The Future of Energy - Richard Campbell - NDC Oslo 2024 

Mr Richard, you always tell great stories

Great talk, very interesting but I think it would be better to write the numbers and the names of technologies in the slides when you're saying it. Fortunately I can rewind the video 😉

the viewer interaction on this video makes me sad.... 4 comments after 3 days?

The claim made at 42:40 about the “IEAE” (he must have meant IEA the International Energy Agency) is very misleading. You can find multiple reports from the IEA that claim around 30% of ELECTRICITY production is from renewable sources, as of 2024. But this is not at all the same as global “energy production”, as the speaker claims. Global energy production overwhelmingly comes from non-renewable sources that contribute to global warming. The main source being oil from the ground (mostly shale oil these days). Oil really does make the world go around. In fact, despite all this talk of 2050 and so on, it’s worth pointing out that global oil extraction and usage keeps steadily increasing year after year, even today this is the case. And renewables which generate electricity are not a straightforward replacement for oil. So this is an extremely misleading claim that conflates “electric power” with “energy”. The optimism here is nice, it’s just false.

in Ukraine we switch to renewables for distributed supply, because old huge plants are bombed by ruzzians

I feel like we don't talk about this sort of thing enough.

Uhh... First?

Gah! Second