to make the transition to renewables.
Fontecave: "This view is not pessimistic, it is just realistic"
Basically, this dude believes in the magical fairy tale extremely low cost scalable Solar Refinery which turns Co2 into organic products (eg. "storage") which thus solves the intermittency problem of renewables and supposedly can crank out the zillion gallons of chemicals used every day.
Its obvious he believes capitalism needs to die: "international collaboration avoiding unnecessary competition".
Fontecave is a doomer. He doesn't really know what to do except basic research for the next 30 years.
My conclusion: France is dead.