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Daniel Schmachtenberger: “Bend Not Break Part 1: Energy Blindness”

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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The Energy Return on Renewables Is Viable

The energy return on renewables is viable. Thereis a decent energy return. But we could over build wind and solar and use the extra. If you handicap for intermittence and variability, the full system e r oi, or energy return,. on those renewable systems, is down to four to one. And our economic system couldn't function at a four to one return. It's really windy or really sunny, we generate weigh too much that we don’t need, and we put that intoa electrolysis and create ammonia., says Daniel O'Neill.

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