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2. There hasn't been excess so called "renewable energy" despite half a century of claiming it would...
Wed Jan 4, 2023, 08:02 PM
Jan 2023

...do everything.

Combined, after trillions of dollars squandered on them, this on a planet where billions of people lack clean water or decent food, solar and wind combined, in 2021 produced just 11 EJ out of 634 consumed by humanity.

Instead here's all the solar and wind garbage thinking has done:

Weekly average CO2 at Mauna Loa

Week beginning on December 25, 2022: 419.40 ppm
Weekly value from 1 year ago: 417.42 ppm
Weekly value from 10 years ago: 394.85 ppm
Last updated: January 04, 2022


I don't know what the people who hype the expensive, useless, solar and wind game care about, but what they clearly don't give a rat's ass about is climate change, land use, or the environmental cost of mining.

They're watching cartoons while the planet dies.

During the week beginning January 4, 1976, the year that the first issue of the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, the concentration of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide in the planetary atmosphere was 331.32 ppm. I don't know if the people who hype solar and wind junk - all of which will be landfill within 25 years - know how to add and subtract, but that's a change of over 88 ppm.

It would be interesting if the people who've been singing this cacophonic song for 46 years gave a shit, but clearly they don't.

They just chant, and chant, and chant, chant the same bullshit, year after year, decade after decade and muse about wasting energy for their bourgeois sensibilities without ever bothering to open a science book.

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