@ati1 @benlockwood Look at the proportion of electricity coming from fossil fuels in various countries.

Over the last year, only 28% of UK electricity came from fossil fuels, and another 7.5% from biomass.

Some other European nations use even less fossil fuels already.

Studies suggest that getting to 95%+ is feasible with only renewables and short term storage.

Sure, there's a problem with the last 5%. There are a number of solutions, all of them have problems.

But biomass isn't a viable answer. You get *hundreds* of times more usable energy from a field of solar panels than from a field of energy crops.

And solar panels don't have to compete with food; they can be put onto buildings, they can be combined with animal shelters, some crops, etc, and they can be put on low grade land. But even if they did, using biofuels will use **WAY** more land.

And, sadly, it already does, thanks to the use of biofuels in transport and (occasionally) electricity.

"Holistic solutions", sure. For electricity that means a mixture of renewable sources, grid interconnectors, dynamic demand, storage etc.

And it means being sensible about demand - gigawatts of datacenters to support a bubble that is bound to burst soon and is already losing money make no sense.

But energy crops are a non-starter. Genuine agricultural waste can only provide a tiny fraction of total energy demand.

That of course means we need to stop flying. It means heat pumps instead of gas boilers for home heating. And so on. Decarbonising electricity is arguably the easy bit.