Posted on 07/25/2022 9:26:24 AM PDT by rktman
As the imposition of a tax on the use of fossil fuels is debated in Pennsylvania and Virginia, along comes an analysis showing the failure of such efforts to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide in the name of saving the planet.
Under a multi-state compact known as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), Virginia already taxes producers of electricity on the basis of how much carbon dioxide they emit in burning fossil fuels — mainly coal and natural gas. Efforts to have the state withdraw from RGGI appear to have stalled. Pennsylvania officially entered RGGI July 1 and would begin collecting the carbon tax next year unless court challenges or a Republican takeover of the governor’s office this fall manage to reverse the state’s participation.
In both states, opponents of the carbon tax have shown that justifications for RGGI are without scientific basis. That is, there is not a climate emergency from which Earth needs saving. And, in any case, the so-called solution offered by RGGI would make no difference in the weather now or in the future. Thus far, such expressions of reason and common sense have been insufficient to derail a program that promises higher electricity prices and job losses.
Perhaps the powers that be should read a recent analysis by David Stevenson, director of the Delaware-based Caesar Rodney Institute’s Center for Energy & Environment: An increased use of wind and solar energy — the climate alarmists’ preferred alternatives to fossil fuels — failed to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide in the PJM Interconnection service area between 2019-21 despite adding $1 billion a year to power costs as a result of subsidies and taxes, according to Mr. Stevenson.
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But it can leave you without AC in the summer
“But it can leave you without AC in the summer”
I honestly think that’s the goal. They want to return to the Stone Age, sacrificing as many humans as possible to their Earth God.
Man is just too vain for his own good.
Oh, there will always be Air Conditioning, it’s just not going to be people like you and me who will have it. Do you seriously think that the elite and powerful will stand for discomfort?
Eat your bugs and we’ll consider your request.
Yet, it's ridiculous to think that any engineer at the power utility has turned down their gas-powered plants or coal-powered plants just because I'm not using as much power from them. My home solar project has in now way reduced the pollution made for power in my area. In fact, when it's time to dispose of my panels and batteries I'll add to pollution.
But it's providing my wife and me a financial hedge against the Dims making our energy too expensive to live comfortably in retirement. That's the part that matters most.
The problem with Virginia is that there are other states that aren’t quite as hot and humid in the summer, and nothing other than Federal government employment really keeps anyone here.
Plastic, Metal?
we are being sold a bucket of sh## and they know it
Yup. It can work well but .........
Metal casings. But the grunt work inside is done by silicone, if that’s what you’re asking about.
No matter what is done it will never be enough to end the “climate emergency”.
Um. Let me tell ya sumthin’. Virginia ain’t hot and humid. LOL
“I expect them to pay for themselves at about the 10th year”
Interesting. I read that 10 years is the typical life of solar panels.
It is compared to quite a few other states.
Hmmmmm? Some people think reducing the population world wide to around 500 million, +/- a few, would be a good thing. 😵💫💉🤬
I believe that was years ago (just 5 or so years ago would be an eternity in the way the solar tech has improved, much like with computers). My panels have a 25-year warranty, guaranteed to still be good for 70% throughput on the final year. My batteries have a 19-year/50% warranty.
My 10-year payback prediction includes a gradual decline in throughput for the next 10 years, but a gradual increase in rates that I'm saving money on (slightly more than the decline in throughput). It also includes paying the interest on the HELOC I took out to pay for most of this project (which includes replacing three appliances with two high-efficiency electric ones like replace my gas water heater with a hybrid water heater, and replacing both my A/C and gas furnace with a variable speed heat pump). But it also takes account for the fact that I live in Alabama (good sun, most power consumption is running the A/C during the summer when we have even more sun). I probably wouldn't give solar a thought if I lived in the northern half of the U.S.
Underneath was a copper panel ...Worked great....
I was in the swimming pool biz...long time ago when we sold hundreds of plastic crap....
States, I might add, that aren’t members of RGGI...
Research “EARTH FIRST” & Dave Foreman.
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