Renewable Energy Follies, June 30, 2026

A modern society runs on electricity.  Inexpensive, reliable electricity generation would seem to be a critical focus for governments.  Due to climate hysteria, we instead have been focussing on “renewable” energy, primarily wind and solar.  These sources are 1) expensive; 2) unreliable and 3) environmentally damaging.  The unreliability is caused in part because the sun isn’t always shining and the wind isn’t always blowing.  Attempts to alleviate these concerns by building battery or other storage methods only add to point 1–they make electricity generation even more expensive, and to point 3–the life cycle of battery storage is very environmentally damaging and these facilities have a nasty habit of exploding into fires.

Solar and wind plants are also obviously exposed to nature’s whims and I find it hilarious that as we have carpeted our lovely countryside with tens of thousands of acres of solar and wind farms, nature takes delight in destroying them with wind, hail and other means.  Here is another story about wind turbines being shredded in high winds.  The disposal of these gargantuan wind towers is an environmental nightmare.  (ZH Post)

Meanwhile we have in the United States access to far cheaper, more reliable and safer electricity sources–natural gas and nuclear in particular.  We should be deriving our electricity from those sources and stop with the renewable energy nonsense.