Green Energy Failure of U.N. Agenda 2030

What would your life be like without electricity? Imagine your existence today as if you lived in the Middle Ages. Is that a far-fetched idea or a conspiracy theory?

We don’t have to look very far for this “conspiracy theory.” Leaving the tin foil hat aside, the reality is more painful than we could ever imagine.

Europe is fast on its way to total green energy thanks to the EU and U.N. controllers and promoters who inscribed into all sorts of laws the so-called net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Some of the United Nation’s goals are demanding enforcement by 2030.  

Nobody questions these already partly implemented U.N. goals in all western societies. But the Trump administration dared to reject United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the American people would benefit greatly in the short and long terms.

Edward Heartney, a minister-counselor at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, called the 2030 agenda “a program of soft global governance that is inconsistent with U.S. sovereignty and adverse to the rights and interests of Americans.” The Latest: Trump Administration Rejects the UN’s 2030 Sustainability Goals

This rejection is wonderful news for the United States but the next president, most certainly a Democrat, “elected” in four years, will reverse this decision.

The other problem is the fact that since 1992, hundreds and thousands of laws have been passed at the local, state, and federal levels in support of and immediate implementation of U.N. Agenda 21, now turned U.N. Agenda 2030. How are we going to reverse those?

 

Alex Newman wrote in 2016 that “the United Nations and its mostly autocratic member regimes have big plans for your life, your children, your country, and your world.” And you were never polled and never voted for these plans, including the coercive climate agreements signed.

The master plan for the planet was celebrated at the time by former NATO chief Javier Solana, a socialist, as the next “Great Leap Forward,” a rebirth of the campaign slogan of the Chinese Communist Party. This master plan includes 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with 169 specific targets “to be foisted on all humanity.”

 “As we embark on this collective journey, we pledge that no one will be left behind,” reads the UN manifesto, entitled Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. “But if you love liberty, self-government, free markets, or the U.S. Constitution, you will almost certainly be wishing that the U.N. would leave you behind,” wrote Alex Newman.

The global warming theory, blaming humans for the ills of the planet, and the birth of the profitable climate change industry, which the U.N. unleashed on the world has given rise to another industry, that of green energy production at all costs because natural gas and petroleum are bad. Except that there is nothing green about this green energy.

Another industry emerged from U.N. Agenda 2030, the capturing of carbon underground, which in itself causes a huge threat to animal and human life as different accidents in Mississippi of ruptured pipes have demonstrated.

And we did not have to wait very long for this green energy to fail on a large scale. Climate Depot’s Marc Morano congratulated Spain on April 16, 2025, for using 100% renewable/green energy. Two weeks later Spain and Portugal were hit with huge blackouts. “They reached net zero accidentally.” https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/04/28/congrats-to-spain-nation-goes-100-renewable-as-of-april-16th-2025-but-then-mass-blackouts-hit-spain-portugal/

What were the immediate results of such green energy failures and blackouts? Airports shut down, homes, businesses, and hospitals were without power for long periods of time. People could not buy essentials, food, medicines, and gas; air conditioning did not work, refrigeration of any kind  was not possible, food and medicine spoiled in grocery stores, pharmacies, and hospitals did not have enough power from generators, oxygen delivery machines did not work, credit cards did not work (so much for cash going away, replaced by digital currency); computers did not work and bitcoin Internet and phone users were out of luck; drugs could not be purchased and hospital patients were left in a lurch if generators could not keep up with the lengthy power loss due to grid collapse. Generators can only provide so much power. Production in small and large businesses came to a halt.

Officials from Red Electrica ruled out the possibility of a cyber-attack or weather as reasons for the grid failure. The key culprit for the blackout appears to be green energy. “Green energy, unlike gas and coal, does not provide synchronous inertia that stabilizes the frequency in the network. When the frequency dropped, solar power plants could not compensate for the imbalance. They depend on inverters that turn off automatically when the frequency deviates from the norm, thus aggravating the grid collapse.”

Spain and Portugal Achieve Net Zero Accidently – Iowa Climate Science Education

 

Communism Is Now Globalism

Communism did not disappear in 1989 with the revolution that ended its tyranny in the Soviet bloc countries in Eastern Europe. China, Cuba, North Korea are still ruled by the communist party. China has adopted a capitalist business model but the rest is still pure socialist repression. South America is almost entirely socialist, the precursor to communism.

European Communism went underground, spread mightily into the U.S. via NGOs (non-governmental organizations) and rebranded itself as globalism, communism on such a large scale that Stalin and Khrushchev would envy its tentacles dug deeply into the flesh of nations under the guise of environmentalism. Billionaires and U.N. are saving/protecting the planet from human footprint thanks to the pixie dust net zero carbon of green energy.

