Climate hysteric "journalists" rarely mention the need for either conventional backup or storage to support intermittent renewables, or the associated costs. They have very good reasons for not mentioning storage needs, but storage would ultimately be unavoidable.
I wonder what it's actually like for a writer for one of these non-profit propaganda mills. Don't they ever get fed-up with having to paraphrase the same old thing in slightly changed words, over and over again? I'm reminded of the monastic clerks of medieval times who had to copy the texts of Augustine, Aristotle and Plato over and over again, without any understanding of the content, or becoming philosophers themselves. Which is why those manuscripts came to contain more and more errors, the old ones being copied unquestioningly with the addition every replication of some new ones. And which is why the frustrated writers for propaganda mills branch out into creative fiction from time to time.
Mr Jacobson is Piltdown Mann's brother from another mother. Clack, et at (2017) did a pretty thorough job of debunking Jacobson's first WWS proposal in “Evaluation of a proposal for reliable low-cost grid power with 100% wind, water, and solar,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 114, No. 26, June 27, 2017. Of course, Jacobson sued Clack personally, but lost his case. Since then, study after study has shown that a WWS world is infeasible.
And we all know what Mark Steyn did to Mann. But Mann's hysteria (a helluva legacy) remains.
As to the subsidy argument, I shut people down by referencing the data in "Federal Financial Interventions and Subsidies in Energy in Fiscal Years 2016–2022." August 2023.
What saddens me about all of this isn't the hysteria; hysteria is but a tool for obtaining power and control. What saddens me about the hysteria is the grip it has on our legislators and elected leaders. Chicken Little has been around since 1840. Back then, hysteria was less effective of a tool for political gain and control because folks didn't have the access to news they have today. Plus, a fair number were therefore immunized with common sense.
Those conditions don't exist today. Nearly all of the population can read and has almost immediate access to events of the time. But with this largesse of abilities comes the price of stupidity, laziness, and fear.
The spin that never ends…. Hide the bad, push the slanted favorable outcomes, but never ever let the entire truth be told. That would surely end the “cheap renewable” gig.
Climate hysteric "journalists" rarely mention the need for either conventional backup or storage to support intermittent renewables, or the associated costs. They have very good reasons for not mentioning storage needs, but storage would ultimately be unavoidable.
I wonder what it's actually like for a writer for one of these non-profit propaganda mills. Don't they ever get fed-up with having to paraphrase the same old thing in slightly changed words, over and over again? I'm reminded of the monastic clerks of medieval times who had to copy the texts of Augustine, Aristotle and Plato over and over again, without any understanding of the content, or becoming philosophers themselves. Which is why those manuscripts came to contain more and more errors, the old ones being copied unquestioningly with the addition every replication of some new ones. And which is why the frustrated writers for propaganda mills branch out into creative fiction from time to time.
This is a great essay, thank you.
Mr Jacobson is Piltdown Mann's brother from another mother. Clack, et at (2017) did a pretty thorough job of debunking Jacobson's first WWS proposal in “Evaluation of a proposal for reliable low-cost grid power with 100% wind, water, and solar,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 114, No. 26, June 27, 2017. Of course, Jacobson sued Clack personally, but lost his case. Since then, study after study has shown that a WWS world is infeasible.
And we all know what Mark Steyn did to Mann. But Mann's hysteria (a helluva legacy) remains.
As to the subsidy argument, I shut people down by referencing the data in "Federal Financial Interventions and Subsidies in Energy in Fiscal Years 2016–2022." August 2023.
What saddens me about all of this isn't the hysteria; hysteria is but a tool for obtaining power and control. What saddens me about the hysteria is the grip it has on our legislators and elected leaders. Chicken Little has been around since 1840. Back then, hysteria was less effective of a tool for political gain and control because folks didn't have the access to news they have today. Plus, a fair number were therefore immunized with common sense.
Those conditions don't exist today. Nearly all of the population can read and has almost immediate access to events of the time. But with this largesse of abilities comes the price of stupidity, laziness, and fear.
Keep those hits coming, please.
The spin that never ends…. Hide the bad, push the slanted favorable outcomes, but never ever let the entire truth be told. That would surely end the “cheap renewable” gig.