EV's, Reliable Power, et al

[Oerdin]

Kamala Harris desperately tries to hide her gas stove in a picture because she knows she is a hypocrite ordering everyone else to give up their gas stove while she does not

As always with the left it is rules for thee but not me.

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1739363001445298228

[Oerdin]

So Biden and the Democraps spent $7.5 billion to install EV chargers and exactly one, yes, one electric charging location got built for $7.5 billion.

Do you understand this is all a scam yet?

https://youtube.com/shorts/doubj4Wjmho?si=TB1MvoKReBc3iWc3

[Shen Li]

So Biden and the Democraps spent $7.5 billion to install EV chargers and exactly one, yes, one electric charging location got built for $7.5 billion.

Do you understand this is all a scam yet?

https://youtube.com/shorts/doubj4Wjmho?si=TB1MvoKReBc3iWc3

Only $7.5 billion for one charging station. That seems a little expensive.

[Oerdin]

I am sure they will claim they upgraded some wires some where to prep for more demand but the utility are supposed to do that anyway without more government handouts.

[Oerdin]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-roasted-christmas-pic-another-gas-stove

That was the Thanksgiving picture she got roasted on for having a stove and there is the Xmas picture where she was trying to hide the stove.

[Lokmar]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-roasted-christmas-pic-another-gas-stove

That was the Thanksgiving picture she got roasted on for having a stove and there is the Xmas picture where she was trying to hide the stove.

She is one stupid bitch! IF democRATs had shame, they'd call for her ouster.

[Herman]

From my buddy Alex Epstain

Global fossil fuel use is increasing, and the energy-poor world needs even more to power life-saving machines.
Fossil fuel use is 80% of the world's energy and still growing despite 100+ years of aggressive competition and 20+ years of political hostility and massive solar and wind favoritism.⁵


There is a desperate need for far more of the global-scale cost-effective energy that only fossil fuels can provide near-term: ⅓ of the world uses wood and animal dung for heating and cooking, and 3 billion use less electricity than a typical American refrigerator

Since 1980, India's fossil fuel use has increased by >700% and China's by >600%. In the same time frame, India's life expectancy increased by 17 years and China's by 14.

China, which uses mostly coal to produce "green" tech, has over 300 planned new coal plants designed to last over 40 years.


Even nations with little or no fossil fuel resources have used fossil fuels to develop and prosper. E.g., South Korea (83% fossil fuels), Japan (85% fossil fuels), Singapore (99% fossil fuels)

The "green" movement catastrophizes the future climate side-effects of fossil fuels, which are completely masterable.
Climate warming is concentrated in colder areas of the world (such as the Arctic), during colder times of day, and during colder seasons. (This means that future warming will occur more in cold situations where it saves lives than in hot situations where it causes problems.

The most extreme UN sea level rise projections are just 3 feet in 100 years. (This is a completely masterable level.) There are already 100 million people on Earth living below high-tide sea level.

Mainstream estimates say hurricanes will be less frequent and between 1-10% more intense at 2° C warming. (This is not at all catastrophic if we continue our fossil-fueled climate mastery.

Mainstream science is unanimous that the warming impact of CO2 diminishes ("logarithmically") as it increases in concentration. Every new molecule of CO2 we add to the atmosphere has less of a warming effect than the previous one.

[Herman]

Unreliable solar and wind are not anywhere near able to replace fossil fuels.

Battery backup for solar and wind is so expensive that just 3 days of global backup using Elon Musk's Megapacks would cost $570 trillion, about 6X global GDP.

Solar and wind never provide the exact amount of electricity that is needed. Electricity requires exactly matching supply and demand, and solar and wind on their own exactly match supply with demand 0% of the time.


Even mild increases in demand for critical minerals involving solar and wind have led to scaling issues and cost increases. (What will the unprecedented demand increases of "net zero" plans lead to?)


"Net zero" plans to scale solar and wind involve more than doubling the supply of half a dozen major mined materials per decade—even though they can't point to any examples of  any major mined mineral doubling that fast, even with pro-development governments.


