Thread by @AlexEpstein

IEA falsely claims it has done the "first comprehensive study of how to transition to a net-zero energy system by 2050 while ensuring stable and affordable energy supplies, providing universal energy access, and enabling robust economic growth." Check out @pwrhungry's expose.🧵

Green energy "models," @pwrhungry observes, ignore "myriad supply-chain problems...would come from attempting a massive increase in the use of solar panels, including the sourcing of polysilicon from China, and in particular, from Xinjiang province..."

realclearenergy.org/articles/2021/…

Green energy "models," @pwrhungry also observes, ignore "the difficulty inherent in trying to string the hundreds of thousands of miles of high-voltage transmission lines that will be needed to connect wind and solar projects in rural areas to distant cities."

"The latest example of this modeling make-believe was delivered last week by the International Energy Agency (IEA), which released a report that claims to provide a roadmap to achieving 'net-zero' emissions by 2050." --@pwrhungry

"many strategic and physical constraints...will limit, or rather prevent, any quick transition to renewables.... several Asian countries have already said they will ignore the IEA’s roadmap and continue investing in coal, oil, and natural gas extraction projects." --@pwrhungry

"Despite [$2T in spending from 2011-2018]...wind and solar energy still produced only 3% of world energy consumption in the year 2018...This raises pressing questions about what it would cost to make the transition to 100% renewable energies."

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"The new IEA report also contains nary a mention of how such an expensive effort will affect low- and middle-income consumers around the world. That’s a notable oversight given that about 800 million people around the world have no access to electricity." --@pwrhungry

"And as I point out in my recent book, 'A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations,' roughly 3 billion people on the planet live in countries where per-capita electricity use is less than what’s used by an average American refrigerator." --@pwrhungry

"Just as important as the cost problem, the IEA report completely ignores the cartoonish amounts of territory that will be needed to accommodate a major increase in wind and solar deployment." --@pwrhungry

"between 2005 and 2019, the average amount of wind installed annually around the globe was about 41 GW....the IEA is claiming that global annual additions should be nearly 10 times that figure. That begs the obvious question: where exactly will all those turbines be built?"

"backlash against Big Wind is growing in rural regions all around the world. Indeed, over the last six months alone, three counties in Iowa--the state that produces more electricity from wind than any other state--have either banned wind projects or issued moratoria on them."

"Some of the fiercest fights against Big Wind are happening in the bluest states. Good luck building a wind turbine in Vermont, home of Sen. @BernieSanders, the former presidential candidate and one of the Senate’s loudest proponents for renewable energy." --@pwrhungry

"In NY," so many communities are rejecting wind and solar projects that Gov. @andrewcuomo’s administration recently pushed through provisions that will strip local governments of their zoning and taxing authority so that the state can more easily issue permits..." --@pwrhungry

"In California, wind turbines are so difficult to site that most developers have simply given up trying to build new projects in the state." --@pwrhungry

"In Germany, where the government is pushing hard for its vaunted “Energiewende,” rural opposition has led to 'a dramatic decline in the number of new onshore wind farms.'" --@pwrhungry

Read @pwrhungry's full expose of the @IEA net-zero report here: realclearenergy.org/articles/2021/…

Here's why the @IEA net-zero report is immoral:

https://twitter.com/AlexEpstein/status/1394670501478338562

Here's why everyone involved with the @IEA net-zero report should be fired:

https://twitter.com/AlexEpstein/status/1395409677169557504

Here's why government-dictated energy plans are always disastrous.

https://twitter.com/AlexEpstein/status/1392554736176439296