The world seems to be entering a new era, and one of the most important questions is what that will mean for energy. A brief summary: clean sources of energy are more abundant and cheaper than ever before. The number one clean-energy superpower (and, confusingly, also the largest carbon emitter) is China. However, the US president-elect is a climate denier who loves fossil fuels and is promising an anti-China trade war. To complicate that, he has adopted as his chief sidekick the world’s first clean-energy oligarch, Elon Musk. Given these ingredients, what’s the future for energy?
世界似乎正在進入一個新時代，最重要的問題之一是：這對能源意味著什么？簡短的答案就是：清潔能源比以往任何時候都更加豐富和便宜。頭號清潔能源超級大國（令人困惑的是，這也是最大的碳排放國）是中國。然而，美國候任總統否認氣候變化、熱愛化石燃料，并承諾將發動一場對華貿易戰。讓情況更復雜的是，世界頭號清潔能源寡頭埃隆?馬斯克(Elon Musk)是他身邊最大的紅人。考慮到所有這些因素，能源的未來會怎樣？