Green is just another planned disaster

Horowitz: Green energy is like COVID shots for the economy
Daniel Horowitz

Just like the COVID shots were neither safe nor effective but rather unsafe and negatively effective against the virus, green energy is neither effective nor environmentally clean. Yet unlike the vaccine mandates, which have, for now, been removed, the green energy mandates permeate every aspect of our economy and society. We are left with severe disruption, misery, and poverty, all for a lie.

What happens when it’s time to dispose of the billions of ugly solar panels situated on houses or ruining rural landscapes? After all, they are made of materials that don’t biodegrade well, including silicon, glass, and metal.

Well, after the industry took billions of dollars in subsidies to produce these ineffective monstrosities, now it will take billions in subsidies and an appalling amount of land use to dispose of them. "It's going to be a waste mountain by 2050, unless we get recycling chains going now," said Ute Collier, deputy director of the International Renewable Energy Agency, in an interview with the BBC. There are an estimated 2.5 billion solar panels in use globally, and the first generation, whose life cycle is about 25 years, is coming due for disposal.

So, we are going to need mountains of land to use and contaminate just to dispose of these ugly panels. However, we’ll need an unfathomable amount of land just to produce and use the amount of solar energy the anti-energy fascists are planning to mandate. As Alex Epstein explained in a recent column, it would take 10 watts per square meter of solar projects to power the world. Which would mean you’d need 1.8 million square kilometers of solar PV projects, which is “more than all cities, towns, villages, and human infrastructure combined (~1.5 million square kilometers).” That’s before we get to the land use needed for mining of all the metals needed to produce panels, turbines, and batteries, as well as the transmission lines.

In other words, in order to achieve their stated goals of “transitioning” away from natural fuels that work, the green energy mandaters would have to turn our globe into a grotesque junkyard. In that sense, our planet would look much like a man “transitioning” to a woman.

Hence, just as with the COVID vaccines, we are paying for the rope to hang ourselves – we are paying with side effects and negative efficacy against the stated goals. While mass solar energy projects are anything but green, they are extremely unreliable and burden us with an unreliable electric grid, as we strain it with electric vehicles!

Just consider the unexpected event of widespread smoke cover obstructing the sunlight last week in the northeastern United States. According to ISO-New England, the grid operator in the Northeast, solar energy production was down 56% during peak demand during the smoke plume days compared to the same time the previous week. Even as far as North Carolina and New England, solar-generated power was down 25%. Imagine what would happen if governments “transition” even more of our power away from reliable energy. Already in New England, despite a mild winter, utility rates skyrocketed to the point that the average New England residential energy bill for both electricity and gas topped $1,000 per month!

Worse, now that our resources have been misallocated away from reliable energy to feckless energy, we might not even have enough electricity to cool our homes in the summer – at any price. A new report from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation projects that two-thirds of the country is at risk for blackouts during peak usage if there are extreme weather events this summer. For example, in Texas, where Republican administrations inanely made 30% of the grid reliant on wind, “dispatchable generation may not be sufficient to meet reserves during an extreme heat wave that is accompanied by low winds.”

Ironically, wind turbines pose the same environmental concern with degrading infrastructure as solar panels do. Additionally, they are estimated to kill thousands of birds a year. Wind turbines can disrupt wildlife habitat and migration patterns.

And just as with the COVID mitigation policies, it is all for scientific lie. The warming trend from the previous few decades has largely disappeared since 2015. Average global temperatures from January 2015 through May 2023 decreased very slightly (.0296°C) at the same time CO2 levels increased by 17%. Likewise, the size of the Acrtic sea ice is at a nine-year high and back at 1994 averages, which makes no sense according to the CO2 warming theory.

The entire “human CO2 causing warming” thesis is wrong because even if it could theoretically cause warming, humans don’t contribute enough CO2 to account for these cyclical temperature increases (and decreases). As researchers from UMass Lowell wrote in Health Physics last year, "Our results show that the percentage of the total CO2 due to the use of fossil fuels from 1750 to 2018 increased from 0% in 1750 to 12% in 2018, much too low to be the cause of global warming."

As Greenpeace co-founder Dr. Patrick Moore said: “The scientific method has not been applied in such a way as to prove that carbon dioxide is causing the Earth to warm. The future will show that this whole hysteria over climate change was a complete fabrication.”

Indeed, the scientific lie about COVID shots that upended human life was just a dry run for net zero, where we will live with zero reliable energy and won’t even be able to enjoy a green planet.