Why is the West committing economic suicide by unrealistically and prematurely ending our long-standing use of reliable and high-intensity fuels in favor of expensive and inferior “intermittent” supplies? I think we know that China and India will never commit such an economic suicide for the phony “climate emergency?”
This is one of the most important questions of our day. And the phony “Climate Emergency” is one of the greatest delusions of our time.
The graph below shows that China emits more greenhouse gases than almost everyone else COMBINED. There’s no mystery here. It’s what happens when the West relinquishes much/most of it’s manufacturing base to China: Most of the emissions of energy intensive manufacturing are just shifted to China. See the graph below.
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| China emits more greenhouse gas than the entire developed world combined |
The Cost of Suicide: Large Scale Solar and Wind Power in the US
From Electrical Generation And Grids and Must VASTLY Expand To Accommodate Transportation Loads, current maximum US generating capacity = 650 Megawatts. This is also the estimate current US Grid capacity is 650 Megawatts. These numbers are based on observed annual peak periods of power distribution/consumption currently in both summer and winter.
Capital Costs
Future maximum generating capacity to electrify light transportation requires the following (capital costs):
Add 650 Megawatts (double our current peak capacity) using additional wind and solar power (cost estimated to cost $1 Trillion)
Add 650 Megawatts (double) of additional fossil/nuclear power (for basically 100% backup) at a Cost of $1.8 Trillion.
DOUBLE the nation’s electric grid requirements (Cost guesstimated to be $2 Trillion)
Operating Costs
Relying on (subsidized) solar and wind requires subsidies for fossil/nuclear plants to remain in a “hot standby”mode while wind and solar power fluctuates. So, you must DOUBLE the retail power costs to pay for all of the operating costs of an two entirely redundant systems. For what?? Even if it helped lower greenhouse gas emissions, China and India will not kill their golden goose.
Finally, the public must also pay for that $2 TRILLION capital cost of DOUBLING the grid capacity.
In total, power costs will TRIPLE or QUADRUPLE at a minimum. This happens to correspond to the cost of power in Germany which is pushing $0.50 per kW-hr. The current US average power cost is about $0.11 per kW-hr.
Current and Future Power Costs in the US
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| Current US Cost of Electrical Power |
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| The Cost of Electrical Power in Euro Cents Per KW-Hr |
The climate fanaticists want to force enormous capital and operating costs of solar and wind power (all 99% backed-up by fossil fuel plants) on you and I.
It’s really a folly. Germany and Denmark are paying outrageous prices for electrical power thanks to their “climate change” fanaticism. And for what? Virtue signaling?
The punchline is, that after decades of climate fanaticism and wind and solar subsidies, Wind+Solar ELECTRICITY has only provides 6% of Germany’s total energy needs. (Electric power is only about 20% of their total energy requirement—both here and there.)
Interestingly, Wind and Solar is 10% of US total energy consumption mostly due to wind power —as the US has large swaths of windy terrain. Even with that level of “intermittents” we’re seeing occasional rolling black-outs due to the unreliability of W+S.
The US is RETIRING fossil fuel power plants (mostly coal) when they need to be ADDING fossil fuel capacity to power electric vehicles. Apparently few understand the need for virtual 100% fossil fuel backup for W+S as the grid expands to accomodate light transportation loads.
And if you’re really captive to the “climate emergency” scam, why not add SMR nuclear, or Thorium molten salt reactors, or the latest Gen IV nuclear plants for carbon free energy? …or even more natural gas plants as they also are lower carbon source?
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