Posted on 03/05/2023 10:10:46 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Remember the Beatles song, “Day Tripper”? You know, the 1965 tune, forever in rotation somewhere, that includes the lyric, “It took me so-o-o long, to find out. And I found out.” Well, that’s the way I feel about green energy. I found out. Call me slow if you wish, but I can explain.
You see, I was always puzzled as to why the greens—starting from the top with Joe Biden and his must-hire from the donor class, climate envoy John Kerry—have been so adamant about “de-carbonizing” the U.S. and yet have been so uninterested when the rest of the world keeps “carbonizing.” If someone wants to use a gas stove in the U.S., the greens are noisy in opposition, and yet when China builds a slew of new coal plants, they are silent. And, as some say, silence means consent.
According to a new study from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, China permitted 50 gigawatts of coal-fired electricity in 2022, up 50 percent from the year before. (A gigawatt is a billion watts, enough to power a few hundred thousand homes, depending on the weather.) And Semafor adds “all signs indicate that the surge will continue this year,” such that China will be building new coal plants, every two years, equivalent to existing U.S. capacity.
So what’s the Biden administration doing about this coaling up? Nothing! (Unless you count waiting a week before shooting down an intruding Chinese balloon as something.)
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
I’m for being a good steward of the earth God created, but the idea that we can control weather is a big scam.
I worked in the coal-fired power plant business for decades. We had that can-do spirit that made America great. We made huge strides with the power tech in the 50s and 60s with plant efficiency. Then in the 70s to 90s huge strides in maki g the plants very clean. We provided cheap, reliable power that led to huge progress in the standard of living in the USA.
Then the Dems set out to destroy all of that and have they done a great job of that.
Now our “power engineers” want only to stop all construction or only build windmills and solar cells There is almost no critical thinking about this greeniac folly anywhere I can see.
Green = SCAM
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"Green" on the outside
but RED on the inside!
I’ve asked this question before, but never received a logical answer...why do we lack technology to burn coal without excessive emissions? Not worrying about CO2, that’s GOOD stuff, plant food. But there have to be ways to remove the cough inducing eye-stinging contaminants released when burning coal.
So, I read down to your post #3, and got a partial answer.
We don't lack it, and the fact that you even ask the question pegs you as either an ignoramus or a troll.
India and China are opening one new coal plant a day between them.
They want to deny US legacy citizens any kind of energy so we starve.
The end of fossil fuels is the end of food.
Enjoy!
The earth's crust is producing more all the time.
Fracking occurs a mile or more below the surface. There were never any dinosaurs there.
“India and China are opening one new coal plant a day between them.”
That is utterly false.
Did you just make up the number out of thin air?
We must hold ourselves to a higher standard, right Skippy?
The article says china is building 2 per week.
Nothing about India.
2 per week ain’t your claimed one per day
Whatever, Skippy.
We must hold ourselves to a higher, net-zero standard, but nobody else does, right?
I am so over you fat, self-satisfied, self-righteous virtue-signalers.
The end of “fossil fuels” is the end of food.
I am looking forward to you experiencing the consequences you so richly deserve.
You people always think you get to exempt yourselves from the garbage you want to shove down other people’s throats.
Have you got a surprise coming.
Your laxity with facts is characteristic.
In short, you were making up numbers, right?
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