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I saw a brief story about Biden’s “comprehensive” energy plan, so I read a bit more. Much like him as a Presidential candidate to begin with, it’s a joke. Here’s a quote from The Manhattan Contarian.
Read through the whole thing, and you will find next-to-no specifics as to how such goals might be accomplished. However, if you do get deep enough into the document, you will begin to realize that the promises made depend totally on fantasies about the development of technologies that don’t currently exist and in all likelihood never will exist, at least in any economically viable form:
Bring together America’s top talent to innovate on climate. . . by target[ing] affordable, game-changing technologies . . .:
grid-scale storage at one-tenth the cost of lithium-ion batteries; . . . refrigeration and air conditioning using refrigerants with no global warming potential; zero net energy buildings at zero net cost; using renewables to produce carbon-free hydrogen at the same cost as that from shale gas; decarbonizing industrial heat needed to make steel, concrete, and chemicals. . . .
And on and on and on. Or maybe, you could just “bring together America’s top talent” to make fairy dust. Of course, if any of these things were actually feasible and economical, “America’s top talent” would already have developed them, or at least would be far along in the process. The whole nature of a freedom-based economic system (aka capitalism) is that good ideas that are feasible and economical get developed without need for government intervention or assistance. The fact that none of these things are anywhere near fruition tells you all you need to know.
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