The Briefing Room
General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: IsailedawayfromFR on July 12, 2017, 02:30:13 pm
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Renewable energy is the way of the future, we are told. It is inevitable. Some renewable energy advocates boldly claim that the world could be powered by renewable energy as early as 2030 – with enough government subsidies, that is. And of course, the mainstream media play their part, hyping up the virtues of solar and wind energy as the solution to climate change.
In one regard, they are quite right: in terms of generational capacity, wind and solar have grown by leaps and bounds in the last three decades (wind by 24.3% per year since 1990, solar by 46.2% per year since 1990). However, there are two questions worth asking: (i) are renewable energies making a difference, and (ii) are they sustainable?
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/07/wind_and_solar_energy_are_dead_ends.html#ixzz4mcy80xX4
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It is nearly all renewable energy, solar powered.
But the time scale of oil/gas/coal is a bit long for most to consider.
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Hydro is pretty good if not portable.
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It is nearly all renewable energy, solar powered.
But the time scale of oil/gas/coal is a bit long for most to consider.
Yup. We're burning through a million years of energy accumulation in each single year. Not exactly "sustainable".
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Yup. We're burning through a million years of energy accumulation in each single year. Not exactly "sustainable".
Maybe not in the long term, but if the planet really is several billion years old we should be able to get by for another few thousand years.
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"Renewable Energy is a Dead End"
Sure is. Ask the 400,000 birds killed annually by these monstrosities.
The envirowhackos who push this garbage can GTH
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It is nearly all renewable energy, solar powered.
But the time scale of oil/gas/coal is a bit long for most to consider.
You and I both know that is a ridiculous argument.