Posted on 10/14/2020 10:36:06 AM PDT by rktman
Renewable energy is cripplingly expensive, hopelessly unreliable, massacres wildlife, destroys landscapes, destabilises the grid, harms indigenous peoples, and causes climate change. But apart from that it’s great, says a meticulous review published in the scientific journal Energies by a team of Irish and U.S.-based researchers.
Actually, the part about renewable energy being ‘great’ is a joke but the rest is true. The scholarly review – Energy and Climate Policy – An Evaluation of Climate Change Expenditure 2011-2018 – is probably the most thorough meta-analysis published on the so-called ‘clean energy’ sector. Its conclusion, though neutrally expressed, could scarcely be more damning:
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
“How DARE you!” You mean ol’ Dream Stealer! :)
I had a conversation with T.Boone Pickens decades ago. He admitted that his wind farms were a hair-brained scheme because those huge rotors decimate bird populations.
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This is known for years! I have attended a solar cell conference around 1995. All the world experts on solar cells admitted of the book exactly that - solar cells are pretty damaging to environment and provide negative of minuscule net energy.
Funny fact - Solar cells energy is also most deadly. Quite a lot of people fell and killed themselves installing and servicing solar cells. Comparing to the amount of energy delivered, solar cell energy is really bloody, paid for by many lives.
I have run and re-run the numbers for 35 years. It has always been a con job and a fools errand. But once this type of stupidity takes hold, there is nothing you can do to open the eyes of the cool aid drinkers.
Mark Twain: “No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot(s).” I added the (s).
German study,
Solar cells are net sink of energy!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421516301379
As with most democRAT creepozoid ideas, ‘solar’ can only ‘succeed’ with other people’s money. In Woodland, Kalifornia, there were 2 local businesses that thrived, especially when there were 2 (Federal & State) subsidies. Both companies touted the incredible ‘tax breaks’ (other people’s money) available. Once those tax breaks ceased, the businesses folded. The greatest example I can find of stored solar power is... Coal! The Sun provided that energy that ended up in the ground, waiting for us to use.
Energy Return on Energy Invested - the liberal stuff doesn’t add up...
Two years ago, I drove through White County, Indiana. The whole county is full of windmills, hundreds of windmills. I sure hope migrating birds steer clear of that area.
They'll try to fly across it, but in vane.
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