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Report: Renewable Energy Is Bigger Scam than Bernie Madoff and Enron

The greatest scam being perpetrated against taxpayers and consumers is renewable energy, according to a new analysis published by the Australian, greater even than Ponzi, Madoff and Enron.
While sinking enormous financial resources into propping up renewable energy prospectors, national governments are providing no perceptible benefits to their citizens, writes Judith Sloan, a renowned Australian economist who has served on the Australian governments Productivity Commission.

With very few exceptions, governments all over the world have fallen into the trap of paying renewable energy scammers on the basis that it is necessary, at least politically, to be seen to be doing something about climate change, Sloan writes, before providing readers with an avalanche of economic data to back up her assertion.

In Australia, more than 2 billion taxpayer dollars a year are funneled to renewable energy handlers by virtue of the operation of the renewable energy target and the associated renewable energy certificates, Sloan observes.

At the same time, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency shovels out hundreds of millions of dollars annually to subsidise renewable energy companies, many of which are overseas-owned, she states, and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation was given $10 billion in equity by the Gillard Labor government to lend or grant money to renewable energy companies.

Despite this enormous taxpayer investment, so-called renewable energy has yet to pay any dividends or to suggest it will be economically viable for the foreseeable future.

Sloans grim analysis of the state of renewable energy as a financial sinkhole in Australia is mirrored by other countries such as the United States.

According to Forbes, on a total dollar basis, wind and solar together get more from the federal government than all other energy sources combined, despite the fact that neither is anywhere close to self-supporting. Wind has received the greatest amount of federal subsidies. Solar is second.

Based on production (subsidies per kWh of electricity produced), however, solar energy has gotten over ten times the subsidies of all other forms of energy sources combined, including wind, writes energy expert and planetary geologist Dr. James Conca.

During the Obama years from 2010 through 2013, federal renewable energy subsidies increased by 54 percentfrom $8.6 billion to $13.2 billiondespite the fact that total federal energy subsidies declined by 23 percent during the same period, from $38 billion to $29 billion.

In absolute terms, between 2010 and 2013 solar energy alone saw a 500 percent increase in federal subsidies from $1.1 billion to $5.3 billion.

In this same period, subsidies for fossil fuels decreased by 15 percent. from $4.0 billion to $3.4 billion, and subsidies for nuclear energy fell by 12 percent, from $1.9 billion to $1.7 billion.

One of the more pernicious side-effects of the enormous government subsidies for renewable energy, Conca found, is that they actually increase the cost of energy. This cost, however, is transferred from the energy consumer to the taxpayer, and so goes unnoticed by most Americans, he stated.

While during the period between 2010 and 2014 nuclear energy cost about 4¢ and 5¢ per kWh to produce, solar energy cost between 80¢ and 100¢ per kWh, or 20 times as much to produce. This despite the fact that nuclear energy is as renewable as wind but doesnt enjoy the same star status among environmental activists.

Returning to the case of Australia, Sloan argues that if one were to sum up all the taxpayer-funded subsidies, grants, concessional loans, guarantees and the like the aggregate amount dwarfs any other government industry assistance aid.

Something similar has happened in Germany, Sloan states, where Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to shut down all the countrys nuclear power plants, to be replaced with renewable energy. The target for 2030 is for 50 percent of the nations power to come from renewables.

The ill-fated Energiewende, the countrys program for energy transition, has hit serious hurdles, Sloan notes, not least the extraordinary cost that now totals some 650 billion.

In an odd twist of fate, late last year the wind simply didnt blow for several days and a thick fog surrounded many parts of Germany, and thus the output from renewables fell to just 4 percent of total demand. It was Poland, with its black coal-fired electricity plants, that came to rescue Germany from its self-induced energy crisis.

The best approach for the future, Sloan concludes, entails acknowledging that enough is enough when it comes to subsidising renewable energy.

The sector has been showered with favors with little to show for it, she observes, and it is high time it stood on its own two feet without any preferential treatment or financial assistance.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/10/09/report-renewable-energy-is-bigger-scam-than-bernie-madoff-and-enron/

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what I got out of that was this.

during the period between 2010 and 2014 nuclear energy cost about 4¢ and 5¢ per kWh to produce, solar energy cost between 80¢ and 100¢ per kWh, or 20 times as much to produce

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