Washington Post: The United Nations has set two huge energy-related goals for the coming century. The first is to bring electricity to the 1.3 billion people who still don`t have it. The second is to curtail fossil fuel use and keep global warming below 2°C.
Those are daunting goals. They`re also in somewhat awkward tension with each other. The first requires increasing the amount of energy the world uses, including fossil fuels. The second requires harnessing cleaner power sources, using energy more efficiently,...