Environmentalist guru Lester Brown’s “Plan B” television show on PBS is the most shocking example of insane cult thinking I have seen in years. One of Brown’s energy solutions is to cover Algeria in massive solar farms and then send the electricity to Europe through cables. The distance between Algiers and Paris is approximately 840 miles as the crow flies. With needed backup and/or storage systems to produce electricity when the sun is not shinning, what do you think the cost per kilowatt hour would be considering so much electricity will be lost to electrical resistance? I would say $1 per kilowatt hour or more. What would food cost in Europe with electricity rates that high?
If we produced wheat using only solar and wind power, how much would it cost to bake a loaf of bread? Few of us would be able to afford to eat. Brown rightfully wants to reduce our human population. The trouble is that his “Plan B” reduces it through mass global starvation ­— a process Barack Obama has already started with biofuels. The decadence and thoughtlessness of these hysterical environmental gurus is disheartening.
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