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Bernie's climate play: A federal takeover of electricity production. Sanders wants federally owned utilities to build massive amounts of wind and solar to compete with private generators
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| February 2, 2020
| Gavin Bade
Posted on 02/02/2020 5:58:30 AM PST by karpov
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The Crescent Dunes solar power plant
wasted $727 million. Under Sanders, multiply that by 1,000 or 10,000.
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posted on
02/02/2020 5:58:30 AM PST
by
karpov
To: karpov
Somebody please fit this guy for a straight jacket...
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posted on
02/02/2020 6:05:42 AM PST
by
Victor
(If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert." -David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister)
To: karpov
How much of that money got kicked back the Democrat coffers and offshore accounts?
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posted on
02/02/2020 6:14:38 AM PST
by
Hoosier-Daddy
("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
To: karpov
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posted on
02/02/2020 6:16:27 AM PST
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: karpov
There isnt enough land in the US to accommodate the forests of windmills and acres of solar panels needed to supply even half of our electric needs and without some type of backup like gas turbines or nuclear plants that can quickly come online to meet demand when the wind doesnt blow or the sun doesnt shine blackout will be common.
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posted on
02/02/2020 6:16:30 AM PST
by
The Great RJ
("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
To: karpov
Yeah, that’s what we need: Advice on energy production from a child (yes, child) who’s never had a real job and could not even pass a “Science for Poets) course in a community college.
Typical socialists - dumber than a rock with an even more stony personality.
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posted on
02/02/2020 6:22:01 AM PST
by
Da Coyote
To: karpov
Northeastern and California liberals want to fill flyover America with endless seas of wind turbines to spare the Blue Archipelago from having to generate its own electricity, which liberals think is the only acceptable power source to
use but which is too dirty to
make.I would prefer to insist that each state by required to be self sufficient in electricity. If New York, Massachusetts and California want to cover themselves with wind turbines, so be it. If they don't want to clear cut their forests to make way for wind farms, they can choose between coal fired plants, natural gas fired plants, nuclear plants, or unicorn farts. If they choose the latter, let them freeze in the dark.
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posted on
02/02/2020 6:23:14 AM PST
by
sphinx
To: karpov
Hey you guys, I got an idea, let’s make a total lunatic our president!
It’ll be fine.
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posted on
02/02/2020 6:30:51 AM PST
by
chris37
(Impeach Chief Obama Injustice Roberts, a fraud, a clown and a tyrant!)
To: karpov
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posted on
02/02/2020 6:31:55 AM PST
by
workerbee
(America finally has an American president again.)
To: The Great RJ
Well, we'll just import the extra we need. 😳😁
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posted on
02/02/2020 6:34:47 AM PST
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: karpov
Its not about electrical power, but absolute political power
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posted on
02/02/2020 6:36:38 AM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: workerbee
Socialism takes.
Capitalism creates.
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posted on
02/02/2020 6:38:56 AM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: karpov
This is incredibly dangerous. It would take the economy and living standards back decades. The Germans are trying it, and energy poverty is a thing.
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posted on
02/02/2020 6:38:56 AM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: PIF
Bingo!!!!! Point, match, game.
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posted on
02/02/2020 6:45:27 AM PST
by
Fungi
To: karpov
There is no stupid too stupid for Sanders and the other Sociscum.
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posted on
02/02/2020 6:46:18 AM PST
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: karpov
If you believe in global warming, the wide spread conversion to current generation of solar cells is an existential threat to humanity
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posted on
02/02/2020 6:52:17 AM PST
by
rdcbn
( Referentiai)
To: Rurudyne
A major problem with wind and solar is a night with little wind. You then have next to no power. So you need virtually 100% quick reacting backup sources. Now you are maintaining two systems. If you start adding back ups like batteries, you then get three systems to maintain.
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posted on
02/02/2020 6:54:46 AM PST
by
Stevenfo
To: karpov
Where is this guy from - Vermont I seem to recall.
Why do this renewables idiots all come from places where the sun doesn't shine.
To: karpov
The sun hasn’t been out here for a week, jus’ sayin’.
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posted on
02/02/2020 6:59:56 AM PST
by
VTenigma
(The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
To: karpov
Those organizations currently provide power from hydroelectric dams to 33 states, and would be able to sell the increased green energy to local utilities nationwide
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They won’t be selling much energy because the demand for it will plummet due to Bernie’s destructive economic policies.
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