Tại sao các chính phủ lớn, tập đoàn, tổ chức tư vấn và Davos WEF đều thúc đẩy chương trình nghị sự toàn cầu Zero Carbon nhằm loại bỏ việc sử dụng dầu, khí đốt, than đá? Họ biết rằng việc chuyển sang sử dụng năng lượng mặt trời và năng lượng gió là không thể. Không thể vì nhu cầu nguyên liệu thô từ đồng đến coban, lithium đến bê tông và thép vượt quá nguồn cung toàn cầu. Điều đó là không thể vì chi phí pin dự phòng hàng nghìn tỷ đáng kinh ngạc cho một lưới điện tái tạo 100% “đáng tin cậy”. Nó cũng không thể không gây ra sự sụp đổ mức sống hiện tại của chúng ta và sự phá vỡ nguồn cung cấp thực phẩm của chúng ta, đồng nghĩa với cái chết hàng loạt vì đói và bệnh tật. Tất cả điều này cho một gian lận khoa học được gọi là sự nóng lên toàn cầu do con người tạo ra?
Why Zero Carbon Green Agenda Is Impossible
© F. William Engdahl
9 April, 2023
Why
are major governments, corporations, think tanks and the Davos WEF all
promoting a Zero Carbon global agenda to eliminate use of oil, gas,
coal? They know that the turn to solar and wind-based electricity is
impossible. It is impossible because of the demand for raw materials
from copper to cobalt to lithium to concrete and steel exceeding global
supply. It is impossible
because of the staggering trillions in cost of battery backup for a
“reliable” 100% renewable electric grid. It is also impossible without
causing the collapse of our present standard of living and a breakdown
of our food supply that will mean mass death from starvation and
disease. All this for a scientific fraud called man-made global warming?
Even
paling the brazen corruption surrounding the recent vaccine push by Big
Pharma and major government officials globally is the mindless push by
especially EU and USA governments to advance a Green Agenda whose costs
vs benefits have rarely been openly examined. There is a good reason for
this. It has to do with a sinister agenda to destroy
industrial economies and reduce the global population by billions of
human beings.
We
can examine the stated goal of Zero Carbon globally by 2050, the UN
Agenda 2030, allegedly to prevent what Al Gore and others claim will be a
tipping into irreversible sea level rise, “boiling oceans,” iceberg
meltdowns, global catastrophe and worse. In one of his first acts in
office, in 2021 Joe Biden issued a proclamation that the USA economy
shall become Zero Net Carbon by 2050
in transportation, electricity and manufacturing. The European Union,
under the notoriously corrupt Ursula von der Leyen, has announced
similar targets in its Fit for 55 and countless other Green Agenda
programs.
Farming
and all aspects of modern agriculture are being targeted with fake
allegations of greenhouse gas damage to the climate. Oil, natural gas,
coal and even CO2-free nuclear energy are being phased out. We are being
pushed for the first time in modern history from a more
energy-efficient economy into a dramatically less energy-efficient one.
No one in Washington or Berlin or Brussels
talks about the true required natural resources for this fraud, let
alone the cost.
Clean
Green Energy?
One
of the most remarkable aspects of the fraudulent global hype for
so-called “clean, renewable” Green Energy—solar and wind—is how
non-renewable and environmentally dirty it
actually is. Almost no attention goes to the staggering environmental
costs that go into making the mammoth wind towers or solar panels or EV
lithium-ion batteries. That grave omission is deliberate.
Solar
panels and giant wind power arrays require huge amounts of raw
materials. A standard engineering evaluation between “renewable” solar
and wind versus present nuclear, gas or coal electricity production
would begin by comparing bulk materials used such as concrete, steel,
aluminum, copper consumed per production of TeraWatt hour (TWh) of
electricity. Wind consumes 5,931 tons of bulk material per TWh, and
solar 2,441 tons, both many times higher than coal, gas or nuclear.
Building a single wind
turbine requires 900 tons of steel, 2,500 tons of concrete and 45 tons
of non-recyclable plastic. Solar power farms require even more cement,
steel and glass—not to mention other metals. [i] Keep in mind the energy efficiency of wind and solar is dramatically lower than for conventional electricity.
