Net Zero is a Complete Zero
In January 2023 I wrote an article subtitled “Energy Storage - Mission Impossible”, linking a Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) study where retired Manhattan lawyer and author, Francis Menton performs essential mathematical analysis necessary to develop battery storage facilities should the world, or any part of it, decide to transform to renewable energies.
In that article, Menton writes, conclusively, “It is abundantly clear that no jurisdiction can get anywhere near Net Zero on the current path of just building more wind and solar generators and paying little to no attention to the problem of energy storage”. Net Zero can be defined as the volume of anthropogenic produced carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere is equal to the amount removed – a CO2 emissions balance.
Mr. Menton and two additional colleagues are back with another report, and while specific to New York City, the crucial program is Net Zero, which many governments have already mandated. I link the Net Zero Scorecard showing which countries have legislated, proposed, pledged, or produced a policy directive on Net Zero and the year it will be achieved.
As the report points out Net Zero is grossly unattainable using current renewable technologies. While nuclear energy is experiencing some sensible relaxing of overly rigid guidelines and gratuitous revulsion from climate activists, the production of necessary atomic energy plants may be much too late.
In the subject report called, “Don’t Do It!”, the most alarming, but truthful statement reads, “The statutes command a transformed energy system that is impossible to achieve within the mandated time frames, if ever.” Not only will there be catastrophic failures in electrical grids everywhere, but as pointed out in “Energy Storage - Mission Impossible”, necessary storage batteries will bankrupt most countries.
In the executive summary on any assessments done relative to Net Zero, it states as follows, and remember these will apply to everyone, not just New Yorkers:
Any detailed Feasibility Study of whether this transition is possible under basic physics and existing technology;
Any Demonstration Project anywhere in the world showing how an electrical grid can function relying mostly on wind and solar and without emissions-creating resources for back-up of intermittency; and
Any detailed analysis or projection of the costs to New Yorkers of this transition, whether in their capacities as taxpayers or ratepayers or both.
Net Zero is fundamentally an ideological political scheme whose politicians bring along allied scientists whose imaginative distress signals win their political comrade’s votes and elections. For promotional effect, activists and protests are encouraged. Traditional, but more severe, weather is used and abused like Mike Tyson’s boxing gloves.
The anthropogenic climate change scare does not rely on engineers, economists, or other similar professionals - those who deal in reality and not theoretically disturbing scenarios or situations.