The Lie of Cheap Renewable Energy

The Sun may be setting on renewable energy in the US.
Starting To Notice That The Energy Transition Is Not Happening
March 20, 2024/ Francis Menton

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  Supposedly, there is a big energy transition going on. Throughout the West, countries have made ambitious pledges to reduce “greenhouse gas” emissions by specific percentages and by specific dates.
  
  
• Many such pledges were notably made in the Paris Climate Agreement of 2016. Some countries — for example, the U.S. and UK — have even gone beyond the Paris Agreement and made still more ambitious pledges in the years since then. But is any of it real?
  

• No, none of it is real. The failure to make the progress that would be necessary to achieve the alleged pledges and mandates is obvious and easily tracked. But a code of silence has enveloped the progressive media, commanding that no one is allowed to notice.
  
  
• A small crack in the wall of silence suddenly happened in the New York Times on March 14.
  

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Eventually failure can't be ignored.

Officialdom Responds To Doubts That A Renewables-Based Electricity System Will Work
March 24, 2024/ Francis Menton

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  The single biggest problem with the Left’s “climate” agenda is that the proposed response to the alleged crisis — replacement of fossil fuels in the energy system with intermittent wind-and-sun-based electricity generation — is not going to work. This is obvious to anyone who considers the subject seriously for any amount of time.
  
  
• Yet any mention of this issue has been almost completely banished from the mainstream media, from academia, from government, and from social media. It remains to a few lonely voices (such as, here in New York, myself, Roger Caiazza, and Ken Girardin of the Empire Center) to keep the subject in the public consciousness.
  
  
• As small and lonely as our voices may be, somehow we must be getting under their skin. We know that because increasingly officialdom feels a need to respond publicly to our criticisms.
  
  
• But how can they give a plausible response, given that we are absolutely right and a wind-and-sun-based electricity system is never going to work?
  
  
• Easy! — Just treat the public like morons.
  

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Net Zero is a wasting disease.
The Green Energy Mess That Nobody Will Admit to
by Ben Pile
Putting green political ambitions before any other practical consideration has made us poorer, and is going to create a problem far worse than climate change. . . . .

 

Sorry, but everybody does. How manys windows are installed or cats are bought per year in the USA alone?

 

Nonsense. Windows and pets are (and have always been) part of normal life.

 

And so are (and have always been) mills.

 

Nothing heretofore normal about uncounted square miles of turbines. And btw, I'm not necessarily opposed, I just insist that we understand the costs.

 

Bill McKibben has a problem. He caused it.
Bill McKibben: Is the Fight Against Climate Change Losing Momentum?
Eric Worrall
McKibben still doesn’t get it: Greens are entirely to blame for Net Zero momentum. . . .

 

Do youn know anything cheaper?

 

Betting they come up with nuclear lols! Nuclear may get cheaper after paying off the initial build but that initial build is horrendously expensive

 

And they'll forget the costs for storaging radioactive wastes.

 

Financially or environmentally? And wind power advocates always exclude the cost of baseload back-up.

 

The awful truth is finally sinking in.
Renewable Energy Gap Characterization
Roger Caiazza
At some point, New York State is going to have to confront the fact that the naïve implementation plan based on rhetoric and not facts must be changed. Hopefully, the…

 

In New York the madness continues.

Illustrating The Absurdity Of New York's Energy Transition
April 12, 2024/ Francis Menton

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  By its 2019 Climate Act, New York has officially embarked on a great energy transition to Net Zero by 2050, with statutorily-dictated interim mandates along the way. The first of those mandates is 70% “emissions-free” electricity by 2030, only 6 years from now.
  
  
• This is far and away the biggest government-directed project that the State of New York has ever undertaken. However, to date, relative to this project there exists no environmental impact statement, no feasibility study, no prototype, and no demonstration project to show how this can be done, let alone any detailed cost analysis to show how much it will cost.
  
  
• Implementing the enforced energy transition is the responsibility of an alphabet soup of state agencies that makes the federal labyrinth of bureaucracies look simple and rational by comparison.
  

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