A
recent study by the Institute for Sustainable Futures details the
impossible demands of mining for not only EV vehicles, but, in addition,
for 100% renewable electric power, mainly solar and wind farms. The
report notes that the raw materials to make solar PV panels or windmills
are concentrated in a small number of countries—China, Australia, DR
Congo, Chile, Bolivia,
Argentina.
They
point out that, “China is the largest producer of metals used in solar
PV and wind technologies, with the largest share of production for
aluminum, cadmium, gallium, indium, rare earths,
selenium and tellurium. In addition, China also has a large influence
over the market for cobalt and lithium for batteries.” It continues,
“While Australia is the largest producer of lithium ...the largest
lithium mine, Greenbushes in Western Australia, is majority owned by a
Chinese company.” [ii] Not so good when the West is escalating confrontation with China.
They
note that regarding the
huge concentration of cobalt, that the DR Congo mines more than half of
the world’s cobalt. The mining there has led to “heavy metal
contamination of air, water and soil… to severe health impacts for
miners and surrounding communities in DR Congo, and the cobalt mining
area is one of the top ten most polluted places in the world. Around 20%
of cobalt from DR Congo is from artisanal and small-scale miners who
work in dangerous conditions in hand-dug mines and there is extensive
child labor. ‘’
[iii]
Rare
earth metals mining and refining is essential for the Zero Carbon
transition in batteries, windmills and solar panels. According to one
report by energy specialist Paul Driessen, “Most of the world’s rare
earth ores are extracted near Baotou, Inner Mongolia by pumping acid
into the ground, then processed using more acids and
chemicals. Producing one ton of rare earth metals releases up to 420,000
cubic feet of toxic gases, 2,600 cubic feet of acidic waste-water, and a
ton of radioactive waste. The resulting black sludge is piped into a
foul, lifeless lake. Numerous local people suffer from severe skin and
respiratory diseases, children are born with soft bones, and cancer
rates have soared.” [iv]
The USA also sends most all its rare earth ores to China for processing
since it shut down domestic processing during the Clinton presidency.
Because
they are vastly less energy efficient per area, the land used to
produce the mandated Zero Carbon global electric output is staggering.
Wind and solar require up to 300 times the land required to produce the
same electricity as a typical nuclear plant. In China 25 square
kilometers of a solar farm are required to generate 850 MW of electric
power, the size of a typical nuclear
plant. [v]
Ground Up Total Cost
Almost
no studies by the Green Lobby look at the total production chain from
mining to smelting to production for solar panels and wind assemblies.
Instead they make fraudulent assertions of the alleged lower cost per
KWh of produced solar or wind at the highly subsidized costs. In
2021 Professor Simon P. Michaux of the Geological Survey of Finland
(GTK) published an unusual study of the materials costs in terms of raw
materials to produce a global Zero Carbon economy. The costs are
staggering.
Michaux points first to the present reality of the Net Zero Carbon challenge. The
global energy system in 2018 was 85% dependent on carbon fuels—coal,
gas, oil. Another 10% came from nuclear for a total of 95% energy from
conventional energy. Only 4% came from renewables, mainly solar and
wind. So our politicians are talking of replacing 95% of our current
global energy production by latest 2050, and a major part of this by
2030. [vi]
In
terms of electric vehicles—cars or trucks or buses—of the total of the
global fleet of vehicles of some 1.4 billion vehicles, less than 1% is
now electric. He estimates that, “the total additional non-fossil fuel
electrical power annual capacity to be added to the global grid will need to be around 37 670.6 TWh. If the same non-fossil fuel energy mix as that reported
in 2018 is assumed, then this translates into an extra 221 594 new power plants that will be needed to be constructed… To
put this in context, the total power plant fleet in 2018 (all types
including fossil fuel plants) was only 46 423 stations. This large
number reflects the lower Energy Returned on Energy Invested (ERoEI)
ratio of renewable power compared to current fossil fuels.” [vii]
Michaux estimates further if we were to go total EV, “To make just one battery for each vehicle in the global transport fleet (excluding Class 8 HCV trucks), it would require 48.2% of 2018 global nickel reserves, and 43.8% of
global lithium reserves. There is also not enough cobalt in current
reserves to meet this demand... Each of the 1.39 billion lithium ion
batteries could only have a useful working life of 8 to 10 years. So, 8-10 years after manufacture, new replacement batteries will be required, from either a mined mineral source, or
a recycled metal source. This is unlikely to be practical…” [viii] He is stating the problem very mildly.
