The left's assertions about alternative energy sources are not factually based? Color me shocked.
The Green New Deal ideology always did seem more like a set of religious like beliefs rather than anything based in reality or facts.
A friend gave me a book in 2008,
Energy Keepers Energy Killers The New Civil Rights Battle by Roy Innis. It's an analysis of energy sources and efficiency and what the future looks like. I refer back to this book often and see it had the information pretty on point back then. When the promises of wind and solar powering our energy needs come up almost daily and the critics provide new data and studies that refute the climate change alarmist claims that wind and solar can replace fossil fuels, I find it's all political and we've known it's not going to work, ever.
This piece by Mark Mills just shows again the farce that Wind/Solar is the answer to the global energy needs. It cannot realistically provide the energy needed and even if it could the storage components would cover the earth with unsightly batteries, windmills and solar panels.
Here's just a few examples of why this will never work.
1. Hydrocarbons supply over 80 percent of world energy: If all that were in the form of oil, the barrels would line up from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles, and that entire line would grow by the height of the Washington Monument every week.
2. The small two-percentage-point decline in the hydrocarbon share of world energy use entailed over $2 trillion in cumulative global spending on alternatives over that period; solar and wind today supply less than two percent of the global energy.
4. A 100x growth in the number of electric vehicles to 400 million on the roads by 2040 would displace five percent of global oil demand.
6. Replacing U.S. hydrocarbon-based electric generation over the next 30 years would require a construction program building out the grid at a rate 14-fold greater than any time in history.
12. For security and reliability, an average of two months of national demand for hydrocarbons are in storage at any time. Today, barely two
hours of national electricity demand can be stored in all utility-scale batteries plus all batteries in one million electric cars in America.
17. Over a 30-year period, $1 million worth of utility-scale solar or wind produces 40 million and 55 million kWh respectively: $1 million worth of shale well produces enough natural gas to generate 300 million kWh over 30 years.
24. Wind and solar machines produce energy an average of 25 percent–30 percent of the time, and only when nature permits. Conventional power plants can operate nearly continuously and are available when needed.
34. About 60 pounds of batteries are needed to store the energy equivalent of one pound of hydrocarbons.