The problem is that the green energy is not about building something workable. It is about collapsing society into a UN Agenda 2030 subsistence “utopia”.
Our electrical systems are setup to use power on demand.
Wind and solar do not provide power on demand. They provide intermittent power when the wind blows or the sun shines.
Therefore, wind and solar do not work with our current electrical systems.
Energy storage is not feasible due to the capacity required to “smooth out” the fluctuations in generation from wind/solar.
Energy storage also adds immense cost, making wind/solar even more expensive and impractical.
But the further down the road they go with wind/solar and taking coal, oil and nuclear plants offline, the closer we get to a point of no return, meaning an economic collapse will occur with massive power shortages that result in product shortages, rationing and mass death.
Thanks to the recent elections, there is no changing course now.
Of course this “green new deal” energy solution cannot possible work. The physics of it are absurd. But at least the motives behind this attempt are noble. Right? We must save the world from the impending doom of Global Warming. But, then, that is a complete and utter hoax. Always has been. So it looks like you are correct. There is a dark agenda behind this nonsense.
That’s basically about the only thing that renewables might be good at, generating energy to be stored until it is needed.
Here's one apparent failure - Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project.
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Leftists don’t run the math because their minds work “backwards”. They start with a conclusion, and that’s it . No analysis. No proof. No plan to achieve a goal.
“All cars to be electric by 2035”. That’s it. That’s their “plan”. How? Can it be done? What is the impact of the decision? They don’t care. It’s as if a statement can will something into existence.
I thought it was some kind of Special Paper that miraculously stored energy in the Paper. Like a flat battery. One side +Positive and the other -Negative. 1 volt DC per sheet and just stack it up to get the desired voltage.
I guess maybe I should go back to sleep...
And here I was all ready to whip out the Visa Card and logon to Office Depot or Maxx...🤪
Great, and important, article. Thanks for posting it.
Somehow this reminds me of the collectivization of agriculture in Soviet Russia. Any analysis showed that the system would not work. Those who pointed out the failure were either sent to the gulags or shot. In the end people starved.
The solar, wind and storage schemes cannot possibly provide reliable energy let alone power any modern economy. The added strain on the grid of massive numbers of EVs will only compound the problem. The result will be massive blackouts, people freezing in their homes, businesses shutdown and even the water supply compromised. Imagine the recent Texas blackout disaster, but covering half the country. Of course those who point out this folly are deemed climate deniers, dupes of the oil companies or accused of wanting to despoil the earth.
In addition to the fact that this grid back up system, described in the article as woefully inadequate in every case cited, simply cannot work because it lacks the capacity, there is no discussion of the cost or environmental impact of using so much lithium in order to build the back up capacity. Lithium mining is highly toxic, and there probably isn’t enough lithium available at a reasonable cost, and certainly not in the timeframe being discussed (a couple of decades), to accomplish this goal, even if there was a (somewhat) sensible plan to accomplish it. Add to that the fact that a substantial amount of the lithium currently available is in China war in Afghanistan, which is effectively control by China. What a great plan!
We are dealing with one of two possibilities: the first is that the people pushing this agenda at the very top know that it will not work, and that is their goal. They want to take down the grid, they want to induce mass starvation across the world to vastly reduce the population, they want the chaos, and all that it brings. The second possibility is that everyone on the Leftis simply a five-year-old child in an adult body. They are in capable of seriously analyzing the first-, second- or third-order effects of what their proposed utopian policies will bring to the world. While I am a big believer in the idea of stupidity being the cause of most problems in the world, the stupidity here would have to be so vast, so monumental and universal as to be almost impossible (even for humanity which, as a whole, has never impressed me as being too bright). Therefore, I am going with Door #1, that this is a planned take down of most of civilization had a good part of the planet’s population. The degree of sheer evil necessary to contemplate such a plan, let alone to implement it, makes characters like Hitler, Stalin and Mao look like some kids playing in a sand box in comparison.
Thanks for posting. My summary: it’s literally nearly impossible to run any country on green energy.... wind/solar etc. We all know our hydropower dams are slowly being taken out my environmentalism. We need to change our current course and invest in nuclear fusion and fission. This author also has an article on how hydrogen is not a viable choice either.