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Today, the state gets 47.13% of its electricity from wind and 0.33% from solar.
Yet now, 14 of the 105 counties in Kansas block wind turbines and 12 block solar farms.
These efforts mirror those in hundreds of counties and townships across the nation, where the merest hint of a potential project quickly brings forth a Facebook group, yard signs, organized protests and – increasingly – zoning rules and laws that make new renewable energy impossible to build.
Here's your "renewable" energy...
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack (September 23rd, 2023):
FUN FACT: Wind Turbine blades are 100% non-recyclable, consisting each of 35 tonnes of plastic and
fiberglass which are either thrown into a landfill to be somebody else's problem another day,
or are incinerated, which not only is bad news for future CO2 emissions, but as a bonus are
going to end up adding to the insane amount of microplastics that you already have coating the
inside of your lungs and are already found littering pretty much every cell in your body.
As of 2022, we have a recorded total of 70,800 wind turbines in the US alone, each consisting
of 3 blades.
So, not including all of the blades that have already been buried or burned, we have a combined total
of 14,868,000,000 lbs of non-recyclable future waste product that's mostly going to end up in your
lungs and contribute to global warming once they reach the end of their life cycle.
Oh... and don't forget that every single tonne of glass fibers produced in the first place results
in a carbon footprint of approximately 1.7-2.2 tonnes. So, not including the blades we've already
buried or burned, the blades on the existing 70,800 wind turbines currently active in America alone
required us to put 12,637,800 to 16,354,800 tonnes of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere before they
even made their first rotation.
Clean energy indeed!
Well boys...
Smoke if you got 'em!
Sources:
https://www.nationalgrid.com/stories/energy-explained/can-wind-turbine
-blades-be-recycled
https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-many-turbines-are-contained-us-wind-turb
ine-database
https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyNET.exe/30003WOK.TXT?ZyActionD=ZyDocument&
amp;Client=EPA&Index=1991+Thru+1994&Docs=&Query=&Time=&EndTime=&SearchMethod=1&TocRestrict=n&Toc=&TocEntry=&QField=&QFieldYear=&QFieldMonth=&QFieldDay=&IntQFieldOp=0&ExtQFieldOp=0&XmlQuery=&File=D%3A%5Czyfiles%5CIndex%20Data%5C91thru94%5CTxt%5C00000009%5C30003WOK.txt&User=ANONYMOUS&Password=anonymous&SortMethod=h%7C-&MaximumDocuments=1&FuzzyDegree=0&ImageQuality=r75g8/r75g8/x150y150g16/i425&Display=hpfr&DefSeekPage=x&SearchBack=ZyActionL&Back=ZyActionS&BackDesc=Results%20page&MaximumPages=1&ZyEntry=1&SeekPage=x&ZyPURL
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-sustainable-sustainablemodern-const
ruction-materials-okpara
Get fucked, dummy.
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Quote:I'm guessing you have no idea how much non-recyclable waste there is from mining coal, drilling for oil and natural gas, and burning them. With 8 billion people on Earth, there are 14.868 billion pounds every hour, 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. Asphalt roads are the most obvious of the wastes. Hopefully, you understand driving on roads made of waste from refineries. Google does asphalt pollute to learn that Asphalt pollutes both the air and the water.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
So, not including all of the blades that have already been buried or burned, we have a combined total of 14,868,000,000 lbs of non-recyclable future waste product that's mostly going to end up in your lungs and contribute to global warming once they reach the end of their life cycle.
https://www.google.com/search?q=does+asphalt+pollute
6ix, you have thousands of pounds of refinery waste in your driveway. The sealer you purchased to make your driveway look pretty? It, too, pollutes the water and air.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Look at those goalposts fly.
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Quote:Green energy is all about reducing Greenhouse gases. For some stupid reason, Trumptards think Green energy will fail if it produces waste. They act as if green energy failed because the batteries in electric vehicles have to be replaced. They act as if green energy fails if solar panels have to be replaced. Wind turbine blades get replaced and that, too, is a sign that green energy failed for Trumptards. Trumptards are retards.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Look at those goalposts fly.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Green energy is all about reducing Greenhouse gases. For some stupid reason, Trumptards think Green energy will fail if it produces waste. They act as if green energy failed because the batteries in electric vehicles have to be replaced. They act as if green energy fails if solar panels have to be replaced. Wind turbine blades get replaced and that, too, is a sign that green energy failed for Trumptards. Trumptards are retards.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Look at those goalposts fly.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
It's about the money, stupid.
When you add the fact that none of this "green" energy is actually green in the first place on top of the fact that none of it is even remotely affordable or practical is when it becomes an issue.
