It’s tragic how politicized the energy industry has become, due to the climate commies.
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It’s tragic how politicized the energy industry has become, due to the climate commies.
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The Left has for decades waged a jihad against electric power generated by coal, oil, nuclear, hydroelectric and natural gas. I won’t go into their motives, just the practicality of what they propose.
The promoters of what we will blanketly call the “Green Energy Transition” (away from all of the sources mentioned above) are proposing to derive all of humanity’s energy from sunlight, as photovoltaic and wind. These they sell as “renewable” and “sustainable”. Both terms sound good, and are vaguely imaginable.
But we’re talking about the future of not just industrial civilization, but civilization as such. Prior to eliminating all of our existing energy sources, and adopting “clean”, “green”, “renewable” and (especially) “sustainable” sources, the human race must demand a demonstration. Force those who are trying to force us to demonstrate the cleanliness, renewability and (especially) sustainability of wind and solar.
I don’t mean “demonstrate” with a BS study or analysis. I mean set up an end-to-end working model on the scale required to service our industrial civilization, proving that wind and solar can not only provide the energy we need (as reliably as we need it), but also provide the energy to maintain and replace itself. This demonstration must be required to go through more than two generations of self-maintenance and self-replacement, without any gaps bridged by “analysis”.
We are betting the future of all of humanity on this “Green Transition”, whose activist drivers have no clue as to how to do anything in the real world. They don’t care, either, because they’ve gotten used to imposing their demands by means of force on those who do know how to do things, and having those producers somehow figure out a way to make things work. But in this case, it’s like being on an airplane that’s running out of fuel, and shedding weight by throwing the innovators out, and counting on them to invent some way to. say, invent a parachute on the way down, because they’re innovators, and they always come up with a solution in some unknown way. In this case, they also throw out the flight crew, and everyone else who might be able to fly the plane. But, hey, planes always fly, and always get us there, and if they don’t, why we’ll just sue the airline.
That’s the mentality driving our energy policy.
A neighbor just put up a yard sign “Just say no to methane gas plants” sponsored by some enviro pressure group.
Just what is a “methane gas plant”? A facility for generating methane from coal or biomass? I think they mean a plan for a major electric utility to build a large-scale natural-gas fired (natural gas is not pure methane, it is a blend of gaseous hydrocarbons) electric power plant.
That simple yard sign is chock-a-block with falsehoods, including something about not building this plant “saving our lungs.” This plant will be powered with a cleaner-burning version of airplane jet engines. I guess this neighbor has sworn off all turbine-powered airline travel for the same reason?
You can’t reason with anyone like that, you can only nod and patronize them. We are not talking about some bearded, sandaled hippie–the dude has some “respectable” job to afford to live here.
and counting on them to invent some way to. say, invent a parachute on the way down, because they’re innovators, and they always come up with a solution in some unknown way
They wouldn’t trust the innovators to pay a “living wage” or conserve electricity, but they’ll trust them to find a way out of their messes.
After Mr. Kelly’s excellent comment (no sarc) I don’t have anything left to say other than that the article’s title needs an “again” after the “away” if we’re gonna sing it to the famous Jimmy Buffet tune.
What to expect from people who think it is worth spending 5 gallons of water to wash your plastic before putting it in the recycling bin? How many people use more water washing their recycling than they do taking showers?
“Green” has always been about appearances versus reality. You never see an accounting of all the energy, petroleum and other resources that go into the wind and solar “farms”. All the un-recyleable highly toxic waste at end of life that always seems to “unexpectedly” occur far ahead of the projections. The energy production that never seems to be more than a fraction of those same projections. The billions and billions of subsidies paid by the rate payers. And son and so forth.
Let’s ramp up the cynicism with respect to solar. The lack of a plan for dealing with old solar panels works great for the industry. The more old panels that are thrown away, the less competition there is for the shiny new stuff. Forced obsolescence increases profits for solar panels like it does so many other goods.