Why the Green New Deal idea does not add up

Mark Mills:

41 Inconvenient Truths on the "New Energy Economy"

Bill Gates has said that when it comes to understanding energy realities “we need to bring math to the problem.” He's right.

A week doesn’t pass without a mayor, governor, policymaker or pundit joining the rush to demand, or predict, an energy future that is entirely based on wind/solar and batteries, freed from the “burden” of the hydrocarbons that have fueled societies for centuries. Regardless of one’s opinion about whether, or why, an energy “transformation” is called for, the physics and economics of energy combined with scale realities make it clear that there is no possibility of anything resembling a radically “new energy economy” in the foreseeable future. Bill Gates has said that when it comes to understanding energy realities “we need to bring math to the problem.”

He’s right. So, in my recent Manhattan Institute report, “The New Energy Economy: An Exercise in Magical Thinking,” I did just that.

Herein, then, is a summary of some of the bottom-line realities from the underlying math. (See the full report for explanations, documentation, and citations.)
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I recommend you read all 41 of Mill's "Inconvenient Truths."  They demonstrate with the numbers how unrealistic the left is being about alternative energy and electric cars.