Posted on 01/24/2017 8:22:01 AM PST by rktman
The BrightSource Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating Facility, which uses 320,000 mirrors to create thermal energy, still qualifies under state rules as an alternative energy source, despite using about 1.4 billion cubic feet of natural gas a year, according to a report by the Press Telegram.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Do these solar/wind farms receive any fed subsidies? Gotta believe Obama propped them up. Hope Trump won’t.
But CA orders their utility companies to distribute set percentages of alt energy, regardless of costs.
Pretty sure they get tax breaks, subsidies and waivers to the endangered species act so they can kill as many birds as “needed” to save the erf.
From the article:
“The project also received $1.6 billion in taxpayer loan guarantees, and $600 million in federal tax credits . . .”
"The project also received $1.6 billion in taxpayer loan guarantees, and $600 million in federal tax credits [emphasis added], to reduce carbon emissions by 400,000 tons of carbon-dioxide emissions per year."
While federal taxpayer investment in energy is arguably a good idea, it remains that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to tax and spend for such a purpose imo.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
So patriots need to support Pres. Trump to either put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxation for energy purposes, or work with the states and Congress to successfully propose an energy amendment to the Constitution imo.
"The States should be left to do whatever acts they can do as well as the General Government." --Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 1790.
"In every event, I would rather construe so narrowly as to oblige the nation to amend, and thus declare what powers they would agree to yield, than too broadly, and indeed, so broadly as to enable the executive and the Senate to do things which the Constitution forbids." --Thomas Jefferson: The Anas, 1793.
Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
Remember in November ’18 !
Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.
Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring, activist justices off of the bench.
Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed above.
Must....read....all....the....words..............
The ‘planned NOT parenthood’ assclowns are already starting in NV to try to get Dean Heller voted out. He ain’t my favorite but he’s a whole bunch better than any can’t-i-date tbey’ll put forward. Bad enough that cat mantos gets to play puppet for the thankfully retired hairy screed. NV has already embarrassed itself enough.
BREAKING NEWS: This just in, scientists discover that the sun doesn’t shine at night, more to follow.
Not just birds. From the article:
“Not only does the project consume 5.6 square miles of undisturbed public land that is home to the endangered desert tortoise”
This turtle has been used to keep large parts of the military’s National Training Area in California off limits for decades. More recently, it was used as justification for cutting herd sizes for a rancher, by the name of Bundy. That’s right - protection of this turtle is what started the Bundy standoff in Nevada.
But its ok to eradicate 6 square miles of habitat, smack in the middle of the turtle’s range...for the children, I guess.
I thought “they” claimed that all the local residents had been relocated to a “safe zone” away from the furnace. Never a good hail storm when you need one.
And electric cars use fossil fuel - where else is their charge coming from?
Silly. Unicorn farts of course. I keep seeing the tesla auto ads touting their “green-ness”. Well except for lubricants, tires, transport costs, charging from fossil fuel power plants. Yeah, green. Green as in CHA CHING. I’ve also seen the prices on them. BOOM! Also at the local casinos, charging stations. Do the owners have to pay for the charge of are the casinos doing it show how “green” they are. Don’t see any gas pumps for us low life polluters.
Busted come to mind too.
Every electric car is a 100% coal burner.
All other sources of electric generation were completely spoken for long before the rolling electric coffins hit the road.
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Wow, that’s significant.
I support any means of generating power so long as it is competetive in a free market without a subsidy. If it is a windmill and chops up birds the facility should be fined at the same rate as you and I would be for killing the same birds. Many are condors and eagles. The same logic applies to solar mirror farms that incinerate the same said birds.
Let the market place decide!
ps
CO2 is plant food! Today the world is harvesting record levels of grain crops due to the moderately increased levels of CO2. Did I mention CO2 is plant food? !!!
Plant food? Brawndo?
It’s what plants crave....
Silly you. One must only build them where the sun shines all the time. Problem solved. /S
PS
Al Gore just left a meeting, I think up in Sun dance, and the snow was deep. He climbed into a huge SUV and drove to the airport to board a private jet. He normally flies in a G4 or better. His carbon footprint yesterday was greater than mine for several years. Al Gore has become immensely wealthy via the global warming scam. He is a left wing liberal scum bag lying scum bag. I must admit he is one hell of a business man. He is rich rich rich. He flies by private jet to his many mansions about the country. He is a scam artist of the highest order. He is good at it.
Do you see any hypocrisy?
His eco-wanker sycophants don’t see it that way. After all, he’s trying to save the erf so he gets a pass. Must be nice. Hopefully a lot of the scam artists are now on notice. I don’t know how or who will get DJT’s ear but hopefully calmer minds will prevail on this absurd notion. Impact? Minimal. Cost of “fixing” our minimal impact? YUGE!
But, but.... Interstate Commerce!
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