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Another excellent, short video, 00:05:35 minutes, summarizing the environmental downsides to wind and solar energy. The presenter considers the physical/chemical limits of wind/solar energy conversion and the financial/land/pollution costs of gathering/building/disposal of the necessary components. If you prefer not to give YouTube a hit, go to the link at PragerU, https://www.prageru.com/playlist/newest-videos/ and scroll down to the title, What's Wrong with Wind and Solar?"

PragerU has had many of its videos censored by YouTube.

1 posted on 09/15/2020 8:03:49 AM PDT by MacNaughton
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Go to youtube and search ted talk and nuclear. A lot of former anti-nuclear people are making amazing cases for why you should be a big fan of nuclear if you are a global warming True Believer.


2 posted on 09/15/2020 8:06:20 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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It is also a simple fact that the cost of installation of solar panels to run your house takes about 20 years to recoup in energy produced. What is the life expectation of a solar panel? About 20 years.


3 posted on 09/15/2020 8:15:36 AM PDT by MrChips ("To wisdom belongs the apprehension of eternal things." - St. Augustine)
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Planet of the Humans Documentary shows the Green Lies too and how Michael Moore realizes everyone is corrupt and lying. The huge Bio Mass Scam is even worse.


5 posted on 09/15/2020 8:16:37 AM PDT by cnsmom
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Great video, though he failed to mention the other inexhaustible energy source - nuclear.


7 posted on 09/15/2020 8:19:58 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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Think of our energy needs like a cake. The only thing solar and wind can ever hope to be is the frosting.


8 posted on 09/15/2020 8:22:34 AM PDT by secretmtcman
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You can not run a First world, as opposed to a 3rd world, country on solar.
Factories and warehowses and even stores would have an almost impossible, if not impossible, hurdle to get over.
Individuals in sunny warm locations year round who 25k? to invest into a system are free to do so.
I would suggest using propane for power suckers like a frig and a stove.


10 posted on 09/15/2020 8:27:59 AM PDT by Leep (We can go to the grocery store but we can't go to work?)
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Windmills and solar are expensive, unreliable and murder birds.


11 posted on 09/15/2020 8:28:35 AM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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Costs more to build and operate than what benefits you’d derive from it; it takes a lot of electricity to operate/run a wind turbine.


14 posted on 09/15/2020 9:18:48 AM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
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About 12 years ago, the company I worked for supplied a solar manufacturer. I learned all I needed to of the scam when I found out that their plants ran 100% on the grid even though they had limitless ability to manufacture and use their own solar cells.

They went bankrupt when a couple smart countries eliminated the solar subsidies.

Solar is fine for small subsistence use, but it’s really stupid for large and industrial use


15 posted on 09/15/2020 9:18:49 AM PDT by cyclotic (The most dangerous people are the ones that feel the most helpless)
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Excellent video. Thank the Lord for Dennis Prager and his U.

One fact really stood out was solar and wind hardware have lifespans of about 20 years. Back during the Obama Administration when they were handing out all kinds of subsides for solar, I tried to fight the local school district on a solar project. There was a local Republican committee meeting at our township and the school district's business manager presented the plan for a solar farm at the high school. It was his baby. The plan was written about in the local paper. I used it as the basis for additional research going into the meeting.

I politely questioned him about the ROI on the project - which I had already calculated based on published information about the contract with the solar energy company. Break even on the project was 29 years and some change. The figures that I had didn't include a maintenance agreement so would be much longer until break even, and all the while a negative ROI.

I was told "we" had to adopt new technologies or we would never "progress." He used the analogy that if we never used computers at a loss, that computer technology would not be where it is today. Obviously, a false analogy. The eff'n stupid RINOs in the meeting gave me no support. I was told this was a wonderful thing because so much was being paid for by the electric company, state and federal government. I simply asked, "Who pays the electric company and who pays the taxes to state and federal government?" Then I answered the question, "the same people who pay property taxes to the school district that pays for the rest of the solar project."

This did not register at all.

I can tell you one absolute fact: 50% of Americans have below average IQs. A much larger percentage are poorly educated and lack the ability to critically think. The later end up in local politics.

16 posted on 09/15/2020 9:23:06 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell, 1984)
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Some people and countries with a brain are developing smaller thorium reactors and electric power plants. There is little to no meltdown danger. We right-thinking humans will develop the resources. The leftist creepozoids will perish without the energy to cool and heat their homes. The next Ice Age is coming. Nothing we can do will stop the coming global cooling. Nothing. Adapt, or perish.


17 posted on 09/15/2020 9:36:03 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try.)
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bkmk


20 posted on 09/15/2020 11:35:45 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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