Your EV dream is dead. It won't be long until your windmill dream is dead too.
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Quote:6ix, you can be perfectly happy with no money but with Trump as your Chieftain:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It's about the money, stupid.
When you add the fact that none of this "green" energy is actually green in the first place on top of the fact that none of it is even remotely affordable or practical is when it becomes an issue.
Your EV dream is dead. It won't be long until your windmill dream is dead too.
Study of Indigenous and local communities finds happiness doesn't cost much - February 5, 2024
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-indigenous-local-communities-happiness-d
oesnt.html
The research, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), consisted of a survey of 2,966 people from Indigenous and local communities in 19 globally distributed sites. Only 64% of surveyed households had any cash income. The results show that "surprisingly, many populations with very low monetary incomes report very high average levels of life satisfaction, with scores similar to those in wealthy countries," says Eric Galbraith, researcher at ICTA-UAB and McGill University and lead author of the study.
The average life satisfaction score across the studied small-scale societies was 6.8 on a scale of 0–10. Although not all societies reported being highly satisfied — averages were as low as 5.1 — four of the sites reported average scores higher than 8, typical of wealthy Scandinavian countries in other polls, "and this is so, despite many of these societies having suffered histories of marginalization and oppression."
The results are consistent with the notion that human societies can support very satisfactory lives for their members without necessarily requiring high degrees of material wealth, as measured in monetary terms.
"The strong correlation frequently observed between income and life satisfaction is not universal and proves that wealth — as generated by industrialized economies — is not fundamentally required for humans to lead happy lives," says Victoria Reyes-Garcia, ICREA researcher at ICTA-UAB and senior author of the study.
The findings are good news for sustainability and human happiness, as they provide strong evidence that resource-intensive economic growth is not required to achieve high levels of subjective well-being.
The researchers highlight that, although they now know that people in many Indigenous and local communities report high levels of life satisfaction, they do not know why.
Prior work would suggest that family and social support and relationships, spirituality, and connections to nature are among the important factors on which this happiness is based, "but it is possible that the important factors differ significantly between societies or, conversely, that a small subset of factors dominates everywhere. I would hope that, by learning more about what makes life satisfying in these diverse communities, it might help many others to lead more satisfying lives while addressing the sustainability crisis," Galbraith concludes.
More information: High life satisfaction reported among small-scale societies with low incomes, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024)
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2311703121
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you can be perfectly happy with no money
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It's about the money, stupid.
When you add the fact that none of this "green" energy is actually green in the first place on top of the fact that none of it is even remotely affordable or practical is when it becomes an issue.
Your EV dream is dead. It won't be long until your windmill dream is dead too.
I have more money than I need.
And if I ever decide I want to restock the reserves because Joe Biden*'s inflation sucks, I get to go out and do part time menial work for double what I made in the average of my last two jobs. I'd be hard pressed to find anything that wasn't $3 more per hour than my last job, and it would be impossible to find a job making the national minimum wage like my job before that.
I'm good dude. You worry about you.
ETA: This was actually a rare good article from you.
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The research, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), consisted of a survey of 2,966 people from Indigenous and local communities in 19 globally distributed sites. Only 64% of surveyed households had any cash income. The results show that "surprisingly, many populations with very low monetary incomes report very high average levels of life satisfaction, with scores similar to those in wealthy countries," says Eric Galbraith, researcher at ICTA-UAB and McGill University and lead author of the study.
The average life satisfaction score across the studied small-scale societies was 6.8 on a scale of 0–10. Although not all societies reported being highly satisfied — averages were as low as 5.1 — four of the sites reported average scores higher than 8, typical of wealthy Scandinavian countries in other polls, "and this is so, despite many of these societies having suffered histories of marginalization and oppression."
The results are consistent with the notion that human societies can support very satisfactory lives for their members without necessarily requiring high degrees of material wealth, as measured in monetary terms.
"The strong correlation frequently observed between income and life satisfaction is not universal and proves that wealth — as generated by industrialized economies — is not fundamentally required for humans to lead happy lives," says Victoria Reyes-Garcia, ICREA researcher at ICTA-UAB and senior author of the study.
The findings are good news for sustainability and human happiness, as they provide strong evidence that resource-intensive economic growth is not required to achieve high levels of subjective well-being.
The researchers highlight that, although they now know that people in many Indigenous and local communities report high levels of life satisfaction, they do not know why.
