They Can't Make Green Energy Using Only Green Energy

[rangerrebew]

They Can't Make Green Energy Using Only Green Energy
October 17, 2022/ Francis Menton

Not being a dope, you likely realized a long time ago that it was going to take a lot of energy to manufacture the components of the future green energy utopia.  Wind turbines, solar panels, electric cars, and so forth — there is lots of steel, other metals, and silica involved that all need to be melted at high temperatures to get formed into the devices.  How are they going to achieve that at reasonable cost using just the wind and sun as energy sources?

Up to now, the main strategy has been to buy most of the devices from China, where they are made largely using energy from coal.  Out of sight, out of mind.  But both Europe and the U.S. have made an effort to get at least somewhat into the game of making these things.  Europe finds itself leading the acceleration into the green energy wall, with the intentional suppression of fossil fuel production and now the substantial cutoff of Russian gas supplies causing sharp spikes in the prices of both gas and electricity. 

Without any low-priced fossil fuels to use for making the green energy devices, what is the current situation in Europe?  A source called renews.biz has a roundup on October 4.  Some excerpts:

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2022-10-16-they-cant-make-green-energy-using-only-green-energy

[DefiantMassRINO]

Is lithium mined only using solar or wind for power?

Or might there be some evil infernal combustion engines at work?

[Free Vulcan]

Because it's all a tricky dicky bait and switcharooney. There will never be a green economy. They will simply shut down everything they don't consider 'green' and never build the 'green' infrastructure to replace it.

They will then ration whatever's left to their cronies, and the rest of us are expected to die Mr. Bond, as is their original goal.

[Smokin Joe]

You can't make steel without carbon. It's what separates steel from pig iron.