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Germany’s renewables experiment is over.
By 2025 it will have spent $580B to make electricity nearly 2x more expensive & 10x more carbon-intensive than France’s.
The reason renewables can’t power modern civilization is because they were never meant to. https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/05/06/the-reason-renewables-cant-power-modern-civilization-is-because-they-were-never-meant-to/
By 2025 it will have spent $580B to make electricity nearly 2x more expensive & 10x more carbon-intensive than France’s.
The reason renewables can’t power modern civilization is because they were never meant to. https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/05/06/the-reason-renewables-cant-power-modern-civilization-is-because-they-were-never-meant-to/
It gets worse. In order to prevent electricity prices from rising further, or becoming overly dependent on Russian natural gas, Germany will next year destroy the ancient Hambach forest in order to mine the dirty brown coal underneath it. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-rwe-lignite-hambach/german-state-says-hambach-forest-will-not-be-touched-until-2020-idUSKCN1Q91M4
Now, it is threatening to destroy “a mystical place full of giant, gnarled, centuries-old trees, rare animals and fabulous castles... the home of the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales & the oldest nature reserve in Germany.”
Why? To throw up wind turbines: https://www.worldcrunch.com/green-or-gone-1/grimm-choices-how-energy-transition-threatens-a-fairy-tale-forest
Why? To throw up wind turbines: https://www.worldcrunch.com/green-or-gone-1/grimm-choices-how-energy-transition-threatens-a-fairy-tale-forest
“Wind areas border on natural habitats of wild fauna & flora in which strictly protected bats have found rare refuge”
“‘It makes no sense at all. It's the headlong and forced adoption of wind power no matter the consequences... all this from the Green Party. That's astonishing’”
“‘It makes no sense at all. It's the headlong and forced adoption of wind power no matter the consequences... all this from the Green Party. That's astonishing’”
Now, scientists in Germany say wind turbines are contributing significantly to the “insect die-off.”
“A 27-year long population monitoring study in Germany revealed a dramatic 76% decline in flying insect biomass.” https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/06/26/why-climate-activists-threaten-endangered-species-with-extinction/
“A 27-year long population monitoring study in Germany revealed a dramatic 76% decline in flying insect biomass.” https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/06/26/why-climate-activists-threaten-endangered-species-with-extinction/
The problem with nuclear is that it demands neither the radical remaking of society nor the fantasy of harmonizing with nature
All it does is grow societal wealth while decoupling the economy from environmental destruction
No wonder they hate it so much https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/02/14/the-real-reason-they-hate-nuclear-is-because-it-means-we-dont-need-renewables/
All it does is grow societal wealth while decoupling the economy from environmental destruction
No wonder they hate it so much https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/02/14/the-real-reason-they-hate-nuclear-is-because-it-means-we-dont-need-renewables/
- Output from industrial wind turbines declines by nearly *50%* (!) over 10 years
- Cost of taking down old wind turbines not included in cost of wind energy, unlike with nuclear plants
- Cost of removing old wind turbines will = $2B in New York alone https://nypost.com/2020/07/30/offshore-wind-power-vast-boondoggle-that-ny-can-no-longer-afford/amp/
- Cost of taking down old wind turbines not included in cost of wind energy, unlike with nuclear plants
- Cost of removing old wind turbines will = $2B in New York alone https://nypost.com/2020/07/30/offshore-wind-power-vast-boondoggle-that-ny-can-no-longer-afford/amp/
Nobody is more alienated from the natural world than environmentalists. You have to believe that the air above us is empty of life to imagine nothing will be killed by sticking giant spinning blades into the sky
https://twitter.com/janjekielek/status/1289614893063327745?s=21 https://twitter.com/janjekielek/status/1289614893063327745
https://twitter.com/janjekielek/status/1289614893063327745?s=21 https://twitter.com/janjekielek/status/1289614893063327745
For starters, using twitter to claim modern civilization is broken
Everything they say about renewables is wrong
- Germans spend nearly 2x more for electricity that is *10x* more carbon-intensive than French electricity
- solar farms require ~450x more land than nuclear
- industrial wind threatens extinction of migratory bats & other species
- Germans spend nearly 2x more for electricity that is *10x* more carbon-intensive than French electricity
- solar farms require ~450x more land than nuclear
- industrial wind threatens extinction of migratory bats & other species
I used to think innovation would let renewables replace fossil fuels
Then I realized we can't make sunlight & wind more reliable or energy-dense
I'm proud to have written the most-read article for @Quillette in 2019
Thank you, @clairlemon
https://quillette.com/2019/02/27/why-renewables-cant-save-the-planet/
Then I realized we can't make sunlight & wind more reliable or energy-dense
I'm proud to have written the most-read article for @Quillette in 2019
Thank you, @clairlemon
https://quillette.com/2019/02/27/why-renewables-cant-save-the-planet/
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It's the most interesting magazine in the world right now
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Here's my TEDx talk on why renewables can't save the planet
