From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

h/t Ian Magness

Silly Jilly is back!!!

The world used clean power sources to meet more than 40% of its electricity demand last year for the first time since the 1940s, figures show.

A report by the energy thinktank Ember said the milestone was powered by a boom in solar power capacity, which has doubled in the last three years.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/08/clean-energy-powered-40-of-global-electricity-in-2024-report-finds

However, dig into the small print, and you discover things are not quite as rosy as Silly Jilly pretends.

That wonderful solar power only supplied 7% last year, with another 8% from wind. By far the biggest contributor is hydro power, at 15%, which has been steadily turning out similar amounts of electricity for decades.

The rest of the claimed 40% comes from nuclear and tree burners, neither of which could remotely be described as “clean” – certainly not amongst Jilly’s bien pensant circle!

In reality of course, electricity is only a minor part of the world’s energy mix, so her figures become even less impressive.