Posted on 10/05/2020 4:50:10 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Green zealots infest all parties: the media, academia, education, and the vested business interests. They consistently oppose what works and promote what won’t.
Greens demand “Zero Emissions”. Nuclear and hydro power are the only practical “zero carbon” electricity options for Australia. Greens oppose both.
Greens worship “the environment”, but support widespread environmental destruction by bird-chopping windmills, and land-stealing solar panels and their inevitable spider-webs of roads and transmission lines. All to produce intermittent energy that is forced onto distributers and consumers by legislated targets, taxes, subsidies and mandates.
Green policies support cutting forests in America to ship woodchips to UK for burning in the DRAX power station. Other policies support growing crops using diesel fuel for tractors, harvesters, and trucks to produce biodiesel with less net energy than they started with. Not smart.
Greens support carbon capture and storage, fully aware that this won’t happen without legislated subsidies, taxes and targets. They know that CCS will favour their wind and solar toys by multiplying costs and energy waste for coal, oil or gas generators. Big miners also love it because far more coal or gas will be needed to produce the same electricity.
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I have noticed this about leftists. If there is a good choice and a bad choice they will take the bad one. Then they want someone to bail them out.
The amount of damage and debris and Up teeth set the windmills Around the World require is unsustainable.
The amount of damage and debris that the windmills around the world cause is unsustainable. Of course liberals and the media will never cover that.
Don’t understand the radical environmentalists always making the wrong choices. Makes no sense spending more for energy & actually making the environment worse at the same time. What do we do? Round them up for the first manned one-way trip to Mars?
Part has to do with the lack of education based on reality. Angel farts are nota power source. The concept by the cartoon of an EV attached to a wire connected to a power plant is lost on them. They feel it is right therefore it is. That is all the proof they need.
Just Friday I walked past a coworker's car, a Nissan Leaf. I've talked to him about it a couple of times. All in all he seems to like it and it makes sense for his use. Great.
On Friday I noticed the "ZEV" badge on the back as I walked past it and it made me smile. I just confirmed our power here is almost all coal based. What isn't coal based is being converted to natural gas. Sure, there are a few "solar plants" scattered around cluttering up the otherwise scenic landscape. But they generate such a small fraction of intermittent power it's not even worth calculating.
I know from talking to him that my friend doesn't have solar panels and a storage bank at his house. So his "zero emissions vehicle" is actually for the most part a coal-fired vehicle. If the current projections of the local power company hold (I just looked them up) then my friend's Leaf will be in the scrap yard long before any of the coal or natural gas fired power plants around here are retired. It is anything but a "zero emissions vehicle." It is a fossil-fuel powered vehicle. The final stage energy storage just happens to be batteries, not refined liquid petroleum products.
Democrats and their ideas are like the new ceo at work who proposes ideas that everyone knows will not work out but goes along as they get bonus money.
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