"If another branch on the tree of life someday produces geologists, they might notice the sudden strange disappearance of coral reefs at our Pleistocene-Anthropocene boundary and compare it to the Triassic-Jurassic boundary 200 million years earlier. Depending upon how clever these geologists of the future are, they might even notice the similarly wild swings in the carbon and oxygen isotopes in their rocks, pointing to a huge injection of carbon and a warming spike at both extinctions. Though it might take only a few decades for us to wipe out coral reefs, if the End-Triassic mass extinction is any guide, these ecosystems will take not decades, centuries, or even millennia, but millions of years to restore. The decisions made in the next few years by the energy industry and governments that regulate them will leave a record in the rocks that will last for hundreds of millions of years." - Peter Brannen - The Ends of the World, Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions.
EEGlobal Alliance - Three Percent Club
Collaboration of governments and supporting organizations that commit to working together to put the world on a path to three percent annual efficiency improvement.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Innovating science and technology solutions to improve national energy security and surety while reducing environmental impact.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and US Department of Energy: US Energy Consumption Flowchart
Sources and uses.
Net Zero by 2050: A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector - International Energy Agency (IEA)
Achieving net zero by 2050 cannot be achieved without the sustained support and participation from citizens.
United for Efficiency U4E
Encouraging countries to implement an integrated policy approach through energy-efficient products to enable a sustainable and cost-effective transformation.
US Department of Energy FY 2020 Budget Request
Total 2020 department budget request of $31.7 billion. Energy efficiency and renewable energy constituting 1.47% of total. Transportation ($157.4MM) including vehicle ($73.4MM), bioenergy technologies ($40MM), and hydrogen and fuel cell technologies ($44MM); renewable power ($163.7MM) including solar ($67MM), wind ($23.7MM), water ($45MM), and geothermal ($28MM); and energy efficiency ($145.9MM) including advanced manufacturing ($80.5MM), federal energy management program ($8.4MM), building technologies ($57MM) and weatherization and intergovernmental program ($0).
US Energy & Employment Report 2016-2020
5.4% of US workforce in 2019 - new technologies drove net job growth.
World Energy Outlook 2022
With energy markets remaining extremely vulnerable, today's energy shock is a reminder of the fragility and un-sustainability of our current energy system.