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:

Renewable Energy Supplied as Percentage of Total Energy Consumed
Figure 1: Renewable Energy Supplied as Percentage 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:

Achieving 100% Renewable Energy Equals increasing numerator of Renewable Energy Supplied or Decreasing Denominator of Total Energy Consumed
Figure 2: Achieving 100% Renewable Energy

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:

Achieving 100% Renewable Energy equals Adopting a Renewable Energy Option
Figure 3: Adopting a Renewable Energy Option

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To the extent that “achieving 100% renewable energy” looks like “adopting a renewable energy option”:

A Right Question and a Pre-existing Answer What might achieving 100% renewable energy look like
Table 1: A Right Question and a Pre-existing Answer

the rest of the “right questions” – in Asking the Right Questions to Swiftly Achieve 100% Renewable Energymight be re-stated as follows:

Re-stated Right Questions to Swiftly Achieve 100% Renewable Energy
Table 2: Re-stated Right Questions

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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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Wondering what a decision for achieving 100% renewable energy might look like?

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Got questions about how you can swiftly achieve 100% renewable energy?  About how you can reverse global warming?  If you do, I hope that you will send me a message at extraordinary@erikkvam.com.

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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.


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