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Replacing Fossil Fuels With Renewables Is Impossible And Fiscally Ruinous

by Gwyn Morgan
October 28, 2020, 9:54 AM
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wind turbine failThe combination of wildfires along the U.S. Pacific Coast, two simultaneous hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, melting glaciers, peat bog fires in Canada, and unusually hot summer in Europe has raised global warming fears to frenzied proportions.

Environmentalists are urging political leaders to legislate the rapid phase-out of fossil fuels. Curiously, the most extreme call for action came from the future King of England.

Prince Charles urged a “warlike footing” that would require the implementation of a centralized global authority to save the planet from catastrophic climate change. Just how such an unelected regime would exert power over the Earth’s 7.8 billion inhabitants wasn’t clear.

The California and Oregon wildfires turned into a U.S. election issue, with Joe Biden pointing to Donald Trump’s pro-oil industry policies as a cause — even though American greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by over 14 percent since 2005.

Meanwhile, led by China and India, Asian emissions have doubled over the past decade and continue to grow. Overall, less than a third of global emissions now come from Western developed countries.

China, India, Vietnam, South Africa, South Korea, the Philippines, and Japan, all signatories to the Paris Climate Accord, are in various stages of constructing a total of 1,800 coal-fired power plants.

If Canada were to disappear from the face of the Earth, those new plants would replace our 1.6 percent of global emissions in just a few months.

Despite that reality, the Trudeau government continues its ideologically driven crusade to replace fossil fuels with so-called green energy, mainly wind and solar.

The government’s throne speech virtually ignored the economic destitution its anti-oil policies have wrought in Alberta. Even the potential market access of the Trans Mountain Pipeline was couched in terms of providing a bridge to a fossil-fuel-free paradise.

That green energy fixation was the focus of the Sept. 26 “Climate Issue” of the Globe and Mail. Columnist David Berman asserted that the cost of wind and solar power have “become attractive next to fossil fuels generating assets, particularly coal.”

As evidence, he cited Tucson Electric Power’s phase-out of coal-fired electricity generation. U.S. Energy Administration data show that coal-fired plants are indeed being phased out, but they’re being replaced by natural gas.

In fact, wind and solar provide less than one percent of Arizona’s electricity requirements.

Fellow columnist Eric Reguly stated that Canada’s share of renewables — i.e., hydro, wind, biomass, solar, and ethanol — is above the OECD average.

But as is often the case with selective fact statements from green power advocates, he fails to mention that Natural Resources Canada data show wind and solar accounting for just 2.3 percent of Canada’s electricity supply in 2019.

The widely respected BP World Energy Outlook 2019 shows that, despite hundreds of billions of dollars invested, wind and solar contributed the same two percent of world energy supplies, while the contribution of fossil fuels has actually increased to 84 percent.

Germans know the hazards of pursuing a green power utopia all too well. Their country’s decade-long attempt to replace coal and nuclear with wind and solar sent electricity costs soaring to the second highest in the EU.

Despite hundreds of billions of Euros invested, the unreliability of wind and solar necessitated rehabilitating coal-fired power plants.

In an ironic twist, the coal is sourced from the U.S. and is available only because of the conversion of American power plants to natural gas.

Ontario’s McGuinty government also implemented a German-style green power and with equally disastrous results. Coal-fired power plants were shuttered and the planned expansion of nuclear plants canceled.

The government signed 25-year locked-in windmill and solar contracts at several times existing rates.

Electricity prices more than doubled, taking Ontario from one of North America’s lowest-cost power jurisdictions to among the highest, with prices more than twice those in other provinces.

As beleaguered homeowners struggled to pay their electricity bills, manufacturers decamped to low-cost states like Georgia and the Carolinas.

Caterpillar, United Steel, Heinz, General Motors, Navistar, Kellogg’s, John Deere, Kraft Foods, Unilever, and Bacardi closed some or all of their Ontario plants.

Then there’s the impact on the land. More than 8,000 wind turbines were built, requiring three acres each on average. Many are near bird habitats, causing locals to label them “bird blenders.”

And that’s only part of the story. Because (surprise!) the wind blows irregularly and solar panels are useless during Ontario’s long, dark winter nights, several new natural gas-fired power plants were needed to back up those unreliable wind and solar facilities, pushing power prices even higher.

