Great article - a start !
Some observations:
- The greatest threat to humanity and global warming is our ongoing overpopulation, never mind Third World countries trying to emulate our energy intensive western life styles.
- Solar and Wind generation will never achieve the brute force industrial strength 24/7 electrical capacity implied by transitioning away from fossil fuels to an electrical energy infrastructure.
- Such popular nostrums as Tesla's Energy Wall or the Hydrogen Economy are mere chimera based on popular ignorance. Batteries have been an intesive R&D topic since the 1880s ( Edison et al ) and are still inefficient and capacity limited. And there is no free hydrogen .... it must be generated.
- CO2 capture is in my mind too complex and expensive to make a significant impact ..... Coal plant "scubbers" do NOT remove CO2 - only particulates and other chemicals. There is no clean coal in the sense of removing CO2
Global warming is not adressed by politicised STEM ignorance.