The
secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting
started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small
manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. – Mark Twain
An earlier article in this series – Asking the Right Questions to Swiftly Achieve 100% Renewable Energy – showed what four right questions might look like for swiftly achieving 100% renewable energy.
The first of those questions — “What might achieving 100% renewable energy look like?” — might sound like a “right question” because it reveals its own answer:
Renewable energy supplied as a percentage of total energy consumed might look like a fraction that has a numerator of renewable energy supplied, and a denominator of total energy consumed:
“Achieving” 100% renewable energy might look like decision-makers adopting an energy option that increases the numerator and/or decreases the denominator of renewable energy supplied as a percentage of total energy consumed:
A “renewable energy option” might be thought of as an energy option that achieves 100% renewable energy by increasing the numerator and/or decreasing the denominator of renewable energy supplied as a percentage of total energy consumed.
Renewable generation options like rooftop photovoltaics (PV) are renewable energy options that achieve 100% renewable energy by increasing the numerator of renewable energy supplied as a percentage of total energy consumed.
Demand-side management (DSM) options like user-provided energy efficiency are renewable energy options that achieve 100% renewable energy by decreasing the denominator of renewable energy supplied as a percentage of total energy consumed.
Achieving 100% renewable energy, therefore, might look like decision-makers adopting a renewable energy option:
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To the extent that “achieving 100% renewable energy” looks like “adopting a renewable energy option”:
the rest of the “right questions” – in Asking the Right Questions to Swiftly Achieve 100% Renewable Energy — might be re-stated as follows:
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When decision-makers ask themselves a first right question – “What might achieving 100% renewable energy look like?” – they engage themselves in thinking about the pre-existing answer revealed by that right question.
By thinking about that pre-existing answer – which might look like decision-makers adopting a renewable energy option – decision-makers persuade themselves of that pre-existing answer.
By asking themselves that right question, decision-makers persuade themselves and come into consensus on that pre-existing answer, and they think it was their own idea.
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In the next article in this Reversing Global Warming series, I’ll show you what a decision for achieving 100% renewable energy might look like.
Thank you for reading this article. I’m grateful for your comments.
