Peter Zeihan

But that's where we've been for the last 25 years.

If the technology is not ready and if Westerners are not living in places where the technology can be applied in a way that actually drops your carbon, putting up a solar panel doesn't make you green.

Putting up a solar panel that reduces your carbon footprint, that makes you green.

And most people who live in the West don't live in a place where that is true.

Believe it or not, London actually gets a little bit more sun than Toronto, but just minuscule.

Glasgow, though.

God, no.

Now, offshore wind in the North Sea is brilliant.

Look at Norway.

I mean, Norway has been subsidized.

I don't mean to suggest that they're not, but they get over half of their electricity from wind now because of the dispatchability issue.

They're probably pretty close to peaked on that.

They probably can't do much more.

What's dispatchability?

The ability just to flip a switch and more electricity surges into the system.

You can't do that with green tech at all.

You can do it with batteries, but batteries are not good enough to store more than a few minutes of power on a grid level for most places.

So the first half for the Danes was easy.

The second half, I have no idea how they're going to do that.

I mean, it's really unsexy, but copper.