Required Reading: The green energy net-zero plan will require a command economy

And several technological impossibilities, and a massive drop in living standards

[Note: I received this brilliant expose’ by Cambridge University Professor Emeritus of Engineering Michael Kelly in a .pdf file this morning. It is an important piece that everyone should read. So read it.]

Imagine the USA in 2050 has a net-zero emissions economy, as President Joe Biden has pledged that it will (the UK is also committed to this).

Three very large, interrelated, and multidisciplinary engineering projects will need to have been completed. Transport will have been electrified. Industrial and domestic heat will have been electrified. The electricity sector – generation, transmission and distribution – will have been greatly expanded in order to cope with the first two projects, and will have ceased to use fossil fuels.

I have had a long career in industrial and academic engineering, and recently retired as Professor of Technology in electrical engineering at Cambridge University. I’ve spent some time looking into the feasibility of these ideas, and these are the facts.