The Dangerous Futility of the Energy Transition in a Single Graphic
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The Dangerous Futility of the Energy Transition in a Single Graphic
The Dangerous Futility of the Energy Transition in a Single Graphic
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During the 1980s-2000s, the U.S. and Europe intentionally transferred their manufacturing and industrial sectors to China.
Since 2015, we have been intentionally transferring our energy security to China.
The chart below illustrates the utter futility of this energy transition.
[Credit to the Energy Policy Research Foundation for its creation.]
We are not achieving any real reduction in carbon and other emissions from burning coal. We are simply changing the location from which the emissions are blown into the atmosphere.
But for leftists pushing the spending of trillions of dollars on this pretend transition, the benefit is that the coal plants are not in their backyards anymore. So, they pretend they are accomplishing something real by pointing to their handy green checklists, and thus feel better about themselves.
If you were asked to create a plan to render the U.S. and Europe subservient to China for their future energy security, the Biden energy agenda is the plan you would devise.
Bottom Line: This false and heavily subsidized energy transition has nothing to do with the climate or environment. It is in fact the most massive transfer of wealth and national security in human history.
That is all.
The Dangerous Futility of the Energy Transition in a Single Graphic
That's a good one. And to be sure a lot of those new Coal power plants in China are powering the giant factories and mines that produce solar panels & wind turbine components and their material inputs. Nice how Greenies like to put their blinders on about that. We know now Ecoinvent, which is the IPCC's main source of information on Solar & Wind full lifecycle emissions, doesn't have any data on China, where most of it is made.
I am skeptical that American leftists are NIMBYists with respect to CO2 emissions because all back yards are the same. For some, it's about power. For others, it's about rent seeking.