The IPPC Is on the Wrong Track in Promoting Renewable Energy

In the May 16 issue of C&E News, Cheryl Hogue reviews the latest report from the IPCC. You may recall that the IPPC is part of the Interlocking Directorship that started the cult on global warming.

The IPPC's latest report is pushing pushing development of renewable energy. The article shows a graph of world energy sources in 2008. I wonder why they couldn't get more recent data. The energy sources of biomass, hydropower, wind, direct solar, geothermal and ocean activity add up to 13% of all energy sources. 10% of that is biomass, which makes the others almost insignificant. The theme of the IPPC report was that government policy should speed up renewable deployment.

The IPPC report is based on the assumption that we should have renewables. That is an incorrect assumption. The correct assumption is that we should have cheap energy sources. The cost of usable energy from each source should be calculated using a complete cost analysis, which involves capital investment for equipment, operating costs including downtime for unavailability, such as when the sun is not shining, and the cost of neutralizing waste products to ecological acceptance.

While such cost calculations would be extensive, it is a practical mathematical project. Some assumptions and estimations would likely be necessary, but we should beware of injecting fear factors, which would be based on suppositions without scientific confirmation. An example of this would be the need to capture CO2 from any fossil burning generating plants. There is absolutely no scientific data to support the need for CO2 capture. Global warming based upon CO2 concentration increases in the atmosphere is a myth.

I predict that if such calculations are made, they will clearly show the advantage of using fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas as long as supplies exist and new reserves uncovered