Comment on Seibert, M.K.; Rees, W.E. Through the Eye of a Needle: An Eco-Heterodox Perspective on the Renewable Energy Transition. Energies 2021, 14, 4508

This paper exposes the many flaws in the article “Through the Eye of a Needle: An Eco-heterodox Perspective on the Renewable Energy Transition, authored by Siebert and Rees and recently published in Energies as a Review. Our intention in submitting this critique is to expose and rectify the original article’s non-scientific approach to the review process that includes selective (and hence biased) screening of the literature focusing on the challenges related to renewable energies, without discussing any of the well-documented solutions. In so doing, we also provide a rigorous refutation of several statements made by a Seibert–Rees paper, which often appear to be unsubstantiated personal opinions and not based on a balanced review of the available literature.

FTHENAKIS Vasilis;  RAUGEI Marco;  BREYER Christian;  BHATTACHARYA S;  CARBAJALES-DALE M;  GINSBERG M;  JAEGER-WALDAU Arnulf;  LECCISI Enrica;  LINCOT Daniel;  MURPHY David;  PEREZ Marc J. R.;  SINHA P;  ROCKETT A;  SADEWASSER Sascha;  STANBERY B.J.;  SWANSON Richard;  VERLINDEN Pierre; 

2022-05-11

MDPI

JRC126628

1996-1073 (online),   

https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/15/3/971,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC126628,   

10.3390/en15030971 (online),