Does Renewable Energy Have Unsustainable Costs?
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"Green energy" garners a lot of attention in the mainstream media. Many politicians promote wind and solar as necessary solutions to climate change – but are unwilling to discuss that the fact that these are underdeveloped technologies with unsustainable costs. Government subsidies and tax breaks prop up these industries and distort the market – and cover up the true price of renewable energy.
Join us in Dallas on July 26 for a salon dinner with Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Robert Bryce, whose recent National Review article discussed the “delusions of renewable energy." We’re having a conversation that cuts through the hype around renewables and focuses on the real implications of crony capitalism in the energy industry.
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Robert Bryce is the author of Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron, named one of the best nonfiction books of 2002 by Publishers Weekly; Cronies: Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of Texas, America’s Superstate (2004); Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence (2008); Power Hungry: The Myths of ‘Green’ Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future (2010), which the Wall Street Journal called “precisely the kind of journalism we need to hold truth to power”; and Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper: How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong (2014), which the New York Times called a “book well worth reading” and the Wall Street Journal called an “engrossing survey.”
Bryce has delivered more than 200 invited and keynote lectures to groups of all kinds, ranging from the Marine Corps War College and University of Calgary, to the Sydney Institute and Melbourne’s Institute of Public Affairs. He appears regularly on major media outlets, including CNN, Fox News, PBS, NPR, and BBC. Bryce holds a B.F.A. from the University of Texas at Austin.