Thread by @ShellenbergerMD

Solar jobs are in China not US

Largest solar farm in US will create *6* permanent jobs

Solar panels are imported from Xinjiang, China where “forced labor” is used under “genocide” conditions

Democrats are trying to close nuclear plants that employ ~1,200 workers at high pay

https://twitter.com/potus/status/1406250677819564032

Sources:

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/democrats-mu…

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/solar-genoci…

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/finally-the-…

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/china-made-s…

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/maybe-theyre…

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-environm…

@JenGranholm knows all of this

To clarify, nuclear plants *directly* employ ~1,200 workers/plant

They tend to be the best-paid energy workers

Solar farms temporarily employ low-wage, low-to-zero skill workers to install China-made panels, and 6-12, also low-wage maintenance workers, permanently

But that’s okay because solar is good for the environment, right? Wrong.

Princeton, Bloomberg & others finally admitted what was obvious to anyone who could use Google maps, which is that solar farms need ~300x more land than nat gas or nuclear plants:

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/finally-they…

But that’s ok bc once we install solar, they’ll provide power forever, right? Wrong. Solar panels last just 20 years where nuclear plants run 60-80 yrs

And the solar industry just admitted that panels degrade 2x faster than they had claimed, and their failure rate is increasing

https://twitter.com/shellenbergermd/status/1402973077550600196

But that’s okay bc solar provides pollution-free power, right? Wrong.

Solar is being promoted to replace nuclear but when it does it is paired with nat gas, increasing pollution

And China made solar cheap with cheap dirty coal w/ unknown pollutants

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/china-made-s…

And so, in that sense, Mr. President, @JenGranholm does “mess around” by promoting dirtier, less efficient, and American job-killing power over cleaner, more efficient, American job-creating power — all while claiming to be doing the exact opposite.

/end

PS: “Because it's not easy to dispose of toxic metals inside solar cells, it’s cheaper to send them to developing countries…. in dumps, the toxic metals they contain leech out into the environment & pose a public health hazard”

discovermagazine.com/environment/so…

Solar panel lifecycle analysis:

US subsidizes solar —> China puts 2M Muslims in camps —> China forces them to make polysilicon & solar panels with coal —> China ships solar to US —> farmland ruined —> @blackrock harvests subsidies —> solar panel waste dumped on Africa —> Repeat

Almost missed a step:

EU has @blackrock invent phony “ESG” criteria that greenwashes solar and slanders nuclear —> Blackrock hires washed up politicians & sends its employees (eg @BrianDeeseNEC) to work in White House — repeat

https://twitter.com/jonhacking/status/1406282510766587907