That’s true in the sense that the 14th century Black Death dramatically lowered medieval European emissions by killing 200 million CO2-exhaling people.
Dick Storm, a registered professional engineer with 50 years of experience in the energy industry, writes about the “stupidity” of trying to run a modern economy on “net-zero carbon” emissions.
In other words, the country would almost overnight need to produce vastly more electricity on the grid to power those additional planes, cars, trucks, and home appliances.
“Placing the turbines will require building very long high-voltage transmission lines across Long Island, underwater, and then across much of New York State just to reach central New York,” Storm points out.
Even if this massive construction project is completed, the turbines won’t produce anything once the wind stops blowing at the 7–9 miles per hour minimum that most turbines need to produce electricity—a frequent occurrence.
The Biden administration has already set a goal to force the electricity sector to reach net-zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2035, which means generating an additional 4 trillion kilowatt-hours largely from wind turbines and solar panels, which currently produce only 10.7 percent of the country’s electricity.
If you’re the Chinese Communist Party, that’s music to your ears.
manufactures just 10 percent of global wind turbines and only 3 percent of all solar panels, it’s really a mandate to buy Chinese goods—much of them produced by enslaved Muslim Uyghurs—shipped on oil-burning cargo ships.