"SBA Thanks You For All The Fish" (santabarbarianlsx) 04/26/2020 at 12:23 • Filed to: None

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I’ll post this video link as a “food for thought”, only because there’s some chance of the video being taken down soon. “Big Solar” (aka Musk’s Minions) have apparently gotten the theatrical release and distribution pulled over what they claim are “mis-statements” in here. I’d normally be loathe to side with Michael Moore, but this work does underscore some of the *ahem* inconsistencies in the EV-Green-Solar-BioMass industrial complex. The film-makers might make some over-statements along the way, but there’s an easy fact check on other stuff they clearly get right.

Ivanpah is a hot button for me, only because I drive past it so often (it’s in the desert near Vegas) and the grotesque nature of a “100% solar” facility that’s actually a natural gas plant in disguise? It’s nauseating to see the double-standards at work (and subsidies employed) to justify some bizarre projects that are dirtier than what they replaced. That segment starts at 31:10.

Then there’s the whole “biomass” charade. They devote quite a bit of time to that sleight-of-hand. It’s interesting to see their research on how “notable green industry leaders” (you’ll see some very familiar names saying some really nutty stuff in that segment) are pushing the concept of chopping up forests to burn to make electricity to charge electric cars.

Anyway, I don’t treat any of this as gospel, but will say that it underscores some of the “excesses in claims” made by the EV crowd... the reality in the world is much, much uglier. One, easily verified, claim herein is the resulting fossil fuel pollution reductions increases after the “closure of so many coal plants” in the last ten years . If this doesn’t cause one to furrow their brow and squint? It’s hard to take, especially since you know The Sierra Club is driving “Beyond Coal”, but oddly looking the other way at biomass and new natural gas to run electric cars. The producers correctly point out that we’ve built twice as much natural gas plant capacity (mainly because solar is so unreliable— and lacks storage) as we’ve retired in coal. There is a real chance we’re heading the wrong way. Fast.

So, I treat this as “a different perspective” and something to contemplate. The fact that “Big Solar” is hitting back so hard? Makes me want to watch it again.

Oh, and a picture of the future— Ugly, Tree-Powered CyberBioMass Trucks.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 04/26/2020 at 14:46

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well..that was a pretty good watch

im not sure it changed my opinion on anything... but then im oppos resident nuclear power all the things nutcase

lets go out with a big radioactive bang :)

DipodomysDeserti > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 04/26/2020 at 16:58

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I have a presentation on abandoned uranium mine mitigation on Thursday. The issue isn’t really one big bang as it is generations of lung and brain cancers. The power plants are the easiest part of the equation. There are thousand of abandoned mines with piles of radioactive tailings just in my state.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > DipodomysDeserti 04/26/2020 at 17:02

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move everything to georgia....they dont worry about stuff like peoples health there (im told)

but yeah.. i know the waste is a major possibly unsolveable problem with nuclear power

DipodomysDeserti > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 04/26/2020 at 17:26

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“ Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.”

-Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

Rock and sun.

DipodomysDeserti > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 04/26/2020 at 17:37

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The earth already put the uranium in the most beautiful place on earth, my home. Maybe it was put here to keep all the people away. Although the natives never felt the urge to fuck with it.

It was about 50C out when that photo was taken.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > DipodomysDeserti 04/26/2020 at 18:16

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oo soulfly... noice

tbh..i wanna fuck with everything...and im not overly concerned bout surviving it

yay... im still alive... more bills to pay then i guess

so i vote nuclear

*hums i dont want to set the world on fire.....i just want to set a flame in your heart*