Leftists might give
this documentary
a chance, because
the producer was
leftist Michael Moore.
Just tell them
the documentary
taught you a lot
about renewable
energy, but don't
give away
any details !
In fact,
the documentary
attacks claims
that renewables,
like solar panels
and wind farms,
are less polluting
than fossil fuels.
The largest portion
of the documentary
is about biomass
( mainly cutting down forests
and burning the wood
to make electricity ),
starting at about
50 minutes into the
documentary.
Few people realize
that biomass is
a large portion
of the energy
celebrated
by the "renewable"
energy cult".
“I assumed solar panels
would last forever,”
Moore told Reuters.
“I didn’t know what
went into the making
of them.”
The film shows abandoned
industrial wind and solar farms,
and new ones being built after
cutting down forests to make
space for them.
“It suddenly dawned on me
what we were looking at
was a solar dead zone,”
says filmmaker Jeff Gibbs.
“I learned that the
solar panels don’t last.”
“Some solar panels are built
to only last 10 years,”
said a man selling materials
for solar panel manufacturing
at a corporate expo:
“It’s not like you get this
magic free energy.
I don’t know that it’s
the solution and here I am
selling the materials
that go in photovoltaics.”
Unfortunately,
“Planet of Humans”
endorses imaginary
Malthusian ideas,
that the world has
too many people,
and is running out
of energy.
The film shows Silicon Valley
venture capitalist Vinod Khosla
telling Leslie Stahl of “60 Minutes”
that his biofuels plant made:
“Clean green gasoline.”
After Stahl asked
about the downside,
Khosla said,
“There is no downside.”
One year later,
Khosla’s company
filed for bankruptcy,
and defaulted on a
$75 million loan
it received from
the state of
Mississippi.
It produced biofuels
for $5 to $10 a gallon
— “even without counting
the cost of building the plant,”
noted Washington Post’s
Steve Mufson in 2014.
Two earlier Khosla
biofuel ventures
previously went bankrupt,
after receiving hundreds
of millions of federal
government subsidies.
Shareholders sued
Khosla’s company
for fraud.
If the United States
were to replace
all of its gasoline
with corn ethanol,
it would need an area
for growing corn
that was 50% larger
than all current
U.S. cropland.
A more efficient biofuel,
made from soybeans,
requires 450 to 750 times
more land to produce
the same amount
of energy as petroleum.
The best biofuel, from
sugarcane ethanol,
widely used in Brazil,
requires 400 times
more land to produce
the same amount
of energy as petroleum.