A talk on energy

Why do we need renewable energy? If you ask that question, we, being society in general, don't really need renewable energy at all. I advocate its use, as you can tell by my blog, but I happily debunk many of the myths that renewable energy advocates claim its political adoption will solve. First, especially without government subsidies, renewable energy will be more expensive than conventional energy. As was seen back in 2007, Google created a project called "Cheaper than Coal" that was supposed to research and develop and deploy alternative energy technology, primarily solar, with the hopes of making alternative energy cheaper than coal. The program was ambitiously launched by Google's so-called "Green energy Czar" Bill Weihl  (Pictured below) with high expectations. Unfortunately, after spending around $45 million dollars, Google closed down shop on this program.  This is why it's important to be very careful of "happy talk", or launching a program with an over-ambitious goal, and then under-delivering by a mile.  Second, in my opinion, anthropogenic climate change theory is a farce. There's an excellent book entitled Climate Gate by meteorologist Brian Sussman that extensively explains why. Another excellent resource is the documentary The Great Global Warming Hoax that you can purchase off of amazon.com. These two resources can explain why much better than I can. Additionally, any claims of "scientific consensus" in favor of the anthropogenic climate change theory fall flat n their face. The reason being is an excellent website entitled the "Global Warming Petition Project." As of this blog's authoring, "31,487 American scientists have signed this petition, including 9,029 with PhDs." Thirdly, to add to that, many of the "solutions" of solving this are infinitesimally incapable of ever meeting current energy needs at a price we can afford. The environmental damage wreaked by tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of wind turbines and solar panels would be enormous. At this point, many of you must be thinking I am renewable energy's biggest detractor. It turns out that you'd be wrong. Renewable energy is great for the simple reasons that it creates jobs and competition while spurring innovation. Some people's lives are driven by trying to reach a zero-emissions planet. While I do not subscribe to the philosophy that carbon dioxide is killing the planet, some people do; but that is okay. It's great that these people are contributing to society. If you want to start a solar panel company for business and homes to take them partially or completely off the grid, my hat is off to you! This will also benefit everyone else because electric companies will need to stay sharp because they now have competition. If you discount all the arguable "benefits" like energy independence, zero-emissions economy, energy security, sustainability, and all of these, the real benefits boil down to job creation, technological innovation, and market competition (something crucially important in a free-market capitalist economy). These are very agreeable and desirable benefits and something that the USA, and all developed nations, need desperately.