Posted on 05/28/2021 7:04:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I've always thought the green energy movement was BS. I read, early on, about birds dying because of solar "farms" and wind turbines. Reading about it again today as I started to write, I learned that the number of birds killed by large solar farms and wind turbines now equals an astronomical 2.9 billion. The process of procuring energy with either of these means seems recklessly cruel to wildlife.
"Green" power is also inefficient. The need for backup power to use when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow means costly firing up of alternative means of power or risking brownouts. Those fossil fuel power sources, when allowed to run continually, cost far less versus intermittently powering them on.
Add in the problems with battery-operated vehicles, and the whole self-righteous green movement should simply turn brown and wither to nothing — and that's exactly what it would do, absent giant government incentives and subsidies and municipal mandates such as Reach Codes, which require adding solar (and other things, from a laundry list of greenie ideology, depending on project cost). These codes also prohibit gas hook-ups in new construction on the grounds that gas is a pollutant.
In the last few days, I've read a couple of articles that restarted my thought processes about the green movement's human cost. Not that I hadn't thought about that cost when people were freezing to death in their homes in Texas this winter, because (gasp!) turbines froze and snow and ice fell on the solar panels, making it impossible to heat air and water in an electric home.
I also thought a lot about John Kerry's quip about laid off pipe workers turning to solar panel manufacturing.
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“Green” is just another deceiving Leftist avenue to totalitarian government, the goal of the Left.
The writer should know that that is not really news. Must be getting paid by the word. Almost every “green” rule or regulation you can name is some person or group using the government for their own economic benefit.
The ones that are made in the USA are cost prohibitive, just like anything made here. Want an air compressor made in the USA? Expect to pay a four digit price tag even for the smaller units. They’ll last you 30-50 years though.
Just look at the scam being pushed on us by the Government in the name of “Green” energy.
Child slaves in the Congo mine the cobalt for our “green” car batteries.
China, which now produces 90% of all rare earth minerals, many of them used in battery production, is buying up rights to mine them in Africa and in Greenland.
Given China’s track record in its home country, which has been to cause enormous pollution when extracting these products, there’s little hope that they will be more circumspect elsewhere than they have been at home.
We have rare earths here in the USA, but we realize that extracting them pollutes the groundwater in an alarmingly bad manner, so we’ve opted not to mine them.
So, what’s the point, either you do it in China or elsewhere you really aren’t “saving” the planet. The materials you need still need to be mined.
Yep. "Green" is a win-win situation for Democrats. Far-left professors get "free" government money for their "research", and Democrat politicians get a boost towards their goal of totalitarianism.
Think of tens of the millions in research grants that universities get and that ‘professors’ sponge off of, annually…. It will make you sick!
This initiative is to get young people involved in politics at an early age. She left out the indoctrination part. And it surely has been just that.
If the green movement was real and urgent, Algore, Kerry and the Hollywood celebrities would be living in ONE modest sized energy house, and flying commercial.
They aren’t, and it isn’t.
The batteries, though, are still made in China only.
By the way, I have never voted Dim in my life. I'm doing the solar thing to make me more independent of gubment and their cronies -- including local gubment and the local power co. I was especially afraid of Dims jacking up power costs in the name of saving us from a cyclical event called the Current Warm Trend that they talk about like it's the apocalypse. But I'm not worried about it anymore now that I'm generating 90% to 95% of my power usage.
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