Counting the Staggering Cost of Biden’s Offshore Wind Power Plans: Power Costs Set to Double

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With Joe Biden and the Squad in the White House, American power consumers should strap themselves in for a very wild ride. Under his plans to spear or anchor 10,000 or more giant industrial wind turbines into the seafloor off America’s Atlantic coast, it’s not just the marine environment and fishermen who will suffer the phenomenal cost of Biden’s trillion dollar boondoggle. Power consumers in the States are about to be treated to the kind of punitive power prices suffered by wind and solar powered Germans, Danes and South Australians.

Where the true and hidden costs of onshore wind power is staggering enough, the cost of generating electricity with wind turbines offshore is out of this world.

And, as is the case always and everywhere, it’s the power consumer the cops it in the neck.

Robert Bryce reports.

Lower- and middle-class Americans will pay a fortune for Biden’s wind-power plan

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Looming mismatch between ‘climate ambitions’ and availability of critical minerals as world pursues net zero goals 

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congocobalt Cobalt mining in DR Congo [image credit: BBC]

Much more mining needed obviously, but that’s an energy-intensive industry in its own right. Awkward for carbophobes – how do they avoid chasing their own tails by creating more of the supposed problem they claim to be addressing?
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Supplies of critical minerals essential for key clean energy technologies like electric vehicles and wind turbines need to pick up sharply over the coming decades to meet the world’s climate goals, creating potential energy security hazards that governments must act now to address, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency.
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“Today, the data shows a looming mismatch between the world’s strengthened climate ambitions and the availability of critical minerals that are essential to realising those ambitions,” said the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency.

“The challenges are not insurmountable, but governments must give…

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