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What's Wrong with Wind and Solar? The Serious You: How Current Events Affect You
Started 2/22/21 by WALTER784; 51306 views.
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From: WALTER784
Jan-30
Doubtful, but there is no way to tell other than watch her actions...
Just remember... she's a Karen, and there's no telling what they will do. (* CHUCKLE *)
FWIW
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From: WALTER784
Feb-3
Nolte: Brits Pay More to Charge Electric Car than to Gas Up
JOHN NOLTE
24 Jan 2023
Per mile traveled, our British friends are now paying more to charge their electric cars than to gas them up.
Do stories come any more feel-good than this?
No, no, they do not:
Rapid charge points used by motorists topping up on long drives are now nearly £10 more expensive than filling up a car with petrol, the RAC revealed last week.
But research from the AA published on Monday finds that recharging an electric car even using a slow public charger at peak times can be more expensive, per mile driven afterwards, than for refuelling a comparable petrol car.
Jack Cousens, the AA’s head of roads policy and recharging, said: “While pump prices are falling, electricity prices are going in the other direction, but we are hopeful prices could tail off later this year.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *deep breath* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *another deep breath* HAHAHAHAHAHAHA…
But at least these smug electric car drivers are decreasing their carbon footprint.
Oh, wait, they aren’t… You can’t make electricity without burning fossil fuels, so….
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *deep breath* HAHAHAHAHAHA… okay, I’ll stop now. HAHAHAHA… Sorry, that just slipped out.
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Climate activists from the Just Stop Oil coalition march from Kings Cross to Westminster to demand that no new oil and gas licences be granted by the government on October 1, 2022, in London, United Kingdom. (Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty Images)
So, according to this hilarious story, “Topping up the e-Corsa’s charge by 80pc on a slow charger at peak times results in a cost of 16.18p per mile.”
But.
The “costs (of a petrol Corsa) at around 14.45 pence per mile[.]”
Question: What’s left to feel smug about after it costs more to drive your electric car than a car-car?
LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 14: Students take part in a climate strike demo on February 14, 2020 in London, England. The school strike for climate is an international event movement of school students who take time off from class on Fridays to participate in demonstrations demanding political leaders take action on climate change. (Photo by Peter Summers/Getty Images)
Students take part in a climate strike demo on February 14, 2020, in London, England. (Peter Summers/Getty Images)
Well, I guess you can pretend to feel all kinds of virtuous about saving Mother Earth in your Prius, but Global Warming is a hoax. So … you’re not saving anything. You’re certainly not saving money — lol. What’s more, no matter how much denial you conjure up, fossil fuels are still being burned to supply you with the electricity for your car, which, by the way, costs more than filling up your car with fossil fuels.
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Electric cars are parked at a charging station in Sacramento, California, on April 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
This is a perfect example of why the free market must be our guide — not politics and certainly not the fake science of Climate Change (which is a hoax). The government, be it third-world states such as California or our broken, bloated, and corrupt federal government, interfering in the market is always a disaster.
SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk poses as he arrives on the red carpet for the Axel Springer Awards ceremony, in Berlin, on December 1, 2020. (Photo by Britta Pedersen / POOL / AFP) (Photo by BRITTA PEDERSEN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Tesla CEO Elon Musk. (BRITTA PEDERSEN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Nothing would make me happier than a magic car that runs on moonbeams or leprechaun poop. If Elon Musk comes up with an affordable vehicle that runs on sunshine or lemon drops or seawater, all the better. The free market supports what works and what’s
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From: Showtalk
Feb-3
It’s absurd and unfair. Utility companies in the U.S. used to give cash credits to residents who donate back unused electricity. Now, they are charged a penalty fine for not buying electricity from the utilities. This is true in California and likely other states.
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From: WALTER784
Feb-9
Huge wind turbines — taller than the Statue of Liberty — are toppling over in a 'rash' of incidents
January 23, 2023
By Thomas Lifson
Bloomberg Business Week, no foe of green energy, headlines: "Wind Turbines Taller Than the Statue of Liberty Are Falling Over." The article beneath the headline reports on a variety of alarming disasters involving wind turbines, including collapses of very tall structures.
On a calm, sunny day last June, Mike Willey was feeding his cattle when he got a call from the local sheriff's dispatcher. A motorist had reported that one of the huge turbines at a nearby wind farm had collapsed in dramatic fashion. Willey, chief of the volunteer fire department in Ames, 90 miles northwest of Oklahoma City, set out to survey the scene.
The steel tower, which once stood hundreds of feet tall, was buckled in half, and the turbine blades, whose rotation took the machine higher than the Statue of Liberty, were splayed across the wheat field below. The turbine, made by General Electric Co., had been in operation less than a year. "It fell pretty much right on top of itself," Willey says.
Another GE turbine of the same model collapsed in Colorado a few days later. That wind farm's owner-operator, NextEra Energy Inc., later attributed it to a blade flaw and said it and GE had taken steps to prevent future mishaps. A spokesperson for GE declined to say what went wrong in both cases in a statement to Bloomberg.
The instances are part of a rash of recent wind turbine malfunctions across the US and Europe, ranging from failures of key components to full collapses.
