The promise of thousands of jobs building wind turbines and solar panels is a renewable energy mantra; there are – but only in China.
China itself is building nuclear power plants and hundreds more coal-fired power plants, as if its economic livelihood depends on it.
Meanwhile, in those Western countries foolish enough to attempt to run on sunshine and breezes, those few jobs that did materialise are fast disappearing.
The article by David Rose below should be essential reading for Australians, where the corporate crony capitalist class is pushing a net-zero carbon dioxide gas emissions target, based on the ludicrous claim that hundreds of thousands of new jobs will be generated.
Net-zero carbon dioxide gas emissions targets are all about increasing and extending subsidies to costly and unreliable wind and solar, with further subsidies to pipe dream projects such as ‘green’ hydrogen and mythical mega-batteries. Rent-seekers already in on…
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