Because communism was never really taught in American schools, young generations today do not understand what it is and that one cannot be a loyal American and a communist at the same time.

Through their demonstrations, chants, and destruction in big cities, young Americans do not understand that we are not a democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic, and that overthrowing the institutions of our society and replacing it with the materialist dialectic of Marxism is not at all democratic. They promote violence, brute force, and revolution at their atheistic core and use deception, masquerade, and false promises to achieve their goals.

Communists want to destroy law and order, to create chaos, by making false claims of police brutality, illegal arrests, persecution, racial discrimination, and inequity. Defund the police claims and support of illegal invasion of our country are two of the weapons in their ideological arsenal. They create more as they go.

As J. Edgar Hoover wrote, “The legacy of communism in this country has been to implant distrust of free government, law and order, and the rational solution of conflicts.”

Violence and the concept of “class struggle” and racism are the tools of communist propaganda and agitation.

Young Americans should know more about American traditions, our national heroes, our history, good and bad, and democratic traditions that are now being replaced by a technocratic, race-based tyranny.

In the early 20^th century America, communists hid their activities. The first known representative of the Bolshevik regime of V.I. Lenin in America was Ludwig C.A.K. Martens, a strange communist, wearing “ill-fitting clothes,” making “clandestine movements in Lower Manhattan.” From his office on Broadway, he financed his activities in the 1920 by “smuggling diamonds into the U.S.”

A century later, after the first Bolshevik in the U.S., Martens, an army of Marxists staff our universities, the technocrat corporate world, the halls of political power, the mainstream media, the government at all levels, and the public schools.

With access to “intellectual community,” hundreds of thousands of students, faculty, and “civil society” with interest in “academic freedom,” the master propagandists posed as protectors of “democracy” and the Constitution. But we are not a democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic. Repeat the lie of democracy often and it becomes the truth for the brainwashed masses.

Radio, television, mainstream media, and the Internet have enabled the lies of communism to be spread non-stop to the gullible masses who lacked the knowledge of history and of facts in their basic education. The church, the Pope, priests and preachers, jumped into the fray and became mouthpieces for the globalist [communist] movement. Communist propagandists with a clerical cloak don’t denounce religion as the “opium of the people” but they denounce white parishioners as “white supremacists” and the benefactors of “white privilege,” made up constructs in order to vilify and divide the races.

The mainstream media has become the press of the communist party platform as represented by elected politicians who are no longer servants of the people but their dictators.

On June 9-15, 1968, the convention of the New Leftist Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) met in East Lansing, Michigan. The Guardian newsweekly reported it as such: “The new left in the United States has developed in the last several years from liberalism to anticapitalism, from reformism to revolution.” A picture of attendees was showing them waving two flags, a red one for communism and a black one for anarchism. The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was the major organizational expression of the new left.

To achieve their goals in the 20^th century, communist organizers used the civil rights movement and black nationalism to their advantage. They also used labor and industry as a means to propagate their “democratic socialism” and the need for revolution.

In the 21^st century apparatchiks are using environmentalism, illegal immigration without borders, hate speech, which is any speech they disagree with, and new racial segregation across the country in order to keep the country divided.

Citizens can’t see the full problem because they do not understand or know that communism is a totalitarian philosophy of human life encompassing education, art, literature, press, medicine, work, police, military, mobility, travel or lack thereof, property, and leisure.

The easiest population group to indoctrinate are students in public schools. Marxist teachers have their pupils’ attention every day for ten months each year of the twelve years of public-school miseducation. They teach them what to think instead of how to think. Once the brainwashing is done, it is not reversible.

It is obvious today to anybody who pays attention and thinks logically that “Communists adapt their agitation and propaganda to the fears, prejudices, problems, and special grievances or aspirations of many ethnic, racial, and religious groups to be found in this country,” including issues between native-born and legal foreign-born.  (J. E. Hoover, On communism, Random House, 1969, p. 129)

 

Prairies, Wind Turbines, Solar Panels, and Fried Birds

Image: Stuart McMahon

The green energy policy in the United States which requires blending gasoline with ethanol produced from corn has expanded the corn fields to the detriment of prairies. According to AP, more than 1.2 million acres of grassland were lost to the federal requirement of blending gas with 10 percent ethanol, soon to be 15 percent ethanol. These former prairies are now planted with corn and soybeans.

The unintended consequence of this green energy policy is the release of more carbon dioxide naturally locked in the soil when the virgin grasslands are plowed, the sky rocketing of corn prices, the scarcity of corn in countries where it is the main staple, food riots and famine resulting from such shortage in third world countries. Moving to 15 percent ethanol will clog and destroy car engines.

