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4. It should be apparent, since I clearly do have a lot against solar and wind.

It's because I give a shit about the environment and because I give a shit about future generations.

To be qualified to speak about what is and is not "horse crap," one would be advised to look at data rather than repeat mindless dogma.

We have spent over two trillion dollars on this toxic nightmare, so called "renewable energy" in the last ten years alone, this on a planet where billions of people lack access to basic access to any kind of improved sanitation.

How about I share something called "references" as opposed to mindless chanting about that gas and coal burning hellhole Germany?

Expenditures on so called "renewable energy," from the UNEP:

This information is here, in the UNEP Frankfurt School Report, issued each year: Global Trends In Renewable Energy Investment, 2018

Lack of access to basic sanitation, WHO, where that two trillion bucks might have been more worthily spent:

Key facts, WHO Sanitation

Key facts

In 2017, 45% of the global population (3.4 billion people) used a safely managed sanitation service.

31% of the global population (2.4 billion people) used private sanitation facilities connected to sewers from which wastewater was treated.

14% of the global population (1.0 billion people) used toilets or latrines where excreta were disposed of in situ.
74% of the world’s population (5.5 billion people) used at least a basic sanitation service.

2.0 billion people still do not have basic sanitation facilities such as toilets or latrines.

Of these, 673 million still defecate in the open, for example in street gutters, behind bushes or into open bodies of water.

Now, let's get down to what this so called "renewable energy" provided for humanity:

I have prepared this table from the 2019 IEA World Energy Outlook, published just a few days ago:



(In this table I have converted MTOE in the original table to the SI unit exajoules in this text. An original table from page 38 of the 2019 edition is here:

2019 Edition of the World Energy Outlook Table 1.1 Page 38]

Additional tables with my commentary are here:
World Energy Outlook, 2017, 2018, 2019. Data Tables of Primary Energy Sources.

In this century, world energy demand grew by 179.15 exajoules to 599.34 exajoules.

In this century, world gas demand grew by 50.33 exajoules to 137.03 exajoules.

In this century, the use of petroleum grew by 34.79 exajoules to 188.45 exajoules.

In this century, the use of coal grew by 63.22 exajoules to 159.98 exajoules.

In this century, the solar, wind, geothermal, and tidal energy on which people so cheerfully have bet the entire planetary atmosphere, stealing the future from all future generations, grew by 9.76 exajoules to 12.27 exajoules.

12.27 exajoules is slightly over 2% of the world energy demand.

You know what we got for all this horseshit about so called "renewable energy?"

The rate of growth for carbon dioxide concentrations hit the highest level ever observed, 2.4 ppm per year. We hit 415 ppm in 2019, and are sure to hit 418 this year. Seven million people die every year from air pollution. The seas are rising. Extreme weather is tearing up the planet.

That's what we got.

Are we tired of winning yet?

Don't tell me about horseshit, OK? I'm an old man. I've been hearing about how wonderful so called "renewable energy" would or could be my whole adult life. When I was a kid I used to believe it.

But I grew up.

You see the OP? It's about a paper in the primary scientific literature, not from some shit for brains web page on the internet where "renewable energy" advocates quote each other.

I have spent on average, about 10 hours a week in academic libraries for the last 30 years. Do you know why? Because I care, and I'm not into horseshit, or chanting horseshit, although I can certainly recognize it when I see it.

I'm a scientist. This means, to me, facts matter.

It is a fact that we are failing all future generations with misplaced faith in so called "renewable energy," which was, by the way, abandoned by humanity in the 19th century because it didn't work with 1/7th the population we have now.

So called "renewable energy" didn't work; it isn't working; and it won't work. The reason is physics, specifically low energy to mass ratios.

The longer we squander limited resources on it and the expense of the world's poorest citizens, the longer we chase after this silly unicorn, the less likely we are going to qualify for forgiveness by history.

There are young people calling us out for what we have done. They will write the history of our generation. It's not pretty.

Rather than repeat platitudes about those dangerous fossil fuel dependent hellholes like Germany and Denmark, it would be better to open a science book.

OK?

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving week.