On Saturday March 2nd Northern California was hit by a major blizzard in its Sierra Nevada Mountain Range with 12 feet of snow and winds of 190 miles per hour. But during the following week America was hit with a blizzard of a different kind: a flurry of pro-renewable energy news reports which totally distorted the facts. The distortion of the truth has been going on for at least 15 years. In 2009 Scientific American published an article (citing a Stanford study) which predicted that renewables could become 100% of the world’s energy needs by 2030.
In March of 2021 Carbon Tracker posted a report errantly asserting that renewable energy was capable of meeting energy demand 100 times over. Two years later the World Economic Forum jumped on the bandwagon with a study that mistakenly claimed that we have “reached peak fossil fuels” and that we are now entering a “new era for power”. Yet the WEF’s own charts show that worldwide electricity production (WEF apparently forgot about the energy needs of the global transportation sector) in 2022 was less than 13%. The WEF also aberrantly suggested that global CO2 emissions might start to decline in the near future.
Making matters even worse, U.S. President Joe Biden touted renewable energy in his March 7th 2024 State of the Union speech, and two days later the Washington Post printed a story about the efforts by Dartmouth University to try and find some way to bring solar power to northern Greenland where the sun does not shine for six months every year: solar power for six months and fossil fuel power when darkness shrouds the landscape.
Because of this never ending deluge of renewables propaganda, most American progressives dutifully believe that humanity can obtain all of its energy needs from renewables almost for free. But energy has never been unchained from cost. And although the cost of renewables have been declining, existing fossil fuel (including coal and nuclear) sources remain the cheapest sources of energy. That is true both for electrical generation and transportation – not least because the Sun does not always shine and the wind does not always blow, making these intermittent sources of energy unreliable, as Germany discovered last winter.
Political scientist Roger Pielke, Jr. has stated: “It is quite intuitive for people to understand that there is a lot of power in solar energy. We feel the wind. The idea that you can get something for nothing, people find enormously appealing.” But the Sun does not shine at night and the wind blows strongest at night in the winter when the electricity that it produces is not needed. Simply put, renewables are intermittent and they are far less concentrated than fossil fuels are.
In America, different states are following varied energy paths, providing us with an invaluable 50-part experiment. California is the most committed jurisdiction to the adoption of renewable energy and its citizens are being hit hard in their wallets. Take the U.S. West Coast as a comparison. Consumers in Washington state on average pay 11 cents per kilowatt-hour for the electricity they use. In Oregon, the average household pays 13 cents per kilowatt-hour used. Now look at California where people must endure an average cost of electricity of 30 cents per kilowatt-hour and they suffer from rolling blackouts and brownouts. The cost of their electricity has risen three times faster than the rest of the nation. Even California Governor, Gavin Newsom, has admitted that “we failed to predict and plan”. California’s recent spate of wildfires has been attributed by some to the state’s overloaded power grid.
The ‘lifting cost‘ of a land-based barrel of oil in the U.S. is under $40 for existing wells and about $60 for new wells. A recent article in the Harvard Business Review asserted that wind energy is now competitive with the cheapest fossil fuels even without Government subsidies – but this analysis did not consider the cost for each electric utility to keep a ‘spinning reserve‘ that burns natural gas as back-up in order to maintain grid integrity.
An article in One Finite Planet put its finger on the nub of the problem. “Solar and wind have proven to be successful partial cost-effective substitutes for fossil fuels, but fossil fuels are stored energy, and solar and wind are not.”
Richard Burcik is the author of two short books, The DNA Lottery and Anatomy of a Lie.
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I predict the WHO will become a completely irrelevant talking shop. Just like the UN. Populated by people who love to look important and busy but who do absolutely nothing. And the general folk will be even less aware of their existence than they are today.
But we must keep a weather eye open.
As my post makes clear M A k I am at the other end of the spectrum on this. I do hope you are correct.
I think the cat’s out the bag, hux. They need to find new vehicles for their corruption.
I fear that I agree with you.
