Comments - THE GREEN NEW DEAL AND OUR WAY OF LIFE - Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine2024-03-19T06:46:16Zhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=4401701%3ABlogPost%3A164512&xn_auth=noTLAM,
You comment is great an…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2019-04-05:4401701:Comment:1647062019-04-05T15:13:03.020ZWillem Posthttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/WillemPost942
<p>TLAM,</p>
<p>You comment is great and informative.</p>
<p>I have taken the liberty to make it part of the article, with due credit</p>
<p>TLAM,</p>
<p>You comment is great and informative.</p>
<p>I have taken the liberty to make it part of the article, with due credit</p> Please read this section.
You…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2019-04-05:4401701:Comment:1646752019-04-05T00:55:21.203ZWillem Posthttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/WillemPost942
<p>Please read this section.</p>
<p>You will learn how the Wall Street types benefit from the RE subsidy bonanza.</p>
<p>Wall Street and its paid RE sycophants will fight tooth and nail to maintain their profitable status quo.</p>
<p>They will give bribe money and study grants to whomever is spouting the right mantras to keep their party going.</p>
<p>The rest of US will be made to suffer/are collateral damage, until this hoax finally runs its wasteful course/dies…</p>
<p>Please read this section.</p>
<p>You will learn how the Wall Street types benefit from the RE subsidy bonanza.</p>
<p>Wall Street and its paid RE sycophants will fight tooth and nail to maintain their profitable status quo.</p>
<p>They will give bribe money and study grants to whomever is spouting the right mantras to keep their party going.</p>
<p>The rest of US will be made to suffer/are collateral damage, until this hoax finally runs its wasteful course/dies out.</p>
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<p><strong>WIND AND SOLAR SUBSIDIES WOULD PROVIDE A BONANZA FOR WALL STREET</strong></p>
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<p>This URL shows wind and solar prices per kWh would be at least 45% to 55% higher without subsidies, and they would be even higher, if the costs of other items were properly allocated to the owners of wind and solar projects. See below section High Levels of Wind and Solar Require Energy Storage.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/economics-of-tesla-powerpack-and-powerwall-systems">http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/economics-of-tesla-powerpack-and-powerwall-systems</a></p>
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<p>This URL shows about 2/3 of the financial value of a wind project is due to <strong>direct and indirect </strong>subsidies, and the other 1/3 is due to electricity sales.</p>
<p><a href="http://johnrsweet.com/Personal/Wind/PDF/Schleede-BigMoney-20050414.pdf">http://johnrsweet.com/Personal/Wind/PDF/Schleede-BigMoney-20050414.pdf</a></p>
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<p>An owner of a wind and solar project, looking to shelter taxable income from other businesses, is allowed to depreciate in 6 years almost the entire cost of a wind and solar project under the IRS scheme called Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System, MARCS; the normal period for other forms of utility depreciation is about 20 years</p>
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<p>Then, with help of Wall Street financial wizardry from financial tax shelter advisers, such as BNEF*, JPMorgan, etc., the owner sells the project to a new owner who is allowed to depreciate almost his entire cost all over again.</p>
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<p>The loss of tax revenues to federal and state governments due to MARCS is estimated by the IRS at $266 billion for the 5-y period of 2017 - 2021, about $53.2 billion/y; the IRS is required to annually provide a 5-yr running estimate to Congress, by law. This <strong>indirect</strong> largesse is in addition to total of <strong>direct </strong>federal and state subsidies to such projects of about $25 billion/y.</p>
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<p>* BNEF is Bloomberg New Energy Finance, owned by the pro-RE former Mayor Bloomberg of New York, which provides financial services to the wealthy of the world, including providing them with tax avoidance schemes.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy17osti/68227.pdf">https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy17osti/68227.pdf</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/tax-equity-investors-break-their-silence-on-tax-bill#gs.GDbC2YIS">https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/tax-equity-investors-break-their-silence-on-tax-bill#gs.GDbC2YIS</a></p>
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<p><strong>Warren Buffett quote:</strong> "I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire's tax rate," Buffet told an audience in Omaha, Nebraska recently. "For example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That's the only reason to build them. They don't make sense without the tax credit." </p>
