BIDEN's GREEN ENERGY POLICY MAY “END IN TEARS"

BIDEN's GREEN ENERGY POLICY MAY “END IN TEARS" 

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Germany’s green energy policy, ENERGIEWENDE, launched in 2000, could have been a cheap lesson for America today.

 

High subsidies for wind and solar have had a costly impact on consumers who still need fossil fuels.

The Biden Administration’s push toward green energy has failed to balance energy demand with the reality of the resources we have at our disposal. 

 

However, the Biden administration has chosen to follow foolish Germany, providing heavy subsidies for wind and solar, while suppressing industries that could reliably meet America’s energy needs for hundreds of years, and reduce its carbon footprint.

 

American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin once said: “Experience is an expensive school, but fools will learn in no other.” 

 

“BUILD BACK BETTER” WOULD COST $4.490 TRILLION OVER THE NEXT DECADE, IF PROVISIONS WERE MADE TO LAST 10 YEARS

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In January 2022, the administration announced it had “pulled every lever to position America to scale up clean energy …

The Biden Administration has readied offshore areas to harness power from wind, approved new solar projects on public lands, and passed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to build thousands of miles of transmission lines that deliver clean energy.”

 

US/UK 56,000 MW OF OFFSHORE WIND BY 2030; AN EXPENSIVE FANTASY  

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On June 6 2023, the Biden Administration invoked the Defense Production Act to increase the production of green energy and to replace the use of fossil fuels. 

The legality of this move is questionable,

The invoking established the U.S. government as a major controlling party in America’s heretofore private energy industry.

 

But like most grand government adventures into industrial policy, the push for renewables is already revealing itself to be enormously wasteful and counterproductive.

 

INFLATION REDUCTION ACT; CBO estimate $391 billion, Goldman Sachs estimate $1.2 TRILLION

 

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which has only the US Congress as a “client”, “forecast”, as required by law, the IRA’s energy and climate provisions would cost $391 billion between 2022 and 2031, 10 years.

That turned out to be a huge under-estimate, per Goldman Sachs, which estimates the cost at $1.2 TRILLION.

 

The difference in cost mainly arises from lucrative tax credits in the law that are not capped, and that the Biden Administration is “loosely interpreting” the requirements for obtaining those credits

 

As a result of huge financial impact of the “loosely interpreting”, Goldman Sachs made another estimate of the IRA tax credits.

It turns out, they will cost tens to hundreds of billions more than CBO estimated over the next 10 years.

 

The Goldman Sachs forecast differences, compared the CBO estimate, total about $800 billion, such as:

 

Electric vehicles ($379 billion more),

“Green energy” manufacturing ($156 billion more),

Renewable electricity production ($82 billion more),

Energy efficiency ($42 billion more),

Hydrogen ($36 billion more),

Biofuels ($34 billion more) and

Plus, the forever-boondoggle, called carbon capture ($31 billion more).

 

The difference in the EV credit estimates is due to the projection that more vehicles will meet the law’s condition of “self-sufficiency” for minerals and battery materials to obtain the partial $3,750 consumer credit, and the full $7,500 credit.

 

ELECTRIC VEHICLES FOR EVERYONE? THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM

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by Mark P. Mills

 

EXCERPT

 

That so much upstream energy is necessarily used is understandable, if one knows that hundreds of thousands of pounds of rock and materials are mined, moved, and processed to create the intermediate and final refined minerals to fabricate a single thousand-pound battery.

 

Sources of “Hidden” Energy to Mine and Process 500,000 Pounds per EV Battery

 

While there are dozens of variations, a typical EV battery weighs about 1,000 pounds and contains about 30 pounds of lithium, 60 pounds of cobalt, 130 pounds of nickel, 190 pounds of graphite, 90 pounds of copper,[a] and about 400 pounds of steel, aluminum,[b] and various plastic components.[c]

 

The ore grades for each mineral dictate the quantities of rock that must be dug up and processed to produce minerals needed to fabricate one battery; thus:

 

Lithium brines contain @ ~0.14% lithium, so that entails ~20,000 pounds of brines to yield 30 pounds of pure lithium[d]

Cobalt, at about 0.1% ore grades means ~60,000 pounds of ore dug up per battery[e]

Nickel at about 1.3% grade, means ~10,000 pounds of ore[f]

Graphite at about 10% leads to 2,000 pounds of ore[g]

Copper at about 0.6% yields about 12,000 pounds of ore[h]

 

These five elements total about 100,000 pounds of ore to fabricate one EV battery.

