16 Replies to “We Don’t Need No…”

  1. All that vanity power has cost the public purse hundreds of billion of dollars in direct price supports and subsidies, all in addition to the normal tax breaks the “other” energy producers get.
    Wonder ho w much public health care, or public education, or public infrastructure that money could have procured.
    Because there is always an opportunity cost. But if you are a Greenie, paying homage to Gaia is worth any price.

  3. Exactly.
    This graph and any other proof will mean nothing to the Gaia worshipers as their ultimate aim is to reduce western standard of living to that of the poorest third world country with a select few Green kommissars living in luxury on Saltspring Island and similar locals.

  4. […] the data used to construct this and following Figures are from the 2014 BP Statistical Review of World Energy.

    We can’t talk about the greenie agenda without at least acknowledging that oil companies have their own agenda. BP is in no way impartial, and has as much motivation to hide any wider adoption of renewables than climate hacks have to hide the decline.
    Look at the reportfor the full picture. Global growth in renewables has been exponential (p37), a trend that will continue if left unchecked. Ethanol use has quintupled in the past 10 years, thanks to food-as-fuel no doubt. Nuclear has remained steady and declined in recent years. Interesting times for energy indeed.

  5. Like to see a matching chart showing the billions of dollars spent – private vs public on separate lines – to produce this miniscule amount of energy that these sources generate.

  7. Taking money from poor people in rich countries and giving it to rich people
    in poor countries.
    Other peoples money is the “GOD” of the greenie lefty hoards.

  8. Ian, you’re ignoring the fact that until very recently, the oil companies were backing the renewable scam to the hilt. In particular BP and Royal Dutch Shell. Simply part of their long term antinuclear strategy. Oil companies are not stupid. They understood in the 1970s that nuclear posed an existential threat to their business, whereas renewables never would. Hence they bankrolled the antinuclear groups starting in the 1980s and funded renewables.
    Second, about renewables and their exponential growth. Continuing trends never do. This is entirely dependent on a wealth of government money funding it on a per kWh basis, unlike anything else in the energy business. And it’s drying up, particularly with respect to EU nations, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, which can’t afford it any more.
    The decline in nuclear is due exclusively to two things: 1. Germany’s insanity and Japan’s shutdown in the wake of Fukushima. It may be long and dragged out, but Japan is eventually going to restart their fleet. In fact the total number of reactors planned or under construction exceeds the current world fleet of about 440. Most of these are in Asia, and even if only half of them are built, it will still swamp whatever renewables do over the next 30 years in terms of actual energy production.

  9. Ontario Liberal/Bolshevik Wynne’s Wind & ‘ass Supply.
    Cost to taxpayers? Untold billion$.
    …-
    ‘ass classed ‘ass “Other”: 166 MW.
    “Wind”: 145 MW.
    http://www.ieso.ca/

  11. Wind power is the biggest part of the increase. Within the next five to ten years that will begin to collapse as the new turbines age to the point that major re and re will be needed.
    It will not be done as the subsidies subside and the cost of re and re is far higher than the value of the energy out put.
    They will become (painfully) visible evidence of the idiocy of wind power.

  12. As pointed out above, the graph will be touted by greenies as, “exponential growth” in renewable energy. It’s kind of like the pharmaceutical reps who used to come to my office claiming, sometimes correctly, that their new wonder drug could reduce the risk of heart attack in a certain demographic by 50% i.e. from 1 in 5,000 to 1 in 10,000, at considerable expense and with a range of unpleasant side effects.

  13. Cool graph! I agree with others, the only reason the graph moves up at all is because of subsidies.

  15. And on a related topic…
    Scotch on the ROCs
    “The Scottish Government’s targets are for renewable sources to generate the equivalent of 100 per cent of Scotland’s gross annual electricity consumption by 2020.” What will the consequences be for the Scottish People?
    In summary, the Scottish Government energy plan may result in a large electricity surplus that at present has nowhere to go, the number of wind turbines may increase 5 fold and electricity bills may double.

  16. gord tulk…………… I have read that there are now over 14 thousand dead wind turbines in the u.s. no one is willing to even remove them from their sites for scrap metal the removal process costing more than the metal is worth. as well as the idiotic regulations surrounding any such removal. we are going to be looking at a lot of high rise scrap metal in a few years.

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