By Vijay Jayaraj
Simple stories are used to seduce a population, and none is now a seducer as the promise of a “carbon -free” energy. In California, Gavin Newsom Gavin Newsom celebrated a “performance”, the announcement of which was free of nuances and lack of truth.
“Two thirds of California power now come from renewable and zero carbon stream generation,” he said, as if to announce an earthly-chessing milestone. However, this explanation was a master class in the deception.
Newsomal gloss about critical distinctions: First, the term should be carbon dioxide-free and not carbon-free, since the aim of the air-conditioned obsessed possessed is to eliminate the emissions of CO2 from human activity. Carbon, the pictures of black soot and carbon dioxide, an invisible, beneficial gas, are reminiscent of different molecules with their own chemical properties.
And there is nothing renewable on the finite shops of metals, minerals and fuels of the earth that are required for the production of equipment and infrastructure of the “green” energy.
Wind and solar systems, the favorites of California energy policy, can no longer generate carbon dioxide during electricity. Your production, transport, installation, maintenance and disposal are energy -intensive and emitting quantities of carbon dioxide, as well as practically every other industrial company.
Copper for cable and electricity transmission lines are broken down and lubricated using fossil fuels. The transport and installation of these systems require diesel -powered trucks and other heavy machines. Batteries used to secure intermittent wind and solar systems require lithium, cobalt and nickel, all with the support of combustion engines and often ethically questionable methods.
The steel of the modern wind turbine and the massive columns that you support are forged in high -seashy on a coal base. The gigantic blades are made of glass fiber and resins with heat and output material made of oil. Foundations for these giants require large quantities of cement, the production of which releases significant amounts of CO2.
China produces over 80% of the global polysilicium, which consists of solar modules. Polysilicium is often produced near coal -fired power plants because the manufacturing process requires so much energy. So if a Chinese solar panel is installed in a California desert, there is a massive carbon debt. In fact, users of the solar panel export their carbon emissions to China while they are on their backs for their green virtue.
Although direct imports from China have been reduced to insignificant levels due to US tariffs for Chinese solar modules, Chinese-bound companies simply laid their operations to Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia.
These nations and more than 131 solar producers now make over 80% of all solar modules imported in the USA. It is likely that four out of five solar modules installed in the USA come from Chinese companies in Southeast Asia that depend on carbon -intensive energy sources.
Not an honest engineer or careful speaker cinema wind and solar “carbon-free”.
The costs for this green facade are a burden that politicians in California refuse to recognize. California is consistently one of the five best US states for the highest electricity prices for residential buildings. From 2025, the average Californian pays over 30 cents per kilowatt hour fast twice as high as on the national average. Other areas that Grids served with a significant presence of wind and solar also suffer from high prices.
Claims that these “green” technologies are cheap are supported by a price calculation in which the costs for expensive security and the technical complexity that you introduce for electricity systems does not count. Consumers pay the enormous costs for subsidies, infrastructure upgrades, storage systems and alternative production for windless and sunless period.
California was also plagued by power failures and emergencies, especially in times of high demand. The network operators had to issue repeated warnings and reduce the residents of electricity consumption to avoid rolling power outages.
The so-called green leadership of the state is supported by the misleading advertising of “zero-carbon” and false demands of low costs, the life cycle environment effects and the billions of dollars that were paid to compensate for the technical defects of wind and solar.
Every steel jet, every copper coil and every polysilicon wafer tell the real story: fossil fire are still the backbone of modern electricity self-sufficient in so-called renewable systems that cannot cut independently of them.
Announcements about “clean energy” are only smoke and mirrors that are illuminated by the shining of a coal furnace in Asia and paid for by overloaded consumers.
This comment was first published on July 21, 2025 by California Globe.
Vijay Jayaraj is a science and research assistant in the CO₂ CO₂ coalition, Fairfax, Virginia. He has an MS in environmental sciences from the University of East Anglia and a postgraduate degree in energy management at Robert Gordon University in Great Britain and a Bachelor engineering at Anna University, India.
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