Our Acceptance of Total Crap

Here’s an interview with a man in a suit and tie who claims that the energy that goes into building solar and wind will never be exceeded by the energy generated by these devices in their lifetimes. As anyone wo cares to look this up can tell you, this is a bald-faced lie.

The EROI (Energy Return on Investment) on renewables is somewhere between 10 and 30, meaning that if you put a kilowatt-hour of energy into solar or wind, you’ll get at least 10 kilowatt-hours out on the worst of conditions, and 30 on the best.