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‘Renewable’ Energy: It’s Not What You Think It Is.

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‘Renewable’ Energy: It’s Not What You Think It Is.

I’ve been gathering a number of articles on ‘renewable’ energy and why it’s not really what the dominant narrative is portraying. I have divided them into a couple of what I believe are important aspects.

Energy is fundamental to life. Fossil fuels have provided a huge boost to the energy available to humans to ‘power’ our growth and impact on the planet. Alternatives cannot replace these. Our choice is stark: power down significantly or face the consequences of overshooting our natural carrying capacity.

 

  1. Alternatives do not come anywhere near fossil fuel’s energy-return-on-energy-invested and cannot ‘power’ our current lifestyles:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211467X19300926

Why the Standard Model of Future Energy Supply Doesn’t Work

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/05/06/the-reason-renewables-cant-power-modern-civilization-is-because-they-were-never-meant-to/#6e0470d1ea2b

Searching for a Miracle: ‘Net Energy’ Limits & the Fate of Industrial Society

Renewable energy

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/bryan-preston/2020/12/01/musk-electric-cars-will-require-a-lot-more-electric-power-than-we-currently-have-n1183962?fbclid=IwAR3bB8L2FMyeCyyHoas7p70TD5cyjmirAgLZ79f9VxGYTPEGOjNIMHIoT_g

2) Alternatives depend upon continued fossil fuel use:

http://www.bseec.org/renewable_energy_depends_on_fossil_fuels

https://www.friendsofscience.org/assets/documents/Renewable-energy-cannot-replace-FF_Lyman.pdf

http://energyskeptic.com/2020/renewables-must-help-pay-for-transmission-and-their-energy-storage-backup-of-fossil-power-plants/

3) Alternatives are inadequate for significant industrial processes we rely upon:

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/10/10/20904213/climate-change-steel-cement-industrial-heat-hydrogen-ccs

https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/research/report/low-carbon-heat-solutions-heavy-industry-sources-options-and-costs-today

http://energyskeptic.com/2019/can-concentrated-solar-power-be-used-to-generate-industrial-process-heat/

http://energyskeptic.com/2020/charcoal-for-the-high-heat-needed-in-manufacturing-after-peak-oil/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/shell-fossil-fuels-oil-future-renewable-energy-heavy-industry-power-a8247106.html

Here are some that suggest renewable sources’ production and processing also wreak havoc on the environment:

https://phys.org/news/2020-09-renewable-energy-threat-environment.html

https://phys.org/news/2020-03-renewable-energy-threaten-biodiverse-areas.html

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281550386_Environmental_Impacts_of_Renewable_Energy_Technologies

https://www.nap.edu/read/12987/chapter/6

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/dec/08/the-curse-of-white-oil-electric-vehicles-dirty-secret-lithium?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_News_Feed&fbclid=IwAR3tOB4Q4YuUF-tv-6SFyUW_N-mweMHIqGA9_g4tD95ZHxdIoJzxZw1qFdY

The Dark Side of Solar Power

https://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2021/01/are-evs-good-for-environment-mostly-not.html

https://theconversation.com/solar-panels-in-sahara-could-boost-renewable-energy-but-damage-the-global-climate-heres-why-153992?fbclid=IwAR2SPr1mbYAbTXy-zO5VgvZhpAphpZunWE6CCiaeNTImGBbTPvkxaPK3LuY

And here are some bonus reads:

http://energyskeptic.com/2020/navigant-2013-offshore-wind-manufacturing-and-supply-change-development/?fbclid=IwAR2hdXoGyYekF2vEWr_synGg7hfHI7MwcsU5HgFpIZ0uvhU9QTcNQX8fdsQ

https://citizenactionmonitor.wordpress.com/2020/12/01/net-zero-everyone-from-countries-to-companies-is-talking-about-it-but-what-does-it-really-mean/

https://srsroccoreport.com/green-energy-double-talk-begins-first-major-oil-producer-announces-deadline-to-end-oil-extraction-but-theres-a-catch/

https://medium.com/climate-conscious/the-sustainable-end-of-history-19e8dde664fe

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7m48d/capitalism-will-ruin-the-earth-by-2050-scientists-say

https://www.advisorperspectives.com/articles/2020/11/30/what-oils-troubles-mean-to-the-rest-of-us

https://oilprice.com/The-Environment/Global-Warming/Why-The-World-Cant-Quit-Fossil-Fuels.html

http://energyskeptic.com/2020/navigant-2013-offshore-wind-manufacturing-and-supply-change-development/

Our Distance from Dirt

https://cassandralegacy.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-hydrogen-hoax-confessions-of-former.html

Climate Change and the Mitigation Myth

http://energyskeptic.com/2019/wind/

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41247-020-00080-5?fbclid=IwAR3A-1R0yXn6OAoIa5mfNHWCn8w86muR1AjNem1cYbGw0OAMyYrLDarlk3g

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/02/wind-and-solar-energy-dont-work.php?fbclid=IwAR0qd_WzMDfqA4TRiGHNVLwVitwlELqSW6FTbPHArTM60Ye1h6TBcp3Cn8M

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