UN says booming solar, wind and other green energy hits global tipping point for even lower costs

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3. One hears this stuff year after year after year.

Meanwhile year after year after year the rate at which the concentration of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide accumulates increases.

Systems that require redundancy are neither cheap nor clean. The claim that they are "cheap" entirely apply when they operate only, the problem being that they are unreliable. They exhibit appalling capacity utilization, generally at best 30%. The other 70% they rely on access to fossil fuels.

Over five trillion dollars has been squandered on solar and wind infrastructure in the last decade to produce less than 20 exajoules of energy each year on a planet now with an energy demand close to 650 exajoules. Even the wires to connect all this junk together are unsustainable never mind the cost of the rickety short lived infrastructure itself.

The European electricity prices this past winter went through the roof when the so called "renewable energy" infrastructure in that coal dependent hellhole Germany was producing nothing much during a few months of Dunkleflaute, causing the German word to become internationally known. German industrial infrastructure is extremely stressed by energy costs. Their carbon intensity is appalling, disgraceful.

Still we hear this religious chants to aeolian and sun gods, claiming they are affordable and clean. They are no such thing. All of the solar and wind infrastructure on this planet will be vast piles of waste before today's newborns finish college, if there are colleges from which to graduate.

It's more than a little late to still hear these chants, whether they come under the aegis of the UN or anyone else. The scheme has failed. The world is burning. Enthusiasm for so called "renewable energy" was never about fighting fossil fuels. In my opinion one needs to be as dumb as the orange pedophile in the White House to think that. It was always about attacking the only truly sustainable form of energy ever invented, that invented by some of the finest minds of the 20th century, nuclear energy.

The Germans didn't shut their coal plants or coal mines. They embraced them, especially after they were embarrassed out of funding Putin's war machine, which was another result of their "renewable energy is cheap and clean" lie. They shut their nuclear plants.

So called "renewable energy" isn't cheap; it isn't clean; it isn't sustainable. It's overly expensive rise is as reactionary as the rise of the ugly specter of fascism worldwide, which may be a function, if only subtly apparent, of the on going collapse of the planetary ecosystem:

Fascism is driven by fear. The failure of our energy system almost certainly drives fear. Terrified masses are not prone to rationality. There is, in these times, much to fear, the result of big lies, not only those on the right, but those we tell ourselves on the left.

History will not forgive us nor should it.