One has to wonder just how much insanity the general public is able to absorb before they say enough is enough, and start asking some serious questions about the intent of green energy objectives for the present and the future. Questions like what will this do for me now and how will impact my future, what will it cost now and what will it cost me a decade from now?
Given that every green adventure that has been supported in the past has been a failure of technology and cost billions of dollars, it seems only reasonable the this adventure will also be a total waste of taxpayer dollars.
Important to ask as well, what connection do these manufactures have with the Obama administration's political arm as the last twenty adventures that were proposed and controlled by Mr Obama's personal campaign bundlers that spectacularly failed.
The other question that seems to be hard to track down is just how much of the tax payers dollars were redirected into the coffers of the democratic party?
Exploited by the 0.11 Percent
Last week we hailed State Senator Frank Lasee for detailing the bogus economics behind expensive, unreliable wind energy. There’s another "green" energy fiasco underway, if anything, worse than wind.
In February, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz trekked to the Mojave Desert to celebrate full commercial operation of the Ivanpah solar energy project. Billed as an engineering marvel, Ivanpah, like most renewables, relies on primitive forms of energy production.
Nearly 350,000 large "garage door-sized" mirrors cover five square miles of desert, some of the most environmentally sensitive land on Earth, focusing sunlight on boilers atop 450-foot towers. Boilers make steam, steam drives turbines, turbines generate electricity: Three steps integral to power generation since the 19th century.
What’s "new" is the stunningly inefficient and scandalously expensive use of sunlight to make steam and the smug self-congratulation amid the ruins of a desert environment that can take centuries to heal itself. Oh, and the fact that the concentrated sunbeams are fatal to wildlife.
The project developed jointly by NRG Energy, BrightSource Energy, and the virtuous greens at Google. Operational personnel admit finding large numbers of smoldering bird carcasses scattered around Ivanpah Solar. They acknowledge that by concentrating solar radiation on the boiler towers, they’re heating the surrounding air to 1,000 degrees, Fahrenheit.
All to fight global warming. Utilities have signed decades-long contracts for power from this mad-science fair project because Democrats have mandated that one-third of California’s electricity must come from "renewables" built by their wealthy donors. The desert gets paved, birds get cooked alive, rich developers get subsidies, consumers get the bill.
Ivanpah’s generation won’t even move the needle for solar energy: 0.11 percent of U.S. generation at the end of 2021.
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