Posted on 05/07/2024 4:15:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The solar project is destroying the Joshua trees…to save the Joshua Trees from “climate change.”
There are a lot of essential lessons real environmentalists can learn from this post.
I have offered post after post proving that the Earth’s climate has continually changed. Any temperature rise observed from reliable temperature stations is likely cyclic and part of the world’s warming after an intense period of glaciation. I have noted repeatedly that carbon dioxide is a life-essential gas in trace amounts, and data shows it has no significant role in global warming.
I have highlighted that fossil fuels and nuclear energy are the only two current energy sources that support civilization. The rest of the sources are substantially less efficient and/or limited to specific regions.
Finally, between a wind project on the Osage reservation and geoengineering experiments in San Francisco Bay, I have shown how politically connected power companies and climate crisis promoters ignore the concerns of locals to move forward with their projects.
Therefore, I was slightly amused when environmental activists began warning that the iconic Joshua Trees around Boron, California, would be downed to make room for a solar farm.
The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.
Remember Nancy’s pork barrel funds to save a mouse but now who cares kill and destroy it all for that insane 90% cut in carbon emissions on a carbon based planet ,LOL
Who gets to control the “Climate mitigation fund”?
What a scam.
And the stupid party* never points that out.
* Republicans as if you didn't know.
“Solar farm”. Pure crap. Nothing is grown nothing is raised, quite the opposite. Acres and acres of valuable farmland waisted, trees cut down, and the electricity goes into the grid, does nothing for the local population. They are not farms.
Do they NEVER perform a mass-balance calculation for justification?
Greenery captures CO2 and converts it to life-essential materials.
Over the life time of the solar panels, do they avoid the generation of CO2 (per kW.hr) in equal or greater proportions to the CO2 capture-and-convert amount of the greenery.
Then, calculate the CO2 impact of the greenery BEYOND that solar panel lifetime because there would be no added cost of replacement.
Now, as a cynical wag I ask, “If you buried the spent solar panels in place, how long would it take for them to be converted to fuel [like coal or even peat].
In a way they are. Funny farms.
Ping to the fascists ending of Joshua Trees. LOL.
At least the trees will die knowing their sacrifice was for a good cause. So they have that going for them, which is nice.
Climate change is an opportunity for power, control and money. Who can pass that up?
50 years ago I stopped by a chimney in the middle of nowhere on the way to Las Vegas.
There was a professor there that told me this was the spot where the communists had a commune in the 1930s.
The communist had cut down all the Joshua trees.
I was stationed at 29 Palms California in the 70’s.
Joshua Trees were the only thing growing basically for a hundred miles.
I think it was Milton Friedman that said, “If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there would be a shortage of sand.”
California is a populated desert
We had to burn the village in order to save it!
Bttt
“Solar farm” = making the grid dependent on solar = about the dumbest thing ever unless it’s the intent to mess up something that works well.
Recently, I have been watching YouTube videos about micro hydro electric power generators. Not because I have a stream on my property. Although, there is a brook across the street that flows year round.
I think it is pretty cool the systems some of these guys have built. Many of which had very little experience in it prior to taking on the project.
Some are used to help power off grid houses/cabins. While some are used to supplement the power used at their on grid homes.
The other thing I find interesting is some of these vertical access wind turbines. Again, I have watched these videos on YouTube. There is a nerdy guy in MA that has a YT channel called undecided. He will show these new “green” technology items on his channel.
The wind turbine he showed was made in the UK. Where the North Atlantic tends to be windy all the time. These were made to be mounted on the leading edge of larger commercial buildings. Like a warehouse or skyscraper. Unlike a typical wind turbine these spin on a vertical access. So, the wind can come from any direction. They also self close in higher winds. So, unlike big turbines they still produce power in lower velocity and higher velocity winds.
Maybe add a few wind turbines to the project to chop up California condors and bald eagles. It would seem these solar and wind farms are exempted from any concerns about threatening endangered flora or fauna that would stymie the development of any other projects.
Where are the tree-huggers?
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