Joe Biden's Green New Deal is actually a real-life nightmare

Joe Biden's Green New Deal agenda is as foolish as it sounds. It's both aspirational and impossible. That's the gospel according to Steve Milloy's WSJ op-ed that starts by focusing on the slogan "Net-Zero by 2050."

Milloy's op-ed is eye-opening on multiple fronts, starting with the cost of putting such a plan in place. It's more than the Biden administration has admitted to by orders of magnitude. According to Milloy's op-ed, "Carbon removal technologies' aren’t possible to scale up, and if they were, it would cost about $1 quadrillion—a million billion dollars—at today’s prices to remove the 1.6 trillion tons of atmospheric carbon dioxide that U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said needs to be sucked 'out of the atmosphere even after we get to net zero.'"

That's just the biggest obstacle standing in the way of "Net-Zero by 2050." It isn't the only obstacle. Here’s what else stands in the way of achieving that goal:

In September, the Electric Power Research Institute, the research arm of the U.S. electric utility industry, released a report titled "Net-Zero 2050: U.S. Economy-Wide Deep Decarbonization Scenario Analysis."

The EPRI report concludes that the utility industry can’t attain net zero. "This study shows that clean electricity plus direct electrification and efficiency . . . are not sufficient by themselves to achieve net-zero economy-wide emissions."

In other words, no amount of wind turbines, solar panels, hydropower, nuclear power, battery power, electrification of fossil-fuel technologies or energy-efficiency technologies will get us to net zero by 2050.

Milloy isn't the only expert saying that Net-Zero by 2050 is impossible. This segment from Sky News Australia reached the same conclusion:

How a net-zero grid could be built and function would be an issue worth studying if it were possible in the first place. But it simply isn't. So, barring some unforeseen miracle technology, "net zero by 2050" won't happen.
How do we avoid this catastrophe? Here's one option:
Congress should hold hearings on "net zero by 2050" goals before real disaster happens. It should bring in witnesses from utilities, public-service commissions, grid operators, regulators and the ESG cartel and have them explain under oath how they plan to accomplish the impossible.
Bring in both sides' scientists to duke it out. Let's see how the legacy media labels the realists' opinions as misinformation. Let's have the information equivalent of a free-for-all. Then Republicans, joined by a few red state or energy-rich districts join together to craft legislation getting rid of this net zero by 2050 foolishness.

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