NREL says 80% of US electricity can be renewable by 2050 with current technology

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11. Oh the other hand, after 50 years of such absurd soothsaying, it doesn't produce anything like that.

Eighty percent of current energy demand - which leaves about 3 billion people without access to much energy at all - would be about 420 exajoules.

The solar and wind industry, in particular, after 50 years of mindless cheering, can't produce 4 exajoules, never mind 42 or 420.

Basically the whole nightmare of wishful thinking about the grand renewable fantasy has always dumped responsibility for its inaction and wishful thinking on future generations.

I note with some disgust that almost none of the people making these extravagant claims will have to live with the consequences of their ungoing failure.

The anti-nuke fossil fuel funded Amory Lovins happily predicted in 1976 that the United States would be producing about 18 quads of solar PV energy by 2000. It's now 2012, as is widely reported.

The entire planet produces not one exajoule of energy in this way.

I recently had the occassion to ask Dave Eaglesham, Former Chief Technology Officer of First Solar whether he favored banning dangerous natural gas.

Predictably his answer was an emphatic "No!"

Of course not. The entire renewable industry is a very expensive fig leaf for the gas industry. Until this exercise in marketing, wishful thinking and self delusion is ended there is zero chance at banning dangerous fossil fuels.