I've been pondering. What if getting Europe to zero emissions as soon as possible — was a problem I had to solve? What if I were a benevolent dictat

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I've been pondering. What if getting Europe to zero emissions as soon as possible — was a problem I had to solve? What if I were a benevolent dictator and had all the power to solve this problem? What would I do?

There’s pretty much already a consensus in the energy industry on what needs to be done in order to reach zero emissions: we know how to generate electricity without emissions, so let's just

Electrifying transport is already well underway, we plan to electrify heating with heat pumps, and then for the rest we plan to use hydrogen, which is also extracted using electricity. If we manage to do that, we will have solved the vast majority of today's emissions, so long as all the electricity comes from zero-emission generation 24/7. There’s our “what needs to be done” as a well-defined problem:

Figuring out how to generate and deliver zero-emission energy 24/7 is also nothing new. There's plenty of studies about it coming from academia and various think tanks and agencies. They're called capacity expansion studies.

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