Clean energy isn't. The obsessive focus on the tailpipe masks all the other environmental damage caused by mining, production, transport and disposal/recycling of the components, covering the deserts of the West with components, grid expansion, water resource depletion, bird mincing and other issues. Outsourcing some of these functions to other countries, say China, probably puts more carbon in the air than just using fossil fuels. American and Europeans are all NIMBYs so this is pretty much inevitable. Nuclear energy is clean but the environmentalists have terrified everyone about that.
I would have been somewhat more supportive of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act if it had been honestly named the Energy Transition Act.
I support a gradual transition away from fossil fuels, but one which relies primarily on market forces rather than politically attractive but economically foolish subsidies for favored forms of so-called “green energy.”
Clean energy isn't. The obsessive focus on the tailpipe masks all the other environmental damage caused by mining, production, transport and disposal/recycling of the components, covering the deserts of the West with components, grid expansion, water resource depletion, bird mincing and other issues. Outsourcing some of these functions to other countries, say China, probably puts more carbon in the air than just using fossil fuels. American and Europeans are all NIMBYs so this is pretty much inevitable. Nuclear energy is clean but the environmentalists have terrified everyone about that.
I would have been somewhat more supportive of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act if it had been honestly named the Energy Transition Act.
I support a gradual transition away from fossil fuels, but one which relies primarily on market forces rather than politically attractive but economically foolish subsidies for favored forms of so-called “green energy.”