Thank you.
I read this to the following point:
as the world faced the outcomes of European fascism and the similar approaches widely imposed through colonialist regimes.
and hereby impolitely ask the author to pack up his things and go. Present-day colonial empires, that is, large, multi-ethnic states are Russia (nobody ever even suggested the Russians should decolonise Asia), India (a superstate of ultimatively British conception encompassing what used to be a lot of independent principalities settled by people speaking different languages), the USA and – the oldest of them all – China. Move there and decolonize that, decolonizer, before demanding that anyone listens to your prattle.
As to the WHO, simpy abolishing it would neatly solve any global problems its existence tends to cause.
The Pandemic Preparedness Treaty (PPT) and revised International Health Regulations (IHR) are so far removed from public health as to be beyond a joke. The blatant reality is that these so-called legal instruments are the first steps in transferring national sovereignties to a one world government and the plebs be damned.
In this country people still moan about the lemming-like rush for annihilation currently pursued by the fake tory party but fail to understand that the establishment have already sold out to the Davos Deviants. As far as our establishment is concerned this jaunt is fait accomplis. And the same applies across all Western nations. And once these “legally binding” instruments are up and running everything will be fair game. Theft? Grand larceny? We haven’t seen the half of it.
Think you have money in the bank? One day we will all wake up and find our money has disappeared.
Own a property? Thought you did. Off to the fifteen minute city.
Personal transport and travel – ancient history. All the memories commence with … ‘ I remember when…’
“Vaccines?” Oh yes indeed but very life limiting. Slowly poisoned and repeatedly from birth until we reach Soylent Green. And Billy’s next brew is already prepared with a release date post May 2024. The new “
vaccine” poison factories are built and raring to go if not already in production mode. Get ready for more ‘safe and effective’ and ‘nobody is safe until everyone is safe.’ Unfortunately, I suspect the new release will probably have some interplay with those already jabbed and as a group this lot will probably be terminal with their mortality numbers providing much of the propoganda.If Billy’s new release doesn’t get you then the starvation that will kick in once the farms and farmers have been sequestered surely will.
The horrors waiting to be unleashed are frankly beyond imagination.
Iain Davis has some brilliant essays on all this which he neatly summarises as “The Theft of the Commons.”
Nothing in either the PPT or the IHR has any semblance of truth and every word is written such that it can be abused. These fake “agreements” are about genocide and enslavement of the unfortunate survivors.
Hell on earth in the wings.
Sadly, I think you are correct.
Thank you.
Every time I hear or read about these treatise I get a knot in my stomach.
The United Nations Organisation is rotten to the core and is a very real threat to national sovereignty and democracy. Burn it down.
This is the Biggest Topic on the Horizon & the fact it has only a few comments on here shows how confusingly well packaged the WHO has made it ! They will repeat covid asap complete with mandates once this Treaty that’s not really a treaty gets the ok !!!…
It’s terrifying that there are so few comments. Are people just ignoring it or what, burying their heads in the sand?
I suspect the lack of comments is simply down to the fact that this is a very long and detailed article which requires time and commitment to get through. I have been following the WHO and WEF machinations on this subject for many months so I am aware of its wholesale duplicities.
“It’s not always about what they say it’s about.”
Yes, it is very long and detailed and, to be honest, a bit beyond me. There’s a link in the news roundup to an article by Ramesh Thakur of Brownstone, which was perhaps easier to take on board, though slightly different in its emphasis.
Why should anybody read through all of this when it already starts out with Blame Europeans for all evils in the world, as in equating European fascism and European colonialism. That’s an American guy preaching to an American audience about the perceived ills of an American invention (Wilson’s league of nations) and trying to play on their learnt prejudices in order to win them for his (American) political agenda.
Slaves don’t become free by switching masters and all this guy aspires to be is to become our new master.
Politicians do not like to make decisions or be held accountable, it’s why we have so many quangos. If our esteemed leaders can have another person or body they can blame they are happy to abdicate responsibility.