This article appeared in Human Events in 2012, but the link no longer works, as Human Events has gone through some changes. Supposedly it's still publishing on line, but I don't see much from them, so you will have to take my word for what was said... or not ..... as it pleases you.
The article went on to say:
It was one of Barack
Obama’s favorite green-energy companies. And green-energy companies,
according to the president, are one of the best ways to facilitate
economic growth. Well, yesterday, The Denver Post detailed the criminal investigation of
Abound Solar, a defunct solar-panel manufacturer in Colorado that was
run on taxpayer “investments,” for securities fraud, consumer fraud and
financial misrepresentation.
Abound shuttered its
Colorado plant during the summer and filed for bankruptcy, leaving “125
workers without jobs and taxpayers holding the bag for up to $60 million
in defaulted loans.”
I
don’t care how much money is wasted on this horsepucky, alternative energy is a bust, it always has been a bust, and expensive bust.
We're
not running out of "fossil fuels", CO2 isn't warming the globe, and the
computer projections about global warming are all "game boy" science,
garbage in, garbage out. The fact is, while these nitwits are often wrong, they're never in doubt, and humanity is left paying the penalty for their folly.
The reality is the technology for so-called alternative energy has not progressed
all that much beyond what Jimmy Carter tried in the seventies. That was a failure then and so is it still a failure now. Even
if we could get these farces to work and produce vast amounts of energy
we couldn’t do it without destroying the environment.
Did anyone ever see how much land it takes to produce large amounts of solar energy? Did anyone ever see how many wind mills it takes to produce large amounts of wind energy? Did
anyone ever see the impact ethanol production takes on the environment, and at every stage of production?
Even beyond the fact alternative energy systems are completely incapable of producing enough energy, and do it reliably, the biggest problem they have to overcome is how to store enough energy for when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow. You can only pack so many electrons in a confined area. No battery system in the world can meet those needs. That means we will have to maintain traditional power plants in reserve. Okay, what's that mean. That means they are up and running, but not producing energy, or little energy.
Even beyond the fact alternative energy systems are completely incapable of producing enough energy, and do it reliably, the biggest problem they have to overcome is how to store enough energy for when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow. You can only pack so many electrons in a confined area. No battery system in the world can meet those needs. That means we will have to maintain traditional power plants in reserve. Okay, what's that mean. That means they are up and running, but not producing energy, or little energy.
I have gone over this before, but I will do it again.
Power plants cannot just be shut off like a light switch. It
takes a lot of heat to make enough steam to turn the turbines at a high
enough rate to produce enough electricity to meet demand. That means they are burning coal or gas constantly to keep the ovens hot. That is expensive. So what we are doing is paying for energy we aren’t using, in order to use energy we don’t need.
The
world went insane over this, but that's changing because as Europe is
discovering alternatives are a bust, and an expensive bust.
We've reached the Inevitability Factor!
That's when reality reaches its zenith! What I find interesting is all
of this was a predictable as night follows day, but when corrupt
thinking permeates governments and the media, "truth takes the
hindmost". Ideology makes smart people stupid.
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