But — wind and solar provide only 1% of 2015 world energy
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin
The 2017 edition of the REN21 Renewables Global Status Report (GSR) has been released providing a status assessment of global renewable energy use with energy consumption data reflected through 2015.
The report presents the following breakdown of total 2015 world energy consumption provided by fossil, nuclear, hydro, geothermal, biomass and other renewable energy resources.
The category “traditional biomass” (9.1 percent of global energy) reflects the global twigs, leaves and dung fuel sources use while the category “Modern renewables” (10.2 percent of global energy) reflects wind, solar, geothermal and biomass from mostly government crop subsidized energy programs.
Investment data is provided for renewables showing that since 2006 nearly $2.5 trillion has been funneled into government mandated renewable energy programs globally.
Despite this massive global government mandated driven investment in “Modern renewables” the so called “traditional renewables” (twigs, leaves and dung) continue to provide nearly as much global energy as renewables receiving lavish climate alarmist politically directed government funding.
Most significant is the fact that the climate alarmism poster child renewables of wind and solar which are going to “save the world” provided only about 1% of year 2015 global energy consumption (1.6% less geothermal and biomass) which is absolutely pathetic given the massive trillions of dollars in government mandated investment in these technologies that climate alarmists demanded.
What an absolutely monumental waste of global monetary resources that could have done so much to benefit the real global problems of massive poverty, poor health care and inadequate education instead of enriching the pockets of arrogant renewable energy billionaires.
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What is obvious is that our current population if too large to be getting along without fossil fuels. If we do not decrease our population by the time the fuel runs out Mankind will be in big trouble,
willhaas. Have at it! Show some leadership, lead by example.
“could have done so much (for) …. adequate education.”
Thank heavens government here didn’t pump that kind of cash into what they would have called adequate education. Third world education is superior to the information-free, designer-brained, prescribed and proscribed education that the sick-beast Western World mills for our children. I am supolying “enriched” and antidote education to a grand son as I did for my children. One ‘science’ course had an ‘x’ marked on Baffin Island with caption “future site of summer Olympics ‘!
This is the 21st century version of tilting after windmills.
The Left hates the poor
As many of you regulars here on WUWT have seen me write, the Russians
are correct. It is not “fossil fuel”, it is hydrocarbons. They are produced deep
in the earth, and rise as pressure above is relieved. They rise all around the
earth, but are not evenly distributed.
This means that they are “renewable”, and the supply is endless, as far as
humans are concerned.
I devised a simple test to prove this. The test is based on the fact that upland
soil, soil not in a floodplain, and in the presence of adequate moisture, owes its
richness to the amount of natural gas (not just methane) upwelling through it.
Aerobic microbes consume the hydrocarbons.
These microbes “exhale” CO2, feeding the stomata, and the life cycle of the
microbes feed the roots of the plants.
The darker the soil, the richer, in most cases. The dark brown to black, very
deep soil in Kansas, the first area I tested, has a large amount of upwelling
natural gas.
The soil around Atlanta, Ga. has little to no natural gas. The soil is very poor,
because the shield is very near the surface, and blocks upwelling hydrocarbons.
The foregoing is the result of old fashioned science. I developed a theory, and then
tested.
My methodology and procedures have previously been published several times
on WUWT, It is a simple test and the equipment required can be rented.
For some reason, some people, with the Western energy Paradigm, persist
in deriding my lack of a degree from Harvard as proof that I am wrong, rather
than replicating my work, and finding that we do, indeed, have a never ending
supply of hydrocarbons available to us.
My favorite Harvard related story. My alltime favorite professor, who was Harvard
trained and was also a Southern Baptist preacher, received a dispensation,
purchased during the depression, by one of his wealthy Harvard friends, for
forgiveness for all the sins that he had ever committed and all the sins that he
would ever commit. Dr. McCloud said that that was “Harvard Humor”.
Even if you had a degree from Harvard, it wouldn’t matter. That school isn’t where you go for geology. Try the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Arizona, or Penn State.
