Maine households cope with nation’s highest energy burden

"Patrick Drupp, the Sierra Club’s climate policy director, said poor housing stock and financial barriers to clean-energy technologies contribute to the cost."

“Clean energy is obviously the fastest and cheapest form of energy,” Drupp said. “Bringing it on-grid as fast as possible would be one of the biggest things you could do to lower electricity prices for people.”

The entire report:  https://mainebeacon.com/maine-households-cope-with-nations-highest-energy-burden/

  • Willem Post

    CO2 IS AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FOR GROWING FLORA AND FAUNA; NET ZERO IS A SUICIDE PACT

    https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/co2-is-an-absolutely-v...

    By Willem Post

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    The IPCC, etc., has endowed CO2 gas as having magical global warming power, based on its own “science”
    The IPCC, etc., claims, CO2 acts as Climate Control Knob, that eventually will cause runaway Climate Change, if we continue using fossil fuels.
    The IPCC, etc., at one point denied the Little Ice Age, used fraudulent computer temperature projections.

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    Governments proclaimed: Go Wind and Solar, Go ENERGIEWENDE, go Net zero by 2050, etc., and provided oodles of subsidies, and rules and regulations, and mandates, and prohibitions to make it happen.
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    Net-zero by any date to-reduce CO2 is a super-expensive plant/crop destruction pact to:

    1) increase command/control by governments, and

    2) enable the moneyed elites to become more powerful and richer, at the expense of all others, by using the foghorn of the government-subsidized/controlled Corporate Media to spread scare-mongering slogans and brainwash people, already for at least 50 years.

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    CO2, just 0.042% in the atmosphere, is a weak absorber of a small fraction of the available, absorbable, low-energy IR photons.
    CO2 has near-zero influence on world surface temperatures.

    CO2 is a life-giving molecule. Greater CO2 ppm in atmosphere is an essential ingredient to:

    1) increase green flora and fauna, reduce desert areas, such as the Sahara, and

    2) increase crop yields to better feed 8 billion people.

     

    According to John Clauser, 2022 Nobel Physics Price recipient, “Atmospheric CO2 and methane have negligible effect on the climate. The policies government have been implementing are totally unnecessary and should be eliminated. The dominant process is “the cloud-sunlight-reflexivity thermostat” mechanism. Clouds are bright white, reflect 90% of the sunlight back into space, are the most crucial aspect of the climate system. Oceans are 70% of the Earth surface. The Pacific Ocean alone is 50%. The average cloud cover for the Earth is 67%; about 50% over land and 75% over oceans.”

     

    At About 30% Annual W/S Electricity on the Grid, Various Costs Increase Exponentially

    The W/S systems uglify the countryside, kill birds and bats, whales and dolphins, fisheries, tourism, view-sheds, etc.

    The weather-dependent, variable/intermittent W/S output, often too-little and often too-much, creates grid-disturbing difficulties that become increasingly more challenging and more costly (c/kWh) to counteract, as proven by the UK and California for the past 5 years, and Germany for the past 10 years, and recently in Spain/Portugal.

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    All these countries have “achieved” near-zero, real- growth GDPs, the highest electricity prices (c/kWh) in the EU, and stagnant real wages for almost all people, while further enriching the moneyed elites who live in the poshest places.

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    Native People Suffer Extra Burdens: Their angry, over-taxed, over-regulated native populations, already burdened by the wind/solar/batteries nonsense, and then further burdened by do-good bureaucrat and self-serving moneyed elites bringing in tens of millions of uninvited, unvetted, uneducated, unskilled, crime-prone ghetto trash, from Third World countries. Those folks are sucking from the multiple, government-program tits, while making 1) minimal efforts to produce goods and services, and 2) maximum efforts to be chaotic, culture-destroying burdens, the native populations never voted for.

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    Minimal Temperature Change due to CO2: The climate is not any different, even though, atmosphere CO2 increased from 280 ppm in 1850 to 420 ppm in 2025, 50% in 175 years. During that time, world surface temps increased by at most 1.5 C +/- 0.25 C, of which: 

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    1) Urban heat islands account for about 65% (0.65 x 1.5 = 0.975 C) of the warming, such as the UHI of about 700 miles, from north of Portland, Maine, to south of Norfolk, Virginia, forested in 1850, now covered with heat-absorbing human detritus, plus the waste heat of fuel burning.

    Japan, China, India, Europe, etc., have similar heat islands

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/16/live-at-1-p-m-eastern-shock-...

    2) CO2 accounts for less than 0.3 C, with the rest from

    3) Long-term, inter-acting cycles, such as coming out of the Little Ice Age, 

    4) Earth surface volcanic activity, and other changes, such as from increased agriculture, deforestation, especially in the Tropics, etc.

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    BTW, the 1850 surface temp measurements were only in a few locations and mostly inaccurate, +/- 0.5 C.

    The 1979-to-present temp measurements (46 years) cover most of the earth surface and are more accurate, +/- 0.25 C, due to NASA satellites.

    Any graphs should show accuracy bands.

    The wiggles in below image are due to plants rotting late in the year, emitting CO2, plants growing early in the year, consuming CO2, mostly in the Northern Hemisphere. See URL

    https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/about.html

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    Here are four articles attesting to the small global warming role of CO2 in the atmosphere

    Eight Taiwanese Engineers Determine Climate Sensitivity to a 300 ppm CO2 Increase Is 'Negligibly Small'

    https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/eight-taiwanese-engine...

    By Kenneth Richard

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    The Fairy Tale of The CO2 Paradise Before 1850...A Look at The Real Science

    https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/the-fairy-tale-of-the-...

    By Fred F. Mueller

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    Achieving 'Net Zero by 2050' Reduces Temps by 0.28 C Costing Tens of $TRILLIONS

    https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/achieving-net-zero-by-...

    By Kenneth Richard    

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    German Researcher: Doubling Of Atmospheric CO2 Causes Only 0.24°C Of Warming ...Practically Insignificant

    https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/german-researcher-doub...

    By P Gosselin on 19. November 2024