Posted on 04/30/2020 11:45:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
Two thumbs up for Michael Moore. Never thought I’d say that, but the documentary (after 10 minutes of watching) is a straight-shooter.
***I never knew about burning trees for green energy that was new to me***
Back in the 1970s MOTHER EARTH NEWS proposed power plants that burned wood. They figured it would take 25 square miles of trees to keep a power plant going.
Wonder if they figured in the cost of cutting, chipping and hauling the wood, along with replanting fast growing trees.
I was going to ask if that was a Freudian slip, to be sure I the context exactly right I did a search, check out the Wikipedia entry on the right hand side of the screen
https://www.bing.com/search?q=freudian+slip&form=QBLH&sp=-1&pq=&sc=0-0&qs=n&sk=&cvid=95B0D7513E594772B549E7AD6C063E02
bkmk
I prefer the original. What a great typo!
The great hope is that he’ll be spit in the face and kicked around so bad by tge Left, that he’s spend the rest of his life exposing them and retaliating against their global-crony-creep backers. Good. Bring it on.
The latter would be more beneficial to the environment... and society.
Sooner or later fossil fuels are going to run out. That will drive up the price as it happens so the alternatives will then become profitable. It's a problem that will solve itself , no grand government controlled scheme is necessary.
lol
he has lost quite a bit of star power over the years.
Attention and money, even from those on the right, he will take.
Oh, don't I wish.
If the greenies really wanted to get us off “fossil fuels,” they would support nuclear energy. It’s the only thing that can even begin to replace these fuels and maintain the power supply we need, while preserving energy independence.
Instead, Reactor 2 at Indian Point was turned off today.
Crony capitalism isn’t capitalism; it’s a form of socialism.
Is ANYTHING promoted by liberals/marxists good for anything, except enriching themselves or controlling other people?
Does anyone remember when one of his movies premiered in DC and the DC Chapter FReeped it? He actually came over and talked to us for a couple of minutes.
Exactly
That is why the author falsely blames capitalism where cronyism is what was at fault here.
All of those wood burning/junk burning power plants were paid for by tax payers for cronies to generate power that they profit from. That is cronyism, because capitalism said it was a dumb idea and wasn’t profitable.
Does anyone remember when one of his movies premiered in DC and the DC Chapter FReeped it? He actually came over and talked to us for a couple of minutes.
That is actually kind of cool of him to do that.
Instead, Reactor 2 at Indian Point was turned off today.
I have no problem with old nuclear plants going off line, there has to be a life span to a plant
I have a problem that we are not building new modern safer cleaner plants to replace them
“Sooner or later fossil fuels are going to run out.”
Can’t be too soon. First should go are the wind mills, then the Solar panels (except for roof tops). Both take too much of productive fields and make America ugly for no good reason. We need that land to feed our expanding population.
Most of the true forest management companies like Weyerhaeuser are in it for the long haul. So, yes they plant 3 trees for every one they cut down.
Then they go back in 15-20 years and selectively cut to leave the trees that are growing faster and straighter.
They also take the seeds from the biggest fastest growing trees. These seeds are used to replant the “crop”.
The difference is the crop take anywhere from 35-65 years to grow to a harvestable size.
FYI, the Southern Yellow Pines species of trees(there are technically four) are the fastest growing commercially harvestable timber resource in the wood. They grow from VA south to Florida and west to Texas/Oklahoma and Arkansas.
This SYP is the least expensive wood fiber on the planet.
This is why many of the southern sawmill companies have been purchased by the large North American softwood corporations like Canfor, West Fraser, Interfor, Potlatch/Deltic, Resolute and Tolko. The industry is consolidating.
The medium size companies are getting bought by the big corporations that have sawmills, paper mills, osb plants and other engineered wood products.
In the world, not wood.
I really need to proof read, before I hit post.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.