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blox.'s avatar

You're right that physics will crush the net-zero agenda. I'm not certain you're right that the left will become energy realists as a result. There are so many convenient, readymade bogeymen to blame for the failures.

>> Why is the grid becoming more unreliable? It must be climate change.

>> Why did the net-zero agenda fail? The evil oil/gas industry.

>> Why is energy becoming more expensive? Corporate greed.

>> What's the solution? More taxpayer-funded subsidies for more renewable energy.

People like blaming common enemies much more than they like reflecting on their own errors. Democrats know this, and they've built a party around it.

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Ronda Ross's avatar

Many of the same people who believe we will rid ourselves of fossil fuels shortly, are the same people carrying "Gays for Hamas" signs, blindly unaware they are cheering, their own demise.

The vast majority of Americans have no idea, electricity is not an energy source, but a delivery system. Even when they see large diesel generators, sitting next to the charging stations, they fail to make the connection. They also have no idea how their food originates, before it arrives in a Whole Foods. A combine harvesting US grain, in the middle of a field that runs for miles, can be refueled by a fuel truck, in mere minutes, charging stations are harder to come by. Moreover, the US population is moving from north to south, where perpetual AC is not a luxury, but a necessity of life .

Finally, US Climate Warriors refuse to acknowledge at its' base, Climate Change is a Math problem. Assuming every thing Climate Crusaders claim is true, the US foregoing all power, but actual horses and candles, would be, but, a rounding error in the world's Climate. We are a paltry 335 million people, out of 8 billion. We have already reduced our carbon output, back to 1990s levels. If Climate Change is a problem to be solved, the answer will be found in changing the behavior of huge cities in China, India , Africa, and South America, not in bankrupting Americans.

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