Solar and wind advocates say cheaper solar panels and wind turbines will make the future growth in renewables cheaper than past growth but there are reasons to believe the opposite will be the case. Michael Shellenberger Read Quote
If solar and wind farms are needed to protect the natural environment, why do they so often destroy it? Michael Shellenberger Read Quote
Privately, many climate and energy experts admit that the fastest, easiest, and cheapest way to decarbonize energy supplies is with nuclear power. Michael Shellenberger Read Quote
Most people think of solar and wind as new energy sources. In fact, they are two of our oldest. Michael Shellenberger Read Quote
The producers of ‘Chernobyl’ should tell the truth: the accident demonstrates the relative safety, not danger, of nuclear power. Michael Shellenberger Read Quote
The value of solar and wind decline in economic value as they become larger shares of the electricity grid for physical reasons. They produce too much energy when societies don’t need it and not enough energy when they do. Michael Shellenberger Read Quote
All renewables thus require a material throughput – from mining to processing to installing to disposing of the materials later as waste – that is orders of magnitude larger than for non-renewable energy sources. Michael Shellenberger Read Quote
Renewables require the use of vastly more land, longer and less-utilized transmission lines, and large amounts of storage whether from lithium batteries, new dams, compressed air caverns. Michael Shellenberger Read Quote
Normally skeptical journalists routinely give renewables a pass. The reason isn’t because they don’t know how to report critically on energy – they do regularly when it comes to non-renewable energy sources – but rather because they don’t want to. Michael Shellenberger Read Quote
Like many environmental documentaries, ‘Planet of Humans’ endorses debunked Malthusian ideas that the world is running out of energy. Michael Shellenberger Read Quote