tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post3600020796173596758..comments2024-03-18T15:55:14.212-07:00Comments on Irons in the Fire: When a Google study from true belivers says "Renewables aren't working and aren't going to",Firehandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562365951182027709noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-42718331822197275562016-10-13T14:20:44.527-07:002016-10-13T14:20:44.527-07:00This is why Germany has notified that 'We'...This is why Germany has notified that 'We're going to stop the subsidies'; their electricity prices are insane, largely because of them, and people are screaming too loud for them to ignore it anymore.Firehandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04562365951182027709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-76495580140126901622016-10-12T03:20:25.828-07:002016-10-12T03:20:25.828-07:00Remember also that silver, gold, and rare earth mi...Remember also that silver, gold, and rare earth minerals used to manufacture solar panels are purchased by the "green energy" companies at a fraction of their free market value. The vast subsidies to "green energy" companies go largely to subsidize their purchase of precious metals.<br /><br />Which means that companies like Solyndra basically have a license to print money--now. But they'll never, EVER be able to manufacture this stuff economically if the welfare checks stop coming from Uncle Sugar. Hell, they can't do it NOW, even with billion dollar Medicare checks underwritten by the American taxpayer.<br /><br />This is, by the way, why the greenies all love this stuff. It's a bottomless money pit into which the politicians can pour unlimited trillions of dollars to demonstrate their ideological purity and devotion to the "environmentalist" cause, all without producing one single goddamned solitary useful thing or one single watt-hour of energy for the nation's power grid.<br /><br />If any of this stuff actually worked the greenies would be against it.<br /><br />"Giving society cheap abundant energy is like giving an idiot child a machine gun." Paul Ehrlich, 1974Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-7007567982363175852016-10-07T13:23:13.709-07:002016-10-07T13:23:13.709-07:00Reminds me of that law of thermodynamics, "th...Reminds me of that law of thermodynamics, "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch"EricNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05032785464061498419noreply@blogger.com