NOAA Confirms High Methane Leakage Rate Up To **9%** From Gas Fields

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15. I don’t see where that necessarily follows…

i.e. I don’t see that it is necessary to cut “all fossil fuel use within a couple of decades,” and reduce “our energy supply to perhaps a tenth of what it now is…”

While some explain how it is impossible, various European countries are successfully converting much of their electrical generation to renewable sources today.

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-11-1543_en.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/news/energy/120608_en.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_the_European_Union

[font face=Serif][font size=3]Share of renewable energies in gross electrical consumption in EU-27 countries in 2010 (in %).[/font][/font]

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_STAT-12-94_en.htm


There’s more to the energy picture than electrical use, but you have to start somewhere.