Gotta love the Mackinac Center. Furthering the truth in Michigan.
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Too funny! With all the wind turbines and solar panels they still can't replace fossil fuels for reliable standby, base load and demand power. More proof that there is NO SUCH THING as reliable green energy except for hydroelectricity. Solar panels are no good after 25 years and have to be sent to landfills and the toxic heavy metals that they contain cannot be recycled. They have destroyed thousands of acres of agricultural land to put up solar panels that block out the sun for growing things.
Wind turbines are no better, they too reach end of service life after 25 years, large turbine blades made mostly of fibreglass must also be sent to landfills and buried as they can't be recycled. Wind turbines throughout Michigan have also destroyed thousands of acres of agricultural (GREEN) land being that its not only the turbine tower footprint that destroys the land but thousands of ACCESS ROADS to the turbines where they are graveled over or paved, they are no longer part of the farmland, nothing green there. They are inefficient and only average a19% duty cycle due to unreliable sustained winds in Michigan. The biggest LIE however, is how green wind turbines really are (NOT). It takes billions of BTUs to smelt iron just to build one mega steel tower and the DIRTY SECRET is that you have to use several tons of COKING COAL in the blast furnace for steel production to make the tower. Coking coal is also a fossil fuel, which proves how ignorant the people pushing the GREEN agenda are, they know nothing of the science involved in all of this. How in their minds to they rationalize this being green? They are politicians bought and paid for by big so-called green energy corporations like Vesta, Siemens and many others.
These idiots don't realize that it takes thousands of barrels of crude oil along with coal tar to extract and refine enough glycols, ethylbenzene / styrene compounds to produce polyester resins just to make ONE fiberglass turbine blade. Lastly, once a multimillion dollar commercial wind tubine is tied to the electrical grid, it will never come close to producing the equivalent in kilowatt energy as compared to the fossil fuel energy it took to build it. In other words, it takes more expended energy in fossil fuels than the turbine will ever produce in electricity during its service life. Solar panels and wind turbines are NOT green engergy. The end game is simple, you need fossil fuels like natural gas, crude oil and coal for our modern existence to produce plastics in cars, aircraft, smartphones, computers, electronics, electrical wiring, houses, clothing and the list is endless. My two cents.
Thanks. Copy. Paste. Stfu liberal family : )
There's a lot more on that but I thought it was enough. That subject really gets me going. Best wishes.