Doug Casey on green energy

Wind and solar make no sense for mass power generation. They’re completely unsuitable for a complex industrial civilization. The Greens aren’t trying to solve a technological problem but make an ideological statement. Which is fine, except they’re doing it at the public’s expense. Meanwhile, the public has been so propagandized that they now feel it’s morally righteous to be hornswoggled. 

No problem if someone feels that covering his rooftop with solar panels can cut his electricity bill and pay back the cost in 7 or 10 years—which is roughly the case today. It’s something else entirely if a government puts a society’s electrical grid at risk in order to virtue signal.

~ Doug Casey, "Doug Casey Debunks the So-called 'Green Economy'," International Man, March 11, 2022

ZeroHedge on solar and wind power and future blackouts

Affordability and reliability are the two things good energy sources need to be.  Solar and wind—unlike hydropower, which is also a renewable source—can only be one of these two things, and that's if there is no storage included.  They can be affordable, as we are often reminded.  Yet, sadly, they cannot be reliable.

This means that the more billions are poured into boosting renewable capacity, the greater the risk of further blackouts.  Perhaps at some point, if wind and solar become the main sources of electricity, authorities will need to institute planned outages.

~ ZeroHedge.com, "The Ugly Truth About Renewable Power," April 30, 2021