…there is nothing green in the world. There is nothing zero in the world that doesn’t exist. Everything we do requires industrial operations, including building wind and solar and battery operations. And not only do you require industrial operations, you require raw materials, you require energy to build all this. And that’s probably the most important economic principle, which in my view not every person has to understand, but at least people who make decisions on energy policy should understand. This investment of energy, because when you have the ratio of investment of energy, and how much energy I get out, it’s called an EROI, energy return of investment. We know ROI from money, right? I put one dollar in, I get two dollars out. The same with energy, if you have one unit energy in, you get two out. But we need 20, 30 out. And wind and solar gets me very little at system level.
Energy Expert, Dr. Lars Schernikau; freedom-research.org; October 2, 2025
Canada, Alberta included, does not need more punitive carbon taxes, does not need emissions caps, does not need net zero power grids. All of these things proposed by Ottawa, these ideas simply do not work.
Premier Danielle Smith, Leader’s Dinner, Calgary Alberta, April 3, 2024
From Freedom Research Substack by Hannes Sarv, October 2, 2025
Dr. Lars Schernikau is an energy expert and author who has thoroughly studied the electricity generation system. He says that wind and solar energy production are unstable and, instead of lowering prices, will significantly increase the total cost of electricity generation. In an interview to Freedom Research, Dr. Schernikau explains in detail the requirements of the electricity generation system and why wind and solar energy, which are proclaimed by the authorities to be environmentally friendly, are actually not so, and why the increasingly widespread use of these systems will drive the electricity prices up, rather than reduce them.
In the interview, Schernikau pays particular attention to storage technologies, i.e. batteries. These systems are supposed to supplement weather-dependent wind and solar energy production, i.e. provide us with electricity when the wind is not blowing and the Sun is not shining. However, according to Schernikau, batteries are not the solution because they are extremely expensive and current technologies are capable of storing only a fraction of the energy that we actually need. In addition, Schernikau says that batteries and their production are an environmental nightmare.
Dr. Lars Schernikau is an energy economist and entrepreneur involved in commodity trading. He is the founder, shareholder, and former board member of the German-listed commodity company HMS Bergbau AG and has founded and advised several other companies in the commodity, mining, and energy sectors around the world. He studied at New York University and INSEAD in France and holds a doctorate in economics from the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin) in Germany. He advises government agencies, banks and corporations on energy policy issues. He is also a member of the CO2 Coalition.
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