Between the laborious management of his new baby Twitter, the controversies over his Tesla cars and his plummeting financial wealth, the American entrepreneur Elon Musk is still getting caught up in the game of fiery declarations about our future. According to him, the demand for oil should reach its world peak within 5 years.
Elon Musk, energy consumption expert. Here is a new hat from the American billionaire that we did not yet know. Indeed, at the end of the week, the current owner of Twitter indeed declared on his social network that according to him, the peak oil demand would be reached in 5 years. A declaration which seems however to summarize, in less than 280 characters required on Twitter, the last report of the IEA, the international energy agency.
According to the organization, it is indeed a new paradigm energy that is opening up in the world. Oil would then find itself, in the (very) long term, isolated in the energy market. Forecasts indicate that after peaking in demand in the 2030s, consumption oil should to lower considerably until 2050 and even beyond.
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The war in Ukraine and the fight against global warming as explanatory factors
According to the report, this would be in particular theinvasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation which would have caused this accelerated change in our energy practices. The responses provided by leaders around the world to promote more restrained energy consumption and cleaner production would have made it possible to initiate the energy transition required by the fight against global warming.
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On the scale of France, the strengthening of nuclear energy production recently approved by the government, the promotion of cleaner travel, electric cars or the discourse on energy sobriety already prove that a revolution has taken hold in some months. In Europe, the Green New Deal of the European Commission as well as the measures taken by most Member States of the European Union are also moving in the direction of cleaner energy use. Renewable energy should, in fact, in a few years, take a major place in the energy independence of our continent.
Source : insideevs.com
