{"id":226863,"date":"2022-11-02T11:47:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T10:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=226863"},"modified":"2022-11-02T11:47:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T10:47:10","slug":"wrong-bet-wind-solar-transition-really-about-lunatics-gambling-with-your-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=226863","title":{"rendered":"Wrong Bet: Wind &#038; Solar \u201aTransition&#8217; Really About Lunatics Gambling with Your Money"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"226866\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=226866\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-38.png?fit=400%2C267&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"400,267\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-38\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-38.png?fit=400%2C267&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-38.png?resize=723%2C482&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-226866\" width=\"723\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-38.png?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-38.png?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Those pushing the wind and solar transition exhibit the kind of moral turpitude you\u2019d expect from lunatics gambling with other people\u2019s money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Politicians might have been forgiven a decade ago, but not now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Europe\u2019s self-inflicted wind and solar calamity clearly hasn\u2019t registered with Australia\u2019s political class. The worst (but not the only) offenders are the Greens and Labor, who continue to peddle the delusional nonsense that retail power prices will soon fall, just as soon as we make a complete transition to an all-wind and sun-powered future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">As if to make the point, and right on cue, Victoria\u2019s Premier, Dan Andrews has conjured up a policy straight out of the neo-Marxist textbook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Daniel Wild from the Institute of Public Affairs explains what\u2019s on \u2018offer\u2019 and what\u2019s at stake in this interview with Alan Jones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Gambling on Energy<\/strong><br>ADH TV<br>Alan Jones and Dan WIld<br>20 October 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7QdmLx0w0SA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Transcript<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Alan Jones:&nbsp;<\/strong>Let\u2019s go to Daniel Wild, the articulate and always informed deputy executive director of the Institute of Public Affairs. A staggering development in Victoria, Daniel Andrews wants to return Victoria\u2019s Electricity Commission to government ownership. Now Victorians, if you need my advice, that above everything else is one reason not to vote for Daniel Andrews. Now, only in the last week we\u2019ve learned of rorts in the government-owned Medicare, massive cost blowouts in the government-run and owned NDIS, more money to be tipped into the government-owned NBN, and don\u2019t start me on Snowy Hydro 2, billions and billions of dollars over budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">All of those government owned. For all its weaknesses, the private sector, when it\u2019s not choked by bureaucracy and wokeism, is infinitely more efficient than government. But on top of this, Daniel Andrews has announced a renewable energy target of 95% by 2035 and a 2030 target of 65%. To use the language of the pub, the bloke is off his rocker. Daniel Wild joins me. Daniel, this Andrews bloke is kidding, isn\u2019t he?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Daniel Wild:&nbsp;<\/strong>Well, I wish he was Alan, but I don\u2019t think he\u2019s kidding. Look, this goes to an important point. This is an admission of failure by Daniel Andrews. This shows that renewables don\u2019t work. You\u2019ve been saying this for years and years and years, and we\u2019ve been saying this for years, that you cannot have an energy system run on intermittent unreliable wind and solar. We were told that this would work. We were told that all the smart money is going into wind and solar. But the fact now that Daniel Andrews has admitted that the government needs to take this over shows that the so-called transition to renewables is simply not working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s obvious for anyone to see. We\u2019ve got prices going up. We\u2019ve got reliability going down. This is a massive national security risk. Coal fired power stations are closing down. As we\u2019ve been saying for years, and as you\u2019ve been saying for years, Alan, there is nothing to replace this base load power that\u2019s coming off the system. That\u2019s why Andrews is proposing for the government to take over the system. As I say, this is an admission of monumental public policy failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Alan Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>There\u2019s another agenda here I suspect as well, and that is that if he takes charge of these electricity generation companies, they won\u2019t be able to, when they see themselves heading over the cliff, turn back. He\u2019s scared that this electricity will one day wake up in private sector, instead of all these me too, wokeism nonsense because they\u2019re as much to blame as Daniel Andrews as we stand today. But take them all over because when they see themselves going over the cliff, they might be saying, \u201cHang on, hang on. We\u2019re going back to coal fired power.\u201d He will neutralise that entirely by seeking to own them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Daniel Wild:&nbsp;<\/strong>I think that you\u2019re spot on there, Alan, with your analysis. This is all political.