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New York's Energy Transition Guru Responds To Basic Questions
Manhattan Contrarian ^ | 23 Jun, 2024 | Francis Menton

Posted on 06/24/2024 5:36:42 AM PDT by MtnClimber

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1 posted on 06/24/2024 5:36:42 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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The excuse for government to take over the means of production, which has always been a marxist goal.


2 posted on 06/24/2024 5:36:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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He looks like a Sith Lord.


3 posted on 06/24/2024 5:38:33 AM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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The excuse for government to take over the means of production, which has always been a marxist goal.

But with a difference. Old school Commies intended to run the means of production. Greenies intend to eliminate them.

4 posted on 06/24/2024 5:48:05 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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New York State is declining rapidly. Its politicians have embraced policies such as no bail and deincarceration that have caused crime to run rampant, passed laws and regulations that have severely inhibited economic growth, construction and mining.The judiciary and law enforcement is a joke. A fully functioning, reliable nuclear power plant was shut down. Office towers remain largely vacant and the banking system is carrying huge amounts of non performing bad loans and mortgages. Decent, rational people who can are leaving the state. The state is controlled by schizophrenics


5 posted on 06/24/2024 5:55:08 AM PDT by allendale
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Soooooo.... is this guy transitioning and why does anyone what to know.


6 posted on 06/24/2024 5:57:49 AM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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Basically the ivory tower is saying that if the electric grid collapses all the better. Ivy league professors, talk about luxury existences. I guess they’re betting on government to take care of them when the world goes south.


7 posted on 06/24/2024 6:00:38 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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Those who cannot do, teach.


8 posted on 06/24/2024 6:13:18 AM PDT by Zathras
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The author neglects to mention that Professor Howarth has a Doctorate in Philosophy from Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institute. Does that qualify him to be the architect of New York's energy transition? Nope, but nothing else in his academic background does, either.
9 posted on 06/24/2024 6:17:30 AM PDT by liberalh8ter ( Ephesians 6:10 - 18)
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“Cornell on Fire has emphasized the need to reduce energy use: why is the grid unquestioningly delivering luxury consumption and approving constant expansion, for instance, rather than ensuring that we have clean energy to meet basic needs first . . .”

The man has a plan. Ration electrical usage to the capabilities of the ‘clean energy’ grid. There was an analysis of what it would take to convert England to clean energy. Simple: move everyone to small high rise apartments, no private transportation, limit food production to plants. Central control of temperature in all housing.
All single family housing converted to multifamily use. Everyone would get a meat allocation on their birthdays. Air travel limited to 30 flights per day from English airports. Families could take one or two flight in their lives.


10 posted on 06/24/2024 6:25:33 AM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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Funny how they have no problem with imposing crippling austerity on average people when it feeds their “climate change” delusions, but dare suggest that the federal government should be downsized and live within its means, instead of endlessly borrowing money we don’t have, and they act like you’re the one who is crazy.

It’s not just rhetoric to say that these nuts are dangerous. They’ve got to be removed from any and all positions of influence or power… whatever it takes.

11 posted on 06/24/2024 6:31:43 AM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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I don’t think that many New Yorkers understood that this is what they were voting for.

Sounds like to me that quite a lot of New Yorkers don't understand what they vote for.

12 posted on 06/24/2024 6:37:13 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts (,,)
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They knew exactly what they were voting for.


13 posted on 06/24/2024 6:38:17 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Or the means of transmission.

It only just occurred to me but if they’re serious about this, they should tear down/deactivate the transmission lines that deliver the electricity. Talk about reducing demand! That would do it!


14 posted on 06/24/2024 6:56:27 AM PDT by Rich21IE
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Isn’t there a new, large, semiconductor facility (or other high tech plant) setting up shop in NY? If so, stupid decision that should be reversed.


15 posted on 06/24/2024 7:03:50 AM PDT by NewHampshireDuo ( )
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The “radical solutions” always make rich people richer, everybody else poorer, and gives more power to governments and reduces liberty to individuals.

This is not a coincidence.


16 posted on 06/24/2024 7:08:21 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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“ I suspect we can all agree that (1) no one can afford the costs of irreversible climate breakdown; (2) any costs to current stakeholders must be weighed against costs to future generations of life; (3) there is a real and urgent need to change our lifestyles and “business as usual”; and (4) the climate crisis is such that there is “no nonradical future” . . . .”

If every government on earth confiscated every penny beyond bare subsistence from every person and spent it all on climate, they could not affect the global temperature by one degree or the sea level by an inch.

Prove me wrong.


17 posted on 06/24/2024 7:10:00 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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Isn’t there a new, large, semiconductor facility (or other high tech plant) setting up shop in NY?

Valid question, but let me ask you this regarding the often-mention power consumption of tech like cloud servers and AI servers and such: I bet one AI facility doesn't consume nearly as much power as a government office. The best way to save energy would be to reduce government.

18 posted on 06/24/2024 7:10:16 AM PDT by Tell It Right (Galatians 6:14 -- May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ...)
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“He looks like a Sith Lord.”

He did remind me of Mark Hamill at first glance.


19 posted on 06/24/2024 7:14:43 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold https://wWarriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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Looks like he’s been perfessering for his entire career.

Great CV there.


20 posted on 06/24/2024 7:17:59 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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