Wednesday, November 04, 2020

How Our Next President's Energy Policies Will Shape America's Future | Climate Dispatch

How Our Next President's Energy Policies Will Shape America's Future | Climate Dispatch
"...Our next president’s energy policies will shape America’s future.
Biden’s vision of expensive, scarce, and government-controlled energy – energy dependent on the whims of weather, and about as reliable as Obamacare is affordable – would spell disaster for the United States.
...Biden touts the progressive dream of 100% renewable energy, but he’s all but admitted that it’s not achievable – and he’s right.
  • First, wind and solar remain too unreliable to serve as anything other than a supplementary power source.
  • Even if it were feasible, a nationwide transition to all-renewable power would have a minuscule effect on global temperatures.
  • If every clause of the Green New Deal became law today – from banning fossil fuels to retrofitting or tearing down every building in America – global temperatures would drop by less than two-tenths of a degree by 2100.
  • And it’s an open question as to whether wind and solar power could ever live up to their “net-zero” hype, anyway – not only because of the massive amounts of fossil-fuel energy required to manufacture and ship their components but 
  • also because of the carbon dioxide that wind and solar farms generate by warming the soil beneath them...Read all.

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