Well, the ones pushing this niche energy source got two things: a heads up to get their relatives to invest in CCP tech, kickbacks to fund campaigns.
Only $$.
Ditto for windmills.
When one considers the cash flow through campaign contributions, sweetheart investment deals and money laundering through allied non-profits and NGOs, it’s easy to see why our so-called representatives don’t see it as a failure.
Because wasting energy is VERY profitable for investors in the energy business that buy government bonds at the artificially low interest rates they set.
Control. It’s what’s for public policy.
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Just a thought. They knew they were wrong but did not care because it was to their or their cronies advantage $$$$ to push for it.
I honestly dont know about about energy or energy storage, but it seems like it would be fairly easy to make something extemely heavy that was lifted thoughout the day by solar and that fell and produced energy at night.
Renewable energy is a religion. Religion requires faith. Turns out renewable energy is a false religion. The more wrong someone is, the harder they will cling to their belief.
They weren’t ‘wrong’, they lied.
So much in this article is nonsense. But especially:
‘Who doesn’t want development of solar energy? Simple: China and the Arab nations.”
China makes almost all of our solar panels and the electronics that go with them. At least some of the electronics our braindead green-agenda leaders have subsidized and sourced from China frequently “call home” to China.
China would love for us to become even more dependent on them and our grid even more susceptible to their hacking.
IMHO, no electronics, solar panels, transformers, or any other portion of our electric grid or our pipeline grid should be sourced from China.
You can’t run an industrial economy on Hopes and Wishes. Solar & Wind power are intermittant and backup batteries are prone to overheating and catching fire — frequently.
Can this be overcome with technology on the current drawing boards? Yes, but in what time frame? With politicians picking winners & losers on the next technology, and any of us be certain that the correct selection will be made?
*bump for later*
There’s a reason why the vast majority of our congress-critters are so science illiterate: politics are the only area in which their limited ability to grasp anything complex greatly limits their job options. (And suprisingly, they all seem to gain great wealth...wonder how that happens, oh simpleton Bernie Sanders?)
Are you kidding? It's a scam. It's a con. It's an excuse to get money out of the taxpayers and to sell legal influence for cash.
They're not wrong they're LYING.
Without electricity our manufacturing plants couldn’t operate, if the plants can produce tanks, planes, ships and arms we can’t win a war. But guess who can?
If combined?
Why not compare to coal PLUS nuclear combined?
Maybe because coal PLUS nuclear would be #1 or #2?
By the way, coal and nuclear are basically illegal in half the states in the USA.
In the other half, building new coal and nuclear generation is financially crushed by environmental costs.
Final note...
The author forgot to mention that solar and wind power do not produce electricity 24-7.
Wind and solar must be backed up by carbon or nuclear energy sources, 24-7.
They’re not wrong, it’s working perfectly for the giant grift that it is.
How could the government be so wrong, year after year, decade after decade about renewable energy?
Then insiders are making $$$$$$ at taxpayers expense.
Because it was all a scam to line a few people’s pockets at taxpayer expense, is how.
“Who doesn’t want development of solar energy? Simple: China”
This author might wanna check tape....
China’s cumulative installed solar power capacity surpassed 1,080 gigawatts (GW) by the end of May 2025, making it the first country to exceed 1 terawatt (TW) and account for roughly half of the global total.
That’s three Texas while grid’s worth of new capacity installed in 6 months.
[China installed 212 gigawatts of solar capacity in the first six months of the year, more than America’s entire capacity of 178 gigawatts as of the end of 2024,]
[As of April 2025, China’s cumulative installed wind energy capacity was over 561 GW, with 86,892 MW of new capacity added in 2024 alone]
That’s another Texas worth of just wind power installed just this year.
To put it in perspective...
The U.S. total installed electric power generation capacity was approximately 1,250 gigawatts (GW) as of 2024.
Remember china don’t do climate change they are adding huge amounts of energy harvesting machines that each one has a EROI of 40 or more to one.
Wind turbines pay off all their energy to mine the resources need to make them, install them and dispose of them in 6 months.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/05/240516122608.htm
[The study reviewed current literature on wind farms, as well as using real construction data to take into account everything from the manufacturing of individual turbine parts, to transporting them into place, to decommissioning the entire wind farm]
[The test found that Maxeon 3 solar panels had an energy payback period ranging from 0.13 to 0.45 years for ground mounted module, and 0.27 to 0.92 years for a residential rooftop system. For ground mounted panels, the energy payback period can be as little as 47.5 days. ]
China is kicking butts and taking names with energy harvesting machines nothing more and they are run by engineers who can do Fing math.
Actual science, data and facts.