Bright Green Lies / exposing the lies of the enviros such as with wind and solar
To the well meaning "environmentalist" foot soldiers (not your corrupt leadership) - you've been had by wind and solar. $$$$$$$$$
Judging by the following book review of "Bright Green Lies I don't agree with everything the book says but it's nice to see another expose of wind and solar coming from persons in the environmental movement who have become wise to the incredible frauds that they are.
May 14, 2021
How Big Green Lost Its Way
by Michael Donnelly
Getting that Bright Green baseline tenet – Industrial Civilization must be saved at the expense of Wild Nature – out right away, BGL then delves deeply into the correct variables. The next few chapters analyze/debunk Solar and Wind as the saviors of civilization. The true ecological costs of these technologies are revealed with lots of supporting citations and graphs, etc.
A substantial exposé of the ubiquitous Big Green/Media meme that “Renewables cover about 100% of German power use for first time ever” has been long overdue and BGL comes through. McKibben touted Munich, where “there were days this month they got half their energy from solar panels.”
This falsehood is repeated so often it has become Bright Green dogma. But, BGL notes that 80% of Munich’s energy consumption is not in the form of electricity. McKibben and the other usual suspects conflate one 2011 May Saturday (a non-work day) when, for two hours, Munich got 50% of its electricity from solar panels. Even if true for just electrical energy, this meme ignores the real world ecological impacts. The Bright Green entire argument boils down to solely citing economic impacts of the technology – (falsely).
The fact is: large swaths of the Southeast US, the Amazon, etc., grind up the trees, ship them to Europe where Germany (and other European nations) burn them for electrons. To add insult to injury, Germany et al. then get Carbon Credits and Bright Green praise for it!
Similar, detailed, foot-noted breakdowns of the same economic and ecological impacts of numerous other Bright Green-touted technologies follow, with Chapters on Wind, Energy Storage, Efficiency, Recycling, Green Cities, Hydropower, etc.
Read the entire article at the following weblink:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/05/14/how-big-green-lost-its-way/
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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on May 22, 2021 at 3:08pm
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Comment by Willem Post on May 17, 2021 at 10:59am
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According to the New York Times transcript of the press conference, Biden also said:
http://www.truenorthreports.com/mcclaughry-president-bidens-surpris...
“The United States accounts, as all of you know, for less than 15 percent of carbon emissions.
The rest of the world accounts for 85 percent.That’s why I kept my commitment to rejoin the Paris Accord, because if we do everything perfectly, it’s not going to matter.”
However, Vermont’s RE elite want to make Vermonters suffer anyway, by increasing the costs of electricity, gasoline, fuel oil, propane, etc., because that would lead to the highest amounts of federal and state subsidies for EAN members and Vermont National Resource Council members
Here is the latest update of the Vermont Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory and Forecast for 1990 - 2017. See URL
https://dec.vermont.gov/sites/dec/files/aqc/climate-change/document...
Vermont CO2 electrical sector emissions were (in metric ton):
1.00 million in 2015, see Note
0.81 million in 2016, artificial
0.49 million in 2017, artificial
0.18 million in 2018, artificial
0.13 million in 2019, artificial
0.08 million in 2022, artificial, projected
0.04 million in 2027, artificial, projected
The electrical sector reduction was accomplished by:
1) Changing the method of calculating CO2
2) Not counting the CO2 of wood burning
3) Renewable energy mandates
In Vermont, as in other states, utilities are mandated to purchase low-CO2 renewables, such as wind, solar, and hydro power, either from in-state, or out-of-state owners of power plants.
The PAPER power purchase agreements, PPAs, reduce utility CO2 emissions ON PAPER.
GMP purchases in 2016 were:
High-CO2 RE from Ryegate at about 10.03 c/kWh.
Low-CO2 nuclear power from Seabrook at about 3.24 c/kWh.
Low-CO2 hydro power from Hydro Quebec at about 5.549 c/kWh
NE grid electricity (323 g CO2/kWh) at about 5.689 c/kWh
Low-CO2 Net-metered solar at about 21.813 c/kWh
Low-CO2 Standard Offer solar at about 21.793 c/kWh
Electricity mix average is about 6.036 c/kWh
Utilities Riding the Subsidy Gravy Train
Vermont utilities buy about 1.4 million MWh/y of hydro power, at 5.549 c/kWh, under a 20-y contract, from Hydro Quebec. The HQ electricity is not variable, not intermittent and does not cause midday solar bulges
GMP, a Canadian company, refuses to buy more hydro electricity from HQ, because that electricity would just be a “pass-through”, on which GMP would make minimal profit. HQ has plenty of electricity and is eager to sell it. This approach requires no subsidies!!
Instead, GMP wants to invest in heavily subsidized, utility-scale solar/battery system combos, and spread them all over Vermont, as part of its very expensive “micro-grid” strategy. The combos are much more profitable for GMP, than buying more electricity from HQ. However, combos would lead to significantly increasing electricity costs for Vermonters.
The cash value of the subsidies, about 45% of the turnkey cost of the GMP investments, is recovered by GMP in the first 5 years, i.e., skimming the fat off the milk for GMP, and increased costs for ratepayers and taxpayers.
Solar/battery combos come with subsidies:
1) Grants from various sources, such as the VT Clean Energy Development Fund
2) 26% federal investment tax credits, plus state FITs. Tax credits reduce, dollar-for-dollar, the taxes GMP pays on profits
3) 100% depreciation over 5 years; the normal for utilities is 20 to 25 years. Write-offs reduce GMP taxable income
4) Deductions of interest on borrowed money. Interest deductions reduce GMP taxable income. See URL
NOTE:
Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.
Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********
(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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