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The hypothesis
that rich nations caused climate change by burning fossil fuels to produce energy
has never been proven by IPCC’s computer modeling. The fact that now the
hypothesis changed its name from global warming to climate change in the face
of obvious 18 years of global cooling is enough evidence that the purveyors of
the industry of climate change are desperate but are not giving up. Fleecing
rich countries with carbon taxes is a very lucrative scam.
“We must
leave fossil fuels in the ground and not repeat the steps of the developed
countries that brought us to this point,” said Enrique Maurtua Konstantinidis, international
policy advisor for Climate Action Network Latin America.
The Climate
Action Network, “a conglomerate of 900 radical green groups from about 100
nations, mocked Australia, Belgium, Ireland, and Austria because they have yet
to donate to a new Green Climate Fund.” The real agenda of spreading the wealth
from developed countries to poor countries and arresting economic development could
not be more transparent. http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/12/02/exclusive-new-legally-binding-treaty-emerges-on-first-day-of-lima-climate-conference/
Martin
Kaiser of Greenpeace stated that, “In Lima, the countries must agree on the
long-term goal of phasing out fossil fuel emissions to zero by mid-century
while moving towards 100 percent renewable energy for all in a fair transition
period. Subsidies for fossil fuel industries must be shifted towards renewable
energy deployment and climate adaptation for vulnerable countries. In countries
like the U.S., China, and the EU, the phase-out of coal must be accelerated.”
So how are
renewable energy industries working out so far across the globe as replacements
for fossil fuels? Judging by the number of bankruptcies filed and by the
billions in taxpayer dollars wasted so far, with scant energy produced, not
very well.
Take Ivanpah
Solar Power Facility (ISPF), which cost $2.2 billion to build ($1.6 billion
from government loan guarantees and $600 million from private investors,
including one third from Google), “was supposed to deliver an energy output of
approximately 1.7 million MWh (megawatt-hours) of electricity annually.”
According to
Dr. Klaus Kaiser, the Ivanpah facility, which covers 4,000 acres and is located
in the Mojave Desert, delivered a very low output of 250,000 MWh during
January-August, 2014. The visionaries of solar power did not take into account the
blasting of mirrors by sand and dust. To solve the problem, ISPF investors
decided to seek extensions on the borrowed money and to use more natural gas, “doubling
the amount of natural gas usage permitted for ‘preheating’ of the solar towers,”
thus spinning the truth and “fudging the numbers.” http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/67861
Eric Wessof wrote in his article, “Rest in Peace:
The List of Deceased Solar Companies, 2009 to 2013,” in which he tallied the solar
companies that went bankrupt, were acquired, closed, restructured, sold for a
song, or in the endangered category, a lengthy list of 102 companies, hardly a
success story. http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Rest-in-Peace-The-List-of-Deceased-Solar-Companies-2009-to-2013
The
Washington Post reported on the billionaire Vinod Khosla who invested in a
biofuel plant called KiOR in Columbus, Mississippi, that “was supposed to turn
wood chips into hydrocarbons that could be poured straight into a refinery,
pipeline, or car.”
Instead
of producing the magic catalyst, on November 10 2014, KiOR filed for bankruptcy,
“leaving behind 2067 creditors, including the State of Mississippi which can
ill-afford the bag of $75 million, 20-year, no interest loan.” The promised 1,000
jobs to be created by December 2015 never materialized. (“The Misadventures of
a tech billionaire confronting the stubborn economics of the biofuel business,”
Washington Post, November 30, 2014)
According
to Washington Post, KiOR spent $5-$10 per gallon notwithstanding the cost of
building the plant. KiOR’s losses were $629.3 million and had revenues of $2.25
million. The bankruptcy was inevitable even though “Khosla spent $85 million and
Bill Gates $15 million in October 2013.”
The project
of transforming biomass into fuels by using “catalytic pyrolysis, or cracking,”
an invention by a company in the Netherlands, BIOeCON, turned out to be a renewable
money pit for KiOR which produced very little energy. http://www.bioecon.com/
Among
other energy programs and initiatives for renewable energy, President George W.
Bush promised in 2006 “to make ethanol not just from corn, but from wood chips
and stalks and switch grass.” http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/infocus/energy/
Using
corn as fuel was not such a great idea either; corn that fed billions of people
around the world skyrocketed in price in recent years and became scarcer,
causing people in many countries to riot.
Wind
turbines caused health hazards in humans and millions of bird kills around the
world, some on the endangered species list. The energy produced was certainly
dirty green and inadequate for most developed countries. Conventional fossil
fuels were used to run gears to prevent rusting and to supplant electricity
when the wind turbines were idle. Turbines had to be cut off in some areas at
speeds of maximum production of electricity because the noise and constant
thumping was unbearable to the nearby residents. Just because a turbine
rotates, it does not necessarily mean that it produces electricity.
Are most
large economies of the world ready to ditch fossil fuels entirely as proposed in
Lima Peru by the environmental architects of gloom and doom alarmism and
replace them with renewables? The answer is a resounding no, unless we are
ready to live in the dark ages again.
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