South Dakota lost “370,000 acres of grassland in addition to the 5 million acres of farmland set aside for conservation.” This is more acreage, said Brokaw and Gillum, than “Yellowstone, Everglades, and Yosemite National Parks combined that have vanished since Obama took office.”

“Scientists warned that America’s corn-for-ethanol policy would fail as an anti-global warming strategy if too many farmers plowed over virgin land.” (Chet Brokaw and Jack Gillum, November 13, 2013, AP)

These are some of the hidden costs of green energy. Thousands of birds, some protected species, even the Bald Eagle, are killed by wind turbine farms. A rare species, white-throated needletail that had not been seen in twenty-two years was tracked by bird watchers in Britain when, to their horror, the bird flew into turbine blades and was chopped up. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2350267/Rare-bird-white-throated-needletail-killed-wind-turbine-crowd-twitchers.html

Solar panels in California either singe/fry the birds from the strong reflections or when birds dive directly into the panels thinking that they are glittering water. Lex Berko noted that many of California’s solar plants are located in the pathway of “four major north-to-south trajectories for migratory birds, called the Pacific Flyway.” www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/11/12/Oops-Solar-Energy-Plants-are-Killing-Rare-birds

Powerful winds send wind turbine engines up in flames with firemen unable to put out the fires; some wind turbines are 100 meters tall.  A turbine in Ardrossan, Scotland burned its engine out due to high winds, according to the Telegraph. A second turbine fell over completely. Each turbine cost 2 million pounds, approximately $3.1 million.

According to Lawrence E. Miller from Gerrardstown, WV, and engineer with over 40 years’ experience with large power train machinery associated with Navy ships, wind turbines require large amounts of electricity to operate and use electricity from the grid. This electricity use is not metered or accounted for in their output figures. The manufacturers of wind turbines such as Vestas, GE, and NEG Micon do not include electricity consumption in the specifications provided.

There are many parts of a wind turbine that use electricity: yaw mechanism, the turbine housing and blades, blade-pitch control, lights, controllers, communication, sensors, metering, data collection, heating the blades, heating and dehumidifying the turbine housing, oil heater, pump, cooler, and filtering system in gear box, hydraulic brakes to lock blades in high wind, etc.

It is estimated that “at times a turbine consumes more than 50 percent of its rated capacity in its own operation. The 25 percent rated capacity means that a “turbine would then use (for free) twice as much electricity as it produces and sells.”

“Energy consumption in wind facilities” concludes that “industrial wind power could turn out to be a laundering scheme: ‘Dirty energy goes in, ‘clean’ energy comes out.” http://www.aweo.org/windconsumption.html

Blades must rotate even in the absence of wind otherwise they bow under the tremendous weight. In addition to bowing and warping, the gears rust in place if turbines are located near water. “The wind farm operator has to keep sensitive equipment, the drive, hubs, and rotor blades in constant motion.” (The Automatic Earth, Oct. 27, 2012)

RenewableUK reported in 2011 1,500 accidents/incidents involving wind turbines, some of which resulted in serious injuries and deaths. NGup Rotor Blades, a Dutch company, said “Rotor blade lightning damage is a common problem.”

http://www.windbyte.co.uk/safety.html

Residents of King’s Dyke, Whittlesey, were showered for four hours with potentially deadly chunks of ice, some as long as 2 ft. from an 80 meter wind turbine nearby. (PeterboroughToday.co.uk, December 2, 2008)

A major road was blocked for 5 days by a rotor transport that crashed and overturned in Raylees, UK. Some transporters lodge at turns on narrow roads.

Because of the propensity to catch fire, discharge loose blades or broken parts of a blade, throw dangerous ice chunks at high speed, and the potential catastrophic blade failure followed by a tower collapse, these wind turbines must be placed at a safe distance from people, homes, and highways. According to a report by Windtech International in August 4, 2008, 60 percent of wind turbines were behind in maintenance.

Renewable energy is generating so many tax surcharges that Germans can no longer keep up – there is a surcharge to finance the power grids, and collateral damage charges from energy surplus and deficit, depending on the weather and the time of the day.

In winter time, when the wind stops blowing, the coal and oil power plants are fired up to provide electricity, releasing more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the maligned carbon dioxide that is so necessary for plant life to thrive.

Wind turbines are turned off if there is too much electricity coming from the grid but consumers have to pay for the “phantom electricity” the turbines are theoretically generating.

On numerous occasions, Germany pays fees to dump already subsidized green energy. Experts call this “negative electricity prices.”

