Powerline 10/29/2025
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/10/the-environmental-disaster-of-wind-and-solar.phpThe American people, and others around the world, have been sold a bill of goods on wind and solar energy. These electricity sources are intermittent, unreliable, and ridiculously expensive. Those defects supposedly were outweighed by their environmental benefits. But are there, in fact, any environmental benefits?
The reality is that both wind and solar energy are terrible for the environment. This is because they are absurdly low-power energy sources, so they require vast quantities of materials (mining, manufacturing, transportation and construction) and land to produce minimal amounts of electricity.
This video tells the story. It is deliberately moderate in tone to be accessible to a broad audience that probably knows little about the realities of wind and solar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loLXjggF3F4
