The Energy of Denial – new edition

Revised and expanded edition with an unpublished foreword by the author The energy transition has been recorded: investors and companies exploiting fossil fuels would be resolutely committed to the fight against greenhouse gas emissions. The debates now only concern the general orientation of the model, the place of nuclear or renewable energies in the future mix. However, a careful and documented look at the subject reveals another reality. Instead of replacing them, so-called “carbon-free” energies provide us with new means to continue to exploit all existing forms of energy. Thus, the extraction of hydrocarbons is both financially and technically supported by the development of green energies. This “energy synergy” could have a greater impact on global warming than if no transition were attempted – a transition that no scientific study has, to date, demonstrated to be possible. Beyond this ecological dimension, Vincent Mignerot questions the propensity of humanity to tell stories and to delude itself about its ability to guide the course of its destiny according to its true interest. An original point of view on the subject of energy that undermines the idea that an energy transition would be possible.