Coal fuels almost half of electric power generation and oil 94% of transportation worldwide. Also more than half of the oil and gas produced is consumed in transport and power generation which are sectors characterized by low efficiencies: 20% for internal combustion engines and 34% for power plants.

In contrast, electric vehicles and nuclear power plants have fuel efficiencies of 75% plus and, more importantly, both are carbon clean!

There is no substitute for energy. The whole edifice of modern society is built upon it…. It is not “just another commodity” but the precondition of all commodities, a basic factor equal with air, water and earth. _{E. F. Schumacher (1973)}

Energy is vital in order to create and sustain economic and social development.

Our whole economy reflects the relative costs of energy: the cars we drive, the houses we occupy, the kinds of factories we have and the equipment in them.

...If we lost all oil and gas products tomorrow, ...the world would simply collapse. There would be an immense depression beyond anything we saw in the 1930s -- the economy would go back to a primitive state. There would simply not be a functioning society. It would be as if there had been nuclear war, minus the casualties from blast and radiation...

In a word, we cannot as a modern society or even a modestly industrial society live without oil and gas. That is, [it is not] a luxury or a narcotic. [It is] a basic necessity of life, as basic as almost any commodity there is.  Ben Stein

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These new accelerator turbines will operate very effectively at lower ambient wind speeds by accelerating ambient wind speed by at least 200% into new smaller high-speed turbine blades.  Thus we can now open new geographic slower-speed areas to wind turbine use, such as the class 3, Great Lakes Area of the US, (only 16-17mph average wind speed).  As well as significantly lower the cost of producing electricity from the wind.

There is now no economic or environmental reason why the entire world could not switch to lower-cost, clean green wind power over the next 25 years.