To properly account for all the earth moved, there’s also the overburden, the materials first dug up to get to the ore

Depending on ore type and location, it averages three to seven tons of overburden removed to access each ton of ore,[i] thus about 500,000 pounds total. The exact number varies for different batteries and mines.

 

NOTE: This doesn’t include large quantities of chemicals to process and refine the ores, or the mining/refining for the other 400 pounds of battery minerals used (e.g., steel, aluminum).

HAVING FUN WATCHING WIND AND SOLAR FAILING TO STEP UP TO POWER THE WORLD ECONOMY

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AS GERMANY’s GREEN DREAM BECOMES A NIGHTMARE, ASIA AND RUSSIA POWER AHEAD WITH NUCLEAR POWER

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Twenty-two years ago, Germany stepped into the forefront of the green energy movement, implementing its “Energiewende”, an ambitious program of subsidies for solar panels and wind turbines, and tree-burning power plants, coupled with a reduction in coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear.

 

After the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan, Germany decided to also close its nuclear plants, which set the stage of Germany being “up the creek without sufficient paddles”, a few years later, when the US told Germany, it would cut off reliable, low-cost Russian pipeline gas “one way or another”, to “strategically weaken” Russia.

 

In 2000, at the start of the ENERGIEWENDE, less than 7 percent of Germany’s electricity came from so-called renewables. 

 

In 2021, that share exceeded 40 percent (mostly from wind/solar systems), but that is only about 20 percent of Germany’s primary energy consumption.

 

Primary energy is fed to power plants; processing plants; chemical plants; manufacturing plants; buildings; cars, buses, trains, planes, etc.

About 10% of the primary energy is used to explore, extract, transport, process oil, gas, coal, wood, etc.

 

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I-95 ICE STORM OVERNIGHT TRAFFIC JAM; IMAGINE YOU WERE STUCK IN AN EV

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Related: Goldman Sachs: Upside Risk In Oil Is “Tremendously High”

 

By the end of 2021, before the Ukraine war drove prices even higher, German households paid 32 cents per kilowatt-hour for electricity.

The rate in France, which kept its aging nuclear industry intact, was 23 cents.

Americans paid an average price of 11 cents for electricity at that time—about a third of what Germans paid.

Twenty percent of German household electric bills went to a “renewables surcharge” to subsidize wind and solar.

 

Germany had spent heavily to increase its renewable energy capacity, but in the case of wind and solar, capacity never delivered the promised output.

 

According to a 2020 report from the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 

In 2000, Germany’s average electricity output, MW, was 54 percent of its total installed capacity, also known as the “system capacity factor.”

Unused capacity is the norm for power grids, because the demand for electricity varies significantly depending on the time of day, the season, and the weather.

 

By 2019, while Germany’s total INSTALLED electricity generating capacity, MW, had risen dramatically, thanks to a major increase in wind, solar, and tree burning power plants, its system capacity factor had fallen to just 20 percent, largely because wind and solar generators were much less productive than traditional fossil fuel and nuclear power plants

 

- The capacity factor for solar energy was just 10 percent, because much of the country is often foggy, snow-covered, and overcast.

- Wind energy was also producing well below capacity, because wind turbines produced no energy on calm, sunny days, and had to shut down on particularly gusty days to prevent turbine blades from being damaged.

- Even within those limits, the amount of energy produced by wind turbines was hugely variable, depending on how hard the wind was blowing.

It costs Germany a great deal to fuel, staff, and keep in good working order, such an excess of installed power plant capacity,” the IEEE report stated.

“The average cost of electricity for German households has doubled since 2000.”

 

A major problem with wind and solar is they are wind-dependent, i.e., unreliable, and they tend to generate the most power when people need it least.

 

The peak seasons for wind generation tend to be fall and spring

The peak demand for energy occurs in summer and winter when people need to heat or cool homes and offices.

 

An electricity grid must manage huge variability in demand. It must have enough capacity to cover peak demand, for example during the hottest hours of summer, but also have the flexibility to reduce power during early morning hours, or springtime days, when demand falls considerably.

 

Because renewables are unpredictable in terms of how much energy they will produce, and when, they add substantial variability to the supply side of the equation.

 

Battery Storage Systems

 

BATTERY SYSTEM CAPITAL COSTS, OPERATING COSTS, ENERGY LOSSES, AND AGING

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“The whole idea that you would take something as complicated as an electric system, one of the most complicated systems people have invented to date, and choose what to put on that system, and how to run it, by a political popularity contest, to me, that’s nuts and it’s going to end in tears,” Peter Hartley, Professor of Energy Economics at Rice University, told The Epoch Times. “Trying to run that system, based on political agendas, is not a very smart thing to do.”

 

 

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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT

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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/

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