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If renewables really were the 'cheapest form of energy' in town, as the narrative argues black and blue, the market would have pivoted years ago without a single subsidy

If wind and solar were truly economically and engineeringly superior to fossil fuels, we wouldn’t be talking about a transition.

We would be witnessing a wholesale acceptance.

Think back to the great energy shifts of the past. We didn’t need global treaties to move from wood to coal, or from whale oil to kerosene. We didn’t need to demonise the forest to convince people to use a coal stove. The market moved because the new energy source offered higher energy density, lower cost and greater reliability.

If renewables really were the 'cheapest form of energy' in town, as the narrative argues black and blue, the market would have pivoted years ago without a single subsidy. Capital investment always flows toward efficiency.

Instead, we see persistent intermittency. We see huge, costly wind and solar arrays lying dormant when the winds are still, on cloudy days and at night. Only an ongoing dependence on coal, oil, and gas keeps the lights on. That is not a business plan.

Without a massive, currently non-existent method for long-duration storage, wind and solar remain an adjunct to the grid - not the solution. We are essentially building two parallel grids: one for wind and sun, and a ghostly 'shadow grid' of coal and gas. This is the definition of engineering failure.

The campaign to demonise CO2 served one function: when a product cannot compete on its own merits, you change the rules of the game. If you can’t make the new technology cheaper, you make existing technology illegal.

True progress doesn't require a code red crisis to crush debate. It proves itself by providing energy and grid stability from Day 1. If renewables worked as advertised, the transition would be over in a week.

Instead, we're being told to sacrifice national sovereignty, energy security, and our industrial base - trading away jobs for a flawed system that cannot survive for a day without a backup plan.

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u/ChipHaseCoolGuy — 3 days ago
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Climate alarmists got it wrong for years: the doomsday model RCP8.5, peddled as "business-as-usual," is now officially dead. Scientists admit it was an extreme what-if scenario, not a likely future. Yet it drove headlines about 4.4°C warming and economic collapse. Now, new projections cut peak emissions by 45% and warming by up to 1.4°C. Why the sudden shift? And how much damage did the misinformation cause? You need to see this.

u/ChipHaseCoolGuy — 12 days ago