According to an energy expert, the green energy utopia isn’t happening any time soon. Wind and solar have only created problems.
Brent Bennett with the Texas Public Policy Foundation told KTRH, “What’s happening with our policy is essentially the government trying to predict the future. They’re trying to say, ‘These technologies are gonna be IT, and this is what we need, so we’re gonna pour a bunch of money into them.”
According to Bennett, however, these investments will just harm our power grid. He says those green investments are “crowding out” good investments in grid resiliency and improving and growing our fleet of dispatchable power plants.
Bennett says there will likely come a time when nuclear becomes the primary source of power, but fossil fuels will always have their place, meaning a full-blown “Energy Transition” is probably never really going to happen.
No one seems to be saying this, but I’ve thought it myself. The energy transition is a black hole for tax dollars, but it won’t succeed.
Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean the radicals won’t push us to the point of destruction.
If you listen to the climate tyrants, the transition is moving ahead quite well. This is what they say:
Renewable energy capacity has increased by 130% over the past decade, while non-renewables have only grown by 24%. Large-scale solar and wind farms are being built, and storage solutions like utility-scale batteries are being developed.
Investment in energy transition technologies has been increasing, with $1.8 trillion invested in 2023 compared to $1.1 trillion in fossil fuels.
The costs of renewable energy, like solar and wind power, have been rapidly decreasing.
Energy efficiency investments have increased, and energy intensity has improved.
Coal-fired power stations are being retired as the world moves away from fossil fuels.
The only problem is that solar and wind energy cannot act as substitutes for fossil fuels. EVs cannot take the place of gasoline-powered vehicles. Resistance is building as this becomes more obvious.
it’s still happening, but it doesn’t work without destroying our national security and our middle class.
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These 9 charts show that the use of petrol, coal and natural gas are growing faster than green energy
the source is BNEF – Bloomberg
https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/these-charts-expose-myth-of-energy-transition
A few days ago I saw 9 charts that say the opposite, that say the use of petrol and coal and natural gas are up far more than green energy.
I need to find the link, it may take a few minutes.
Drill baby, drill!
TRUMP 2024
Let me see if I have this properly understood, as we know that statistics don’t lie (unless generated by Democrats).
“Renewable energy capacity has increased by 130% over the past decade, while non-renewables have only grown by 24%. Large-scale solar and wind farms are being built, and storage solutions like utility-scale batteries are being developed.”
So obviously solar is taking over?
If in a decade solar increased from 100 units to 230 units it was a ‘significant gain’.
Suppose fossil units a decade ago were producing 1,000,000 units and now.
In 2200, assuming a 130% growth rate solar could catch up. That also assumes that solar units can last a long as fossil powered units.
Hey, guess things aren’t aa bright as we were told. Maybe I can’t see the page so well. We haven’t had wind for days and there is a heavy cloud cover, so my one light is barely flickering.
Oh well.