Freezing your Green Ass Off

Some times it seems as though Global Warming and now Climate Change are State Religions. The notion that they are man caused and that capitalism needs to be destroyed or at least changed to stop them is now Holy Writ.

The question has been asked, what happens if we convert to wind power and the wind stops blowing? It turns out that windmill farms might not produce any appreciable energy for as much as one third of the time. If this third of the time happened at night when we are all sleeping, then who would care. Unfortunately, it happens at random times. So we need to ask the question: What if Green doesn't work?

The problem with wind energy is that it is intermittent. There may be no place on earth where high winds blow 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Any place that meets that description would be considered pretty much uninhabitable by most people. So even if you could line every high mountain pass, the Arctic, and the Antarctic with windmills, how would you get the power back to where people live? Also, who would own the rights to that power and would the environmentalists let you cover the wilderness with wind turbines?

Given all they hype and coverage of the notion that wind turbines will save us all, you might ask, why would anyone stretch the truth about that? The answer may be the same as it ever was. Follow the money. Since T. Boone Pickens, Nancy Pelosi, and the nation of Denmark are all making money off pushing wind mill farms, maybe they neglect to mention any of the downside. I am not saying that they are being deliberately disingenuous. I am merely saying that once you make money on something, it gives you a license to hype. Caveat Emptor: Let the buyer beware.

• Consider the downsides to each of the alternative energy methods that are being proposed.
• Common sense tells you that if it took 100 years to build up our current infrastructure, building a Green infrastructure will take considerably longer than a year or two.
• Since things like windmill turbines, solar cells and transmission lines take energy and raw materials to build, where will that energy and those raw materials come from?
• Common sense tells you that even at the most optimistic realist scenario a rational and honest person can devise, we will be stuck with fossil fuels for at least a decade.
• So we have ten years to get the alternative energy infrastructure right. Staring now.

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