THE REAL "SPECULATION" HAS BEEN IN GREEN ENERGY!
Wind industry lost 10k jobs since 2009...
The promise to create millions of so-called "green jobs" has been a colossal and expensive failure.
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Patrick Moore: Greenpeace Founder Questions Windfarms
The industry is a destroyer of wealth and negative to the economy.
Moore, who now refers to himself as the “sensible environmentalist,'' said the solar bubble has burst and thinks the wind bubble is about to burst.
“They are ridiculously expensive and don't work half the time,'' he said. “And no matter how many are built, they won’t replace coal, gas or hydro or nuclear plants, because they are continuous and wind is not always reliable.''
Moore told his audience the wind energy industry in Spain has resulted in a 30% unemployment rate among people under the age of 30.
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Posted 24 December 2018 - 01:39 PM
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam and the Republican controlled legislature have approved Dominion Energy plans to install two Washington Monument-high wind turbines off the Norfolk coast. https://wattsupwitht...-energy-policy/
Virginians will pay 78¢/kilowatt-hour for their intermittent electricity. That’s 26 times the 3¢ per kWh wholesale price for coal, gas, hydroelectric or nuclear electricity in Virginia; almost nine times the household price.
Each of these monster wind turbines needs about 800 pounds of neodymium, 130 pounds of dysprosium, other rare earth elements, and tons of iron, copper, concrete, petroleum composites and other metals and materials. Replacing coal or gas backup units with huge rechargeable battery arrays requires lanthanum, rare earth alloys, lithium, nickel, cadmium and assorted other metals – in massive quantities.
Many of those metals come primarily from China, the Democratic Republic of Congo and other places where child labor is common, adults earn a few dollars a day, and health, safety and environmental rules are all but nonexistent. They’re the renewable energy equivalent of “blood diamonds” and slave labor.
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Posted 27 December 2018 - 11:48 AM
What about charcoal briquets? Those nubbins could power Los Angeles in the future and they'd be a recycle of spent fuel.
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