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Green energy is not Green.-\u00a0Renewables\u201d are not \u201ccarbon free. – \u201cRenewables\u201d are the antithesis of fair, equitable, and just.- \u201cRenewables\u201d are intermittent and unreliable.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From \u00a0CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Craig Rucker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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California recently joined other states in suing oil companies<\/a> for purportedly misleading the public about alleged risks from fossil-fuel-driven climate change, extreme weather, and other dangers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBig Oil has been lying to us,\u201d Governor Gavin Newsom asserted, \u201ccovering up\u201d facts about \u201cwildfires wiping out entire communities, toxic smoke clogging our air [and] deadly heat waves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This stuff belongs on Saturday Night Live. The references to \u201cwildfires\u201d have been debunked as, globally, wildfires have been declining<\/a>. U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports America is currently undergoing its longest period in recorded history<\/a>, with less than 40 percent of the country experiencing \u201cvery dry\u201d conditions.  Analysts have likewise eviscerated the false hype about hurricanes<\/a> and the endless, ridiculous attempts to link every calamity<\/a> to \u201cmanmade climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, what Newsom is doing has little to do with addressing an abbreviation labeled \u201cCO2.\u201d It\u2019s more like \u201cCYA\u201d.  Sadly, it\u2019s become the first and last resort for slick politicians who want to avoid accountability for their incompetence and abysmal failures to protect their constituents from natural disasters. Governor Newsom is a consummate practitioner of misdirection and deception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But people are still being conned by politicians like him into believing that virtue-signaling actions in their home, city, state, or even country can somehow offset the monumental greenhouse gas emissions from China<\/a>, India, and other rapidly modernizing nations \u2013 and that wind, solar, and battery power will somehow save Planet Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are some cold, hard facts that activists and politicians have been hiding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Green energy is not Green.<\/strong> Replacing coal, gas, and nuclear power requires hundreds of thousands of wind turbines, millions of solar panels, millions of battery modules, and tens of thousands of miles of new transmission lines sprawling across wildlife habitats, croplands, scenic areas, and coastal vistas. Mining, ore processing, and manufacturing to build those systems are increasingly done overseas, employing zero to minimal environmental standards. Such operations are powered by fossil fuels and discharge mammoth amounts of toxic pollutants into local air and water. Most worn-out, damaged, and obsolete \u201cgreen energy\u201d equipment cannot be recycled<\/a>. It will be dumped in enormous landfills, in somebody\u2019s backyard, and could leach toxic chemicals into soil and water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* \u201cRenewables\u201d are not \u201ccarbon free.\u201d<\/strong> Solar panels, batteries, and wind turbines must be fabricated, and this requires enormous uses of fossil-fuel energy for mining, processing, and manufacturing.  While such emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases may be spewed far from California and America and thus out of the sight of virtue-signaling liberals, they still go into the global atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* \u201cRenewables\u201d are the antithesis of fair, equitable, and just.<\/strong> Solar and wind energy tend to jack up rates wherever they\u2019re widely implemented, and experts acknowledge their widescale use will cost 2-3 times<\/a> what we\u2019re paying today<\/a>.  Such hikes, naturally, hit those on fixed and limited incomes much harder than they do on the rich. Further, the minerals and components of Green energy are typically garnered overseas, chiefly in China, Africa, and Latin America. What this means is that it will be on the backs of poor Asians, Blacks, and Hispanics to provide the low-cost, cheap labor that will drive a \u201cGreen revolution\u201d \u2013 to include any potential child and slave labor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* \u201cRenewables\u201d are intermittent and unreliable<\/strong>. Wind facilities only generate their stated output about 30-40 percent<\/a> of the time.  Solar units typically only kick in 25% of their purported \u201ccapacity factor.\u201d<\/a> That means backup energy must be provided for the other 60-75% percent of the time they\u2019re napping. Huge battery modules could help provide power during the lengthy gaps in wind and solar electricity generation, stabilize our increasingly complex, overstressed, and fragile grid, and reduce recurrent blackouts. But they would cost $23-293 trillion<\/em><\/a> \u2013 before we are forced to go all-electric. Home, neighborhood, state, and national electric systems and grids will have to be upgraded to handle the massively increased loads. That will cost trillions more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate activists like Gov. Newsom claim they\u2019re devoted to transparency. They want oil companies and manufacturers to publicly disclose all greenhouse gas and other emissions associated with their products. But it is clear they\u2019re simply blowing smoke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If they were truly and sincerely interested in transparency and addressing a \u201cclimate crisis\u201d, they would also insist that solar and wind \u201cgreen\u201d energy systems \u2013 and companies that make, install, or operate them \u2013 disclose all their emissions, environmental, and human rights impacts as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But they don\u2019t. And when they\u2019re confronted as to \u201cwhy they don\u2019t\u201d by activists opposing renewable projects in communities across the nation \u2026 the only sound heard is crickets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article originally appeared in\u00a0Human Events<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Craig Rucker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Widely heralded as a leader in the free market environmental, think tank community in Washington, D.C., Rucker is a frequent guest on radio talk shows, written extensively in numerous publications, and has appeared in such media outlets as Fox News, OANN, Washington Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Hill, among many others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rucker is also the co-producer of the award-winning film \u201cClimate Hustle,\u201d which was the #1 box-office film in America during its one night showing in 2016, as well as the acclaimed “Climate Hustle 2” staring Hollywood actor Kevin Sorbo released in 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an accredited observer to the United Nations, Rucker has also led CFACT delegations to some 30 major UN conferences, including those in Copenhagen, Istanbul, Kyoto, Bonn, Marrakesh, Rio de Janeiro, and Warsaw, to name a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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