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Originally Posted by Dan D
The author you have cited is probably Ideology-driven and/or on the payroll of fossil fuel vendors and nuke supporter?
10 Huge German Solar Energy Myths Bjørn Lomborg is Trumpeting
"Lomborg is infamous for denying the need for clean energy action to stop human-caused global warming, and for claiming that scientists’ concerns about global warming are overblown", says cleantechnica.com.
There is a political polarisation surrounding environmental issues.
If I may quote you for example when you say in the above posting:
"The Greens have established a surrogate religion where economy and the big enemies of mankind, the "rich", are Satan, and believing the Green credo frees you from all sins and paves your way into recycled heaven with wholemeal manna and bio-produced ambrosia raining from heaven, all vegan of course." |
The author is controversially received, because his opinions swims against the mainstream. Some of the ten points in the list you linked, are wrong and false in themselves.
He does not say to skip renewables, but he shows a trend that is oppsoite of many of the mondern believes held in public dicussions. He says that in the curreent format, Germany's Ernergiewende-model is unsustainable and that so heavily subsidized wind and solar power necessarily must mean to increasse its incompetitveness. Since I pay may own electroicity bill and see how it has coinstantly risen sharply due to the solar and win electriocty, and kn owing that our model makes power the more expensive the sunnier and windier the day is thanks to the state-intervention in price regulation, I think he is right.
What he wants is that more money if funded in technological research and innovation to make renewables what they currently are not: competitive. When they are cheaper than fossil and nuclear, then they will conquer the world.
If you do not like him, you will like this book even worse, although it is reasonably arguing and very substantially researched:
http://www.amazon.de/Die-kalte-Sonne...rds=Vahrenhold
http://www.welt.de/politik/deutschla...betrieben.html
Even the IPCC panel , highly dubious in itself, recently cautiously moved and admitted that the climate plateau of the past 15 years does no longer meet any of the so far used model'S predictions. This does not mean that Eath is not warming up, I think it still does, but it means that we have no solid understanding of how the process materialises over time in phases and symptoms (storing energy from sunlight not in the atmosphere but in the oceans, for example).
Too much fear-mongering, to recruit new believers and make them pay willingly. Also, it is about huge transfer payments from North to South.
I was forced to revise some of my earlier views from several years ago, when I realised that theories I based on no longer worked reliably, when certain timetables collapsed. It then is good scientific habit to admit that they do not work too well.
The truth may be out there, yes. But it is more complex than recently imagined. It is claimed to be heresy to say that, however. Too many interests, last but not least powerpolitical and financial interests, depend on the green dogma being kept alive in the form it was preached over the past 15 years.