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Alan Jones:&nbsp;<\/strong>Definitely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Daniel Wild:\u00a0<\/strong>They know how to use the levers of power to their own advantage, and they do it shamelessly. Nowhere else is that the case than in Victoria. Let me make another point about the politics. Daniel Andrews buried the report into the deaths caused by the woeful emergency system in Victoria. He released the report on grand final day. Daniel Andrews refused to talk to Virginia Trioli, on the ABC of all places, about politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">He only wanted to talk about the floods even though we\u2019ve just got an election around the corner, and now he\u2019s using the floods and emergency here in regional Victoria as cover to announce this takeover of the energy system. So, this is not about public policy. It\u2019s not about informing the Victorian public of what\u2019s going on. This is all a political play. It\u2019s all about power. Now, the issue that we face here in Victoria and also around Australia is that there has so far been very little political opposition to what is happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Alan Jones:&nbsp;<\/strong>Correct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Daniel Wild:\u00a0<\/strong>A big part of that is because the Coalition in Victoria supports these kinds of policies. It\u2019s supported the renewables policies. It supports the policy of net zero. It supports more wind and solar. It won\u2019t defend coal fired power. It\u2019s not speaking up for working class regional Victorians and Australians. So, this is what happens. You cannot out-left the left. It never works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Alan Jones:&nbsp;<\/strong>Good on you. Look, I\u2019m going to say to my viewers, you\u2019ll get this tired argument that the privatised coal power plants are getting old and they\u2019re breaking down and they\u2019re closing, all of which is true. That is a consequence of coal fired generation being demonised and governments playing picking winners, massive subsidies for renewable energy. Daniel, why would you invest in the maintenance of a coal fired power station or a new coal fired power station when it\u2019s clear that the lefties like Andrews want them out of the energy equation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Daniel Wild:&nbsp;<\/strong>Well, you wouldn\u2019t invest in it and they\u2019re not and that\u2019s the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Alan Jones:&nbsp;<\/strong>It is. It is the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Daniel Wild:&nbsp;<\/strong>You\u2019ve got so much red tape, regulation, billions of billions of dollars of red tape being heaped on the resources sector, on the coal fired power sector. You\u2019ve got policies like net zero which are explicitly designed to get rid of coal fired power stations. I mean, we know under the policy of net zero emissions, at least six further large coal fired power stations will close by the end of the decade. So this is the intent of those policies. Of course if you\u2019re an investor, you can read the writing on the wall and we\u2019ve got governments at the federal and state level putting up a big sign saying, \u201cYou\u2019re not welcome here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Alan Jones:&nbsp;<\/strong>That\u2019s true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Daniel Wild:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cWe don\u2019t want your investment. We don\u2019t want coal fired power. Take your money somewhere else.\u201d As you say, in addition to all of that, the billions of billions of dollars going into wind and Solar energy generation and they also get preference into the market. So that\u2019s pushing out coal, it\u2019s pushing out gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Alan Jones:&nbsp;<\/strong>Oh, it\u2019s totally distorting the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Daniel Wild:\u00a0<\/strong>So, Alan, this is all the doing of the government. You\u2019re right, distorting the market completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Alan Jones:&nbsp;<\/strong>Now, you are a Victorian. I mean, is there anyone who believes Andrews when he has said today, and I quote, \u201cOnly Labor has a plan to keep the lights on, bring bills down and create thousands of jobs in renewable energy.\u201d I mean, this bloke thinks we\u2019re completely stupid. Perhaps we are. Look, I spoke yesterday to Michael Shellenberger, who for 20 years has sprouted this climate change nonsense with ideological zeal like no other, till at the end he said he woke up and he apologised in his book quote, \u201cFor the climate scare we\u2019ve created over the past 30 years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">He said that climate change is, \u201cNot even our most serious environmental problem.\u201d He said, \u201cOnce you realise how badly misinformed, we\u2019ve been, it\u2019s hard not to feel duped.\u201d Daniel, do you think the Victorian Premier can read and how many voters in Victoria are going to be duped?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Daniel Wild:&nbsp;<\/strong>Well, Michael Shellenberger is one of international leading academics and public intellectuals on this issue. What he said is very significant because the misinformation, if I could use that term, around climate change is so prevalent in our schools and in our universities that there are millions of young Australians right now who truly believe the earth is going to end unless we put more money into wind and solar. They truly believe it to the core of their being. It\u2019s an absolute tragedy that they\u2019re getting all of this anxiety and depression about the end of the world. So they truly believe it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, unfortunately, there are a lot of people in Victoria and around Australia who do believe this nonsense. Now, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a majority, but there is a not insignificant minority who believe this rubbish because they\u2019re taught it in schools. The elite media ram it down their throats. You\u2019ve got woke corporations that use all their communications power to put this information out there. I said in addition to that, we\u2019ve essentially got bipartisan support for these kinds of policies. So, we\u2019re not getting a lot of political sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Alan Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes. Morrison. Morrison trotted off to Glasgow to say, \u201cMe too.\u201d He trotted off to Glasgow. Fails to understand that\u2019s why he lost the election. Now, Andrews is saying, \u201cTo all you Victorians out there,\u201d now this will be wonderful, \u201cyou will own all of this, and every benefit will go to you.