Plants, like ArcelorMittal steel in Hamburg that use up a lot of energy, are asked to shut down production if there is an electricity shortage in order to protect the smart grid. Ordinary electricity customers “are expected to pay to compensate these businesses for lost profits.”

According to Spiegel Online International, Germans were forced to pay the highest electricity rates in Europe causing “energy poverty” among the German underprivileged when “electricity became a luxury good.” Welfare and pension checks were not adjusted to accommodate for higher prices. Over 300,000 Germans a year have their electricity cut off because they cannot afford to pay their electric bills. “Two-thirds of the price increase is due to new government fees, surcharges and taxes.” http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/58140

Renewable energy is the dirty and expensive little secret liberals would like to keep hidden.

The Scam of Green

You know the scam of green has hit rock bottom when the Washington Post is criticizing the government’s alternative energy partnerships, grants, and subsidies and Al Gore’s $100 million fortune gained through investments in the climate change hoax. “Al Gore is 50 times richer than he was when he left the vice presidency in 2001.” (http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-lane-liberals-green-energy-contradictions/2012/10/15/8c251ba2-16e6-11e2-8792-cf5305eddf60_story.html)

Being the die-hard liberals that they are, the paper cannot help itself in describing Gore’s wealth as “Romneyesque” and Mitt Romney himself as a “private-equity baron.” In the liberal view, it is acceptable to gain wealth, whether honestly or dishonestly if you are a Democrat, however, if you are a Republican, you become a baron, a comparison with negative connotations, harking back to the robber-barons era.

Criticizing modern liberalism and the Democrat Party, the author condemns their green agenda and their dependence on cash from high-tech venture capitalists and lobbyists, questioning their claims that they are supporting “the little guy,” the ordinary Americans who struggle to survive in an almost 16 percent unemployment environment.

The real unemployment figures, if reported correctly and honestly, are much higher than the stated 7.8 percent by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the happy media supporting President Obama’s re-election campaign. The main stream media has not bothered to report that the seventh largest economy on the planet, California, had failed to report its unemployment figures on time last week and was thus not included in the BLS unemployment calculations.

Charles Lane says that it is much harder to describe “liberalism as a philosophy of distributive justice.” Quoting Andrew Jackson’s words of 1832, the author is indirectly complaining about the injustice of our Government.

I do not recall our founding fathers advocating socialist re-distribution of wealth. Liberalism is a political philosophy founded on the ideas of liberty: free and fair elections, civil rights, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, and the right to life, liberty, and property. Nobody is entitled to anybody else’s property. It was John Locke who argued that each human being has a natural right to life, liberty, and property and governments must not violate these rights. Yet liberals trumpet that an omnipotent government should be the arbiter and re-distributor of private property and wealth.

Charles Lane makes a valid point that our government does not have a mandate to choose economic winners and losers through green subsidies, grants, or tax breaks for oil and gas. However, in his progressive views, governments must pursue “the legitimate goal of environmentalism.”

I am not sure if there is a legitimate goal of environmentalism or who has mandate to pursue that goal. The majority of Americans believe environmentalism to be counterproductive to our capitalist economy and a threat to private property and our way of life.

Maurice Strong, the founder of the United Nations Environment Programme, exemplifies environmentalism gone berserk: “Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilization collapses? Isn’t our responsibility to bring that about? Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class – involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and suburban housing – are not sustainable.” (Rio Earth Summit)

Questioning Gore’s “climate crusade” as being based on money and not about saving the planet, the author talks about Fisker, the manufacturer of the hybrid cars, mostly priced above $100,000, the Kharma sport model selling for $117,000. Lane believes the huge financial gain does not hurt Gore’s credibility about climate change, just the solutions he advocates.

It is not in the interest of liberals to let climate change/global warming crusade die. There is too much money, wealth, power, and global control to be gained from pushing this hoax.

The Met Office in the U.K. reported last week that 3,000 temperature readings on land and sea have shown that from the beginning of 1997 until August 2012 there was no discernible rise in global temperatures. According to the Daily Mail, “the ‘plateau’ or ‘pause’ in global warming has now lasted for about the same time as the previous period when temperatures rose, 1980 to 1996. Before that, temperatures had been stable or declining for about 40 years.”

The media reported with great fanfare six months ago figures through the end of 2010 – a very warm year because the data seemed to agree with their agenda. The reporting was disingenuous because it supposedly showed a slight warming trend since 1997. However, 2011 and the first eight months of 2012 were much cooler, erasing the warming trend. I would also argue that environmentalists constantly mix weather and climate, depending on their talking points. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217286/Global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago-reveals-Met-Office-report-quietly-released--chart-prove-it.html)

Everybody understands green energy is expensive and not feasible and cheap on a mass scale for years to come. Our huge economy and transportation need more than just wind mills and solar panels. Our economy needs natural gas, oil, clean coal, nuclear energy, and hydroelectric energy.

