The Energy Transition Is a Delusion Indeed

The Energy Transition Is a Delusion Indeed - By Benjamin Zycher 

"...The “energy transition” is a massive shift, wholly artificial and politicized, from conventional energy inexpensive (Table 1b and here), reliable, and very clean given the proper policy environment, toward such unconventional energy technologies as wind and solar power. 

They are expensive, unreliable, and deeply problematic environmentally in terms of 

• toxic metal pollution, 
• wildlife destruction, 
• land use massive and 
• unsightly, emissions of conventional pollutants, 
• and in a broader context large and inexorable reductions in aggregate wealth and thus the social willingness to invest in environmental protection.

But the Beltway being what it is, the fantasists are impervious to reality, until the massive costs and dislocations and absurdities become impossible to ignore. (Witness, for example, California.)...