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What a ridiculous comment, IA. I have nothing against renewables per se. Why on earth would I? We have solar panels on our house and they work well. Who wouldn’t want a source of energy that was environmentally friendly, secure and cheap. All that I’ve done is explain the problems associated with renewables, which are not as environmentally friendly, secure of cheap as many have claimed. In fact they have a lot of problems associated with them.
I’ve said on numerous occasions on this board that we would sleep-walk into massive problems if we believed the hype around renewables; and that is precisely what’s happened and will continue to happen if we don’t accept these problems are real. The ‘experts’ who claim otherwise all have vested interests, either political, ideological or, increasingly, financial. People believing otherwise are just ignorant or naive. I’m sorry if that sounds unfair but it’s the reality we’re facing.
IF renewables were as good as they’ve been made out to be we wouldn’t now be facing crippling energy costs. Businesses wouldn’t have needed incentives or subsidies to build them if they were genuinely commercially viable. In truth they’re not. This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t use them but people deserve to be told the truth about what they really cost when everything that’s needed to support them — and without which they wouldn’t be viable — is taken into account.
Btw, 64 and Siderite, I’ve checked on the coal reserves available and for the USA, which has the biggest reserves, the recoverable amount equates to 470 years at current consumption (https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/coal/how-much-coal-is-left.php). This would almost certainly increase over time as the economics change and technology improves.
Also Siderite, I don’t think that I’m an ‘expert’ at all. What I am is someone who checks the facts for themselves. I would urge everyone to be cynical about ‘experts’ and double-check for themselves what they’re being told. The reality is often very different.