The New York Times reported on California’s “net metering” subsidy for solar-panel users. Consumers who can afford to install photovoltaic panels are paid by their utilities for the excess capacity of electricity and to keep them on the grid. The utilities’ costs are passed on to lower income customers. (Washington Post, Charles Lane, October 16, 2012)

Liberals are finally discovering that expensive electricity rates are bad for industry and private customers alike. The $3.4 billion from the 2009 stimulus bill spent on the Smart Grid may be efficient and profitable in energy distribution for utilities but it is very expensive for consumers, invades their privacy, and creates cyber security issues and privacy issues. Germany’s rapid replacement of nuclear power with wind and solar has increased utility rates so much that 200,000 long-term unemployed Germans lost power in 2011 because they could not afford to pay their electric bills. (http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/energy-turnaround-in-germany-plagued-by-worrying-lack-of-progress-a-860481.html)

Liberals are finally discovering that much higher electricity rates through smart metering are hitting their pockets and it hurts. Progressives are realizing that the Democrat talk about “green jobs” is nothing but a con redefinition of already existing jobs. Furthermore, smart grid and smart meters, with all their negative effects on human health and privacy, are destroying the jobs of the traditional meter readers. Lane calls this unintended consequence “creative destruction” - “what makes capitalism go.” But Economics 101 teaches students that self-interest, greed, the price system, Adam Smith’s “invisible hand,” and the pursuit of profit are the motivators behind capitalism.

Lane disapproves of Gore and his partners’ rent-seeking activities. “It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.” He laments the fact that the United Mine Workers of America, a former Democrat core constituency, has refused to endorse Obama in 2008 and 2012. Mitt Romney has promised in Ohio that we will use our vast reserves of coal, keep the miners’ jobs, and re-open those coal mines shut down by Obama’s green energy policies.

In the end, the scam of green is affecting Democrat and Republican consumers alike. It just took Democrats four years to realize this obvious fact.

 

 

 

 

Solar Panels Melting Money Away

Citing national security and environmental degradation, the federal government has pressured the manufacture of solar panels in the U.S. by enacting tax credits, loan guarantees, and state mandates for utilities to derive a certain percentage of their electricity from green energy even though green energy is more expensive than traditional energy and the cost would be passed on to the consumer while the taxpayers guarantee the loans.

With all the government involvement in “green” energy, less than 0.1 percent of all electricity produced in the U.S. is generated by solar panels. Stimulus funding and tax incentives have kept the solar industry alive worldwide. When government funding stopped, as it has been the case of four large solar panel manufacturers in Germany and numerous ones in the U.S., those companies declared bankruptcy.

Photovoltaic solar panels can be used on a small or large scale while concentrated solar technologies can only be used for utility-scale electricity generation.  This administration declared in the Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future:

“We invented the photovoltaic solar panel, built the first megawatt solar power station, and installed the first megawatt-sized wind turbine. Yet today, China has moved passed us in wind capacity, while Germany leads the world in solar.”

What bureaucrats fail to mention is that the four largest German suppliers have gone bankrupt and twelve American manufacturers involved in solar panel production and/or renewable energy storage have filed for bankruptcy. Amy Payne of Heritage Foundation calls the twelve American manufacturers “the Green Graveyard of Taxpayer-Funded Failures.”

Alexandre E. Becquerel discovered the photovoltaic effect but it was the American inventor, Charles Fritts, who made the first solar cell in 1883. RCA, Texas Instruments, and the Japanese used PV panels on a small scale. It was the oil crisis of the 1970s that increased the attractiveness of solar panels but they remained expensive. President Carter offered the first “direct federal support for solar [panel] manufacturing.”

There are two types of solar panel manufacturing:

-          Crystalline silicone system with four stages of production, polysilicon manufacturing, wafer manufacturing, cell manufacturing, and module manufacturing

-          Thin-film PV (a newer method, similar to flat panel displays manufacturing for TVs, computer screens and cell phones)

A polysilicon plant requires $500 million-$1 billion in construction capital. European, American, and Japanese companies dominate the polysilicon manufacturing. Polysilicon, which is based on sand, represents about one-fourth of the total cost of a solar panel.

