The "green" boondoggle - Nebraska solar farm destroyed in hail storm
Traditional power plants like coal, gas, and nuclear, are strongly resistant to natural disasters like hurricanes, but the more flimsy wind and solar farms have been destroyed .Even a hail storm can do that, as recently shown in Nebraska.
The Scottsbluff, Nebraska 5.2 million megawatt solar park consisting of 14,000 solar panels was put into service in 2019 and said to have a useful life of 25 years. However a hail storm turned it into a heap of rubble last week, and its useful life ended after only 4 years.
Yet, with North Caroiina's Green New Deal, HB951, rammed through by RINOs like Senate President pro tem Phil Berger and eastern NC's chief RINO Senator Jim Perry, will make our state reliant on this too easy to destroy source of electric power. Under HB951, energy monopoly Duke Energy and the Roy Cooper appointees at the NC Utilities Commission want to make us primarily reliant on vulnerable, expensive, and unreliable solar power.
Solar farm after a hurricane in Puerto Rico:
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and yet 20% of the energy in the US comes from renewable sources. More to come.
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Wind and solar are in a class by themselves on federal subsidies, a massive amount of money. There is no way they could stand on their own two feet competing with more efficient means of energy production. What the left calls "subsidies" for other power sources are mainly just normal tax code provisions that apply to expenses of all businesses. With wind and solar, however, it is massive direct payments to the grifters who build it. Indeed, those grifters often build a solar or wind facility, pocket the subsidies, and then sell the solar or wind facility for peanuts because they have gotten their profit from the government subsidy.
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Only one making money off "green energy" is China by selling all the panels, minerals and other things needed to go "green". In the mean time those countries relying on "green energy" are stripping the money from their citizens pockets to make China more money.
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All types of energy production are subsidized. All of them.
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Texas state government is itself working to counter the federal subsidies of wind and solar by adding new fees and charges to discourage building more wind and solar:
www.houstonchronicle.com |
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All you have to do is look at the chart in that link to see how billions of dollars in federal taxpayer subsidies has been responsible for the wind / solar boondoggle in Texas, and as to the negative impact on the people of Texas, all we have to remember is the winter of 2021 and the failure of wind and solar in their cold snap: stopthesethings.com
The subsidies are mostly for direct payments to the grifters and rent seekers who burden Texas with this expensive and unreliable electricity source. |
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You say that, without evidence, knowing Texas is about to be the number one producer of green energy out pacing "gasp" California. Your link doesn't dispute the fact, it merely argues money was spent on the infrastructure to make it happen. Hardly a shocking conclusion.
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The average Texan, other than the disciples of Climate Scientology, would agree that wind and aolar are useless, Remember the big cold snap a couple of years ago when wind and solar failed and Texas had a blackout? Unfortunately, those federal subsidies are putting too much of this unreliable crap in their state. Here is the real impact of wind and solar on the Texas power grid: stopthesethings.com
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Texas would disagree.
www.kxan.com |
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Wind turbines, especially for offshore wind, are also highly vulnerable to hurricanes, and Roy Cooper is bound and determined to line our coast with these whale-killing eyesores. Wind turbines are also very fickle on generating electricity. For multiple days this month, a heat dome stretching from Texas to the Canadian praries has meant little wind and almost zero wind energy production across a very wide area and at a time that there is high demand for electricity. The same thing happened in months long "wind droughts in Europe that caused a collapse in electricity production by wind turbines over a prolonged period. Both wind and solar are vulnerable, expensive, and unreliable.
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Even leftwing filmmaker Michael Moore gets it on the huge problems with wind and solar and biomass energy. He is certainly no conservative, but he has put out a documentary entitled "Planet of the Humans" that explains why wind, solar, and biomass are bad for the environment and bad for electric ratepayers. I know you would not even consider listening to scientists on why the global warming theory makes no sense, but will you watch a film from the top leftwing filmmaker in America on why wind, solar, and biomass are bad for us?
watchdocumentaries.com
One other "renewable" source of energy besides hydro that is reliable and cheap is geothermal, which countries like Kenya and St. Kitts and Nevis are now developing.