Post by NFA on Jul 22, 2024 16:25:10 GMT 8
Below are seven general objections to expensive, unreliable and environmentally damaging wind and solar facilities.
In my five minutes of fame at the public hearing for the Wall I referred to my written submission and then went further to make some more general points.
1. All the warming in modern times has been beneficial. So no worries about warming.
2. Same applies to the additional CO2. It is dangerously low.
3. CO2 is such a minor driver of warming that it would not matter even if there is a warming problem.
4. The human contribution to CO2 is minor.
5. Our contribution is 1% and falling, like Britain. So our impact is a vanishingly small part of a very minor contribution to warming (if any, given that we are probably on the turn towards the next Ice Age) which is doing more good than harm anyway.
BTW here is an interesting report in the gutter press! www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/reckless-renewables-the-nsw-community-fighting-a-massive-solar-farm-20240718-p5juoh.html
Seven general objections to all unreliable energy projects.
And support the move to stop using the term renewables, just tell the truth and call them unreliables.
1 The ABC of intermittent energy.
Input to the grid must continuously match the demand.
The continuity of RE is broken on nights with little or no wind.
There is no feasible or affordable large-scale storage to bridge the gaps.
The ABC explains that the transition to wind and solar power is impossible with current storage technology. Consequently we are approaching a tipping point when coal capacity runs down to the point where there is not be enough dispatchable capacity to meet demand on windless nights.
Attach file for the ABC and insert the link - newcatallaxy.blog/2023/07/11/approaching-the-tipping-point/
3 Protecting farmland. See Article 2 from the Paris Agreement in 2015.
This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the Convention, including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by:
Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production;
That means no solar projects, no wind projects, no battery projects on rural land.
4 There is no business case for the unreliable in the absence of subsidies and mandates.
6 National security is undermined by sourcing most of the expensive and unreliable energy infrastructure from a potentially hostile nation.
7 The opportunity cost, which is hardly ever mentioned. That is not the cost in dollars that just adds to the national debt. We don’t actually see that, it is just a number that gets bigger every month. The opportunity cost is all the useful things that we don’t get to see, things that we could have got for the same amount of money, like hospitals, schools, roads, bridges, disability services, police, military hardware etc.
Instead we spend tens of billions to get more expensive and less reliable energy with a tragic environmental impact from assets that will be stranded as soon as the subsidies and mandates stop.
Rafe Champion
www.flickerpower.com/index.php/search/categories/general/list-of-briefing-notes
Warning!
Wind watching can be time-consuming and habit-forming.
Watch responsibly.
In my five minutes of fame at the public hearing for the Wall I referred to my written submission and then went further to make some more general points.
1. All the warming in modern times has been beneficial. So no worries about warming.
2. Same applies to the additional CO2. It is dangerously low.
3. CO2 is such a minor driver of warming that it would not matter even if there is a warming problem.
4. The human contribution to CO2 is minor.
5. Our contribution is 1% and falling, like Britain. So our impact is a vanishingly small part of a very minor contribution to warming (if any, given that we are probably on the turn towards the next Ice Age) which is doing more good than harm anyway.
BTW here is an interesting report in the gutter press! www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/reckless-renewables-the-nsw-community-fighting-a-massive-solar-farm-20240718-p5juoh.html
Seven general objections to all unreliable energy projects.
And support the move to stop using the term renewables, just tell the truth and call them unreliables.
1 The ABC of intermittent energy.
Input to the grid must continuously match the demand.
The continuity of RE is broken on nights with little or no wind.
There is no feasible or affordable large-scale storage to bridge the gaps.
The ABC explains that the transition to wind and solar power is impossible with current storage technology. Consequently we are approaching a tipping point when coal capacity runs down to the point where there is not be enough dispatchable capacity to meet demand on windless nights.
Attach file for the ABC and insert the link - newcatallaxy.blog/2023/07/11/approaching-the-tipping-point/
2 The human and environmental impact through all the stages from mining in remote places overseas to the disposal of toxic junk in local landfill
3 Protecting farmland. See Article 2 from the Paris Agreement in 2015.
This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the Convention, including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by:
Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production;
That means no solar projects, no wind projects, no battery projects on rural land.
4 There is no business case for the unreliable in the absence of subsidies and mandates.
5 The rising cost of energy has driven many energy-intensive enterprises to the wall or overseas, with more to come.
6 National security is undermined by sourcing most of the expensive and unreliable energy infrastructure from a potentially hostile nation.
7 The opportunity cost, which is hardly ever mentioned. That is not the cost in dollars that just adds to the national debt. We don’t actually see that, it is just a number that gets bigger every month. The opportunity cost is all the useful things that we don’t get to see, things that we could have got for the same amount of money, like hospitals, schools, roads, bridges, disability services, police, military hardware etc.
Instead we spend tens of billions to get more expensive and less reliable energy with a tragic environmental impact from assets that will be stranded as soon as the subsidies and mandates stop.
Rafe Champion
www.flickerpower.com/index.php/search/categories/general/list-of-briefing-notes
Warning!
Wind watching can be time-consuming and habit-forming.
Watch responsibly.