Renewable Energy

[dan_s]

We are going to see a steady rise in renewable energy, primarily wind and solar, but the claims of some lawmakers that we can go 100% to renewables is insane. Thank God for renewables and electric car technology because without this stuff gasoline prices would be over $5.00/gallon and the outlook would be bleak for the industrial world.

Now read this for a dose of reality.

Critics: Polis' 100% renewable energy pledge based on ‘magical thinking,’ will cost millions of jobs .
WatchDog: https://www.watchdog.org/colorado/criti ... 7cb49.html

More than half of U.S. states have enacted legislation requiring a certain percentage of renewable energy consumption by varying deadlines, a move scientist argue is unwise and not based on sound data. Colorado’s Gov. Jared Polis pledged to transition his state to 100 percent renewable energy by 2040 – a move that follows a 2017 bill he introduced in Congress. The 100 by ‘50 Act proposed a “complete transition off of fossil fuels for the United States.” However, numerous critics argue that the basis for Polis’ bill and vision is based on what they say is a flawed report produced by Stanford University professor Mark Jacobson called “Roadmaps.”
More than 20 scientists published a paper in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America," arguing there were “significant shortcomings” and “errors, inappropriate methods, and implausible assumptions” in Jacobson’s work.
Between 2000 and 2014, industrial electricity rates increased by 67 percent, she says. And according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Colorado industrial users paid 6.71 cents per kWh in 2014 compared to the national average of 6.47 cents. And renewable energy policies like Jacobson’s would cost millions of jobs, according to an analysis of Jacobson’s data by Energy in Depth , a research program of the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA). “His plans would actually destroy millions of jobs across the country,” the analysis claims. Approximately 3.8 million jobs would be lost compared to the nearly 2.6 million long-term jobs Jacobson estimated would be created, IPAA argues.

[jb2257]

With the socialists that were elected I don't think they really care about destroying these jobs especially since most of these people are considered to be the deplorables. Their agenda is much more important especially when the world may end in 10 years.

[lealbert]

Here is a story I came across today of a Texas town that is paying the high cost for their decision to mandate a switch to 100% renewable electricity.

https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local ... -623008466

[jmwSeattle]

During the 1970’s OPEC oil embargo the world was using 44 mb/d.
Since then world demand has increased 56 mb/d up to the present 101 mb/d.
I would like to hear these so-called scientists explain how they could have prevented that increase “if we had only gotten started earlier.”