6 days after pledging to go all-EVs, California Governor Gavin Newsom told residents there wasn't enough power to charge their EVs.


80% of the world's energy is not electricity. For non-electricity energy, solar and wind either can't do what fossil fuel can—e.g., airplanes or cargo ships—or are far more expensive.

Our dependence on China for key components of solar, wind, and batteries is far greater than our dependence on Russia for fossil fuels.

Far from out-competing fossil fuels, solar and wind are growing fast only when given massive government preferences—mandates, subsidies, and no penalty for unreliability—along with crippling government punishments of fossil fuels.

[Oerdin]

It is not just gas stoves and water heaters any more.  Now the Biden admin wants to ban most of the refrigerators on the market today.  He wants them to be smaller, more efficient, and most of all he wants them vastly more expensive.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-unveils-string-of-eco-regulations-in-latest-appliance-crackdown-targeting-fridges-freezers

More accurately radical Democrats are doing these things while Joe Biden  just shits his pants and drills on himself.

[Oerdin]

A great video.

https://youtu.be/AGaNghtj41I?si=aYgBDzBWib13LEWj

[Thiel]

A great video.

https://youtu.be/AGaNghtj41I?si=aYgBDzBWib13LEWj

I've seen it before. It is a good video.

[Herman]

[Shen Li]

An electric bike caught on fire on Toronto's subway.

[Herman]

Green Energy Waste Overlooked in Climate Agenda
Where do the mountains of broken solar panels and wind turbine blades end up? The amount of waste piling up from solar panels and wind turbine blades can be measured in tons. And the industry is just getting started.

Almost all spent solar panels in the United States end up in landfills, and many first- and second-generation panels are already tapping out, well ahead of their anticipated 30-year lifespan.
Added to that will be an estimated 9.8 million metric tons of dead panels to deal with between 2030 and 2060, according to a study published in Science Direct.

Tossing a solar panel into a U.S. landfill currently costs about $1, maybe $2. To recycle that same panel, the cost balloons to $20 to $30, according to an estimate reported by PV Magazine.
Wind turbine parts present a similar challenge, with thousands of blades having already found their way into dumps and fields in Texas, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Iowa.

It's no small feat to dump a blade. The length of a single wind turbine blade can be more than 200 feet or longer than the wingspan of a Boeing 747,according to the Department of Energy. Offshore wind rigs are even larger.

Currently, about 7,000 blades are scrapped per year in the United States, according to David Morgan, chief strategy officer for Carbon Rivers, a Tennessee-based recycling center for advanced materials.

Of all the glass fiber waste that Carbon Rivers receives, wind turbine blades are the most challenging, Mr. Morgan said.

"They're a very hardy, robust material. They're large and cumbersome to deal with," he told aa news source.

"Large wind turbine blades, travel trailers, boat hulls, and other waste streams can be converted into clean, high-quality glass fiber that can be economically reincorporated into your next car, boat, or turbine blade," the Carbon Rivers website states.

[Herman]

Part 2


As wind turbine graveyards have turned into viral video content, the wind industry has become more "conversational" about end-of-life solutions, Mr. Morgan said, but it's not set up for a "composite circular economy."

When it comes to truly "green" solutions, a "circular economy" is vital, Mr. Morgan said. It's basically a business model that prioritizes the reuse, repair, or regeneration of materials to continue production in as sustainable a way as possible.
He said renewable waste isn't just an infrastructure problem, there are also legislation gaps.
"Right now, you can largely landfill wind blades. It varies state by state."
Some companies backing wind energy—particularly those tied to fossil fuel giants such as Shell Global and General Electric—have left critics dubious about whether true sustainability is part of the existing plan.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), under former President Donald Trump, identified the looming problems with increasing renewable energy waste.
"Without a strategy for their end-of-life management, so-called green technologies like solar panels, electric vehicle batteries, and windmills will ultimately place the same unintended burdens on our planet and economy as traditional commodities," former EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler said.