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(33,512 posts)...of so called renewable energy.
I read it regularly and constantly as my journal on this website demonstrates.
The unsustainable so called "renewable energy" industry only appears sustainable because it is trivial.
After half a century of mindless cheering for wind and solar by bourgeois types who don't understand very much, and the expenditure of trillions of dollars, wind and solar provided 10.4 Exajoules out of 589 consumed by humanity as of 2020, a covid lockdown year according to the IEA World Energy Outlook, a document I have accessed each year for decades.
I am disinterested in whether anyone "gets my point" or whether they cheer for the unsustainable car industry as an example.
What matters to me is that I have done the work to get the point myself.
Tearing the shit out of the planet to support expanding the wind industry by even 200% would be from my perspective and unforgivable crime against all future generations. It is already a disaster, and has done nothing at all to address the most dire emergency before humanity, climate change.
It is likely we will see wet bulb temperatures above 35 centigrade this decade, wet bulb temperatures at which human beings cannot survive. In fact we may see temperatures approaching that in India and Pakastan this week.
If one wants to "get the point" one can do as I do regularly and pretty much constantly, which is ro access the scientific literature.