"Green" policies are destroying this country

New ESB camps coming up soon

”Between the hours of 5-7 we ask all customers to reduce usage and instead go outside and start blowing at your nearest cheap, reliable, wind turbine.”

Indeed it is. The crazy thing about this thread is that most want to get to a point where we are reducing our pollution levels, including air, water, and land. It's the how that's causing the most friction. Anyone that thinks wind or solar will replace all fossil fuels is as bad as someone who wants to use nothing but fossil fuels.

The truth is we will need all the options currently available, plus new technologies to meet our energy needs now and in to the future. The option of just "cutting back" is tantamount to say just take a significant cut in your standard of living and there'll be no debate about it. That's not how it should work and many many people are starting to ask important questions about the current path we are on and for very good reasons.

I mean, I haven't seen anyone round here deny we are impacting the environment in a negative way, at least not in a while anyway.

I do have a huge problem with the climate catastrophe narrative that talks about tipping points and cascades, like they have any idea what that even means nevermind whether it's even possible or not. Even if we did nothing regarding renewables (and in all honesty we may as well not the China are acting) humans will still be around for a long long time. Low lying coastal cities have been lost to the ocean before and it will happen again. However, thanks to the ingenuity of humans and our ability to harness cheap energy there's very little we can't deal with as a specie's, which seems to be forgotten all too often.

Climate Imperative, another one for the list, look out for the En-ROADS simulation model (John Gibbons pushing it, enough said), feeding the alarmist echo chamber. The billionaires are creating perverse incentives, i.e the British Cobra problem. The more groups the billionaires give grants to, the more alarm is generated.

The churnalist rewrote a press release on behalf of the battery salesman. They always have have the line "powers [n] homes", they never mention the megawatt/gigawatt hours, how much can actually be discharged in real world conditions before the remaining batteries charge is too low, they don't talk about maintenance costs and expected lifetime of the batteries (depreciation) before needing to be replaced. Batteries do not generate power, they don't discuss costs of charging the batteries versus cost of sale (i.e. P & L) of a unit of electricity from these when conversion losses as accounted for. The true cost of unreliable intermittent generation is hidden? The current deployments can only discharge for perhaps 2 hours at most, and how were the batteries charged in December during the cold spell? It could not have been wind or solar.

I hope you'll now understand that solar panels. even on farmland, don't displace other activities.

I look forward to seeing all those sheep and goats grazing contentedly in the fields of solar panels across the country. Did the greens ban herbicide yet?