Climate kooks want to lower your standard of living

 Joe Herring:

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The technology to store energy simply hasn't kept pace with our ability to generate it, leaving renewable sources like wind and solar handicapped by their inherent intermittency.  Consequently, renewables provide only a fraction of Nebraska's energy needs and find economic viability only through a regime of heavy government subsidy. 

Despite this technological deficiency, clean energy advocates still insist we decommission "dirty" sources sooner rather than later.  Cities and regions who have done so have encountered grave disruptions in production and delivery, resulting in rolling blackouts, brownouts, and at times grid failure under heavy demand.

This is not entirely by accident.

Artificial scarcity raises prices, which in turn reduces consumption, a prime goal of the modern environmental movement.  When combined with mandated lifestyle changes and forced energy retrofits to homes and businesses, renewables advocates claim that the lower production capabilities of clean energy won't be a problem, being offset by lower demand from consumers.

However, this strategy ignores the problem of meeting baseline energy needs for manufacturing, communications, internet, medical facilities, and even the charging of electric vehicles, none of which is an elective use of power.

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There is more.

The attempts to replace fossil fuels with wind and solar is a fool's errand.  It will lower standards of living and provide no significant benefit.  The push for decarbonization has been going on for over 50 years with predictions fo gloom and doom that have never been realized.  The poles are not ice-free as predicted and coastal cities are not underwater as predicted.