Credit: The New Indian Express
Nuclear power advocates are trying a new line of attack on solar and wind energy — it’s too darn cheap!
In the real world, however, the unexpectedly rapid drop in the price of cleantech, especially renewable power and batteries, is a doubly miraculous game-changer that is already cutting greenhouse gas emissions globally and dramatically increasing the chances we can avoid catastrophic climate change.
As I detailed on Monday, the New York Times in particular keeps running slanted articles talking up nuclear and talking down renewables — articles that totally miss the forest for the trees. That culminated in a truly absurd piece last week, “How Renewable Energy Is Blowing Climate Change Efforts Off Course,” which is the exact opposite of reality, as Goldman Sachs has detailed in its recent reports on “The Low Carbon Economy.”
Remote Viewing the Year 2060
It may be of interest that Scotland has produced 125% of it’s energy needs this year from the wind and a small mix of solar, too. They have the best record of switching to non-carbon energy that I have seen in the world, with few exceptions. Why can we (U.S.A.) see that wind and solar are something we should do and must do, if we are going to save our planet.