Stephen Moore: Beware: 100% Green Energy Could Destroy the Planet | The Patriot Post

Stephen Moore: Beware: 100% Green Energy Could Destroy the Planet | The Patriot Post

• We are already experiencing the economic damage from the green energy crusaders.

"The untold story about “green energy” is that it can’t possibly be scaled up to provide anywhere near the energy to replace fossil fuels. (Unless we are headed back to the stone ages, which is what some of the “de-growth” advocates favor).

Right now, the United States gets about 70% of its energy from fossil fuels. 

To go to zero over the next 20 years would be economically catastrophic and cost tens of millions of jobs. 

...But we also have to ask whether green energy is even good for the environment. 

Some environmentalists are pointing to a little-noticed study by the World Bank showing that moving toward 100% solar, wind and electric battery energy would be just as destructive to the planet as fossil fuels. 
...Here are some of the numbers. 

Going all-in on batteries, solar and wind would require:

• 34 million metric tons of copper
• 40 million tons of lead
• 50 million tons of zinc
• 162 million tons of aluminum
• 4.8 billion tons of iron

Those tens of millions of windmills, solar panels and electric batteries for cars and trucks aren’t exactly biodegradable. 

So, we will have the most prominent energy graveyard with toxic pollutants that will be 100 times larger than any nuclear waste storage. 

And yet, the Left is worried about plastic straws!..."