If you are lucky enough to have known the newsletter from John Droz Jr., or have kept up with his work on as AWED's newsletter moved to MasterResource.org, AWED's launch of wiseenergy.org is exciting news.
This from their "On the Issues" page, "Wind Energy" section
AWED - On The Issues | Wind Energy:
Wind energy is a favorite alternative energy source for advocates of all things green — and we use wind energy as an example of what happens when we deviate from using real science: we end up with high-cost, low-benefit boondoggles. (Much the same could be said about solar.)
The main justification for wind energy by its promoters, is that it will substantially reduce the threat of climate change. Unfortunately this is a political science position, not one based on real Science. No scientific assessment has proven that wind energy saves a consequential about of CO2 — or that it is a NET societal benefit to us. NET, of course, is the key word.
The obvious question is: why are governments investing so much in wind energy when there has never been a genuine scientific assessment of its merits — anywhere in the world? The reason is that our energy policies are written by lobbyists, and any true Science in the process is inadvertent.
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So, after a policy has been in effect for 10+ years, we wonder why it has cost WAY more that we were told it would, why the results are WAY less than we were promised they would be, and why there are numerous other negative consequences that we were never told about…
None of this should be a surprise — in fact they are the expected results — when policies are written to benefit the interests of a few, rather than the public. All of these problematic results could have been minimized if our technical policies were based on real Science. It’s as simple as that.Read more »
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