Alberta’s drought shaping up to be ‘worse than we saw in the 1920s, 1930s’

[chuckChuck]

Renewables and clean energy investment are growing very fast.

But it will still be a long transition away from fossil energy.

Harper said Canada would stop burning fossil fuels for energy in 2100.

[shtferbrains]

It will go on for as long as people are willing to have a lower standard of living year after year.

The money is all spent.

Higher and higher taxes called equality won't fly.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

So have you received any decent rains in the area west of Red Deer and is the drought over?

From the IEA June 2024

Investment in clean energy this year is set to be twice the amount going to fossil fuels

Thank you for asking. Yes, after basically no rain for a month we've had a 2" event, 2 half inch events, and a few more showers in the past 10 days. We never did get to enjoy a drought here, always too wet.

Why do you embarrass yourself by posting this damning statistics about investment in unreliable energy?

If investment in unreliable energy was double that of fossil fuels, yet fossil fuels still produce more than 81% of all world energy ( and that share hasn't budged in spite of all the investment and hype into alternatives), and wind and solar only produce 8%, that makes unreliables more than 20 times more expensive.

This could be the reason why you can't find even a single example of wind and solar resulting in cheaper energy for the consumer?

[fjlip]

Growing very fast ....ha ha in you mind, not in real world!

[chuckChuck]

A5 Rome wasn't built in a day was it?

You can ignore the massive investments and say the world shouldn't change, but nobody is listening to climate change deniers.

[furrowtickler]

It’s climate cycles , get it right

[AlbertaFarmer5]

A5 Rome wasn't built in a day was it?

You can ignore the massive investments and say the world shouldn't change, but nobody is listening to climate change deniers.

Building Rome in a day might be unreasonable. But how about 24 years? Shouldn't we see some progress by now?

The world has spent over $7 trillion on renewable energy since 2000.

During that period, fossil fuels share of world primary energy production has declined by 1%.

At what point in the future will spending trillions on unreliables move the needle on global energy production?
Edit to add that fossil fuel consumption has grown by over 50% during that same period.
The 7 trillion dollars spent on renewables hasn't even put a dent in fossil fuel growth. All it has done is make energy more expensive and less reliable.

[jazz]

Lets see your crop chuck and how its doing in the mega drought.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Lets see your crop chuck and how its doing in the mega drought.

Don't be so hard on chuck. He has a valid excuse for not posting any pictures of his drought ravaged crops.
In another thread he's referring to a lose Canon.
And after multiple prompts for him to correct his grade five level spelling errors, he left it be. So I assume he/she(or is its preferred pronoun actually we, that is how it often refers to itself on this forum?) really has lost his Canon camera. And judging by his infatuation with party lines, it's probably still using a film camera.

[WiltonRanch]

Nah. He was posting lots and forgot to check his drill. Seeded canola at 9#. Meota is good country but not necessary to seed that heavy.