Renewable energy is a failed path, scientist tells Utah legislators
Professor says true costs of wind and solar rule those
alternatives out. No other views were presented.
A legislative committee Wednesday gave a Washington University
professor opportunity to present his case for why wind and solar farms are a
failed energy strategy despite a worldwide effort to embrace them. No other
viewpoints were presented.
Oct. 21, 2022, 7:00 a.m.
A Utah legislative committee this week gave 45 minutes to a
scientist who argued that policy makers across the globe are committing a grave
mistake by turning to renewable energy.
William Hayden Smith, a professor of
earth and planetary sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, wrote a research paper with colleagues in
Switzerland and South Africa that claims to calculate a full cost of producing
electricity from various sources. The paper was published this year in the
Journal of Sustainable Development, a Canadian scientific journal.
“Now everyone will say that wind turbines and photovoltaics are
cheaper than fossil fuels,” he told legislators. “That’s a stretch.”
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