My favorite critic is from Harvard.
And, even if he was from there, – where you went to school’s got zero to do with it. Whether you’re right is what matters.
The thousands of us who told the climate cucks the atmosphere isn’t a hot box but a thermally conductive, freezing cold compressible fluid bath, didn’t all go to Harvard.
Several of the men who put up experiments disproving MAJOR elements of the ”magic gais dun made the sky git hot YaW!” story have no degree at all that I know of. The man who posted up that famous experiment proving that infrared doesn’t warm water/oceans, but rather cools them, is one of them.
I can’t remember his name. He wrote or writes rather, some kind of science fiction books maybe? I can’t remember but I can think of a lot of people whose degrees had zero to do with the devastation they brought to the Magic Gais made the sky git hot fraud.
People going around claiming a cold thermally conductive, light blocking bath can warm the light warmed rock it blocks light to and strips energy from conductively, tend to find themselves rebuked and mocked at every single turn.
As have those who claimed the atmosphere can warm the planet. That proof didn’t come by way of the most Highly decorated and educated pimps.
It came from real working scientists whose degrees either aren’t actually in the science major they worked in to show the world the Hooterville Heater is fake, or their degrees had them working in relate field but weren’t research degrees.
University degrees are not by any means an indication that a person’s got sufficient education and morality, to tell the truth.
So I’m definitely agreeing with Michael Darby, and look forward to seeing some of the stuff you’ve written Jerry Henson.
Sounds like an interesting subject, and if you wanna link, go ahead, I’ll read it, and if you don’t come back by and do that I’ll try to remember to look you up and read about it. I understand the efforts amateur researchers go to, to get to the truth, coming from a background of having business owners in my family, who were also scientists, both degreed and not.
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‘which is absolutely pathetic given the massive trillions of dollars in government mandated investment in these technologies that climate alarmists demanded.’
Not relevant. Greenies are smiling and demanding more. They don’t care how much of YOUR money they have to spend.
“Let’s put faces on the suffering that these climate charlatans are causing.”
Let’s name the “climate charlatans” and expose the waste of resources and tax payer’s money..
These are great fact sheets presented. What’s even more astounding is this has the back drop of a “high carbon cost” regulatory government policy. Where would the results be with a rational deregulated ANWR access, a clean coal investment campaign and more open off shore policies? To name just three major Greenshirt suppression’s of supply. 2-3 million barrels DAILY an easy under production number from the U.S. due to green governance and domination. Did any of this hurt established capital interests? “Big oil” for example? Of course not, they benefited. They got paid more to produce less. The general society endured the pain of high costs and malinvestment. This only an oil example, it’s much larger then this.
In a lower priced carbon world the bones will be popping out of the skin of the green blob sector pretty fast. Take the massive subsidies away, open supply and it’s a 50X sector bust that happened in the late 70’s and early 80’s. The stupid of the moment though is 50x greater then when the Reagan Reformation began. The Green Blob much more deeply entrenched and the critical thinking skills of the society immeasurably far worse as is reflected in AGW globalism and belief systems.
Another new high for TSLA last week, $7500 per car fed subside cooked in the 400k next generation backlog, it nets no carbon savings on a standard electric grid charge it might be mentioned, another Ethanol level scam. 60% of the drive-trains fail under 60k miles and they’re massively complicated and expensive to repair. The cars are massively toxic with lead, cobalt and lithium contaminates to name a few. Far worse then solar which is pretty bad in itself.
The stupid is vast, there is no Reagan leadership logic front and center, a good chunk of the new wealth oligarchs are working the machinery for the Green Blob. The loss of efficiency in the energy sector can be well hidden for some time and in the end most who will die in the high cost energy scam will be politically second/third class global members. Another epic delusion of populist leftist policy that kills the very people the soap box left virtue signals about daily.
