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11/01/2023at 13:55

"The green energy transition is a delusion"

Sufficient volumes of minerals are not being mined to enable climate change mitigation, and hydrogen will only make everything more expensive and lead to deindustrialization, says Mark P. Mills, senior fellow of a US right-wing think tank, adding that the world ought to completely abandon the notion of transforming.
Vindmøller bør blive i baggrunden, for intet har indikeret, at verden kan klare sig uden raffinerede kulbrinter, mener Mark. P. Mills. | Photo: Michael Sohn/AP/Ritzau Scanpix
BY MAZ PLECHINGER, TRANSLATED BY DANIEL FRANK CHRISTENSEN & CHRISTOFFER ØSTERGAARD

”There is no transition underway at the moment. Just to be clear about that. It’s just not in the data,” begins Mark P. Mills.

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