New York Is Determined To Destroy Its Own Economy. Here’s The Latest.

The latest hare-brained scheme to emerge from the New York State government is described in this article.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has announced a plan to ban the use of natural gas or other forms of carbon-based power such as kerosene or diesel fuel to power new buildings in the state. She’s running for election, so perhaps we should not be too surprised at the depth of her stupidity.

Still, even politicians have to make sense once in a while.

In the first place, there is no climate crisis. The alarmists have been predicting one for over forty years and they’ve been wrong the entire time. There is also no substitute for oil and natural gas in building heating and ventilation systems.

It’s true that buildings can be run on electricity, but the electricity is generated by coal, oil, and natural gas-fueled power plants (or uranium fueled reactors), so what’s the point of disallowing systems of that type in the building itself?

There’s nothing wrong with wind turbines and solar modules, but they are not scalable and are not even close to being able to substitute for oil and natural gas.

Those so-called renewable sources of energy are also unreliable. Wind turbines don’t turn when the wind doesn’t blow and solar modules don’t charge batteries at night or in bad weather. At most, those sources can supplement the power grid but they cannot provide enough power to maintain the baseload capacity needed to keep a modern power grid operating.

Importantly, global demand for energy is growing faster than the increase in wind and solar sources, which means the gap will have to be filled by carbon-based energy or nuclear power; there is no alternative.

Governor Hochul has thrown a feel-good bone to the climate extremists in her party and no doubt believes this will help her election chances. Perhaps it will. But, it won’t help the citizens of New York or the workers in the construction industries whose projects will be delayed or abandoned by her ignorance.

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