Posted on 10/03/2020 10:50:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
A number of documents have been published by the Biden campaign and the Democratic Party: Biden's energy plan, the Biden-Saunders unity manifesto and the party platform. A lot of the goals in these documents are generalities, promising everything to everyone, especially to groups that vote Democratic. One concrete goal is carbon-free electricity generation by 2035. This is a pointless goal on several fronts. Reducing U.S. CO2 emissions is a pointless exercise due to the fact that declining U.S. emissions are dwarfed by rapidly increasing emissions in China and India. U.S. emissions are declining due to increased use of natural gas, a low-carbon source of energy. The claim that CO2 will create an apocalyptic disaster is overwrought, without sound scientific basis. The Biden campaign ignores the fantastic benefits for agriculture of adding more CO2 to the atmosphere. The Biden campaign accepts as fact popular fake claims that not even the most extreme climate scientists would dare to advocate — that CO2 will create forest fires, floods, and sea level rise.
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Wind and solar cannot be the instrument to achieve the (unnecessary) goal of 100% zero carbon electricity by 2035. Wind and solar are erratic and unpredictable sources of electricity. As long as wind and solar supply less than about 25% of the electricity in a grid, the grid can handle the erratic energy supply by throttling backup plants, usually natural gas plants, up and down to compensate for the ups and downs of wind or solar. When wind and solar go past the approximate 25% threshold, spells of excess wind and solar power appear. The problem is that wind and solar power are peaky, with peaks 3 to 5 times the average power. It may be possible at times to accept 80% wind and solar in some grids.
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The MSM has completely buried the hell that awaits us if this fool wins.
Promising Everything to Everyone = 3 Card Monte
Ra provides all we need.
Short facts
Biomass: ...growing the amount of cellulose required to shift US electricity production to biomass would require farming - an area the size of 10 Iowas.
Solar: Each run-of-the-mill 1,000-megawatt photovoltaic plant will require about 60 square miles of panes alone. In other words, the largest industrial structure ever built.
Wind: ... the wind equivalent of a typical utility plant would require 300 square miles of turbines plus costly transmission lines from the wind-scoured fields of, say, North Dakota
People are getting dumber and more foolish every day.
The cost of the alternative plans would be prohibitive.
The better plan would be to develop a safer operations and to provide Nuclear Power Plants with a better way to dispose of the spent rods. Nuclear is the best way.
The problem with nuclear is NIMBY, and they are very expensive to build upfront.
There is no source of power that can supply the needs of our industrialized society except petroleum products, coal, natural gas. Banning them is exactly equal to destroying our industrialized society, which is their goal.
Oil is the black blood of a free people and the Left knows that to cut it off or curtail is to restrict peoples liberty.
The life blood of a free, capitalist society.
Get OVER it!
Both steel & glass come to mind.
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