orogenicman
Darwin was a pastafarian
- Jul 24, 2013
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Leftists support ridiculously expensive unreliable energy that can never be the sole supply for a power grid. Leftists support driving up the price of electricity until poor people can no longer afford it. They want us all to freeze in the dark.So what are saying is that "leftists" support clean energy, energy efficiency, energy independence while "rightwingnuts" support dirty energy, polluting the planet, and dependence on foreign oil. Well, bubba, we knew that already but it is good to see you admit it.
Fossil fuels are not, and never have been the sole supply for the power grid. So why would you expect alterative energy to be any different. The rest of your rant is a straw man, but then, you knew that already.
That refers to the U.S. For the global economy, fossil fuels make up a significant component of manufacturing, food production, and shipping.
It refers to the economies of other countries as well, Canada, for instance, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, and China, just to name a few.
Most countries, especially China, India, Brazil, and South Africa (the other four economies of BRICS) plus forty emerging markets use fossil fuels significantly for manufacturing, food production, and shipping. In general, fossil fuels are locked in not only infrastructure used to distribute energy but even in the manufacture of consumer goods:
World headed for irreversible climate change in five years IEA warns Environment The Guardian
Asian solar spending helps drive renewable energy boom - tech - 31 March 2015 - New Scientist
Almost half of global investment in new electricity generation last year was in renewables, thanks to a hike in investment by developing countries, says a UN report.
Global investment in green energy rose 17 per cent, but developing countries saw a surge of 36 per cent. The big spending was on solar power in Asia, as well as on wind turbines in the North Sea.
Chinese investment – up 37 per cent at $83 billion – again beat the US. But Brazil, India and South Africa were all in the top 10 investors, while Indonesia, Chile, Mexico, Kenya and Turkey all invested more than a billion dollars in green electricity in 2014.
Japan was third and, for the second year running, the UK beat Germany into fourth place, says the Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment report from the UN Environment Programme.
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Europe, once the green pioneer, dominated only one sector: offshore wind, where it launched seven projects worth $1 billion or more. Among these was a $3.8 billion North Sea wind farm off the coast of the Netherlands – the largest non-hydro renewable energy plant to get the go-ahead anywhere in the world in 2014.
In the US, the 103 gigawatts of renewable electricity generating capacity that came on stream last year equalled that provided by the country's nuclear power plants.