(Green Rhino Energy, Value Chain Activity: Producing Polysilicon, greenrhinoenergy.com/solar/industry/ind_01_silicon.php)

The production of solar glass requires massive capital and large shipping costs. Sixty percent of the global supply is produced by four manufacturers, Asahi, NSG Group, Saint Gobain, and Guardian.  (Green Rhino Energy, Value Chain Activity: Manufacturing Solar Glass, greenrhinoenergy.com/solar/industry/in_15_solarglass.php)

According to Paula Flowers, Asahi Glass of Japan produces more than 50 percent of the world’s solar glass through its AGC Solar, a Belgium-based company. Its factory in Kingsport, TN produces solar glass for the U.S. market. (TN Solar Energy Activities Update, TN Chamber of Commerce and Industry, October 7, 2011)

The Department of Energy estimates that the plant manufacture of 120 MW of solar cells per year would need at least $40 million in initial investment. The solar cells are cut wafers into 5X5 or 6X6 inch pieces linked by copper leads. A wafer is a shaped polysilicon into an ingot.

(U.S. DOE, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Solar Photovoltaic Economic Development, Building and Growing a Local PV Industry, November 2011)

The modules weigh 34-62 pounds and are comprised of 60-72 cells covered by solar glass to protect against environmental damage and are attached to an aluminum frame and supported by a plastic backing.

Currently, lack of profitability has driven the consolidation of the solar panel industry into the hands of ten companies that control half of the global production of photovoltaic solar panels and they are located in China and Taiwan who subsidize exports and have been accused of engaging in dumping of products on foreign markets at prices lower than prices charged on domestic markets. China currently exports 95 percent of all the photovoltaic panels it produces. (CRS Report for Congress, April 27, 2012, p. 17)

Federal programs that created our domestic demand for solar photovoltaic panels have reached funding limits and have expired such as the 1603 cash grant program, the advanced energy manufacturing tax credit, and the S. 591, introduced by the 112^th Congress to extend the credit, will expire at the end of 2016. (U.S. Solar Photovoltaic Manufacturing:  Industry Trends, Global Competition, Federal Support, Michaela D. Platzer, April 27, 2012)

Examples of government support for solar power include advanced energy manufacturing tax credit (MTC) which reached funding cap in 2010, Section 1705 Loan Guarantee Program for “new and significantly improved” technologies, the investment tax credit (ITC) which ends in 2016, the Section 1603 Treasury Cash Grant Program, and the Sunshot Initiative of the DOE.

The White House Fact Sheet lists 27 Solar PV manufacturers who received 48C Manufacturing Tax Credit (MTC) from approximately $1 million to $142 million. Two of the companies listed have already filed for bankruptcy:  Abound Solar Inc. which received $12.6 million in 48C MTC and Amonix Inc., which received $3.6 million in 48C manufacturing tax credit. (CRS Report for Congress, April 27, 2012, pp. 28-29)

John Boehner’s office issued a statement last week that the former Office of Management and Budget Director ignored warnings on Solyndra’s insolvency – millions of taxpayer dollars could have been saved by closing the company immediately and selling its assets. “Instead, the DOE restructured the loan to Solyndra (a solar cell manufacturer), putting private investors ahead of taxpayers for repayment if the company closed (crony capitalism). Solyndra’s liquidation will recover just $24 million of the $527 million that taxpayers lent to the company.”

A bill is making its way through Congress, No More Solyndras Act, which will ban any new loan guarantees from title XVII of the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

“The competitiveness of solar PV as a source of electric generation in the United States will likely be adversely affected both by the expiration of these tax provisions and by the rapid development of shale gas, which has the potential to lower the cost of gas-fired power generation and reduce the cost-competitiveness of solar power, particularly as an energy source for utilities. In light of these developments, the ability to build a significant U.S. production base for PV equipment is in question.” (CRS Report for Congress, Summary, Michaela D. Platzer, April 27, 2012)

Maligned Fossil Fuels, Engine of Economy

According to the Congressional Research Service, overall energy consumption has tripled in the U.S. since 1950, per capita consumption increased 50 percent, and electricity consumption increased even more rapidly. The heaviest energy user, the industrial sector, grew the slowest. From 1973 to 2010, “the consumption of electricity remained close to 0.4 kwh per constant dollar of GDP.” Annual power generation now is ten times larger than in 1950.

“Renewable sources (except hydropower) continue to offer more potential than actual energy production, although fuel ethanol has become a significant factor in transportation fuel. Wind power has also grown rapidly, although it still contributes only a small share of total electricity generation.” (Carl E. Behrens and Carol Glover)

The reality is simple: renewable energy is not sufficient to power the largest economy any time soon. I am yet to drive a wind or solar powered car. Electric cars, if they do not “brick” themselves (the engine dies and must be factory rebuilt for $40,000), do not go very far between charges. Hybrids do not get the mileage per gallon claimed and their batteries are toxic to the environment.

