The renewable energy industry soaked two trillion bucks in ten years and still can't produce significant energy. Now we should throw even more money at this dubious proposition to make it far less efficient.
The second law of thermodynamics dictates that whenever one converts one form of energy to another, there are intrinsic losses to entropy, generally observed as heat. Efforts by congress or any other body to repeal the 2nd law, um, won't work. No less than Albert Einstein considered that the laws of thermodynamics were the only laws of science that would never be overturned. Anyone with a battery charger of any kind who is not numb can directly experience the second law by touching a charger to understand that it is warm.
The so called "renewable energy" scheme, in particular the expensive, failed and environmentally disastrous wind and solar industries, can't even keep up with the growth in the use of dangerous natural gas, never mind reduce the vast quantities being used.
But nonetheless, we have advocates for making it even more useless.
One wonders if the people spouting this nonsense have looked recently at the concentration of carbon dioxide in the planetary atmosphere, or have considered the grotesque poverty on this planet that derives, in part, from wasting money on things that don't work.
And let's be clear: So called "renewable energy" hasn't worked; it isn't working; and it won't work.
For that same two trillion bucks squandered on so called "renewable energy," we could have built a few hundred nuclear reactors - the number being determined by the levels of common sense - and have been producing tens of exajoules of energy each year using well understood mature technology.
That unfortunately is not what was obtained. What was obtained was a surrender to fear and ignorance, with the result, that in 2016, the rate of accumulation of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide is growing at the fastest rate ever observed.
Enjoy the holiday weekend.
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