Exploding the Myths of "Green" Energy

Generally if you see or hear the word "Green" applied to something and it means something other than color it is a scam. The blight of windmills and solar panels on the earth is anything but "green." They are unnatural and ugly. The windmills and concentrated solar farms are bird and bat killers.

A co-worker of mine lives in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area and I asked her the other day how the weather was for her, the fires out in the Panhandle, etc. And she just blew up about all the turbines out near Amarillo. I told her I haven't driven through that part of Texas in about 30 years and she was - you wouldn't recognize with all those ugly turbines; half are spinning and the other half are not and each one has an engine on it to control the speed of spinning blades - ands how is that green? She hopes they all burn down. And then I asked how the heck did Texas state utility commission or whatever it is go all green? She said it started under George Bush as Governor, followed by Perry and now Abbott. She was not very happy about any of it - sick of being told every year, especially during the summer months: cut back on your electricity during the day, etc. And she said they have a new coal fired power plant near her - all the best technology and they won't "turn it on" because, well, it's coal.

Voodoo energy can never meet the needs of the baseload.

On a recent trip home from PA, we passed through an area with perhaps a dozen windmills perched on a mountain ridge. None were spinning.

Renewables are the Affirmative Action of energy sources: can't make it on their own, and forced upon both the unwitting and the unwilling. But it makes the Elite feel good....and richer. To be fair, many of those who make it through AA would have made it anyway...but will never know.

Let us know as soon as Renewable Energy actually WORKS 24/7/365, In ALL WEATHER!

This engineer started studying solar and wind energy when the "energy crisis' of 1973, caused by an Arab embargo to increase their profits, made the price of fuels jump dramatically. I studied Solar Energy Technology under Dr. Farber at the University of Florida, learning to design and build various kinds of the most practical solar energy systems, small home domestic water heating units, which are and were practical in climates with a lot of sun, especially if they don't freeze. Solar photovoltaic cells were still barely beyond lab curiosities, with only NASA able to afford them for satellites. By the middle 90s I could afford used, surplus solar panels, salvaged from a California tax boondoggle, so thanks to the foolish taxpayers of California, I was able to afford a few, small, used panels for my remote cabin in the Colorado mountains. I designed and built a solar electric system, originally capable of pumping water up about six feet from a cistern, and a few flourescent lights. That system has been expanded several times as American made solar panels became more affordable in the 20-teens. And yet, in a very sunny southern Colorado mountain location, it is barely practical for this engineer who designed, built and maintains it for free, and with very, very limited electrical power requirements. The major energy is handled the RELIABLE and normal way with propane hot water, cooking and refrigerator, and a wood stove for heating. The cistern is filled from a new well -- but the solar is woefully inadequate for pumping from the well to the cistern, that is handled by a gasoline powered generator a few times a year. "Green energy" is extremely expensive, very intermittent, and very unrealiable. It can NEVER replace normal coal, gas and oil for real power, other than in remote areas with very limited power demands. The ecocrazie's dream of 'cheap, plentiful green power' is pure techno-fantasy and will never happen.