fossil fuels

Richard York, of the University of Oregon, is seen marveling in the film at the self-willed blindness of the U.S. policy community to a simple question: Do clean-energy subsidies result in fossil fuels being displaced?

The energy secretary told an industry conference the UK's dependence on fossil fuels was its "Achilles' heel" and argued clean power was the only way to reduce bills.

Experts say the relatively low cost of fossil fuels, like diesel, meant it was unlikely the shipping lines of the 1920s would make back the investment required to install them.

The United States and other major producing countries are planning to extract even more coal, oil, and gas, despite a 2023 UN climate agreement to "transition away" from fossil fuels.

The current mania for supercomputers, AI, superintelligence and the like is driven by the availability of cheap energy, mostly afforded by fossil fuels.