IEA
Michaux's storage assumptions overstated by 10–400×. Powering Canada Strong uses the IEA's baseline electricity demand forecast as a 'doubling target' and operationalises it through pre-existing Trudeau-era tax credits, financing entities and programs..
Michaux's storage assumptions overstated by 10–400×
Powering Canada Strong uses the IEA's baseline electricity demand forecast as a 'doubling target' and operationalises it through pre-existing Trudeau-era tax credits, financing entities and programs.
70 Mt of oil/gas methane emissions annually equals ~2.1 GtCO₂-eq
CANOPTICON Second-Pass Stress-Test: The Net-Zero / Carbon-Fi
As of 2024–2025, the IEA reports that 27 DAC plants are commissioned globally with a combined operational removal capacity of approximately 11,000 tonnes of CO₂ per year.
Title and Executive Summary
2024 energy demand +2.2%
IEA estimates ~75% of oil/gas methane emissions technically abatable
The Net-Zero / Carbon-Credit / Climate-Finance Architecture:
Direct Air Capture costs $340–$540 per tonne CO₂ currently
The Net-Zero / Carbon-Credit / Climate-Finance Architecture:
These are things people say about IEA that aren't settled fact — each one attributed to who's actually claiming it, so a claim never quietly passes as established just because it showed up in a document. Weigh it yourself.
"the IEA assumptions are more optimistic than what domain experts expect"
"oil-and-gas methane abatement is "low-hanging fruit""
"the net-zero architecture's emissions arithmetic is load-bearing on technologies that do not yet work at scale"