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The big lie is that wind and solar are competitive with other sources of electricity. The reality is that wind and solar are subsidized by seventy percent. The scam is clever. Taxpayers and consumers of electricity are swindled with the cover story that they are saving the Earth. Wind and solar electricity are renewable energy. How nice to pluck energy out of the air and the sky. Its a global scam. Big-money corporations and uneducated dreamers, often called environmentalists, cooperate to keep the scam going.

Too often, simple reasoning will not get a job done. You can wear yourself out explaining some very logical arguments. Too many folks already know everything they want to know. The point of this essay is to wake people up to the truth and the global scam being propagated against good people. I encourage you to read this 136-page book that will set the record straight once and for all. The book is by Norman Rogers and is entitled: Dumb Energy: A Critique of Wind and Solar Energy.

Apparently, it has not dawned on the supporters of the scam that solar does not work at night, and wind only works when the wind is blowing. The core characteristic of wind and solar is that these are erratic sources of electricity. The supply is randomly intermittent. Who thinks this dumb energy is a good way to supply electricity?

Sometimes batteries to store electricity are touted as a corrective to the intermittent nature of wind and solar. Batteries cant solve the problem because the cost of batteries is orders of magnitude too high. Batteries are being added to some solar installations for a different reason – to bridge electricity into the early evening. If it is cloudy for a day, the batteries wont be charged, and fossil fuel plants must be relied on. Even the sunniest desert cities have 50 cloudy days a year.

Risks to the Electric Grid

The wind and solar promoters demand that the grid be reengineered to become a smart” grid. The idea is that if the grid is smart enough, that will compensate for the dumb wind and solar energy. Thats actually what they have in mind. The point of the smart grid is to make the grid more agile, the better to follow the ups and downs of wind and solar.

Wind and solar are unreliable, dangerous to the electrical grid, and, without subsidies, far more expensive than conventional sources of electricity. The environmental benefits are non-existent, and the economics only make sense if you think that healthy industries are industries on government welfare.

The numbers are clear, the engineering is clear, and the science is clear. Why is this scam succeeding? Many writers have made the same points Mr. Rogers makes in this book. Yet, government-subsidized wind and solar installations are still being built. 

The national obsession with renewable energy distracts from the real problems of the electric grid. The grid is vulnerable to a long-term collapse from sabotage, or even from a natural magnetic storm originating in the sun. Public money should not be spent on a wind and solar environmental fantasy. Watch the new film out on the electrical grid and judge for yourself; America’s Electrical Grid Vulnerability is Very Real.

The Effect of Human Passion

The renewable energy scam survives because some people are making money and because some people have made renewable energy into a religion. The ideologues provide respectability for the profiteers.

Extracting energy from wind and sunlight is a seductive theory. But, the theory is impractical. The installations are too expensive. The power produced is erratic, changing with the comings and goings of the wind and sun. 

The renewable energy industry is financed by government subsidies and sweetheart deals that are hidden from consumers. Ridiculously impracticable renewable energy finds broad support in circles populated by thinkers accustomed to mobilizing the power of the state to promote impractical ideas with the taxpayers money.

Arguing facts with a believer in renewable energy is generally futile. Their belief is not based on facts but based on passion. Rarely will a serious believer change his mind because he is presented with facts. Fortunately, most people are not true believers, but victims of constant propaganda. One can plant a seed of doubt in such persons by presenting facts. It is often helpful to point out that wind turbines slice up birds.

The Populist Enemies of Wind Turbines

Groups of rural residents are furious at having wind farms foisted on them. They object to having landscapes they treasure contaminated by massive windmills. They object to the whump-whump noise and the flickering shadows. Some of those groups advance beyond their esthetic objections to exposing the full scope of the scam. Sixty-seven such projects were defeated by their communities in the year before Norman Rogers published his book.

Greg Hubner, a resident of South Dakota, wrote: Paradise Destroyed: The Destruction of Rural Living by the Wind Farm Scam. His book is rooted in deep knowledge gained from the political fight against wind farm developers in South Dakota. He wrote the following:

Powerful corporations and politicians have legislated their way to wealth by passing laws for their own financial benefit. Wind energy is a prime example. Instead of capitalism and a true free market” where the state simply acts as a referee to establish a level playing field, the government is hi-jacked through politics to hinder competitors and give select businesses an unfair advantage.

Fallacies of Renewable Energy

The idea of renewable energy as a reliable, comprehensive solution to future energy needs is an error, resting on these faulty assumptions:

1)  We will run out of fossil fuels in the foreseeable future.

2)  Burning fossil fuels is dangerous to health and inevitably creates ugly contamination of the atmosphere.

3)  Renewable energy is financially competitive.

4)  Carbon dioxide emissions will create a climate disaster.

As a practical matter, renewable energy is mainly wind electricity and solar electricity. In the U.S., over $100 billion has been spent on heavily subsidized wind turbines and a lesser amount on solar electricity. The industry and its supporters aspire to greatly increase that spending. (Recently, the congress has appropriated huge sums to subsidize wind and solar further.) Ultimately, if the promoters have their way, our electric rates will double or triple as they have in certain European countries and California.

