The perils of "electrify everything"
Forbes (2/16/21) op-ed: The massive blast of Siberia-like cold that is wreaking havoc across North America is proving that if we humans want to keep surviving frigid winters, we are going to have to keep burning natural gas — and lots of it — for decades to come.
That cold reality contradicts the “electrify everything” scenario that’s being promoted by climate change activists, politicians, and academics. They claim that to avert the possibility of catastrophic climate change, we must stop burning hydrocarbons and convert all of our transportation, residential, commercial, and industrial systems so that they are powered solely on electricity, with most of that juice coming, of course, from forests of wind turbines and oceans of solar panels.
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"Germany’s long been held up by the likes of these renewable luvvies, they say Germany’s the world’s great wind and solar capital, But as we speak millions of solar panels are blanketed in snow and 30,000 wind turbines are sitting idle because there’s no wind"
–Rowan Dean, Sky News Australia
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