\u201d I mean this is unadulterated rubbish. So, we\u2019re now going to renationalize the power sector. We\u2019ve had that commitment virtually from the Albanese government, the Queensland government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Here in New South Wales, the electricity infrastructure roadmap under would you believe a liberal government, and now Daniel Andrews. So basically, Andrews is telling us, Daniel, the markets can\u2019t be trusted, the private sector can\u2019t be trusted to deliver energy and they\u2019ll call it clean energy. That\u2019s what they\u2019re saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Daniel Wild:&nbsp;<\/strong>There\u2019s so much wrong with that, Alan. Because as you rightly identify, what private sector, what market. I mean, we have not had a proper functioning energy market for many, many years because of all of the government distortion. So that\u2019s the first point that needs to be made. The second point is that reality is going to come biting us very hard very soon. The experience in Europe shows this. If you turn off your coal and if you turn off your gas, you are going to have some very serious problems, economic problems, social problems and energy security problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">As you know, something like 80 to 90% of all of the solar panels, all of the wind turbines that we have in this country, they\u2019re not manufactured here in Australia, they\u2019re not manufactured in Germany or the UK or the U.S. They\u2019re manufactured in China. So, we are effectively outsourcing our critical energy infrastructure to a potentially hostile foreign power. Look at what happened in Europe when they did this. Now, we have the opportunity to avoid their fate, but unfortunately, we\u2019re going head on into the path that Europe is in and there\u2019s no turning back once we go down this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Alan Jones:&nbsp;<\/strong>Absolutely. The reality, if I just say to people watching us tonight, there\u2019s an energy crisis out there. Government through its policies, Andrews and co, and this includes Morrison and the Liberal Party, government have created this crisis, and now Daniel, they\u2019re expecting us to believe that government can solve it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Daniel Wild:\u00a0<\/strong>Yeah. Look, that\u2019s a hundred percent right, Alan. They will keep pushing this line. The reason for that is they\u2019ve gone so far down this path that they can\u2019t turn back. If they\u2019re to say, \u201cWell, renewables don\u2019t work. We need to switch coal fired back on,\u201d that would be to concede that everything they have said over the last one or two decades is completely wrong. So, the governing class, and it\u2019s not just the politicians, it\u2019s the big woke corporations, it\u2019s big tech, it\u2019s the universities and the schools, they\u2019re the ones that are pushing. Sporting codes, by the way, cricket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Alan Jones:&nbsp;<\/strong>Yes, netball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Daniel Wild:&nbsp;<\/strong>NRL, AFL, they\u2019re all pushing this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Alan Jones:&nbsp;<\/strong>They\u2019re all saying it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Daniel Wild:\u00a0<\/strong>So, this is the issue. The public are only being fed one bit of information and if you speak out against it, you\u2019re cancelled. You\u2019re called a climate denier. We don\u2019t even debate these issues anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Alan Jones:&nbsp;<\/strong>No, no debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Daniel Wild:&nbsp;<\/strong>You know this more than anyone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Alan Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Yeah. But see, what this means now viewers, I\u2019m going to say to you, government owns it. Just supposedly they own the lot, when they get into financial trouble and all this renewable crap doesn\u2019t pay, they go to the taxpayer and the consumer, and they rob them blind to make the bottom-line balance. The taxpayer and consumer need to wake up here. You\u2019re going to be smashed under this policy, Daniel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Daniel Wild:&nbsp;<\/strong>Well, that\u2019s right. There\u2019s already a massive debt problem across Australia and here in Victoria. It\u2019s only getting worse because interest rates are going up and that means your debt payments are going up. Just like when you\u2019ve got a mortgage and the interest rates go up, you\u2019ve got to pay more every week or every fortnight or every month off your mortgage. That\u2019s exactly what happens to government debt. As interest rates go up, those monthly payments and yearly payments go up. Having another government owned enterprise, another inefficient government owned enterprise, what happens when it goes under?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Alan Jones:&nbsp;<\/strong>That\u2019s true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Daniel Wild:&nbsp;<\/strong>Well, it\u2019s going to be the taxpayer-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Alan Jones:&nbsp;<\/strong>And the consumer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Daniel Wild:&nbsp;<\/strong>Footing the bill through higher taxes and more debt on top of what we already have. This is just pushing a current problem off into the future, off to next generations, and it\u2019s completely lacking any leadership or any vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Alan Jones:\u00a0<\/strong>Good on you. Good on you, Daniel. Brilliant stuff. Just remember the first point that Daniel made. The Liberals in Victoria can\u2019t wake up and prosecute the case because they\u2019re as pro-renewables as Daniel Andrews. The voter doesn\u2019t have much choice.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/watch.adh.tv\/alan-jones-full-shows\/season:2\/videos\/aj-2022-10-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em><strong>ADT TV<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"226868\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=226868\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-39.png?fit=620%2C348&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"620,348\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-39\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-39.png?fit=620%2C348&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-39.png?resize=723%2C406&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-226868\" width=\"723\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-39.png?w=620&amp;ssl=1 620w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-39.png?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lunatics in charge of the asylum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">via <strong><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-blue-color\">STOP THESE THINGS<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">November 2, 2022,\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stopthesethings.com\/author\/stopthesethings\/\">stopthesethings<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stopthesethings.com\/2022\/11\/02\/wrong-bet-wind-solar-transition-really-about-lunatics-gambling-with-your-money\/\">Wrong Bet: Wind &amp; 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