Posted on 10/06/2021 3:00:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
The current consensus on energy and climate is both unserious and incoherent. Burning fossil fuels is said to be responsible for global warming due to carbon dioxide emissions. Although nuclear power is a carbon-free energy solution, much of the public seems to be more afraid of a reactor accident than extinction by the greenhouse effect.
Solar and energy conservation have been media darlings since the energy crisis of the 1970s. President Barack Obama spent $100 billion on “green energy” in just one stimulus package. Yet there is little to show for it. World energy use is projected to grow rapidly. Solar accounts for only one percent of energy production.
Although I can’t agree with his conclusions, Director Jeff Gibbs did an outstanding job of skewering solar energy in 1921’s Planet of the Humans. (Michael Moore is executive producer.) Ethanol, hydrogen-powered cars, solar cells, and other supposedly renewable solutions are exposed as frauds that are dependent on fossil fuel once you scratch the surface.
Brazil’s forests are being converted to sugar cane and burned as part of the ethanol scam that Goldman Sachs promotes. The manufacturing process requires a great deal of electric power. There is an amusing scene in the film where a manager explains that Iowa is the perfect location for an ethanol plant because it is near coal deposits.
The closure of a coal-powered plant in Las Vegas is hailed as a victory for solar energy. But in fact, it was replaced with two natural gas-powered facilities.
“Some [solar] panels last only ten years,” a solar panel salesman told Gibbs. “I don’t know that it’s the solution.”
Solar cells are not made of sand but mined quartz and coal, which must be melted together in a high-temperature furnace. The furnace itself is likely coal-powered.
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‘1921’s Planet of the Humans. (Michael Moore is executive producer.)’
Wow, that’s impressive
The future of Power Generation is Low Energy Nuclear Reactions
https://freerepublic.com/tag/lenr/index
keep your blog to yourself.
Free Republic is not a blog.
You wanna talk about the future of power generation then the subject of nukes is gonna come up.
Yeah. 2021.
The US Navy has been operating nuclear reactors since 1955. Today they have about 200 of them in operation, all on floating platforms, and some of them will submerge to boot (Das Boot pun intended).
Nuclear accidents in 66 years: 0
More nukes, less kooks.
I have to keep wondering why the subject of CO2 keeps coming up like it was some kind of poison gas. It is NOT, but is necessary to plant life. CO2 has very low concentration in the atmosphere. People who keep harping on the evils of CO2 must have never studied science. With something like this, the common old saying is “follow the money”. They are taking our money to “clean up the atmosphere” & accomplishing just one thing....that of taking our money.
My feeling is that Michael Moore is not necessarily a one trick pony like people lower down on the idiot scale like Sean Penn, or Cher to name a couple.
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