Fossil fuels now beat wind and solar on environmental as well as economic grounds

Lawrence Solomon | 14/11/13

When governments try to impose large-scale renewable technologies, they lay waste to nature - Non-renewable energy is sustainable; renewable energy is not, not even close, not by any meaningful yardstick, not in our lifetime or in that of our children. Renewables cannot passably meet any of the important needs claimed by their champions, whether economic or environmental.

Despite the hundreds of billions of dollars governments have spent over the decades in aid of kick – starting large-scale renewables industry, wind and solar complexes are generally incapable of helping humanity progress today or in the foreseeable future.  Fossil fuels, in contrast, have gone from success to success for several centuries now, with no end in sight. 

Prior to the industrial revolution of the 1700’s, when the world depended almost exclusively on renewable energy, poverty and subsistence was the rule.  The rise of mass affluence only came when highly concentrated energy – in the form of fossil fuels – made sustainable progress possible, both material and social.  Life spans improved along with living conditions an eventually the environment did too, as fossil fuels curtained the denuding of forested lands to obtain charcoal for industry and wood fuel for heating.…..To Read More…