This book presents facts to counter the massive propaganda promoting renewable energy. The propaganda comes from government agencies, the media, environmental pressure groups, and scientific associations. These groups are shirking their responsibility to present careful and factual analysis. 

Wind generates electricity when the wind blows, and the sun generates electricity when the sun shines. Adding wind or solar to the conventional electric grid imposes adaptation costs. The grid has to be re-engineered and operated differently to accommodate the erratic nature of wind and solar electricity. The more wind and solar there are, the greater the adaptation cost. The sudden arrival or sudden departure of thousands of megawatts of electricity, according to the mood of the wind or the clouds, stresses a grid that was designed to operate in a more sedate and predictable manner.

The construction of wind and solar generating plants should be stopped immediately. The plants are unreliable, undermine the electrical grid, and generate electricity at a cost vastly more significant than the traditional alternatives. But for many proponents of renewable energy, increased costs might be worth it if renewable energy has substantial environmental benefits. Those supposed benefits are illusory.

The Global Warming Justification

Subsidizing wind and solar is often justified on the ground that wind and solar dont emit carbon dioxide, and thus help prevent global warming. Global warming is based on dubious computer projections contradicted by the Earths climate trends. The evidence is overwhelming that the global warming scare is scientifically flawed. Carbon dioxide is a harmless gas that helps plants grow. It may well influence the climate, but the evidence is that the effect of CO2 is small, and probably beneficial due to improving the growth of plants.

Self-interested scientists promote global warming. The idea that scientists are disinterested big thinkers pontificating from on high is not to be taken seriously. Like any other interest group, scientists are susceptible to pursuing self-interest at the expense of the public interest. In his farewell address, President Eisenhower warned against the capture of public policy by a scientific elite dependent on government money. Eisenhowers worst fears have come true. Global warming alarmism has become an official government policy.

For certain scientific groups, green ideas and global warming alarmism are the geese that lay golden eggs. The golden eggs are not just money, but also prestige. Scientists, particularly climate scientists, benefit from global warming alarmism. They are reluctant, individually or as a group, to express skepticism or to critically examine the theories behind global warming alarmism. Peer pressure to conform is so great that to contradict the group think is heresy, and often professional suicide. Global warming has transformed climate scientists into celebrities.

Discovering an impending catastrophe is a way for scientists to get attention and research grants. Consequently, we are deluged with a parade of impending disasters that never materialize. When one catastrophe dies of over-exposure, it is replaced by a new impending catastrophe. Global warming will die slowly due to the vast size of the enterprise and the vested interests. When global warming dies, look for ocean acidification to be the replacement impending catastrophe.

Some of the most prominent climate scientists have denounced wind and solar energy and formed an organization called Climate Scientists for Nuclear. They realize that wind and solar are hopelessly impractical, but that Nuclear could actually be used to create a CO2-free grid.

Its easy to be complacent about the electric grid. It always just works, except for occasional blips. But this complacency is ill-advised:  the electrical grid is vulnerable, and renewable energy is increasing that vulnerability.

The Dysfunction of Environmentalism

The business plan of the major environmental organizations is based on exaggerating environmental threats. The global warming scare is the most critical current exaggeration. Wind and solar energy are promoted because they dont emit CO2 and because the environmentalists imagine they can be substituted for fossil fuels.

The environmental lobby has boxed itself in with past alarmist campaigns against dams and nuclear power. Hydro and nuclear are logical ways to get CO2-free power. They are a logical step in the crusade to reduce delusional global warming. But, environmental organizations cannot damage their credibility by changing their position on hydro and nuclear. Instead, they support wind and solar technology, ineffective technology, either for generating electricity or for reducing CO2 emissions.

The environmental movement is detached from economic and engineering realities. The movement traffics in impracticable and romantic ideas that will encourage naive supporters to write checks. The critics’ voices are muted by the medias leftist orientation and the medias love of sensationalism. Norman Rogers clarifies in his book that truly evil environmental organizations must be resisted. Any critic of environmental dogma is attacked as a tool of capitalist interests. Environmental organizations are hostile to capitalism and friendly to government regulation.

Most readers at America Out Loud are knowledgeable about our US energy resources but most likely wage the wrong arguments toward their misinformed friends, neighbors, and colleagues. Dumb Energy: A Critique of Wind and Solar Energy – This easy-to-read 136-page comprehensive narrative of truth about our economic energy will give the reader outstanding opportunities to set the record straight.

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Deguello
Deguello
1 year ago

Few, if any, windmills will ever produce as much energy as it takes to make, place, move the electricity & dispose of them, most of which energy is produce from fossil fuels, not to mention the huge amount of CO2 producing cement they require.

Wayne Walisser
Wayne Walisser
1 year ago

After 5 yrs., the solar panels on my roof, are the best investment I’ve ever made!
As energy prices continue to sky rocket, I can’t help but think it could become a “windfall”.

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