The pie-in-the-sky wind energy can be expensive. Windmills are noisy, people nearby complain of headaches and insomnia from the constant hum, propellers kill thousands of birds, particularly endangered species, and nobody wants wind farms in their own back yards.

The maligned fossil fuels are the engine of our economy. Gasoline provides transportation and electricity generation. Natural gas provides home heating, industry and electricity generation. Cars, vans, trucks, and buses can be retrofitted to run on natural gas. Coal generates electricity exclusively and so do nuclear and hydroelectric power plants.

Since 1950, crude oil provides 40 percent of U.S. energy. In spite of political fear mongering, we are not running out of oil as we were told since the 70s. We have discovered new reserves in deep-sea waters, Mexico, oil sands in Canada, and heavy oil in Venezuela.

Different sectors of the economy consume different types of fossil fuels. Many products that hypocritical liberals use abundantly are made from petroleum, yet they support green energy.

Diesel fuel is used in many transportation sectors. Railroads utilize diesel and diesel-electric power. Marine transportation, large commercial trucks, and some cars use diesel. Most of the food brought to the American table is ferried by eighteen-wheelers. Aviation uses 99 percent jet fuel. Some airlines are advertising the use of bio-fuels. (U.S. Energy: Overview and Key Statistics)

The Keystone pipeline was nixed by this administration, bent on increasing the price of oil, making energy skyrocket, and bankrupting the coal industry. The Arab Winter turmoil interfered with Libya’s oil production. We freed Iraq but it is selling oil to China. President Obama is cutting back on domestic oil production with every opportunity by imposing a moratorium on domestic drilling in the Gulf and using EPA’s regulations to prevent new oil leases on federal lands and sometimes on private lands.

According to Joe Miller, “Obama’s State Department is giving away seven strategic, resource-laden Alaskan islands to the Russians. The seven endangered islands in the Arctic Ocean and Bearing Sea include one large island the size of Rhode Island and Delaware combined.” The Russians are going to get Wrangel, Bennett, Jeannette, Henrietta, Copper Island, Sea Lion Rock, and Sea Otter Rock and “tens of thousands of square miles of oil-rich sea beds surrounding the islands.” Estimates by The Department of Interior include billions of barrels of oil.” (World Net Daily)

The Joint Ocean Commission Initiative recommended that the United States give its oceans to the regulatory power of the United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) which would control oceans, connected waterways, and any oceanic economic activity including passage, fishing, mining, and exploration of fossil fuels.

“Obama’s plan is still in draft form. It calls for an executive order to be issued for a National Ocean Policy that will determine how the ecosystem is managed while giving the federal government more regulatory authority over any businesses that utilize the ocean.” The executive order will draw on Obama’s 2010 Interagency Ocean Policy Taskforce and Executive Order 13547 of July 2010, “Stewardship of the Ocean, Our Coasts, and the Great Lakes.” (Aaron Klein, World Net Daily)

Sierra Club is blocking the natural gas liquefaction facility of Virginia-based Dominion Resources Inc. at Cove Point, Maryland because it would “change the footprint” of this “natural heritage area.” Dominion wants to export by 2017 750 million cubic feet of gas per day from the Marcellus Shale to Asia. (Ben Wolfgang, The Washington Times)

Sierra Club argues that Dominion’s hydraulic fracturing (fracking) would pollute the Chesapeake Bay and cause irreversible environmental damage to many adjacent areas. The air and drinking water would be poisoned by the process of injecting water, sand, and harmful chemicals to crack deep underground rocks that would release the natural gas.

“Supporting Safe and Responsible Development of Unconventional Domestic Natural Gas Resources,” President Obama’s Executive Order passed on April 13, 2012, aims to control the natural gas market that delivered 25 percent of our energy in 2011. Environmentalists cannot let cheap natural gas interfere with their stated plans to de-develop the United States as punishment for 235 years of ecological imperialism and social injustice.

Many solar energy storage companies, alternative energy companies, and solar panel manufacturing companies that were backed by the Obama administration and heavily subsidized by the Department of Energy have sought bankruptcy protection. Several government subsidized German manufacturers of solar panels have also gone bankrupt.

According to Christopher Bedford, China stopped expansion of its wind and solar energy production, concentrating on nuclear, hydroelectric, and fracking. China has 14 nuclear power plants and 25 under construction. U.S. has 104 nuclear power plants, built prior to 1974, with two new ones scheduled to operate in Georgia in 2016-2017. Unlike China, who is the largest producer of hydroelectric power in the world, we do not build hydroelectric power sources, we blow up dams in order to comply with the EPA Endangered Species Act.