The only winners from this made-in-Ontario fiasco were the so-called “green-preneurs,” who became very wealthy as a result of those locked-in power contracts.

The moral of this sad story is that the Liberals’ plan to replace fossil fuel with wind and solar is technically impossible and economically disastrous.

Moreover, phasing out the oilsands would simply hand the market to such sterling global citizens as Russia and Iran, even as it threw more than a million Canadians out of work and destroyed the country’s largest source of wealth generation and export revenues — all at a time when that wealth generation is needed more than ever.

Trying to solve any problem with a fix that defies the laws of physics is bound to fail.

Read more at Financial Post

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Comments 11

  1. Y.D. Robinson says:
    5 years ago

    I don’t know if anyone has given any thought to geothermal? The following is well worth a look: https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/10/21/21515461/renewable-energy-geothermal-egs-ags-supercritical
    Thanks to innovative techniques, it’s not nearly as geographically limited as it has been up until now.

    Reply
  2. Roger Payne says:
    5 years ago

    There already is such a “centralised global authority”, the UN IPCC, which has explicitly stated its aim is barely environmental at all, but political, and redistribution of money via “carbon taxes” etc. It uses the whole story to that end. As Maurice Strong, its basic founder stated at the Rio Earth Summit 1992, “is it not our responsibility to bring this (the collapse of industrial society) about?” He went to live and advise in China…….and Covid 19…. and media and government responses.

    Reply
  3. Gumnut says:
    5 years ago

    The monarchy in Australia will be a hoot when Charles is king.

    The right-wing monarchists salute his right to reign but can’t stand him personally. The leftist republicans love him and his enviro-bulldust, but hate his royal office, despite it being the original form of identity politics.

    Personally, I detest both his catastrophist causes and his crown.

    Reply
  4. Spurwing Plover says:
    5 years ago

    So how soon will Bonny Prince Charlie take up living in a Grass hut or Thatched Roof Cottage? without any Electricity or Running Water?

    Reply
  5. David Lewis says:
    5 years ago

    So, Prince Charles wants “a centralized global authority to save the planet from catastrophic climate change.” Then what is the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC? One can only assume that the prince is advocating an organization with greater authority, perhaps including the ability to force nations to implement polices against their will. Don’t forget that one of the original motivations that started the global warming movement was the desire to increase the power of government, especially the UN.

    Reply
  6. Brian James says:
    5 years ago

    October 28, 2020 Electricity costs and Hartford politics

    The politicians in Hartford apparently believe in P.T. Barnum’s saying, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” On October 1, they passed legislation called “Take Back Our Grid,” intended to mislead Eversource ratepayers into thinking that the politicians have heard their outcry and have resolved Connecticut’s extraordinarily high electricity costs and unreliable service.

    https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2020/10/28/electricity-costs-and-hartford-politics/

    Reply
  7. Spurwing Plover says:
    5 years ago

    We can now see how bad the modern Enviromental Movement is with kids laying awake all night worrying about this Global Warming/Climate Change Scam to nuts blocking traffic or some idiots climbing on Airplanes and women forgoing having kids all over this whole Global Warming/Climate Change scam

    Reply
  8. Dave O says:
    5 years ago

    Fiscally ruinous!? That’s ok. Because it is so much better for us. As we sit out of jobs and can’t afford the electricity bill. Brilliant!

    Reply
  9. Randy Verret says:
    5 years ago

    Well said. Ontario and California should be held up as the “Poster Children” for exactly what NOT to do on energy policy! My head “spins’ with all the misinformation & DISHONEST coverage on climate & energy in the North American media. Nothing more than a pure PROPOGANDA campaign, anything but an intelligent, well informed & reasoned debate about the REAL alternatives & distinct challenges we face in the ongoing energy transition. If not corrected, this will prove a tremendous disservice to our citizens. While many don’t really understand what’s at stake (yet), eventually, folks will CARE when they no longer have RELIABLE & affordable electricity & fuel…

    Reply
  10. Spurwing Plover says:
    5 years ago

    We still need to use Fossil Fuels we can not rely upon Wind and Solar which is Harmful to Birds and Bats

    Reply

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