Michaux
also points to the
staggering demand for copper, noting that, “for copper alone 4.5 billion
tons (1,000 kilograms per ton) of copper are needed. That's about six
times the total amount that humans have so far extracted from the Earth.
The rock-to-metal ratio for copper is more than 500, so it would be
necessary to dig up and refine more than 2.25 trillion tons of ore.” And
the mining equipment would have to be diesel-powered to work. [ix]
Michaux
concludes that simply, “To phase out petroleum products and substitute
the use of oil in the transport sector with a completely Electric
Vehicle fleet, an extra capacity of 1.09 x 1013 kWh (10 895.7 TWh) of
electricity generation is
required from the global power grid to charge the batteries of the 1.416
billion vehicles in the global fleet. As total global electricity
generation in 2018 was 2.66 x 1013 kWh (Appendix B), this means that to
make viable the EV revolution, an extra capacity of 66.7% the existing
entire global capacity to generate electricity is required to be
added…The task of making the EV battery revolution is much larger in
scope than previously thought.” [x]
That is only to replace vehicle internal combustion engines globally.
Wind and
Solar?
Then
if we look to the proposed substitution of solar arrays and onshore and
offshore wind power for current 95% conventional electric power sources
to get to the absurd and arbitrary Zero
Carbon goal in the next few years, all to avert Al Gore’s fake “tipping
point” of 1.5 C rise in average global temperature (which itself is an
absurd notion), the calculus gets even more absurd.
The
main problem with wind and solar farms is the fact that they are not
reliable, something essential for our modern economy, even in developing
countries. Unpredictable power blackouts that affect the grid stability
were almost nonexistent
in the US or Europe until introduction of major solar and wind. If we
insist as do the Zero Carbon ideologues, that no backup oil, gas or coal
plants be allowed to stabilize the grid in low solar times such as
night or cloudy days or winter, or times when wind does not blow at the
optimal velocity, the only serious answer being discussed is to build EV
battery storage, lots of it.
The
cost estimates of such E-battery storage backup vary. Van Snyder, a
retired mathematician and systems engineer calculates the cost for such
huge battery backup to the USA power grid to ensure reliable steady
electricity at today’s level: “So, how much would batteries cost? Using
the most optimistic 400 watt
hours requirement -- something a real engineer would never do -- and
assuming installation is free -- another thing a real engineer would
never do -- one might look in Tesla's catalogue and discover the price
is $0.543 per watt hour -- before installation -- and the warranty
period, roughly equal to the lifetime, is ten years. Activists insist
that an all-electric American energy economy would have average demand
of 1,700 gigawatts. If one evaluates the formula 1,700,000,000,000 * 400
* 0.543 /
10, the answer is $37 trillion, or about twice total USA 2020 GDP, every
year, for batteries alone.” [xi]
Another
estimate by Ken Gregory, also an engineer, is similarly impossibly
high. He calculates, “If fossil fuel fired electrical power is not
available to back up the highly variable S+W energy and only batteries
can be used as back up, the battery backup becomes extremely
expensive…The total cost to electrify the USA is US$258
trillion with the 2019 profile and US$290 trillion with the 2020
profile.” [xii]
The Hidden Agenda
Clearly,
the powers behind this mad Zero Carbon agenda know such reality. They
don’t care, as their goal has nothing to do with the environment. It is
about the eugenics and culling of the human herd as the late Prince
Philip famously remarked.
Maurice
Strong, founder of the UN Environment Program, in his opening speech to
the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, declared, “Isn’t the only hope for the
planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our
responsibility to bring that about?” At the Rio summit Strong oversaw
drafting of the UN “Sustainable Environment” goals, the Agenda
21 for Sustainable Development that forms the basis of Klaus Schwab’s
Great Reset, as well as creation of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) of the UN. [xiii]
Strong,
a protégé of David Rockefeller was far the most influential figure
behind what is today the UN Agenda 2030. He was co-chairman of Klaus
Schwab’s Davos World Economic Forum. In 2015 on Strong’s death, Davos
founder Klaus Schwab wrote, “He was my mentor since the creation of the
Forum: a great friend; an
indispensable advisor; and, for many years, a member of our Foundation
Board.”