tons of iron and 24 tons of fiberglass, along with hard-to-extract rare earth metals neodymium, praseodymium and dysprosium. Each blade weighs 81,000 pounds with a life of 15 to 20 years. The embedded costs don’t stop with the manufacture, next there is transportation of the components. Recently, traversing the 6666 Ranch in Texas, we were stopped by a female flagger at the intersection of U.S Highways 83 and 82. Hidden by the overpass was one of these behemoth blades. I couldn’t resist asking her,“Where are you going?” Her response with a chuckle,“North Dakota.” My thought as I drove by the entourage, having more than 1,000 miles to go, “What sense does that make?” With the realization that the cigar shortage was nothing more than an April Fool’s Day prank, I could only hope that such would apply to the green movement and all that has evolved through the foolishness it entails.
happened to common sense and basic personal hygiene? Through the past decades, our educational system has adopted the consensus of 97 percent of climatologists, that global warming, now called climate change to fit their narratives is real. A past interview that has re-surfaced with Weather Channel founder John Coleman has raised serious doubt in this climate-change narrative. Countering their often-used tenet, consensus of 97 percent of climatologists’ belief that climate change is here, he stated that science is that of facts and, by nature, consensus is just opinion. In fact, my Meriam-Webster Pocket Dictionary defines it as, agreement in opinion or belief. Second, he states that the left-leaning policies of the federal government allocate $2.5 billion annually for questionable climate research, since they have a predetermined agenda and distribute the funds to those returning the results they desire, thus the 97 percent consensus. Coleman went on to say,“There are over 31,000 scientists worldwide that
doubt this narrative.” Not only does our children’s education or rather indoctrination system disavow such, their left-leaning partners, the media, promotes the same. With school indoctrination, our children are led to believe that renewable energy sources are the only answer to the future with no other viewpoint offered. Common to these students and probably most adults, the belief is the electric vehicle (EV) battery produces free and environmentally friendly power. Actually, a battery is nothing more than an energy storage system; they do not make electricity. The electricity it stores must come from a power source, whether it is a coal-fired, nuclear or natural gas- fired plant. Next they will argue that wind energy can provide this electricity, ignoring the fact that windmills are the ultimate in embedded costs and are environmentally destructive. Each windmill weighs 1,688 tons, the equivalent of 23 houses, contains 1,300 tons of concrete, 295 tons of steel, 48
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