<p><strong> </strong></p> So the alleged culprit is 125…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2019-04-04:4401701:Comment:1645832019-04-04T19:07:34.317ZThinklike A. Mountainhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ThinklikeAMountain
<p>So the alleged culprit is 125 parts per million of CO2 added by man, alternately stated as 0.0125%. To put this in perspective, 0.0125% of the 4,531 miles driving distance between Portland, ME and Fairbanks, AK would be 0.57 miles, just over half a mile. If you started driving to Fairbanks from Becky's Diner in Portland the .57 miles would get you to DiMillo's restaurant. You'd then need to drive an additional 4,530.4 miles to Fairbanks. So think about how the two minute drive down…</p>
<p>So the alleged culprit is 125 parts per million of CO2 added by man, alternately stated as 0.0125%. To put this in perspective, 0.0125% of the 4,531 miles driving distance between Portland, ME and Fairbanks, AK would be 0.57 miles, just over half a mile. If you started driving to Fairbanks from Becky's Diner in Portland the .57 miles would get you to DiMillo's restaurant. You'd then need to drive an additional 4,530.4 miles to Fairbanks. So think about how the two minute drive down Commercial Street would compare to the rest of your drive. First over to NY state, then Ohio, Chicago, Minneapolis, North Dakota, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, the Yukon and then the Alaska State line. You'd then have to drive another 285 miles or five hours to get to Fairbanks. That last leg alone would be like driving from Becky's to DiMillo's more than 500 times. That's how insignificant the 125 parts per million of CO2 is.</p> Since water vapor is by far t…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2019-04-04:4401701:Comment:1645002019-04-04T18:05:06.999ZPenny Grayhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/PennyGray
<p>Since water vapor is by far the biggest greenhouse gas, I'm not sure adult flights should be permitted, either. A more conservative measure might be to ban all flights and issue paddle boats to those who wish to cross the big pond. This will also cut down on obesity.</p>
<p>Since water vapor is by far the biggest greenhouse gas, I'm not sure adult flights should be permitted, either. A more conservative measure might be to ban all flights and issue paddle boats to those who wish to cross the big pond. This will also cut down on obesity.</p> My Sherlock Holmes observatio…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2019-04-04:4401701:Comment:1644852019-04-04T16:16:04.669ZDan McKayhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/DanMcKay
<p><span>My Sherlock Holmes observation : I suspect the solution is by far worse than the problem.</span></p>
<p><span>My Sherlock Holmes observation : I suspect the solution is by far worse than the problem.</span></p> CO2 Depictions
- Leonardo DiC…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2019-04-04:4401701:Comment:1643752019-04-04T15:02:51.407ZThinklike A. Mountainhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ThinklikeAMountain
<p><strong><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1764676267?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"></a><span style="text-decoration: underline;">CO2 Depictions</span></strong></p>
<p>- Leonardo DiCaprio: CO2 has risen by 44.6429%!</p>
<p>- Unwashed commoners: The increase in the atmosphere's CO2 is 0.0125%</p>
<p>- Unwashed commoners who prefer fractions over %'s: The increase in the atmosphere is:…</p>
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<p><strong><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1764676267?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a><span style="text-decoration: underline;">CO2 Depictions</span></strong></p>
<p>- Leonardo DiCaprio: CO2 has risen by 44.6429%!</p>
<p>- Unwashed commoners: The increase in the atmosphere's CO2 is 0.0125%</p>
<p>- Unwashed commoners who prefer fractions over %'s: The increase in the atmosphere is:</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1764778177?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1764778177?profile=RESIZE_710x"/></a></p>
<p> - Unwashed commoners who prefer visualization by pie chart: The increase in the atmosphere is:</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1764774901?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> </a></p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1764767197?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1764767197?profile=RESIZE_710x"/></a></p>
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<p>Maybe we'd be better off if we shifted from decarbonization to de-DiCaprioization. Shall we graph his CO2 "footprint" versus that of the average unwashed commoner?</p> I love it. Thanks for posting.tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2019-04-03:4401701:Comment:1644742019-04-03T20:22:50.920ZPaula D Kelsohttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/PaulaDKelso
<p>I love it. Thanks for posting.</p>
<p>I love it. Thanks for posting.</p>