Officially
clean energy is about generating energy without emitting carbon dioxide. The
favorite technologies are wind and solar power. In reality clean energy is about crony
capitalism and deluded
environmentalists. The government gives subsidies to various useless wind
power and solar power projects. The promoters of the projects and allied
environmentalists support the politicians. The Clean Energy Summit is a chance
for the crony capitalists and the politicians to get together and celebrate
their mutual good fortune. Environmental organizations and their followers
provide political cover. A political exchange of favors is morphed into a noble
crusade to save the Earth from global warming.
The
idea that adding CO2 to the atmosphere will cause disastrous global warming is
irresistible because it provides endless financial opportunities for extracting
money from the government and the consumers of energy. The global warming
disaster theory, never strong, has been scientifically
demolished by the accumulation of damaging facts such as the failure
of the Earth to warm for the last 18 years. But so much money is being handed out that the clean
energy industry has become entrenched and politically powerful.
