...toward oblivion we hear this Trump scale lie that confuses peak power with energy
A watt of power at noon on a cloudless windy day is not the same as a joule of energy produced on a sweltering windless midnight.
In terms of energy on the whole damned dying planet, wind and solar combined don't produce 2% of the world's energy. The fastest growing source of energy on this planet, measured in units of energy which airheads can't understand or refuse to understand based on their willingness to show contempt for reality, was dangerous fossil fuels. Overall, since the year 2000, as recorded in 2016 - the last year for which comprehensive data was available, the use of dangerous fossil fuels grew on an annual basis to 466.83 exajoules out of 576 exajoules consumed by humanity overall. Overall, the use of dangerous fossil fuels grew by 129.73 exajoules. Combined, the solar and wind industry, assembled along with mindless cheering over half a century of wishful thinking, didn't produce 10% of the amount of energy, the unit of which is the Joule, not the Watt, by which dangerous fossils grew.
The only form of so called "renewable energy" that is significant on scale is "bioenergy," - particularly "traditional bioenergy," used by poor people about whom bourgeois airheads couldn't care less - which is the second largest contributor to particulate air pollution, and thus the second largest contributor to the 7 million deaths that take place each year as a result of particulate air pollution. Predictably, the bourgeois airheads who want to take everyone on earth back to the early 19th century, couldn't care less about these deaths, tens of millions of them in the last ten years alone.
The reason that the planetary atmosphere is collapsing at an accelerating rate, is because this anti-science bullshit is allowed to be hyped and is never subject to critical thought.
So called "renewable energy" - which isn't even "renewable" - has not worked, it is not working and it will not work. The reason is physics.
For the week ending October 28, 2018 after decade after decade of bullshit "percent" talk, the concentration of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide was 406.48 ppm. Ten years ago, and 2.3 trillion dollars ago squandered in the last ten years alone on the consumer bullshit solar and wind daydream, it was 383.96 ppm.
One to be very, very, very, very bad at math, and as delusional as Donald Trump and as willing to spread lies and falsifications as he is to actually declare this some kind of victory.
It's no victory. It's a grotesque failure for which history will not forgive us, the consequence of "no nukes" and "nuclear free" types' ignorance and contempt for science and scientists.
Have a wonderful Friday.
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