{"id":606868,"date":"2023-09-27T12:18:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T06:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=606868"},"modified":"2023-09-27T12:18:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T06:48:44","slug":"muscle-wood-coal-oil-what-earlier-energy-transitions-tell-us-about-renewables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/muscle-wood-coal-oil-what-earlier-energy-transitions-tell-us-about-renewables\/","title":{"rendered":"Muscle, wood, coal, oil: what earlier energy transitions tell us about renewables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne: In 2022, the burning of fossil fuels provided 82 per cent of the world&#8217;s energy. In 2000, it was 87 per cent. Even as renewables have undergone tremendous growth, they&#8217;ve been offset by increased demand for energy. That&#8217;s why the United Nations earlier this month released a global stocktake &#8211; an assessment on how the world is going in weaning itself off these energy-dense but dangerously polluting fuels. Short answer: progress, but nowhere near enough, soon enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne: In 2022, the burning of fossil fuels provided 82 per cent of the world&#8217;s energy. In 2000, it was 87 per cent. Even as renewables have undergone tremendous growth, they&#8217;ve been offset by increased demand for energy. That&#8217;s why the United Nations earlier this month released a global stocktake &#8211; an assessment on how the world is going in weaning itself off these energy-dense but dangerously polluting fuels. Short answer: progress, but nowhere near enough, soon enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}