It did a good job of exposing the truth, that Wind and Solar are severely limited and not a full blown viable solution. The intermittency of both are obvious problems but this film also addressed another huge problem which is the enormous footprint the require and their absolute joke of a lifecycle time. They junked a huge chunk of a very biodiverse desert for something that didn't even last two decades.
This is a good article from Forbes that talks about the failure of the much hyped German renewable program:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michael.../#17149bafea2b
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But no amount of marketing could change the poor physics of resource-intensive and land-intensive renewables. Solar farms take 450 times more land than nuclear plants, and wind farms take 700 times more land than natural gas wells, to produce the same amount of energy.
Efforts to export the Energiewende to developing nations may prove even more devastating.
The new wind farm in Kenya, inspired and financed by Germany and other well-meaning Western nations, is located on a major flight path of migratory birds. Scientists say it will kill hundreds of endangered eagles.
Kenya won't be able to “leapfrog” fossil fuels with its wind farm. On the contrary, all of that unreliable wind energy is likely to increase the price of electricity and make Kenya’s slow climb out of poverty even slower.
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The result in both countries is the same as what they showed in the doc, you ultimately have to have reliable coal or natural gas back up generators. That's fine for Germany, but for Kenya it would have been better and more efficient for them to just start off with natural gas power plants instead.
Biomass is a joke, the fact that in the 21st century you could actually have environmentalists supporting logging trees for power generation is insane, but it shows how unhinged they've all become. Looks good on that McKibben dickhead that's been blocking KXL for years. I'm not bothered by the anti-capitalist stuff since I like capitalism, but the montage they showed really hit home that the marriage between big business and "green" energy is complete, and it's a smart business plan for them because it gives you unlimited cover. The amount of people that accept any and all wind and solar claims uncritically because they want it to be true, and the amount of government funds and subsidies that get shoveled into this never ending money pit make it a great business arm. Even on this site people keep parroting claims that Alberta should become a "green energy leader" even though it's mostly a sham and we're fortunate enough to have actual energy beneath our lands.
I hope this film gets wide exposure and exposes this green racket for what it is, a movement of people either on the take or too naïve/ignorant to care. The best way to tell the difference is to ask a "green" energy enthusiast if they're in favor of nuclear energy. The majority of those people say no, and it shows their hypocrisy because they don't actually care about a logical plan to lower emissions, they care about inserting their preferred methods, or barring their hated methods. For all of Obamas grand talk about solar and wind or whatever, the biggest gains in the US lowering their emissions in the last decade was from switching over from coal power plants to cheap plentiful natural gas. Actual, reliable, scalable gains that you will never get from wind and solar. Did this satisfy losers like McKibben, the guy shouting from rooftops that we absolutely positively have to lower emissions below 350 or we're all gunna die? No, he and every other enviro org are staunchly against the fracking that made that gain possible.
Looking back on it, it's honestly amazing that nuclear isn't eating everyone's lunch right now, oil gas solar wind, all of it. You have powerful scalable power with no emissions. Every so called environmentalist should be all for it, but they're not. Tells you how they actually feel about this problem they're so passionate about.