Are we heading toward an all-renewable energy future, spearheaded by wind and solar? Or are those energy sources wholly inadequate for the task?
Here’s the reality.
Oil, natural gas, and coal provide 84% of the world’s energy. That’s down just two percentage points from twenty years ago.
And oil still powers nearly 97% of all global transportation.
Contrary to headlines claiming that we’re rapidly transitioning away from fossil fuels, it’s just not happening. Two decades and five trillion dollars of governments “investing” in green energy and we’ve barely moved the needle.
This was supposed to be easy. Why is it so hard? In a word: rocks.
To get the same amount of energy from solar and wind that we now get from fossil fuels, we’re going to have to massively increase mining.
By more than 1,000%. This isn’t speculation. This is physics.
Mark Mills, a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of The Cloud Revolution, compares the energy dream to the energy reality. Watch:
Via PragerU
Mining isn’t the only issue with renewable energy. Other than prohibitive costs, there is energy density and reliability. Renewables just don’t have the energy density to power a modern industrial society. In addition, the sun doesn’t shine 50% of the time, is often blocked by clouds, and the wind doesn’t blow all of the time.
Knocked it out of the park as usual Prager-U! Thank you, Mark Mills. Perhaps the biggest lie being pulled on the public today is calling solar panels and windmills “green energy”. And fossil fuels byproducts “pollution”. While in reality, the main byproducts of fossil fuel consumption are CO2 AND WATER. The basic ingredients of our carbon-based life on earth! Making FOSSIL FUELS our ONLY GREEN ENERGY! Hardly pollution. Using fossil fuels to power our modern world not only makes life better for us. It makes the environment greener, stronger, more drought-tolerant, and more abundant! One of my pet peeves is how we allow the left to manipulate the language to push their climate fraud and other regressive agendas. Abandoning 84% of the energy that makes us the best fed, most prosperous, longest-living human beings that have ever existed is hardly “progressive”. Far more appropriate would be to call them “the Regressives”, or modern-day “New Luddites”. Germany’s Angela Merkel learned a painful lesson trying to push her failed wind policy. Sadly, too many journalism profs and grade school teachers need to up their game. And catch up on the science. Because their ignorance will kill more people than the climate ever has.
Way too much land taken up by Wind Turbines and Solar Arrays so do the Eco-Freaks still support this when Renewible Energy con job?