{"id":69480,"date":"2021-02-28T22:37:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T03:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=69480"},"modified":"2021-02-28T22:37:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T03:37:26","slug":"great-leap-backwards-the-green-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/blog\/2021\/02\/28\/great-leap-backwards-the-green-new-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Leap Backwards: the Green New Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How Much of U.S. Must Be Covered by Windmills and Solar Panels To \u2018Decarbonize\u2019 the Nation?<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Feb. 27 (EIRNS)\u2014According to a 345-page study called \u201cNet-Zero America<\/a>,\u201d released on Dec. 15, 2020 by a team from two environmental centers at Princeton University, land-based windmills and solar farms might have to cover some 231,660 square miles of U.S. territory by the year 2050, for the U.S. economy to be net-zero in emitting \u201cheat-trapping gasses.\u201d Think of it: An area slightly larger than the combined states of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois, covered over by inefficient energy technologies from the 14th century which have a well-proven track record of failing when most needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

City of London weekly The Economist<\/em> carries a 3,500-word monster article this week, discussing the ins-and-outs of \u201cDecarbonising America: Joe Biden\u2019s Climate-Friendly Energy Revolution<\/a>,\u201d promotes the Princeton study, and particularly its most solar- and wind-dependent proposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study details five different \u201cpathways\u201d through which to reduce the U.S. economy to net-zero emissions, and brags that it is the first study to lay out options with great \u201cgranularity,\u201d by which they mean, proposing very specific ideas for every geographic area of the country (e.g. maps showing where solar and wind farms might be located around different cities). Barack Obama\u2019s anti-science advisor John Holdren explains in his Foreword to the study, that the intent of detailing the \u201cmultiple plausible and affordable pathways available\u201d for decarbonizing the economy, is to induce Americans to fixate on discussing details of what kind of energy technology should go where (Rhode Island or Washington, D.C. would have to be covered with solar panels, in order to provide enough electricity for people to live and work there; but then, they couldn\u2019t live or work there), and drop all debate over how the entire scheme itself means economic suicide and Malthusian population reduction. As Holdren puts it, with this report, \u201cthe societal conversation can now turn from \u2018if\u2019 to \u2018how\u2019 and focus on the choices the nation and its myriad stakeholders wish to make to shape the transition to net-zero.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EIR<\/em>\u00a0has not read every \u201cgranular\u201d detail of the study, but its summary reports that all five \u201cpathways\u201d assume that the share of electricity from \u201ccarbon-free sources\u201d will have to roughly double from around 37% today to 70-85% by 2030, and reach 98-100% by 2050. Wind and solar power are to be the dominant source of energy in all their scenarios, with wind and solar farms providing about half of all U.S. electricity by 2030\u2014up from 9% in 2019. Miles and miles of new transmission lines would be needed to shift the unreliable electricity supply around; the Princeton crew estimates that high-voltage transmission capacity would have to jump by 60% over the course of the coming decade. Naturally, we will have to pay through the nose to kill ourselves; the study authors estimate at least $2.5 trillion in additional capital investment will be needed over the next decade.\u00a0See EIR’s special report, https:\/\/larouchepub.com\/special_report\/2021\/green-new-deal\/index.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How Much of U.S. Must Be Covered by Windmills and Solar Panels To \u2018Decarbonize\u2019 the Nation? Feb. 27 (EIRNS)\u2014According to a 345-page study called \u201cNet-Zero America,\u201d released on Dec. 15, 2020 by a team from two environmental centers at Princeton University, land-based windmills and solar farms might have to cover some 231,660 square miles of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":69482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,642,1,505,632],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-69480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates-environmentalism","category-finance","category-allgemein","category-updates","category-green-new-deal","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69481,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69480\/revisions\/69481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}