The article blames the "rash" of incidents on the rush to install turbine capacity, but there are also permanent factors that make engineering, building, and maintaining wind farms difficult and risky. To develop meaningful amounts of power, the blades on the turbine have to be big, and when big blades spin in heavy winds, the tips can end up hitting supersonic speeds, putting great stress on the materials used to construct them. Big blades also requite tall towers, which are then subject to stresses as winds blow and can gust during storms to velocities that test the strength of the materials and the design of the towers.
And, of course, tall, string towers require a lot of construction materials that have (ahem) a considerable carbon footprint to create. Compared to the amount of "carbon free" electricity generated, the carbon emitted in manufacturing and construction of the towers may take many years to counterbalance. Consider that the relatively low electricity production of each tower (compared to a coal or nuclear fired plant) means that far more power transmission lines must be constructed, and there is a carbon footprint involved, not to mention the excess demand created for copper, which has its own environmental issues in mining and refining, and the problems with meeting demand when creating new copper mines hits a high wall of resistance from the very same environmentalists who think windmills are a solution to the problems they imagine CO2 creates.
But with wind farms, longevity is an issue. The unpredictable nature of winds, with the speed and direction changing abruptly, means that complex transmission boxes must be attached to each turbine, and these transmission boxes are stressed when high winds occur and suddenly change direction. They need maintenance crews at the ready. In my consulting days, I encountered a wind farm project whose transmission boxes regularly exploded when sudden gusts of wind over-stressed them, creating their own mini environmental disasters from the transmission fluids spewed onto the ground.
All of these problems are in addition to the fundamental problem with wind energy: it is unreliable. When the wind doesn't blow, you get no electricity, so you still need backup generating power at the ready, and that usually involves carbon-based fuels, since constructing nuclear plants is so rare these days.
Then there are all the millions of birds, including the federally protected bald eagles, that are killed each year by windmills.
Wind farms, in other words, are one of the worst options for providing electricity.
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From: WALTER784
Feb-10
Solar and wind can’t replace fossil fuel, points out economist Peter Hartley
Monday, January 23, 2023
by: Kevin Hughes
(Natural News) Solar and wind can’t replace fossil fuel as primary source of energy, according to economist Peter Hartley.
“I don’t think solar and wind can replace fossil fuel. I’m sorry, it can’t be done,” Hartley told host Fergus Hodgson during the January 17 episode of the “Gold Newsletter” podcast. “The only thing that can replace it is nuclear. In fact, the only two examples we have of substantial replacement of fossil fuel are the French and Swedish nuclear programs.” (Related: Wind and solar cannot replace oil: What we need is for the government to stop suppressing free energy.)
Hodgson agreed, noting that the world is still working on how to make solar and wind replace fossil fuels. The host added that a renaissance of nuclear power is highly likely with the advent of new technologies.
To back up Hodgson’s point, Hartley mentioned that a tremendous amount of research has been done on alternative nuclear energy.
“A lot of private companies looking at new nuclear technologies. And we’ve barely scratched the surface in terms of looking at possible nuclear reactions,” said Hartley, a professor of economics at Rice University and a scholar of energy economics at Baker Institute.
“And the point about nuclear energy is that it’s incredibly energy dense. The amount of usable energy out of a kilogram of uranium oxide is about 10,000 times the equivalent amount of energy out of a kilogram of diesel fuel.”
According to Hartley, nuclear power produces much more energy than chemical reactions that are being used for fossil fuels. He pointed out that wind and solar are incredibly low-density energy sources and the amount of energy produced per square kilometer of land is also very low.
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“We don’t have enough land to do energy that way,” Hartley said.
Wind and solar energy systems need natural gas as a backup
Hartley mentioned that wind and solar energy systems also need natural gas as a backup. He said this is the hidden dirty secret about wind and solar energy – they can’t do the job without natural gas as a backup. The economist noted that the cost of backing up this energy system is causing people to realize that wind turbines and solar panels need a lot of very exotic mineral inputs.
Moreover, solar panels and wind turbines both require very elaborate mineral ingredients.
“And there’s just not enough. The whole idea of running the world on wind and solar power can’t be done by itself, you need this backup. So, what’s the dream? The dream is that we’re going to back it up with batteries. Guess what, batteries need a whole bunch of these very sophisticated mineral inputs as well,” Hartley said.
He pointed out that fossil fuels still supply about 83 percent of the world’s primary energy. “We’ve got an enormous job at hand to replace all the energy systems with an alternative source of energy,” Hartley said.
Solar and wind can’t replace fossil fuel, points out economist Peter Hartley – NaturalNews.com
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From: WALTER784
Feb-12
I'm not so sure about that.
Germany extends lifetime of remaining nuclear plants – DW – 10/17/2022
EDF intends to restart 27 nuclear reactors before the end of 2022 (France) | Enerdata
UK looking to extend life of nuclear plant by 20 years amid energy crisis
Netherlands plans to build two nuclear power plants by 2035 | Reuters
And there are many others...
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- Edited February 12, 2023 8:15 pm by WALTER784
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