Indeed, the reason for the talk of transition is the combination of the cost of renewables becoming extremely attractive and the corresponding takeoff of adoption, which is currently still quite exponential. It's a prediction of where we're going, not a description of the last 18 years.
Re:The Energy Transition Isn’t
by mindslight on Sunday July 02, 2023 @09:53PM
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I thought it was going to be a worthy critique based on the way it started off, and I was prepared to entertain its claims. Renewables certainly have technical limitations, and there are certainly political incentives to market a message of success. But then it just flamed out into a Facebook style rant about evil conspirators and the same tired "renewables can't work" talking points. If there are tough discussions to be had, this post certainly doesn't help us have them.
We used to see articles all the time about “paperless office? but everyone prints out their emails” and that was true until it suddenly wasn’t.