Road to Climate Neutrality

[rangerrebew]

Road to Climate Neutrality
Posted on February 8, 2021 by curryja | 47 Comments

by Judith Curry

Spatial Requirements of Wind/Solar and Nuclear Energy and Their Respective Costs

“In addition to the energy sector, the climate debate also needs a transition. From ideology and wishful thinking, to facts, figures and rationality.”

An important document was published last week, a collaborative instigated by two members of the European Parliament – one from the Netherlands and the other from Czechoslovakia.  One of the editors on the resulting report is Lucas Bergkamp, who has written several guest posts at Climate Etc.

The study is now available for download on the website www.roadtoclimateneutrality.eu.

This document provides a critical reality check on the rush to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy.

https://judithcurry.com/2021/02/08/road-to-climate-neutrality/#more-26958

[Fishrrman]

Title and premise:
"Road to Climate Neutrality..."

So long as there are humans on the earth, at the numbers that the population has achieved now, there can never be any state approximating "climate neutrality".

That time ended the moment the first cavemen built the first fires...

[Elderberry]

https://judithcurry.com/2021/02/08/road-to-climate-neutrality/#more-26958

Press Release

Climate study advises EU to embark on a “Nuclear Renaissance” program

A new study on EU climate policy finds that it is practically impossible to generate sufficient energy with wind and solar energy as there is not enough available land to cover all electricity demand. The study, titled ’Road to EU Climate Neutrality by 2050’ advises the EU to embark on a “Nuclear Renaissance” programme in trying to achieve its climate objectives.

The EU has endorsed the ambitious objective of achieving climate neutrality (i.e. net zero greenhouse gas carbon emissions) by 2050. An energy transition away from fossil fuels is necessary to achieve this objective. The ECR and the Renew group of the European Parliament have commissioned an independent study into the spatial requirements of wind/solar versus nuclear energy and their respective costs. A team of experts came to the conclusion that it is practically impossible to provide enough energy with renewables.

The study includes a case study done for two EU member states: The Netherlands, a country along the North Sea with abundant wind, and the Czech Republic, a landlocked country with no access to sea and a geographical more challenging landscape. In realistic scenarios, there is not enough land to meet all power demand if the Czech Republic and The Netherlands were to rely solely or predominantly on wind and solar power.

[Sled Dog]

I know!

Maybe they should do the science and actually PROVE that human activity has caused the alleged warming/cooling/warming/nochange in the climate?

Maybe they can start the process be establishing what the Earth's climate IS SUPPOSED TO BE...bearing in mind that it was much warmer in previous eras with no significant human population.  It was also colder in the past, too.

But, until they do the real science and establish what is "normal", they really can't claim the present is "abnormal".

We should cut 100% of their funding until they start doing the science correctly.