WRITTEN BY TIM FITZPATRICK ON OCT 26, 2022. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS
Scientist Tells Utah Legislators: Renewables Are A Failed Path
A Utah legislative committee this week gave 45 minutes to a scientist who argued that policymakers across the globe are committing a grave mistake by turning to renewable energy.
William Hayden Smith, a professor of earth and planetary sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, wrote a research paper with colleagues in Switzerland and South Africa that claims to calculate the full cost of producing electricity from various sources. [bold, links added]
The paper was published this year in the Journal of Sustainable Development, a Canadian scientific journal.
“Now everyone will say that wind turbines and photovoltaics are cheaper than fossil fuels,” he told legislators. “That’s a stretch.”
https://climatechangedispatch.com/scientist-tells-utah-legislators-renewables-are-a-failed-path/
