The staggering cost and challenge of new infrastructure pummels any quick energy transition plan

Hard-core environmental pioneer Michael Shellenburger has now changed his tune by approximately 180 degrees, now stating exactly what the far-too-quiet petroleum sector has been saying – that powering a green energy future by relying on wind/solar is pretty much impossible. Bill Gates is now saying the same thing.

Idealism is a great thing to energize people in a new direction. Idealism that ignores the voices of people who do all the work is best left in grade school. Read more…

 

 

19 Replies to “The staggering cost and challenge of new infrastructure pummels any quick energy transition plan”

  1. Revelations from the ranks of the left/greens like this one are the reason why it is so important that the left silence all debate and speech that diverge from the acceptable narratives. The author will now be excoriated and isolated from the collective.

  2. “In 2002, shortly after I turned 30, I decided I wanted to dedicate myself to addressing climate change.”

    That;s the problem, you weren’t around for the catastrophic Global Cooling scare of the early 1970’s, so you have no perspective to on which to base your CAGW theories.

    Globalists were always trying to find that “hook”, they tried socialism., communism, global cooling, killer bees, and every other scary tale they could think up,but they finally hit the jackpot with Global Warming, mainly due to guys like the author, who bought the theory wholesale in their zeal to be heroes and Save The Planet.

    I think most of ’em have a vision of their ugly face on Mt.Rushmore.

  3. “Germany’s carbon emissions have been flat since 2009, despite an investment of $580 billion by 2025 in a renewables-heavy electrical grid, a 50 percent rise in electricity cost.”

    Nuff said.

  4. What I don’t understand is why engineers that produce solar and wind projects that produce at 3 % of capacity are not flogged, sued, stripped of their credentials, and jailed for fraud.

    1. Along with the Criminally Fraudulent Greasy Politicians of every stripe, Lib/Con/NDP for the rip off of Billions of tax dollars.

    2. Even worse is “nameplate or rated capacity” which is often quoted (what the panel array could produce in an ideal world) versus what is actually produced (often less than 30% of the rated capacity).

      1. Right now Alberta’s wind generation is at a staggeringly successful 10% of capacity.

        In freezing February it was often at a wonderful 5% of capacity. And Nutley and her friends want to expand it so we can be like Venezuela.

    3. With not kilowatt-second (is there such a thing) output possible without massive subsidy. Its input costs more than its output.

      If we expected the rent seekers to develop the automobile, the computer , the internet, etc., we’d still be living in caves.

  5. Michael Shellenburger is about to become intimately familiar with the term “character assassination”

    1. Mr. Schellenburger, would likely be labeled by Trudeau & Climate Barbie a denier, nazi, islamaphobe, alt-right, deplorable, and a danger to society at large, and have all his social media accounts censored and suspended.

      1. He’s probably been labelling all of us, that knew from the very beginning that this global warming story was just a pile of crp, the same long list of names so if he’s being labelled now then he’s just getting what he deserves.

  6. if Bill Gates gives out a yell in the forest does it make a sound?
    this news item gives me hope on the ‘renewables’ front (front as in a mafia ‘front’).

    aaaaaand ultimately, I mean in the LOOOOOOONG term, who is gonna PAY for the nonsense?

    the cluckers and advocates of greeeeeeeen energy when the quadrillions in DEBT comes home to roost.
    (assuming it doesnt get sliced up by a wind generator) heh heh

  7. The whole point of this exercise was to starve the west of energy and give China a free hand to build up the wealth necessary to defeat the West in war and enslave or exterminate its peoples.

    The globalists have realized that white men with IQ’s above 70 are impossible to enslave. So they’ll settle for killing them all, be it in a war or with a famine or plague.

    To them we’re beasts of burden to be destroyed when no longer useful. If you can’t tame a dog, you shoot it. Simple as that.

    1. @ A-Canadian. Am in total Agreement..!

      If one looks carefully enough, there is video of Canada’s own Eco-Mofo’ing NAZI, G. M. Butts himself as CEO of the WWF stating unequivocably that the Planet can only sustain 1Billion souls – All Leftist Elites of course..??

      He tried his gambit in Ontario – Create Energy Poverty and partially succeeded. Ont Hydro a total Shambles, Electricity prices 5 X what they were in 2005…Industry gone – Time of Use Meters etc.

      These people with their Ideology first and foremost could care less about the citizenry:

      Occasional Kotex with her Green Plan, Suzuki & Polar Bears, Tom Styer – Anti Oil Sands Freak, Michael Mann – Hockey Stick, Trudeau, Macron, Merkel…all of the UN’s IPCC and the IMBECILES known as ENGO’s.

      To a man/woman, the Miserable lot of them should be charged with CRIMES against Humanity. For that is what Climate Change & Mass Migration of those with ZIP to offer but Islam & Disease is: An Agenda to Kill Western Hemisphere Capitalism such that poverty and terrorism wipes out the population.

      Planetary DE-POPULATION as championed by our very own Maurice Strong and brought to you by those mentioned above.

  8. Don t always agree with “aCanadian’ but sure as he!! do this time. Its about globalists take over and world de-population.

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