Renewables Versus Fossil Fuels Facts and Myths: 2018

Fossil fuel’s are far less damaging to the environment than so-called renewables. What the Green movement and the wind and solar lobbyists don't tell us, is where their wind turbines and solar panels and batteries that they use everyday originate from. Why?? Because, it doesn’t fit their pocket-lining agenda.

Batteries use Lithium, lead, zinc and other materials.

Demand for lithium has expanded significantly in recent years as a result of its increasing use in rechargeable batteries for portable electronic devices, such as mobile phones, computers and rechargeable power tools, as well as in batteries and electric motors for electric bikes, hybrid and electric passenger cars, and other vehicles, and for storage for solar panels.

The major technical application for lithium is for production of ceramics and glasses, including heat-resistant glass and ceramics such as those used in oven wear and cook tops. It is also used in fluxes and glazes. Lithium is also used in alloys to increase strength to weight ratios, taking advantage of lithium’s strength and light weight (low-density) characteristics. Aluminium-lithium alloys, for example, are used in the aerospace and motorsport industries.

Lead and zinc mines are hazardous, as these minerals are a health hazard. Zinc is the 4th most used metal.

Then we have the rare earth metals required in wind turbine manufacture, which is disastrous to the environment:

This is a calamity:

Wind’s ecological trail of destruction extends back to China, which supplies most of the rare earths required in the construction of wind turbines. When we in the West erect a wind turbine, reported an investigative article in the UK’s Daily Mail, we help create “a vast man-made lake of poison in northern China” that, according to locals, withers their crops and kills their animals.

Solar, too, is anything but benign. A major 2009 report by the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, a pro-solar California-based environmental justice non-profit, described the many toxic threats that come of solar, often because the toxic chemicals involved in its manufacture are haphazardously processed in China.

But problems abound in the U.S., too, where solar companies such as Solyndra and Abound Solar went bankrupt after their subsidies ran out, leaving behind sites abandoned with millions of pounds of toxic waste that taxpayers will somehow have to clean up. Most cash-strapped solar companies, in fact, don’t report the levels of toxic waste they generate to state authorities, as required by law, and they are even tight-lipped about their environmental procedures to their environmental allies.

As one environmentalist told the Daily Mail, “There’s not one step of the rare earth mining process that is not disastrous for the environment.” That the destruction is mostly unseen and far-flung does not make it any less damaging.

It is interesting to note that all forms of energy production have some environmental impact. However, it is disingenuous for wind and solar lobbyists to hide the impacts of their industry while highlighting the impacts of others. From illegal bird deaths to radioactive waste, wind and solar energy poses serious environmental risks that the lobbyists would prefer you never know about. This makes it easier for them when arguing for more subsidies, tax credits, mandates and government supports.

So, there you have it, renewables are toxic to the environment, maybe more so than fossil fuels, but, nobody seems to care!!

We often hear the green movement and their allies proclaiming of the dirty big black holes left in the ground from coal mining, but, they never mention about the other dirty big holes left in the ground from other sources of mining, such as lead, zinc, lithium and many others, which are needed for their precious so-called renewables.

Hypocrisy comes to mind whenever we hear the argument that fossil fuels are environmentally damaging. Yes, fossil fuels do have their downsides, but, so do renewables.

Green worshippers keep suggesting that a "coal mine is uglier than a wind turbine farm" - the Enviro-muppets seem to forget our raw materials come from the ground, and, those same materials need to be mined, then processed to make their fabulous wind turbines. Be it a coal mine or an iron ore mine - it's still a ruddy big hole! You can't pick and choose!