Posted on 08/20/2023 4:47:09 AM PDT by MtnClimber
When you are "on the grid", you involuntarily participate in a government controlled and sanctioned, regional monopoly.
Even nuclear powered generation requires round-the-support lock security, as well as half-life spent fuel disposal.
Renewables support the CHiCom "Military/Industrial complex with their increased monopoly over rare earth elements necessary for electrical production and energy storage.
When you rely on mis-named "fossil fuels", you get to choose which supply company that you wish to support.
We are quick to forget last years Texas experience when they had the "Texas Frooze to Death", 8 - 10 day power outage during unseasonable, extreme cold temps,
or the Cheektowaga/Buffalo area snow blizzard where people froze to death while people who had natural gas heating survived.
Human survival requires both energy supply systems to exist, simultaneously.
Have they found the source of the fire in Maui? I think it was an accident but the winds helped carry it along. The accident was either a fire not put out or a cigarette perhaps.
The only climate business government should be involved in is ensuring clean air and water. Otherwise stay out of it.
If you look at yhe numbers 40% of the renewables or 3% of the total are burned to generate power. If the goal is CO2 reduction, they should not be in the “Net Zero” calculation.
It is very doubtful that these renewables produce less CO2 per unit of energy than natural gas, of which we have an abundance. Renewable fuels are pointless as ways to reduce CO2.
So the real number for combustible fuels used to generate power is 82%, and if cost was the only method of selection, these green fuels would be sharply reduced.
The economics for power generation favor natural gas, which is why the environmentalists resist every gas pipeline proposal.
NOT!,,,,,Let the Capitalistic System determine supply and demand of Green Energy.
To win he climate debate there must be a Boogieman
CO2 is the designated Boogieman. Virtually everybody has heard the term and almost no one knows what it is or for that matter does. If there was the diet purity demanded, insisted upon, by Vegans, there should be no Coke or Pepsi or Mountain Dew or Diet Coke or Diet Pepsi allowed to be sold. There should be no beer. There should be no wine or vodka or whiskey.
The way to end the climate change debate is to end the climate changers
at odark 30 am.
Green Energy = As Real As Utopia
If the government is going to ban the sale of gas boilers in 2035, as it says, it will need to make sure that cheaper alternatives are available. Likewise with a planned ban on new gas and diesel cars: It’s a fine goal, but it won’t go anywhere unless consumers have compelling incentives, charging infrastructure can meet demand and the government has otherwise laid the needed groundwork. . . . Above all, what’s needed is leadership. Decarbonization can drive economic growth, create jobs and bring substantial benefits to the environment and public health. But it must be done purposefully and strategically.
Chemical engineers weep at the thought of merely burning natural gas just to boil water.
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What we REALLY need are Leaders who use The Scientific Method, Reason, Logic and Common Sense to make decisions!
The BOZOs making decisions nowadays cannot define, much less use The Scientific Method, Reason, Logic and Common Sense to make decisions!
These LIEberal/Socialist/Marxist/Fascist/Commnunist/Democrat BOZOs present us with Garbage In, Garbage Out decisions, rules, laws, declarations, proclamations, ets. etc. on a daily basis!
I MISS PRESIDENT TRUM!
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