
To completely replace hydrocarbons over the next 20 years, global renewable energy production would have to increase by at least ninetyfold. For context: It took a half-century for global oil and gas production to expand by tenfold. It is a fantasy to think, costs aside, that any new form of energy infrastructure could now expand nine times more than that in under half the time. (Illustration by Robert D. Avila)
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