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A Globalist WEF Democrat Governor parading as a Republican in Wyoming? (my title)

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What if you found a place on earth where you wouldn’t have to live in 15-minute cities eating bugs, owning nothing, facing roving bands of illegal aliens and criminals — and you were happy? You’d probably want to escape to a place like Wyoming, which gave the Republican presidential nominee the largest margin of victory in recent elections. It’s a place of abundance — land, resources, energy, and freedom. It’s the last place in the world you’d expect the officious tentacles of Agenda 2030, right?

Well, if Governor Mark Gordon has his way, Wyoming will look like the same green dystopia as California. How does this guy keep getting re-elected?

Last week, amid Harvard’s enthusiastic embrace of Hamas, Gordon made it a priority to deliver a speech on “carbon-negative” and promote the grift of carbon capture, solar, and wind energy before the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. “It is clear that we have a warming climate,” Gordon said in accepting the core premise undergirding our return to the Stone Age. “It is clear that carbon dioxide is a major contributor to that challenge. There is an urgency to addressing this issue.”

This statement alone should be disqualifying for any red-state official. It is the “safe and effective” of energy policy. Once you cede the false premise that carbon is a problem, you have lost the battle for our freedom and prosperity.

While Gordon touted an “all-of-the-above approach,” that simply means he will continue to allow federally funded green energy to box out natural fuels, which are bombarded with headwinds by our government. Gordon believes in greasing the skids for the transition away from workable energy to scarcity and poverty.

“Wyoming is the first [state] that has said that we will be carbon-negative,” Gordon bragged. He might claim to want to reach that goal through impractical “carbon capture,” but as a practical matter, to embrace carbon neutrality or negativity is to consign us to poverty and scarcity and play right into the hands of the far left.

While Gordon has been subtler than most governors about his green scam, he has been a thorn in the side of conservatives trying to restore the free market. This past session, he vetoed a bill to extend a moratorium on private wind energy companies’ ability to use eminent domain to condemn land in Wyoming. America’s beautiful rural landscape is now dotted with disgusting-looking wind farms that are as ineffective as they are environmentally hazardous. In his veto message, Gordon appealed to the same “all-of-the-above” energy approach, which means special favors and handouts to green globalist grifters.

.....It’s truly shocking how left-wing Republicans can hoodwink red-state voters into supporting them by running on a phantom agenda they have opposed for their entire careers. Even as Gordon was running as a Republican for state treasurer last decade, he sat on the board of the Wyoming Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, a left-wing environmental group pushing a ban on carbon.

.....The Wyoming House Freedom Caucus, which has often clashed with the governor on a myriad of fiscal and social policies, was livid about the Harvard climate speech.

“Frankly, I was embarrassed,” caucus Chairman John Bear (R) told Fox News Digital. “I was embarrassed that our chief executive would go to a pro-Hamas, pro-China school and appease an anti-fossil fuel crowd. I was embarrassed that someone who campaigned as a conservative is ready to close the coffin on coal, oil, and gas in his state. He has given in to the AOC and Al Gore hysteria that is, in fact, disputed science.”

“At a time when Western governors should be embracing the idea of energy independence and pushing back on the anti-American Biden agenda, I think he should be taking us a different direction,” Bear added. “We can’t afford to give an inch to the anti-fossil-fuel crowd and their utopian view of green energy. Mark Gordon needs to explain to the people of Wyoming why he’s selling our economy and our livelihoods down the liberal river.”
The Harvard speech is the embodiment of the disconnect between the people of red states and their governance. Gordon is a man who campaigned as a lifelong conservative but then opposed a modest bill to ban men from participating in women’s sports. Gordon called the proposal “draconian and discriminatory,” a sentiment he never felt when he zealously promoted COVID fascism and mask mandates in what should have been a free state. Grace Smith, a 16-year-old Laramie school student, was handcuffed for not wearing a mask in the fall of 2021, 18 months after the lie of “mask science” was exposed. Who needs California when you have Mark Gordon’s Wyoming?
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Wonder if Wyoming could impeach their dishonest charlatan of a governor?
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Elon Musk Pushes the Solar Fairy Tale Again in Rogan Interview

https://blackmon.substack.com/p/elon-musk-pushes-the-solar-fairy?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=712558&post_id=138547273&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=qaqqd&utm_medium=email

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.....In this bit of green energy Unicorn talk, Musk claims that “you could power the whole United States with solar” in an array that covers just 100 by 100 miles. He never admits that this amounts to 10,000 square miles of land, because that number would scare the crap out of listeners, so he always sticks with this “100 by 100” rubric.

This of course is abject nonsense that has been debunked numerous times, but just like Joe Biden frequently claims his son Beau died in Iraq (he didn’t) and that he traveled 17,000 miles with Xi Jinping (never happened), Musk insists upon continuing to make the claim.

If you listen closely to his Rogan interview, Musk lays out several qualifications to this claim in subsequent answers, like the low efficiency factor of solar (Musk claims 25%) and his offhand remark “of course, you would need the batteries for backup.”

Oh, you don’t say?

But Musk is a clever man who knows that the average person will only hear the part about such a seemingly small amount of what Rogan exclaims is “worthless” and “desolate” land being able to power the whole country. In response to Rogan’s exclamations, Musk says “yeah, its everywhere.”

First of all, such land is not everywhere, and second of all, that much land isn’t going to do the trick and Musk has to know it. Third of all, Texas politicians in the 1880s also thought all the Permian Basin lands they devoted to the state’s Permanent University Fund were essentially worthless, but since 1923, those worthless lands have generated several hundred billion dollars in funding for what has become the largest state university system in the world.

What’s “worthless” turns out to be not just in the eye of the beholder, but also a product of the march of history.

But let’s say you pick 10,000 square miles of land in the barren desert of Nevada to plunk down this enormous solar array. What next?

Well, first of all, there’s that 25% efficiency factor, which means you’ve really only built maybe 1/4th the nameplate capacity you would really need during ideal weather conditions.

Second, what about transmission? How long is it going to take you to build the hundreds of thousands of miles (if not millions) of high-capacity transmission lines to take all this electricity to the hundreds of thousands of discrete power consumer markets across the Lower 48? (Musk never bothers to mention the needs of Alaska or Hawaii in this bit of sophistry.)

Third, what about line loss on all these miles of transmission lines? What is the line loss factor going to look like on a transmission line from Western Nevada to Maine, for example? How do you account for that? How many thousands more square miles of solar panels and batteries will you need to do it?

Fourth, where are the raw materials going to come from? Where’s all that copper coming from? Will China be willing to keep supplying all the rare earths you’re going to need, because Biden damn sure isn’t going to be permitting any mines.

Fifth, there’s the crisis in supply of high-capacity transformers. Right now, it’s taking up to four YEARS for U.S. transmission companies to source new supplies of these transformers, and inventories are currently at crisis low levels. How are we going to solve that little problem, Elon?

Sixth, there’s the solar panels themselves. Is China just going to agree to supply the millions that would be required for a 10,000 square mile array?

And we haven’t even talked about the batteries yet. Where’s the thousands of square miles of land going to come from to house those? Still in Nevada? Or are we going to Utah for that?

.....Where’s all the money for this going to come from? I’ve seen estimates that that amount of stationary batteries alone would cost $190 trillion, which is double the global GDP. Think of how much inflation we’d incur if Treasury tries to print that much more money. And then you’d need to print trillions more to pay for the array itself, and the transmission lines.

What it all boils down to is what so much of this energy transition ultimately comes to: A fairy tale.

Elon Musk has done a lot of good things for our society, but the pushing of this particular fairy tale is not among them.