They have no idea of how much they will sacrifice in their day to day lives. These people are so soft they can't live a day without electric or their phone and they are pushing for draconian energy laws that will crush them.
Exactly.
If we try to go full "clean energy", no more air conditioning in your home. No more smart phones, tv's, electronics, etc. The power is not there yet, not even close. There is not enough power generated by green energy to power 10% of the US at a normal rate, much less a peak rate. Even if they tried, it would take decades just to build the infrastructure to supply (and store) these types of energy. Our energy grids would have to be completely local for them to function correctly, not the massive grids we have today. The entire setup would need to be removed and replaced over a very long and expensive period of time.
We have to be on the main grid, just like all these other so called "green" countries; they are still using the original grid of dirty energy and they know it will never change. But on paper a fraction of their energy is "clean" so people get all excited. Meanwhile they are still getting their dirty energy from a neighbor, so they can wash their hands. It's like these off the grid setups popping up in the NW parts of America, they can barely power an electric stove and water heater with their solar energy and have to be hooked up to the grid "just in case". To store enough power to operate a microwave and toaster at the same time costs over $40k to install and the charge rate completely depends on how much sun light you can harvest. If you want to be able to have central air conditioning, the cost is close to double.
Just wait until all these wind farms in the US start to get old and wear out, they don't have money allocated to take them down, so they are literally going to fall apart over time. In the panhandle of Texas, it costs almost 5 million dollars for the lifespan of one large wind turbine. That includes construction, installation, maintenance and tear down after 30 years (if they make it that long). The power generated by this turbine over a 30 year period is worth less than 3 million. So financially it's just kind of silly. But whatever, they look great on paper. The companies installing them are going bankrupt, so who is going to tear them down?
California has thousands of acres of solar farms that have already fallen apart, they just leave them there because the companies that built them cannot afford to remove them. Most of these farms didn't function for more than a few years.
I'm getting off topic.