Daniel Kish explained that China is making cheaper solar panels and windmills in order to sell them to western countries that impose renewable energy and clean energy standards on their citizens.

“It is getting tougher and tougher for the Obama administration to argue that somehow we’re in this big race for green power worldwide when the rest of the world seems to have decided that the race isn’t worth winning.” (Daniel Kish, Institute for Energy Research, Daily Caller)

In the meantime, we are experiencing unnecessary high prices at the pump when we could be energy independent, if our administration cared more for the U.S. economy and its citizens and less for the United Nations dictates, treaties, and laws.

It is true, there are other variables that affect the price of oil, such as exchange rates (oil is priced in dollars, a very weak currency right now), OPEC policies, a changing commodities market, inelastic demand for oil products (consumers must buy gasoline whether they like the price or not), and federal taxes on gasoline (18.4 cents per gallon).

The main impediment to our energy independence is the federal government’s policies of green energy, wind, solar, renewables, and out-of-control regulatory agencies such as the EPA and federal bureaucracies like the Department of Energy.

The EPA will use any tactics, including “crucifixion of Big Oil,” to enforce draconian rules and to bring coal, oil and gas companies into submission, in order to fulfill Obama’s “dream of a green planet” devoid of polluting humans. Americans will pay dearly for his dreams.

Green Energy Not Ready for Prime Time

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936), a prolific English writer, said, “The whole world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.”

As our President promised to “double down” on renewable energy, in spite of the bankrupted Solyndra, three more green energy companies, recipients of stimulus dollars, have collapsed.

Evergreen Energy Inc., a developer of alternative fuel products, filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy in a Delaware court on January 23, 2012. Chapter 7 bankruptcy allows the company to liquidate its assets while being protected from creditors. Evergreen Inc. has $25 million in debt and $240 million in assets. Without further financing, the company cannot continue to operate its K-Fuel facility in China. K-Fuel is a process of “refining coal before it is burned to increase energy densities and combustion efficiencies which reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”

Solyndra LLC (solar panel maker) and Beacon Power Corporation (energy storage) filed for bankruptcy last year after receiving government loan guarantees.

Solyndra received $535 million in government loan guarantees and listed in its bankruptcy papers $854.1 million in assets and $867.1 million in debt.

Beacon had $72 million in assets and $47 million debt. Beacon had built a $69 million power plant in New York with U.S. Department of Energy loans.

Ener1 Inc., a manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries for electric cars, filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Manhattan claiming heavy competition from Toyota, China, and Korea, and the demise of a major customer, Norway Think Global. Ener1 had received $118.5 million grant from the Department of Energy. The company has $73.9 million in assets and $90.5 million in debt.

Amonix, Inc., a manufacturer of solar panels that received $5.9 billion in stimulus money will cut 200 employees, seven months after opening a factory in Nevada. (Las Vegas Sun)

It appears that producing clean, renewable energy is not such a cheap and affordable proposition after all. In spite of the green movement’s desire to replace “dirty” fossil fuels at all costs, it is not economically feasible to do so at this time.

In addition, the bad news mounts for the progressives who want to send us back to the Stone Age with their global warming fear mongering. The faux “consensus” that global warming is man-made was challenged again by newly released temperature data showing that earth has not warmed in the past 15 years. The temperature readings came from 30,000 measuring stations.

The infamous University of East Anglia Climactic Research Unit and the Met Office confirmed, “The rising trend in world temperatures ended in 1997.” (Daily Mail)

As various scientists compare and contrast diverse methods of climate modeling that take into account the influence of solar flares and the significance of CO2 emissions, it is evident that there were severe shortcomings and misrepresentations in the theories, data, and readings advanced by progressives.

Leading climate scientists believe that the sun will no longer emit high levels of energy as it did in the 20^th century and will deliver a “grand minimum” of output, opening the possibility of colder summers, very cold winters, and much shorter growing seasons for food. (The Mail)

Some scientists, however, are still very confident that “solar activity is insufficient to offset the dominant influence of greenhouse gases.”

“World temperatures may wind up a lot cooler than now for 50 years or more. It will take a long battle to convince some climate scientists that the sun is important. It may well be that the sun is going to demonstrate this on its own, without the need for their help.” (Henrik Svensmark, Director, Center for Sun-Climate Research at Danmark’s National Space Institute)

One can only conclude that the global warming alarm was manufactured based on insufficient or deliberately misrepresented data. The progressives marched on with their agenda to replace traditional fossil fuel energy sources with a non-existent green renewable energy industry, which bankrupted itself in a short time, and the conservatives did nothing to stop them.