OPINION: Don't be fooled, 'Green Energy' is neither green nor energy
—only electricity, one-fifth of energy—and, crucially, even that small percentage depends on huge subsidies and reliable power plants.
Calling solar and wind"green energy" makes them seem like other forms of energy, just"green." But they’re not. All other forms of energy provide reliable energy—real energy—whereas solar and wind are unreliable parasites of reliable energy.is unreliability, to the point they can go near zero at any time. Thus, they don’t replace reliable power, they parasitize it.
The popular idea that we can use mostly or only solar and wind with sufficient battery backup is not being tried anywhere because it’s economically absurd.
Consider the land use requirements of solar. The world uses over 165,000 TWh of energy per year, which requires ~19 billion kW of power on average. An optimistic, real-world power density for solar projects is 10 Watts per square meter. To power the world, you’d need ~1.8 million square kilometers of solar PV projects.
If 1.8 million square kilometers of solar panels doesn’t seem like much, note that it is more than all cities, towns, villages, and human infrastructure combined . And this excludes the huge footprints of solar and battery mining, manufacturing, and transmission. Consider the mining requirements of solar, wind, and batteries.
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