Windmill blades can't be recycled. They're filling up landfills
By Nancy Thorner -
The radical Greens say to "follow the science", ignoring the mounting evidence that real science does not support their climate Doomsday-ism. It certainly doesn't support the draconian Green New Deal solutions they demand, but which will have little actual impact on the Earth's climate. The climate panic crowd has been stoking fear and waging misinformation campaigns for decades.
The entire point of Biden's climate agenda has been to raise the price of energy by increasing the cost of coal, oil, and natural gas using all regulatory means possible.
Toyota bet right in not going all electric and out of sedan vehicles. “Based on their advertising, it seems that every automotive manufacturer has decided that I need to drive a battery-powered vehicle. This is at a time when internal combustion engines have become much more efficient and refined, with pollution almost eliminated. I grant you we are going through a time of expensive fuel. There is, however, plenty of supply and eventually, prices will come down. We just need the will to extract it from the ground which can be done with less impact on the environment than for instance, mining rare earth elements needed for car battery production.”
The “clean” electric power for the “clean” electric car is also a polluting waste of money: (Reuters) “The Solar Star project in California is among the largest solar energy facilities in the world, boasting 1.7 million panels spread over 3,000 acres north of Los Angeles. Its gargantuan scale points to an uncomfortable fact for the industry: a natural gas power plant 100 miles south produces the same amount of energy on just 122 acres. The dynamic encapsulates the industry’s biggest obstacle to growth: Solar farms require huge amounts of land, and there’s a fast-growing movement, fueled by politicized social-media campaigns, to prevent solar developers from permitting new sites in rural America. That’s a major problem…”
“Natural gas power plants have the advantage of not killing endangered birds.” and “If they steal solar panels now out of locked railroad cars, imagine 3000 acres of the things?”
Solar panels and birds
Billions of birds die annually from collisions with windows, communication towers, wind turbines, and other human-made objects. One reason is that birds see a reflection of the sky in the object and think they’re flying into an obstruction.
This is even a problem for solar panel facilities, which see up to 138,000 bird deaths per year in the US from collisions with equipment. Though damage to the solar panels is minimal, officials worry about the impact these structures have on local wildlife. To combat the problem, the Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded Argonne National Laboratory $1.3 million to develop a system that can automatically monitor bird activity.
Crony capitalism
Everything is obvious except to the crony capitalists who think they can always count on government to bail them out of every idiotic decision. No wonder Musk is getting out of Tesla into Twitter. Musk is trying to find something better with his money and having a social media platform to defend himself "when Tesla can't sustains its lofty stock price when sales growth slows later this year".
It was announced on Tuesday, April 19, 2020, Tesla rides higher prices to fatter profit, as Elon Musk complains about costs, that “Tesla earned $3.22 a share from $18.8 billion in sales. Wall Street was looking for EPS of about $2.20 to $2.30 a share from about $18 billion in sales. Tesla earned $2.54 a share on sales of $17.7 billion in the fourth quarter of 2021. Operating profit came in at $3.6 billion, compared with expectations for about $2.61 billion. Shares were up 2.2% in after-hours trading, just after the results were released.
Musk is being a hypocrite complaining about higher costs and supply chain problems when his company is supposedly making big profits.
In any case, why should taxpayers subsidize this industry? Why can't it stand on its own?
Good and bad news
Apparently, the definition of emergency now includes making a profit at the expense of American consumers because sooner or later a real emergency will hit and then it will be too late, while easing the true energy emergency over in Europe.
