Going "Carbon Neutral"

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So, up here in Maine, for the past 1 or 15 years, the Environmentalists have been forcing the renovation of ALL Hydropower dams to be renovated to include "Fishways" to allow the passage of Atlantic Salmon and other fish and great expense, and, I'm assuming, a vast reduction in the efficient energy generation of these dams.

This involved the outright removal of many dams, and mostly after lengthy legal battles.

Now, our new Governor has decreed that we WILL be "carbon neutral" by 2030, or some such time, and guess what part of her proposal is?
Oh, yes! Hydro Power!
I'm sure that the Billions needed to put this into effect will include Billions of that good old "Free Federal Matching Funds" so we can "save the planet"

It's amazing to me how these "Environmentalists" can change their mindset on an instant's notice, and expect that we will all just fall in line, and support their nonsense.

Oh, by the way, the latest dam that they forced the removal of is right here in Westbrook, and AFTER the removal, one of the "Environmental Scientists" overseeing the project was quoted in the local newspaper as saying "It will be interesting to see what happens" when asked about flood control, and possible damage to properties downstream from the dam!
 
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There are people on the planet that won't be happy until humans are extinct! Some of these people want Malaria to run wild in the tropical zones, as a means to reduce the population. They see the high efficiency of US farming as producing too much food, and not allowing people to starve! Again, they want all of us (humans) to go away. I remember reading that their goal was a total population of Earth to ONE MILLION or less! I think that level of population pre dates the Pyramids by a few thousand years!

So to heck with a river washing away your town, you don't belong on this planet anyway!

Unfortunately, these people vote. Fortunately, they are against reproducing!

Ivan
 
I drove into the front range outside of Denver last week and was shocked at the sight of thousands (?) of wind mills. They all flash red light simultaneously at night, and let me just say the footprint of man was very disturbing, I was shocked. One sizeable power plant over the horizon out of view would produce maybe 5-10 times what all of those horrific windmills would produce. The waste in the name of en environmentalism is just disgusting. This is about corrupt politicians getting kickbacks from Siemens and GE, the big wind turbine makers. I'm still disgusted and upset.
 
Robotaz said:
I drove into the front range outside of Denver last week and was shocked at the sight of thousands (?) of wind mills. They all flash red light simultaneously at night, and let me just say the footprint of man was very disturbing, I was shocked. One sizeable power plant over the horizon out of view would produce maybe 5-10 times what all of those horrific windmills would produce. The waste in the name of en environmentalism is just disgusting. This is about corrupt politicians getting kickbacks from Siemens and GE, the big wind turbine makers. I'm still disgusted and upset.
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You think that is bad, around here every last open, tree-free area has been filled with butt ugly solar panels. :mad: It's pitiful. I don't mind solar panel farms in useless or distressed areas... or on buildings and over parking lots... but when they take productive farmland and other premium land areas for butt ugly solar farms, that is a step too far. :mad:

Even the crazy moonbats up here are starting to realize that. Will they stop or at least slow down the madness? :confused: Only time will tell. :(
 
Here in the PNW, most of our energy is from dams. We have some wind farms but that power goes west to the coast. We also have increasing salmon runs, with an active sport fishery and some of the lowest electrical rates in the US.

As a retired Federal biologist (20+ years), who worked on gas-powered, coal powered, wind powered, and water-powered plants in Cali and Washington, as well as large scale irrigation and diversion projects, I can flat out say that the biggest threat to anadromous fish is overallocation of water resources. For instance, the Yakima Basin has water rights that equal 125% of the available water in any given year!
 
SC_Mike said:
"It will be interesting to see what happens"

Don't you love to hear that from the "experts"?
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.... you can be sure ,when they say that ,them and their families do not live downstream from the flooding they will cause,and will not lose there house or lives from said flooding , so they do not care
 
What happens when faux "environmentalists" try to reduce carbon emissions:

New England CO2 emissions spike after Vermont Yankee nuclear closure | Utility Dive

Carbon problems? Here's the solution:

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A scientist was commenting about global warming saying that we should be going into another ice age.... Ice Age ..like 12 feet of ice covering the globe which has happened in the past and should be happening again .
Guess what...hard to grow food in an ice age . Maybe global warming is going to keep our species around a little longer .
 
Re the NBA and the Chinese, having James Harden of the Rockets apologize to the Chinese for one of their team officials (GM?) tweeting in support of the Hong Kong demonstrators is reprehensible. It is shameful.

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Onomea said:
Re the NBA and the Chinese, having James Harden of the Rockets apologize to the Chinese for one of their team officials (GM?) tweeting in support of the Hong Kong demonstrators is reprehensible. It is shameful.

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What makes it worse is that I am powerless to voice my displeasure. I have not gone to an NBA game since the Jazz were in New Orleans and I was clerking for the Fourth Circuit back in 1982. I don't buy any of the shoeses. I don't watch it on TV. Not much left that I can quit doing to express my displeasure :rolleyes:
 
I dumped the NBA many years back. Now they suck even more. Shameful. They should all move there.
 
Robotaz said:
I drove into the front range outside of Denver last week and was shocked at the sight of thousands (?) of wind mills. They all flash red light simultaneously at night, and let me just say the footprint of man was very disturbing, I was shocked. One sizeable power plant over the horizon out of view would produce maybe 5-10 times what all of those horrific windmills would produce. The waste in the name of en environmentalism is just disgusting. This is about corrupt politicians getting kickbacks from Siemens and GE, the big wind turbine makers. I'm still disgusted and upset.
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Interesting factual tidbits on the wind turbine farms:

1. The market value of electricity produced by each wind turbine will pay for the turbine-tower-infrastructure in about 40 years.

2. The useful life span of each wind turbine is about 10-12 years.

Any way we do the math, the only way to make existing alternative energy/renewable energy technology work is via massive taxpayer subsidies and higher utility costs to all consumers.

I live in Colorado also, and our political leadership continues to demand higher and higher percentages of energy from renewable sources, at ever increasing cost to the public.

Meanwhile, the enviro-nazis have started raising Cain about the numbers of raptors (eagles, hawks, falcons, etc) being killed by the wind turbine farms. Probably just a matter of time before one federal court is issuing orders cancelling out another federal court's orders, while we sit around in the dark remembering the days of reliable electrical power in our homes.
 
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