John Kerry Urges Private Enterprise to Produce a Renewables "Breakthrough"

Thank you John Kerry for finally recognizing the obvious – but we told you so – 14 years ago.
Sallie Baliunas, Tim Patterson and I debated the Pembina Institute in 2002 in the PEGG. Our debate is now available at:
http://www.friendsofscience.org/assets/documents/KyotoAPEGA2002REV1.pdf
Our eight-point Rebuttal includes predictions that have all materialized in those countries in Western Europe that have adopted the full measure of global warming mania. My country, Canada, was foolish enough to sign the Kyoto Protocol, but then was (mostly_ wise enough to ignore it.
[2002 article in “quotation marks”, followed by current commentary.]
On Green Energy:
8. “The ultimate agenda of pro-Kyoto advocates is to eliminate fossil fuels, but this would result in a catastrophic shortfall in global energy supply – the wasteful, inefficient energy solutions proposed by Kyoto advocates simply cannot replace fossil fuels.”
Governments that adopted “green energy” schemes such as wind and solar power are finding these schemes are not green and produce little useful energy. Their energy costs are soaring and these governments are often in retreat, dropping their green energy subsidies as fast as they politically can.
Regardless of the controversial questions of the global warming scientific debate, wind and solar power do NOT contribute reliable, economic electric power to the grid.
This is a simple and proven fact, yet trillions of dollars have been wasted globally on this green energy nonsense.
Regards to all, Allan 🙂

“why is the Obama administration wasting so much US taxpayer’s money, funding production scale renewable projects which won’t deliver value?”
Maybe in large part because of this:
“For further evidence of the converging climate conversation, witness what some of the largest banks in the world are doing. Three of them—Citibank, JP Morgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley— together announced standards for the financing of new coal-fired power plants in a deal struck with utilities and environmental groups. In essence, the new standards say this: have either coal plants that capture and store carbon emissions or, perhaps, no coal plants at all.”
page 34
http://www.rbf.org/sites/default/files/2007_Annual_Review.pdf
I bet probably many of those environmental groups that worked with these huge banks are Rockefeller financed. Coupled this with the fact that most major news organizations are under the Rockefeller and Ford funded IPI (International Press Institute) means you have a real machine to control and shape policy.

Dear John
I feel the urge but I’m much too busy trying to breakthrough with all the subsidies and handouts.

@Kevin
‘Well, a few of us practicing engineers…’
In the power industry? Solar does not work at night, wind does not work when the wind is not blowing.
Our job in the power industry is to provide power when it is needed. It is a matter of life and death.

Kerry asks this question after shoveling taxpayer money out the back of trucks and taking orders like the other staff to not interfere when political protection of the nonperforming loans becomes clear. A venture capital-based approach to renewable energy policy with those amounts of money would have been many more miles down the tech road by now.

The green scams do not work. As wind energy and solar energy is intermittent there needs to be 100% hydrocarbon backup, or nuclear energy, or hydro energy for green energy. The power generating equipment is hence doubled. If the energy input to construct the green scams and the reduction in grid efficiency due to the elimination of combined cycle natural gas plants which are 20% more efficient than single cycle natural gas plants but require 10 hours to start and hence cannot be switched on/off/on/off is taken into account there is almost no savings in reduced CO2 emission when wind and solar exceed about 10% of total grid output.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/11/22/shocker-top-google-engineers-say-renewable-energy-simply-wont-work/

The key problem appears to be that the cost of manufacturing the components of the renewable power facilities is far too close to the total recoverable energy – the facilities never, or just barely, produce enough energy to balance the budget of what was consumed in their construction. This leads to a runaway cycle of constructing more and more renewable plants simply to produce the energy required to manufacture and maintain renewable energy plants – an obvious practical absurdity.
A research effort by Google corporation to make renewable energy viable has been a complete failure, according to the scientists who led the programme. After 4 years of effort, their conclusion is that renewable energy “simply won’t work”.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-biggest-solar-energy-firm-in-the-world-is-a-50-cent-stock-heres-how-that-went-down-2016-4

SunEdison, the biggest solar-energy manufacturing firm in the entire world, is nearing bankruptcy.
Its decline has been swift and brutal, taking some of the most legendary names in finance with it.
The stock that was once a hedge fund darling has turned into Wall Street’s nightmare.
A company that was once worth more than $10 billion is now valued at $150 million, with close to $8 billion in long-term debt.
This is because the company’s business structure, which was once considered quite complex, was in a matter of months found to be quite simple — it simply could not generate enough cash.