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Renewables will make our energy crisis worse

Publicerad 2022-10-12 11:31:00 i Eternal growth, Gail Tverberg, Peak Oil and energy questions, Renewable energy, Richard Heinberg,

“We have an energy crisis, we don’t have enough energy today. And yet people are saying that the answer is that we have to get away from oil and gas and invest more in renewables. It will only make this problem worse", says Adam Rozencwajg, CFA, Managing Partner at Goehring & Rozencwajg - Natural Resource Investors in this podcast from 30.9.2022. 
 
For more detailed information from Rozencwajg why renewables will make things worse, see the post "The Incredible Shrinking Oil Majors - Part III" from 09/ 16/ 2022 on the same homepage as the podcast above, i.e. the "Goehring & Rozenczwajg Natural Resource Investors" blog
 
Gail Tverberg has also touted the same fact on her blog Our Finite World, that renewables will make things worse (read for example this article by her), as has also Steve St. Angelo on the SrsRocco Report blog (read for example this article by him). 
 
Why do renewables make things worse? There are many reasons, but the main reasons are that renewables usually do not replace fossil fuels, but just add to our energy mix, renewables are not truly renewable, they have a short lifespan (about fifteen years for solar panels and twenty for wind turbines) and need to be replaced, they need fossil fuels to be built and operated, they have such a bad EROEI (energy returned on energy invested) that they make us self-cannibalize, and they are intermittent, which means the wind has to blow and the sun has to shine for them to deliver energy, which means that they has to be backed up by fossil fuels, and the electrical grid cannot really operate just on renewables, the more renewables there is on the grid, the more problems it has, which has to do mainly with intermittency. 
 
Richard Heinberg has also preached the truth that, because of the low EROEI of fossil fuels, an economy that runs on renewables has to be much, much smaller than ours today. He presents this fact in the book "Our Renewable Future: Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy" (2016) together with David Fridley. But you can start with reading his museletter #272: Our renewable future.
 
This fact that the economy has to shrink radically if we want to run it on renewables, guarantees its collapse, because our economy is built on perpetual economic growth, and collapses if it does not grow (this has to do with the debt-driven bubble nature of the system). 

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Lars Larsen

Born 1984 in Finland. Norwegian, lives in Stockholm, Sweden. Poet, ecotheologian and ecophilosopher (though not an academic such in both cases, although he studied theology for almost three years at Åbo Academy University), is also called "The monk" ("munken", he is monk in a self-founded monastery order, "Den Heliga Naturens Orden", "The Order of the Holy Nature"), he calls himself "Forest Man Snailson" (Skogsmannen Snigelson) because of certain strong ties to Nature and the animals, founded among other things through many years of homelessness living in tent, cot, cave and several huts in the Flaten Nature Reserve, the Nacka Reserve and "Kaknästornsskogen" outside of Stockholm. He debuted as a poet in 2007 with "Över floden mig" ("Across the river of me"), published by himself, he has also published an ecotheological work, "Djurisk teologi. Paradisets återkomst" (Animalistic theology. The return of paradise") on Titel förlag 2010. He has published the poem collection "Naturens återkomst" (The return of Nature) on Fri Press förlag 2018 together with Titti Spaltro, his ex-girlfriend. Lars's professions are two, cleaner and painter (buildings). Before he was homeless, but right now he lives in Attendo Herrgårdsvägen, a psychiatric group home for mental patients in Danderyd, Stockholm. His adress is: Herrgårdsvägen 25, 18239 Danderyd, Sverige. One can reach him in the comments section on this blog. His texts on this blog are without copyright, belonging to "Public Domain". He is the author of the texts, if no one is mentioned.

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