Critically Thinking about Wind and Solar
Are there any scientifically proven NET benefits from either? No!
This will be brief, as I’ll cut to the chase.
A journalist recently asked me the following thoughtful question:
“I’m working on an article that looks at the climate impacts of wind energy. There are some studies linked below (and you likely know others), that show that drawing kinetic energy from the wind at large scale will have an adverse impact on climate.
“Proponents of wind energy insist that human impacts on the climate are so catastrophic that we need to spend trillions to convert electrical generation to wind and solar. So, why are these (and other) negative impacts on the climate from wind being mostly ignored or dismissed as trivial? As wind energy spreads further and wider, these liabilities will get substantially worse.”
My answer:
You are asking a legitimate question — which has only one answer:
Wind and solar energy are NOT being promoted for any NET BENEFITS to ratepayers, taxpayers, citizens, businesses, the environment, or the climate!
The proof of that is that there are NO scientifically-proven wind or solar energy NET BENEFITS to ratepayers, taxpayers, citizens, businesses, the environment, or the climate!
For example, please read my powerful, short Report regarding the wind energy part, which includes the studies you cited, plus MANY more! Regarding Solar there are multiple major concerns that are almost never properly addressed in state regulations or local ordinances.
I’ll repeat the key part:
Wind and solar energy are NOT being promoted for any NET BENEFITS to ratepayers, taxpayers, citizens, businesses, the environment, or the climate!
The proof of that is that there are NO scientifically-proven wind or solar energy NET BENEFITS to ratepayers, taxpayers, citizens, businesses, the environment, or the climate!
Instead, wind and solar promotion is:
1) about virtue signaling,
2) taking advantage of the public’s technical illiteracy,
3) exploiting the weakness that many local communities are blinded by the money,
4) optimizing the reality that many citizens defer to authority,
5) leveraging the fact that critical thinking has become a lost skill,
6) evidence of the powerful influence of special-interest lobbyists on our legislators,
etc.
‘Nuff said.
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Germany's 30,000 wind turbines are causing local rainfall droughts.
https://stopthesethings.com/2023/06/09/climate-changing-germanys-30000-wind-turbines-causing-local-rainfall-droughts/
So, yeah, extracting energy from wind DOES affect the climate, just not in ways that zealots hope.
The Greta Green Energy Transition is both physically (and economically) impossible and entirely unnecessary. https://vsnyder.substack.com.
Dear Mr. Droz... I'm a 'Cuban Refugee...' 85 yrs old... Retired ChE from DuPont.
Have had time to consider what happened and is happening in Cuba. And here...
To make a long story short... What is happening here (and certainly in other countries) is the result
of an 'all out' effort on the part of the communists (yes, COMMUNISTS) who, under various other names, are totally determined to destroy the country , our country, as it has existed.
It is not 'this' or 'that'... it is ALL OUT DESTRUCTION under various and numerous fronts...
'Climate Change' and so many other fronts are the mechanisms to destroy.
Is is really that simple...
One of my 'conclusions' is that 'History' should have been a primary subject in Education all over the US, for the last 100 years... or more...