{"id":132660,"date":"2022-09-08T12:21:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T16:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=132660"},"modified":"2022-09-08T12:24:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T16:24:33","slug":"the-solar-wind-energy-scam-explained-in-3-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=132660","title":{"rendered":"<h3><b>The SOLAR-WIND Energy Scam Explained In 3 Sentences<\/b><\/h3>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>&#8220;Many think we will subsidize our way to renewables, but we won&#8217;t, for inherently physical reasons. Sunlight and wind are too energy-dilute. Solar\/wind projects need ~300x more land, 300% more copper, and 700% more rare earths than fossil fuels, making them prohibitively expensive.&#8221;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&#8212; Michael Shellenberger, MD<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>_____<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Many think we will subsidize our way to renewables, but we won&#39;t, for inherently physical reasons. Sunlight &amp; wind are too energy-dilute. Solar\/wind projects need ~300x more land, 300% more copper, and 700% more rare earths than fossil fuels, making them prohibitively expensive. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dfiFISHsyi\">pic.twitter.com\/dfiFISHsyi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShellenbergerMD\/status\/1567538178910994432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}