(4 of 14) MAJOR REDUCTIONS IN CARBON EMISSIONS ARE NOT WORTH THE MONEY DEBATE: PETER HUBER

The goal of IQ2 US is to raise the level of public discourse on our most challenging issues. To provide a new forum for intelligent discussion, grounded in facts and informed by reasoned analysis. To transcend the toxically emotional and the reflexively ideological. To encourage recognition that the opposing side has intellectually respectable views. To engage the live audience as active participants who will ask questions and decide which speakers have carried the day by voting on the motions both before and after the debate.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Carbon
• Emissions
• Donvan
• Lomborg
• Stott
• Tickell. Huber
• Werbach
• Lovins
• IQ2
• IQ
• Intelligence Squared
• Intelligence Squared US
• Debate
• IQ2US

[bookenz101]

yeah but Huber is saying Solar is vastly inferior to biomass fuels and is a waste of money and a big waste of space (land)

[sefjaguar]

As an example, even in solar energy, Germany produces 10x as much per head as does the USA, which is hindered simply because people like Huber don't see it as a sound investment. The fact hat Germany have had their military spending restricted for so long I believe correlates their investment. Whilst the USA is happy to spend $7.3 billion per month in Iraq creating a proxy state that just happens to be in amongst 60% of the world known oil reserves, other nations are seeing sense.

[sefjaguar]

@xstuart123

Every European country that has invested heavily enough in wind power is seeing great results, otherwise they wouldn't be doing it. I think the main thing is to factor in the ethical as well as economic benefits of renewable sources.

[xstuart123]

@sefjaguar Huber is correct and not a liar. By far, most wind farms are 1-3 MW Turbines. True, there are 7MW and even a 10MW is being built in Norway. He was talking averages. Doubling of wind technology is great, but it creates size and costs to achieve greater MW. ($67 million for that 10 MW Turbine alone).

Read his book, he is not fatalistic, rather the opposite. He can explain energy unlike any, and is positive in all its forms.

[dorianpadgham]

@raymondpronk for sure.

a very compelling argument for the burning of fossil fuels.

Huber is a very, very smart guy!

[sefjaguar]

this man is a liar, wind turbines generate up to 7 megawatts each. That is twice what he said. This is enough to power 5000 households for 1 month on one turbine.

In germany the efficiency of wind technology doubles every 5-10 years. People like this are fatalistic and unhelpful. It may not yet be more efficient that fossil fuels but every year we come closer to grid parity

[reedy93]

@charpsteve36 did you watch the most important video you ever see,think not

[charpsteve36]

@reedy93 don't mention population, since the poorer countries are growing so quickly, years from now their populations will have greatly increased.

[charpsteve36]

@raymondpronk agreed

[charpsteve36]

@guilo123456789 agreed