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The Geopolitical Implications Of Renewable Energy<\/a><\/h3>\n\"Solar\"<\/picture>\n
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An October report from BlackRock (BLK)\u2014the world\u2019s largest publicly traded investment management firm\u2014wisely states, \u201cmarkets are calm but geopolitics are anything but.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wind and solar energy\u2014two leading renewable energy options\u2014could possibly become a dangerous part of an energy mix as the world continues on a downward geopolitical slope.<\/p>\n

Both are intermittent and unreliable, and can only produce consistent energy under certain weather parameters, and neither, at this time, can be stored at scale. Renewable energy options are also tough on the environment because wind and solar energy requires large amounts of land compared to conventional, reliable fossil fuel energy.<\/p>\n

However, renewables are consistently publicized as growing faster than fossil fuels, but that\u2019s misleading. Unless hydroelectricity is being produced under a controlled scenario with dammed water then renewable energy is inferior<\/a> to coal, nuclear and natural gas powered electricity.<\/p>\n

While renewables don\u2019t emit carbon dioxide, they may not, unfortunately, be the solution to lower emissions. This is where renewables can create a dangerous geopolitical climate for nations pursuing them wholeheartedly.<\/p>\n

A new paper by the Center of the American Experiment, \u201cEnergy Policy in Minnesota the High Cost of Failure<\/a>,\u201d chronicles Minnesota\u2019s $15 billion experiment with wind energy over traditional fossil fuels, which didn\u2019t lower CO2 emissions and caused Minnesota\u2019s price of electricity to rise above the national average for the first time on record.<\/p>\n

Imagine this on a larger scale. Think Africa\u2014where 635 million citizens<\/a> are without any form of modern energy at this time. This lack of scalable, affordable energy that fossil fuels and nuclear energy provide can be construed as a direct correlation for the inherent instability of Africa, its lower economic growth, higher rates of overpopulation and lacking the wherewithal to combat radicalization by groups like ISIS throughout the continent.<\/p>\n

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The Geopolitical Implications Of Renewable Energy An October report from BlackRock (BLK)\u2014the world\u2019s largest publicly traded investment management firm\u2014wisely states, \u201cmarkets are calm but geopolitics are anything but.\u201d Wind and solar energy\u2014two leading renewable energy options\u2014could possibly become a dangerous part of an energy mix as the world continues on a downward geopolitical slope. Both […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[2203,328,5332,674,13839],"class_list":["post-27625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-blackrock","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-oilprice-com","tag-renewable-energy","tag-todd-royal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27626,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27625\/revisions\/27626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}