The Green Blob is in fact the modern incorporation of collectivist government evil and delusions. The former Soviet ideal of demagogic poison neatly packaged for children’s consumption in a tin-foil green wrapper. The tell-tale symptoms of anti-Americanism, collectivist wealth redistribution, elitism condescending and administrative authority over markets in the usual know-it-all MO right below the surface.
Despite all the collusion of cronies, massive globalist policy supports that inflated unit energy costs the one truth emerges again. Socialism fails, it’s only a question of timescales.
These are great fact sheets presented. What’s even more astounding is this has the back drop of a “high carbon cost” regulatory government policy. Where would the results be with a rational deregulated ANWR access, a clean coal investment campaign and more open off shore policies? To name just three major Greenshirt suppression’s of supply. 2-3 million barrels DAILY an easy under production number from the U.S. due to green governance and domination. Did any of this hurt established capital interests? “Big oil” for example? Of course not, they benefited. They got paid more to produce less. The general society endured the pain of high costs and malinvestment. This only an oil example, it’s much larger then this.
In a lower priced carbon world the bones will be popping out of the skin of the green blob sector pretty fast. Take the massive subsidies away, open supply and it’s a 50X sector bust that happened in the late 70’s and early 80’s. The stupid of the moment though is 50x greater then when the Reagan Reformation began. The Green Blob much more deeply entrenched and the critical thinking skills of the society immeasurably far worse as is reflected in AGW globalism and belief systems.
Another new high for TSLA last week, $7500 per car fed subside cooked in the 400k next generation backlog, it nets no carbon savings on a standard electric grid charge it might be mentioned, another Ethanol level scam. 60% of the drive-trains fail under 60k miles and they’re massively complicated and expensive to repair. The cars are massively toxic with lead, cobalt and lithium contaminates to name a few. Far worse then solar which is pretty bad in itself.
The stupid is vast, there is no Reagan leadership logic front and center, a good chunk of the new wealth oligarchs are working the machinery for the Green Blob. The loss of efficiency in the energy sector can be well hidden for some time and in the end most who will die in the high cost energy scam will be politically second/third class global members. Another epic delusion of populist leftist policy that kills the very people the soap box left virtue signals about daily.
The Green Blob is in fact the modern incorporation of collectivist government evil and delusions. The former Soviet ideal of demagogic poison neatly packaged for children’s consumption in a tin-foil green wrapper. The tell-tale symptoms of anti-Americanism, collectivist wealth redistribution, elitism condescending and administrative authority over markets in the usual know-it-all MO right below the surface.
Despite all the collusion of cronies, massive globalist policy supports that inflated unit energy costs the one truth emerges again. Socialism fails, it’s only a question of timescales.
Those trillions are why any who resist the demands of the climate consensus are vilified and attacked. Is there a way to put a dollar price on the opportunity cost of the mind boggling theft of resources this money represents? Let’s put faces on the suffering that these climate charlatans are causing.
Hunter,
The hatred of America and collectivist belief systems transcend crony financial interests in themselves.
The same misunderstanding of Islamic extremism as third world material resentment is common as well. That too is broader, deeper and more complex then the effected targets care to consider. It’s no different with globalist collectivism and carbon totalitarian designs dressed as being “green”.
The central planning energy production failure isn’t surprising but if the underlying ideology preserves itself the worlds poor in particular remain primary victims. If it’s populist to hate old energy and love green fairytales in a society of rapidly declining critical thinking skills the simple statistical results aren’t going to change the trend line.
There are a few cracks appearing in the orthodox “Party of science” left, at least among some their deeper thinkers;
http://www.weeklystandard.com/camille-paglia-on-trump-democrats-transgenderism-and-islamist-terror/article/2008464#!
The x vs Y chromosome fact sheet is an even bigger pseudoscience challenge even among comrades. That pig isn’t going to fly. Many on the left know the AGW farce for what it is, another logic burden and they carry scores of them as a prerequisite for party membership.
High Octane Paine,
As the millennials would say, I am feeling you-really! I am 5 days post op knee
replacement surgery and your name cracked me up.
Will get back to you as I can.
Jerry