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Renewable Nonsense

Post by Riddick » 05-02-2021 07:10 PM

This Barron’s story from a few days ago almost slipped by unnoticed:Hold on a moment: we’ve been told for quite a while wind and solar power are competitive with conventional electricity sources now—not at some far off future point. And yet this has been the history of wind & solar power since the late '70s: Large subsidies, favorable tax treatment, and purchase mandates for both—

So 40 years on we’re being told cost parity is still almost a decade away? This is starting to sound like bait & switch. Strangely, the Carbontracker report link in the article is now dead. Perhaps someone reviewed its claims more closely and spotted multiple large errors. Or someone realized the message lots of wind power is still more expensive than conventional energy is not politically correct.

Calculations of actual wind & solar costs are all over the map, and cost-competitive claims always omit some of the largest costs, among others the cost of thousands of miles of transmission lines, turbine & panel disposal once their brief useful lives are finished, and, most important, the natural gas plants supplying electricity 60% of the time in the case of turbines & up to 82% of the time in the case of panels. Unreliable energy is essentially useless energy, as Texans recently learned.

As always, the appropriate response to claims wind and solar energy are cost-competitive is, Great: then there is no problem with eliminating all mandates and subsidies. Somehow, that logical conclusion never seems to follow.

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Why Wind & Solar Energy Are Doomed to Failure

Post by Riddick » 10-21-2021 12:14 PM

Wind & solar energy are essentially obsolete technologies as well as environmental disasters. Regardless, liberals have concocted fantasies whereby all our electricity or perhaps our entire economy, will be powered by those fickle sources.

The fact is that, in order to reach “net zero” CO2 emissions through use of so called “green” energy, which is intermittent, unreliable, low-intensity at best, outrageously expensive, and dependent on vast natural resources that may not exist, at a minimum would require the greatest explosion of mining, manufacturing and transportation in world history.

A fundamental problem with wind and solar is as extremely low-intensity energy sources, an enormous amount of land would have to be devoted to panels and turbines. If we seriously tried to get all of our present electricity needs from those weak sources, 350,000 square miles–an area more than twice the size of California–would need to be dedicated to wind turbines and solar panels.

This just isn’t going to happen. It is rural America that bears the burden of many square miles of wind and solar installations. And it is a burden: Aside aesthetic issues, there is substantial medical evidence noise produced by turbines adversely affects human health. And, of course, wind turbines are fatal to wildlife. As a result of such concerns, hundreds of rural communities across America have risen up to oppose wind turbine developments. These efforts have largely been successful.

When “green” advocates tabulate costs, they generally don’t include the 1000s of miles of transmission lines required to bring electricity from rural areas stuck with “green” development to urban areas where the electricity is used. But such lines represent a huge economic and environmental issue: renewables conversion means adding enough high-voltage lines to circle the Earth about 10 times.

No problem! says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But any attempt to construct 240,000 more miles of high-voltage wires will, like turbines themselves, encounter local opposition that likely will make such an effort impossible. Germany undertook to mandate wind energy, but its mandates have fallen flat because of public opposition to specific wind projects. The same thing is happening in the U.S. Public opposition promises to bring the Green New Deal to a screeching halt.

Renewables are unreliable, are enviromental hazards, & produce relatively little energy. So why does the “green dream” persist? In part, because it is inflicted on kids from grade school on, but mostly because there is a great deal of money in it. “Green” energy makes a relative handful of people immensely wealthy, while impoverishing utility rate payers and taxpayers–that is to say, the rest of us.

This insanity will continue until voters wise up, or–more likely, until the laws of physics, along with land use and raw materials constraints, make it blindingly obvious that the “green dream” is just that. A nightmare. By that time, an astonishing amount of wealth will have been destroyed.

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Re: Renewable Nonsense

Post by Doka » 10-22-2021 10:10 AM

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This insanity will continue until voters wise up, or–more likely, until the laws of physics, along with land use and raw materials constraints, make it blindingly obvious that the “green dream” is just that. A nightmare. By that time, an astonishing amount of wealth will have been destroyed.

The "Wealth" being destroyed is in the Poor to Middle-Class. The people, as in Democrats , don't seem to have a grasp on re-ality and keep voting, for the "Evil Wizards Behind the Curtain" certainly Nothing For the benifit of their own existance.

