Posted on 08/24/2018 2:48:47 PM PDT by bananaman22
Fossil fuel energy has understandably become the clay pigeon of environmentalists in the past decades – with oil & gas companies having lied too often about the impact of their activities on climate change or environmental pollution for the public to ignore. Oil spills have destroyed many a habitat both onshore and offshore, with an immeasurable number of animals and humans having suffered. But it is important to acknowledge that oil and gas companies are not the only guilty parties, with all types of energy production leading to environmental harm in one way or another. The ‘clean’ energy narrative that is so frequently pushed by renewable advocates may not be quite as clean as you think.
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1: I don’t know. How clean do you think it is?
2: No.
(Just snarking at the title, not the content)
You are aware that there are many vents spewing crude oil into the sea. Several estimates that one will put out a tanker full in two days. The greenery needs to get some of that carbon back into the air to grow!!!
The environmental impact of “clean energy” is greater than fossil fuels.
For example, the "clean energy" batteries in cars are full of toxic chemicals and rare earth elements that require massive environmental destruction and pollution to obtain. And of course there is the human misery of the third world children mining this stuff.
Each "clean wind turbine" requires miles, and miles, and miles of copper wire for the generators. Copper mining leaves massive scars on the environment, and toxic runoff must be contained in large holding ponds of poisonous broth. When the dams holding this back fail, it is a massive enviromental disaster to the rivers and wetlands downstream.
Wind turbine towers scar once pristine wilderness mountainsides with hundereds of ugly bird killing machines.
The irony is that coal technology now is essentially zero emissions. It is almost as clean as a nuclear plant without the spent fuel rods. The only way they can claim it's not clean is by redefining a non-toxic substance CO2 as a pollutant.
He sure is threading the needle.
Oil is renewable energy, just as our Creator designed it to be. The earth produces it abiogenically using Calcium Carbonate (chalk), Iron Oxide (rust), and H2O (water). It is NOT a “fossil” fuel.
We draw it out of the ground. We burn it for our benefit.
When it burns, it produces moist CO2 (plant food).
The plants metabolize the CO2 to make O2 (essential for all human and animal life).
The cycle self balances. No human intervention required.
If it is real, it would exist without production tax credits.
Taxpayers are cutting their own throats paying for an unreliable gimmick that may not be there to meet demand.
No. It consumes more energy than it puts out. It is why it needs taxpayer money.
Shut down 100-percent of the oil and gas industry, all of it, then try to make all your green energy crap, deliver it to customers, and make it work.
When windmills can compete in a financial market with coal, gas and oil I will support them.
The only damn reason we have windmills is vast subsidies by government. That is my money!
I remember the beach heavy with clumps of oil from sunken ships during the 2nd WW. German Submarines off the east coast took a very heavy toll during 1942. We used to put coal oil on a rag and wipe off the tar. No big deal. Now people have hysterics over what “might” happen. Life has no guarantees and it is time we pushed back real hard against the snowflakes who ive in never never land.
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