No shit, Sherlock: Citing U.S. Department of Energy data, the New York Times recently reported that the solar industry employs far more Americans than wind or coal… as Climate Depot and the Washington Examiner point out – citing an American Enterprise Institute study – the job numbers actually underscore how wasteful, inefficient and unproductive solar power actually is.
Wind and solar are the biggest rip offs ever perpetrated by governments on the people. Case in point the McGuinty cum Wynne Liberals of Ontario, a huge disaster and still ongoing. Ontario voters are stuck on stupid, incompetence and outright corruption are rewarded with majority governments.
Harvesting crops with a scythe instead of a combine employs more people. If they required scythes instead of combines there would be 10,000,000 jobs available in Saskatchewan and a lot of hungry people.
And this sort of statistics is horribly incomplete. OK … how many of these “jobs” are “sales” … as opposed to actual construction and installation ? All I know is that I receive 3 sales calls minimum per DAY! trying to “sell” me on solar for my home or business. How many of these “jobs” are minimum wage call center jobs ? You know … like a junk bond boiler room … a junk solar boiler room !
Because the ONLY places I see solar being installed, is on my local elementary school roof, city hall roof, and BART parking lot … I.e. Government buildings. Few, if any of my upper-middle class neighbors are putting solar on their homes … because they ALL can do MATH.
Yeah for Slavery.
That will create endless jobs….Oh wait.
The bureaus of inequity are already in place,our regulatory masters already roam amongst us.
All would be good if the government made sure that even the lowliest solar workers were paid as much as a California Traffic Cone Worker on a Federal Highway Project. Per California regs, the traffic cone worker must receive no less than $43.97 per hour!
So much for that $15/hr minimum wage stuff! Just think how much better off our economy will be when we have near-100% employment at wages like this! Wooo! Hoooo!
(do I really need the /sarc tag?)
Canada doesn’t seem to be as bad as California, but BC is trying hard.
Advertised private sector wages for traffic cone workers range from $11 to $ 19 per hour.
The City of Prince George pays $30.52.
If you really, really want to employ people making electricity in good paying jobs, go Nuclear.
Nuclear Power Electricity costs as much as coal. The major expense for coal powered electricity is the cost of the coal fuel itself. Same for Natural Gas powered electricity. With nuclear power, the major expense is PEOPLE. Well paid professional people. A thousand MW coal plant employs about fifty people, compared to about eight hundred to a thousand (1,000) people in a thousand MW nuclear plant. Good Union Jobs. The average wage is about $100,000.00 per year with overtime.
Yet there’s still many many true believers who feel that we could rely 100% on renewables in the near future, usually citing a very rosy (but highly misleading) levelized cost scenario. I’d like to see some experiential learning to help them understand the issues and barriers.
All universities should be paired up with a nearby solar or wind installation. Every time their green energy is not producing electricity then their power goes out too. A great way to learn the difference between intermittent and baseload power, reliability, installed capacity vs. actual production abd how beautiful theoretical concepts smash up on the hard rocks of reality.I’d include making them pay the true cost of green electricity but inevitably they’d argue about including the social cost of carbon The SCC also relies on misleading calculations, mainly but not exclusively concerning the discount rate.
Cutting off power to an entire university is not practical but it still has value as a thought experiment or even a symbolic flickering of the lights to indicate the unreliable nature of existing green power. It would be like living Earth Day for an entire year or like a third world country.
Get all those plows off the road during winter storms and hire people with shovels. That will provide thousands of jobs, and the traffic will come to a sudden standstill.
No.
Pedal Power.
Make the self righteous rats run on hampster wheels.
After all electricity from human muscle power is politically correct by all the “standards” of Gang Green.
Especially double plus good if made part of the “reeducation” process.
In the Pulitzer- winning book “Stilwell and the American Experience in China” there’s a pre-WW2 scene where Stilwell is standing on a hill and, off in the distance, he observes a train moving slowly across the countryside. It looks like a millipede because of the legs of the hundreds of men pushing it.
If you really wanted to make a point then you would encourage them to ban all petrochemicals and items derived from fossil fuels from campus. I have a sneaking suspicion that many extremely woke students do not understand how pervasive these products are. Do they understand the entire impact of shutting down oil and gas fields? Do they understand, for instance, how oil is processed to become many different products? Do they think that you can just extract the form that is used for plastic without the fuel part or that the fuel will just be dumped back in the hole? Then again I suppose that applied science (all science?) is just a bigoted social construct.
Re: ”Citing U.S. Department of Energy data, the New York Times recently reported that the solar industry employs far more Americans than wind or coal…”
Sounds impressive. I don’t know how true that statement is, however I do know this. That’s like saying that in Detroit City, more workers are making a living at washing dishes than workers are at building cars.
That doesn’t say a whole lot about the auto industry, but it does promote the sale of dish cloths.