After all , I didn't hear any out cry from them, When their "Demented Puppet President" on his 1st day got Rid of our "Energy INDEPENENCE" that had carefully been created by President Trump for "We the People" , they have voted for , are going to get the experience of "The Right to Freeze To Death" the seem to love their "Victimhood" and "hatred" more than "Life its Self". They seem to enjoy the road to destruction their on and taking the rest of us with them. Just how many lives and deaths have they become responsible for? I'll keep my Karma , Thank You.
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When The Wind Doesn't Blow

Post by Riddick » 01-15-2022 04:04 PM

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The futility of wind energy when the weather gets cold is well documented. Wind energy is sporadic and unpredictable & tends to disappear when it is needed the most, as when the mercury is at -20. Wind is flighty; sometimes it works, but often it doesn't. Is that how you want your light switches to operate?

The push to rely on “renewables” keeps running into the laws of physics. In the end, those laws will win but the carnage in the meantime will be terrible. We need to inform voters before the lavishly-funded “green” energy lobby destroys our electrical grid and our economy, at great profit to them but at ruinous loss to the rest of us. FULL STORY
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Re: Renewable Nonsense

Post by Doka » 01-16-2022 04:46 PM

We will have a New Energy Source. My hunch, it will be up and running, before it becomes very well known. Those left stuck with their millions in Solar and Wind, could be left eating Spam( if not too expensive) for quite awhile. :)
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Solar, Wind, Baked Beans & Spam

Post by Riddick » 01-16-2022 05:48 PM

Doka wrote: 01-16-2022 04:46 PM We will have a New Energy Source. My hunch, it will be up and running, before it becomes very well known. Those left stuck with their millions in Solar and Wind, could be left eating Spam( if not too expensive) for quite awhile. :)
As they don't like or want ANY Spam, watch the eco-extremists rail & wail if this new energy source doesn't meet their planet-saving de-growth demands - Any source that's cheap, reliable & plentiful will be met with righteous Woke fury

Destroying the world economy is key to the Great Reset and is non-negotiable.
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Re: Renewable Nonsense

Post by Doka » 01-16-2022 08:40 PM

They do have a " Higher Power" like it or not. Most of us do , and it does no good putting our hands over our ears and screaming real loud! :D
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Re: Renewable Nonsense

Post by Malaria_Kidd II » 01-16-2022 09:13 PM

Doka wrote: 01-16-2022 04:46 PM We will have a New Energy Source. My hunch, it will be up and running, before it becomes very well known. Those left stuck with their millions in Solar and Wind, could be left eating Spam( if not too expensive) for quite awhile. :)
Marked as read and thank you both! :)

One new energy source was for sure stolen and long lost to the betterment of all mankind! Nicola Tesla died alone on 7 January 1943, at the age of 86, in Room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel, New York City, New York. :(

Only the old Deep State knows where his manuscripts and boxes full of papers are stashed inside that mega warehouse that also contains the elusive Ark of the Covenant straight from the last page in Ian MacGregors book! :wink:

And we three know what party was in power during 1943! :P


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Don't Bet On Batteries

Post by Riddick » 01-22-2022 12:15 AM

Wind and solar energy are notoriously unreliable sources of electricity, with the best wind turbines producing electricity a little over 40 percent of the time, and solar panels faring even worse.

Can anything save wind & solar from irrelevance? Ask a liberal that question & the answer will be: batteries! Batteries that will store electricity when wind turbines & solar panels actually work, and discharge that electricity the rest of the time.

Do batteries approaching such a scale actually exist? Well, no. It’s a concept. Batteries are incredibly expensive compared with the power that can be generated by reliable energy sources–nuclear, coal, natural gas and hydropower.

How does the total quantity of existing battery storage compare with an industrial society’s need for power? Bjorn Lomborg does the math; the result is pathetic.

Cranking up the world’s battery capacity with vast mining projects to acquire the necessary lithium and other minerals would entail massive environmental degradation along with driving up the price of those materials.

Also, one that would be mostly under the control of the Red Chinese–they are not major players in fossil fuels, but utterly dominate “green” energy. But for liberals, that is probably a feature rather than a bug. If you think that America deserves to be destroyed, this is a quick way to do it.

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WaPost Blasted Online For Story Claiming Wind & Solar Would Solve Blackouts

Post by Riddick » 03-02-2022 01:53 PM

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