One more liberal myth blows up in their faces
Well, the glib answer is it’s too early to tell.
The real answer is just the name ‘renewable energy’ is a con. The law of thermodynamics tells us that no matter what, it’s going to cost you somewhere, and there will be waste in the form of heat, and as noted in the past, the mere construction of batteries, power conversion equipment are expensive and energy intensive themselves.
We are entering the phase of mass robotification. Very early mind you, but I can’t envision how much acceleration is behind that technology. Asteroid mining and orbital energy collectors have a lot of conceptual pressure, meaning at some point there will be breakout technology. It may be 10 years or 100 years but it will happen if we haven’t destroyed ourselves beforehand or neutered ourselves into a dead end society with socialism/communism. That breakthrough that propels us forward will undoubtedly be in energy generation/collecting.
I give them this much credit - unlike most environazis they were honest enough to acknowledge the truth - even if it took 4 years.
Now I wonder how long it will take for them to realize that they were tackling a non-existing problem.
“One more liberal myth blows up in their faces.”
No, not really. Liberal leaders have always known, FULL WELL, that these schemes cannot compete against convention energy.
But their goal was never to REPLACE conventional energy, it was to SHUT DOWN conventional energy. They were pushing this crap in the 1970s, when solar costs were at least 10 times what they are now. Even the White House, in Jimmy Carter’s days couldn’t afford solar power, they ended up putting on solar water heaters instead.
But solar and wind did get a lot cheaper than before, much cheaper.. Now the left could provide an ‘alternative’ to conventional that does pass the giggle test, rather than telling everyone to shut off their air conditioners and heaters, and move back into caves.
But is still way too overpriced to be practical and doesn’t do jack for the carbon footprint. But it buys them time...the time they need to dismantle coal, in particular, and the plan has been working very well for them.
It looks here that Google had REAL ENGINEERS, with legitimate leftist credentials, working on it and that blew their cover. This will be fun to watch.
I’m surprised that google scientist would say this.
However, this might lead them to investigate msr lftr thorium reactors.