Mark P Mills: The energy transition delusion

Menzies Research Centre

The modern world’s dependence on hydrocarbons won’t be ending any time soon, says Mark P. Mills.

He says it is physically impossible to switch from coal, oil and gas to solar, wind and batteries in any meaningful time frame.

“It is a dangerous delusion to base policies on the idea that such a transition is possible,” he says. “A different understanding of ‘transition’ is required, one that recognises that new energy sources should be considered additives, not outright replacements.”

Mills joins Nick Cater for this conversation that was originally conducted for Nick Cater’s Battleground on ADH TV.

Nick Cater is executive director of the Menzies Research Centre, a columnist with The Australian and the presenter of Battleground on ADH TV where this conversation was first broadcast.

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Mark P. Mills is a Manhattan Institute senior fellow, a faculty fellow at Northwestern University’s engineering school, and a partner in Montrose Lane, an energy-tech venture fund. He is author of the book The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and a Roaring 2020s (2021), and previously: Digital Cathedrals (2020), Work in The Age of Robots (2018), and The Bottomless Well (2006). He served as chairman and CTO of ICx Technologies, helping to take it public in 2007. Mills served in the Reagan White House Science Office, and before that he was an experimental physicist and development engineer in microprocessors and fibre optics.

Download Mark P. Mills's Paper, The Energy Transition ‘Delusion': A Reality Reset https://media4.manhattan-institute.org/sites/default/files/the-energy-transition-delusion_a-reality-reset.pdf