The West’s Climate Policies Invite Third World Conditions

realclearenergy.org ^ | 2/16/2022 | Vijay Jayaraj

[rktman]

When was the last time you were stuck in an elevator due to a power blackout? Or patients at your local hospital were put at risk for the same reason?

These are very common occurrences in the energy impoverished Third World. And they could become a reality for many in the West if deluded leaders there continue down the path of “green-energy” decarbonization.

A rare inconvenience usually associated with bad weather in the West, power blackouts are everyday events in the East. In my southern India hometown, I recently had to climb the stairs of a multi-story apartment not once but many times for lack of electricity.

I am among the lucky to live in a building that provides sufficient power backup to allow me to work for at least three hours during outages. However, others do not have backup and spend nights in complete darkness for hours at a stretch. Many small-scale industries suffer due to intermittent electricity supply — losing profit and sometimes damaging machinery.

[rktman]

Mrs rktman visited Armenia shortly after the USSR fell apart and has many tales of lack of power during her stay. Yeah, bring on the solar and wind turbines.

[Skwor]

Not invite, require. Once again the punditry are far to nice in their analysis of the fully intended results.

[Rurudyne]

I think that’s the intention. Watermelon Reds are about tearing down society for their fetid Revolution just like all other Marxist.

[rlmorel]

Socialist and third world countries are the worst examples of environmental messes.

The best thing for the environment are strong, capitalist-fueled economies where these things can be handled correctly.

Otherwise, you just get 55 gallon drums full of toxins dumped into random lakes or rivers in the middle of the night.

[Leaning Right]

The problem will be more than just third-world type blackouts. We will lose what little industry we have left. After all, you can’t run a steel mill on solar panels.

We lose. China wins. Again.

[brownsfan]

The under 40 crowd is thoroughly indoctrinated on this point. They are convinced that human caused climate change is an existential threat and will accept nearly anything in the name of fighting climate change.

Expect things to get much, much worse in America.

[hinckley buzzard]

Nor an aluminum plant, as Germany has found to their dismay this last fall and winter.

[rockvillem]

Exactly - turning us into a third-world country is a feature, not a bug. It’s what they want.

[Wurlitzer]

Amazing how well the MSM has used “Lies By Omission” to hide the latest, in depth study, which has shown corn based Ethanol in our fuel, actually increases CO2 emissions by 25-35% when the entire production cycle from planting, harvesting, processing, burning Ethanol are included.

At total blackout of this information as it is one of the very few studies not done by the Corn Industry.

[rktman]

What? You don’t like mud/thatch huts and dung fire smoke wafting through the village?

[Tell It Right]

I hear every criticism against the communist leaders in the west pretending to be socialist and control us through their "green" energy policies and I agree with you wholeheartedly.

IMHO, the best remedy is to take matters into your own hands. I have a fairly large solar array on my roof precisely because the Dims in our country are jacking up energy costs and, IMHO, using that as part of how they control us. If you own your house and are in good conditions for solar (i.e. live in the south), then get a large solar system like I did. Mine will pay for itself in about 10-11 years, and that assumes only a reasonable 3% inflation rate on electricity costs (obviously it has gone up a lot more lately, with the Dims promising even more pain).

Or keep complaining and saying "somebody outta do something" about the Dims' energy policies.

[JoJo354]

How much did it cost you? How much will new batteries cost when they go bad? how about the solar panels themselves? And they do go bad over time. It’s just like electric cars...oohhhh they are so much better for the climate except they do use alot of energy just charging up. I don’t have the answers but solar can be very expensive initially which most people can’t afford. It’s just like the electric cars that most folks can’t afford.

[Tell It Right]

I used a HELOC to pay for almost the entire cost of the solar system and converting my two natural gas appliances to electric. Right now the savings each month on my utility bills are almost, but not quite, paying the HELOC payment. As the HELOC balance is slowly paid down, the payments will go down too, all while my savings slowly increase each year (again assuming a 3% inflation rate in electricity and natural gas costs -- avoiding that means saving more).

My batteries have a 19-year warranty guaranteeing a gradual decline in throughput to 50% at the end of the warranty. That's part of the math on it paying for itself. The same with my solar panels having a 25-year warranty declining to 70% efficient at the end of the warranty (slowly losing 30% along the 25-year span).

Once I realized that a solar system's decline in throughput is less per year than energy costs inflate each year, that was when the math worked in my favor. Basically I have warranties on only a slow decline in my solar system. We have no warranties that energy costs will go up only slowly -- quite the opposite. The Dims promise to keep jacking up energy costs to force us to repent from our cow farting sins.

[seowulf]

I think that’s the intention. Watermelon Reds are about tearing down society for their fetid Revolution just like all other Marxist.

I think this description of Nihilism perfectly explains every action of leftists today. They are the modern Nihilists and they really don't care about anything they say they do: the poor, immigrants, climate change, LGBTQADFTGJ..., etc. They simply want destruction.

Nihilism is a philosophy, or family of views within philosophy, that rejects general or fundamental aspects of human existence, such as objective truth, knowledge, morality, values or meaning. Different nihilist positions hold variously that human values are baseless, that life is meaningless, that knowledge is impossible, or that some set of entities do not exist or are meaningless or pointless.

[Paal Gulli]

This goes to The Left's penchant for redefining long-accepted scientific terms in their effort to twist their meaning to their purposes. Take, for instance, "organic" food production.

All food is organic (as defined by Jöns Jacob Berzelius in 1806), else there could be no nourishment derived from it.

Likewise, all energy is renewable because (in accordance with the First Law of Thermodynamics in a Closed Reacting System) energy can be neither created nor destroyed, only caused to change forms.

The Watermelon's/Socialist's general ignorance always gives them away. And their wackadoodle concept of what makes for "renewable" energy is guaranteed to force us to revert to a 19th-Century lifestyle.

[JoJo354]

Our home and property is paid for. The HELOC would have us get a loan on our house which we wouldn’t do since we are on limited income. We have savings but want to save that for when we can’t take care of the property ourselves and/or have to go to a care home. Also you never know what the government will do in the next few years. It’s a heck of a situation. Would love a windmill for our pump also (we get wind a lot here and a lot of dust from the farms around us when the wind gets really frisky.