Prior work would suggest that family and social support and relationships, spirituality, and connections to nature are among the important factors on which this happiness is based, "but it is possible that the important factors differ significantly between societies or, conversely, that a small subset of factors dominates everywhere. I would hope that, by learning more about what makes life satisfying in these diverse communities, it might help many others to lead more satisfying lives while addressing the sustainability crisis," Galbraith concludes.
Certainly puts a human spin on the phenomena rather than saying that I live like a squirrel or a raccoon.
Material things and keeping up with the joneses doesn't mean shit to me.
Would I like to have a brand new pickup truck? Sure! It sounds great on paper. But it's a huge sinkhole for wealth, as is any brand new vehicle. I will likely be buying a newer used car this year because I'm being forced to for emissions reasons, but really... it's time. It will be nice to be in a vehicle that I can be confid
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Major Auto Company Shuts Down Funding to EV Subsidiary, Immediately Sees Stock Price Boom
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/major-auto-company-shuts-dow
n-funding-to-ev-subsidiary-immediately-sees-stock-price-boom/ar-BB1hL4PU
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Volvo’s stock surged 26% after announcing it would cease funding its electric vehicle subsidiary, Polestar Automotive.
This decision reflects a broader trend in the electric vehicle industry, with Renault canceling its electric-car unit IPO and Ford reducing production of its electric F-150 Lightning.
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While Polestar’s CEO remains optimistic about the company’s future, its shares declined by 84% in 2023 due to the EV market slowdown.
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Texas' Lt. Gov. knows "Climate Change Is A Chinese Hoax" and will spend $10 billion of state government money based on that belief:
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says Texas will build new natural gas power plants itself if private sector doesn't
By Claire Hao, Feb 6, 2024
Texas politicians and energy executives courted a ballroom of around 100 investors representing approximately $2 trillion of capital on Tuesday in Houston, seeking to inspire some of them to build more natural gas fueled power plants in the state.
If the effort fails to encourage the private sector to build these electricity generation plants, the state would seek to build them itself and contract private operators to run them, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said in a press conference following his opening remarks at the conference hosted by BlackRock, one of the world’s largest asset management firms.
“If we can’t get an incentive program to attract investors to build, then the state would have to build (more gas-fueled power infrastructure) ourselves and then subcontract out for someone else to run it,” Patrick said. “We can’t sit and do nothing.”
The goal is to attract 10 more gigawatts of natural gas power plants, Patrick said, producing enough electricity to power 2 million homes in Texas during times of peak demand. State officials believe the Texas Energy Fund, a $10 billion package mostly for low-interest loans to developers of natural gas power plants, will deliver the results they seek.
And if it doesn’t, state-built power plants could be on the table.
“There’ll be pushback on that. That’s the last card you want to play, because we are a free market. But in many ways, the current system isn’t a free market,” Patrick said.
That’s because federal policy offering incentives to developers of renewable energy has caused renewable development to outpace fossil fuel development in Texas, Patrick said. One such initiative, the Biden administration’s 2021 Inflation Reduction Act, has spurred a spate of new solar and battery projects in the state.
Market forces are also a part of renewable energy’s growth. Texas is an energy-only electricity market, which means power generators are paid only for the electricity that is delivered, rather than what they are capable of producing. Generators bid into the wholesale market to offer their power at the cheapest price.
Fossil fuel power plants still provide the majority of electricity to the grid managed by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. But in recent years, renewable energy has made massive gains in part because the cost of building and operating these resources have dropped, allowing them to regularly offer their electricity at low prices.
Texas Republicans are not opposed to the growth of renewable energy altogether, Patrick said. But he echoed the oft-repeated concern among state leaders that Texas needs more “dispatchable” fossil fuel power plants that can turn on at the flip of a switch when the wind isn’t blowing or the sun isn’t shining.
Texas blacklist
BlackRock was placed on a Texas “blacklist” of financial companies that supposedly boycott the fossil fuel industry in 2022, an accusation the firm has consistently denied. After it was limited from doing business in Texas, its CEO Larry Fink met twice with Patrick. The second meeting catalyzed Tuesday’s conference to attract fossil fuel investment in the state, Patrick said in his opening remarks.
“We had a conversation where we both thought there were many differences,” Fink said in his remarks. “Throughout the conversation … we saw that those differences can be minimized quite quickly, and that there was a lot of commonality and a lot of the same interests.”
Patrick refused to answer reporters' questions on whether BlackRock had been removed from Texas’s blacklist.
The summit featured speakers including ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas, CenterPoint CEO Jason Wells, Occidental CEO Vicki Hollub and state Sen. Charles Schwertner, who authored the bill creating the Texas Energy Fund. Media was o
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How about nuclear?
Windmills and Solar Farms are snake oil.
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