Greenpeace Co-Founder in 2022: ‘The Idea that Wind and Solar Are Going To Replace Fossil Fuels … Is Absolutely Insane’

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MOORE: "But it’s the energy side that will — that I’m talking about being basically a suicide pact, net zero thing, and the whole idea that we can end the use of fossil fuels without increasing nuclear energy. Because the same people who are against all fossil fuel use are also against all nuclear energy. And that is the only technology that can actually replace fossil fuels as a reliable source 24/7. We could replace 50% of the fossil fuels in the next 30 years or 40 years with nuclear energy with no difficulty at all. But the idea that wind and solar are going to replace fossil fuels or nuclear or hydroelectric is absolutely insane. Can I just explain a little bit? When you have wind and solar, you have at most one third of the — of the time can you produce reliable energy? The sun goes down all night, it’s no good early in the morning or the afternoon, and then the clouds come, right? So, solar energy is more like 20% capacity, so 80% of the time it can’t serve the grid, which is a demand for energy at certain times a day, a certain amount. The same with wind. The wind stops at night. The wind stops in the summer, the wind stops in the winter, the wind stops for two weeks at a time, the wind stops when the propellers freeze up, the wind stops when the wind blows too fast because they have to tether the blades. And so, if you’re gonna use batteries instead of gas or coal or nuclear to back up the wind and solar, you have to build three times as much capacity in production.”