Green energy is dumb

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Does after 2050 mean just around the corner?

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So back to the windmills apparently

Perhaps if we put as much emphasis and capital into this as we do into the other alternative energy types, it wouldn't take until 2050. Look how fast the atomic bomb was developed when the resources were thrown at it.

But until the friends of politicians have positioned themselves to make a fortune from this, they will stick with solar and wind while government subsidies are still making them a fortune. If these governments really thought that CO2 is causing all of the calamities it is claimed to, they would have already put their resources into a project such as this which has a real possibility of replacing a large portion of fossil fuels, at least for electric generation.

[bucket]

Replace electric trucks with a more efficient way of hauling bulk products. ....it's called a railway for **** sakes....


Trucks that are hauling 500 plus kms a day to deliver grain anywhere is retarded.....


Everyone has been hypnotized by the railways leaders like a cult that they are doing their very best....they are not and it's time for another railway.....

What's the reason for Bison trucks with double vans on the the number one highway.....they are either Winnipeg to Calgary or Regina to Calgary .....either way that's rail traffic. ...


It was the railways that created the trucking industry by their lack of willingness to do anything.....

[RD414]

Seems so simple, Bucket' but every politician out there has allowed the rails to take out which ever branch lines they want and close every yard to any extra car loading. 110 cars or nothing.

[ALBERTAFARMER4]

I'm not sure how this makes green energy dumb. That is like someone saying in the 1980s that we should stop building roads because everyone will have flying cars in the future.

[bucket]

I say this because everyone greenie correlates reduction in ghg to the number of cars off the road....

Imagine taking 100000 trucks off the road.....

And then being able to hop a train from Regina to Calgary instead of driving......

How many flights are there Regina to Calgary everyday. ....makes a case for high speed train....might increase Saskatchewan population as well....

BTW Saskatchewan quit building roads long ago .....they are having trouble maintaining them....

The overpasses at the GTH lead to nowhere. ...

[Klause]

I'm not sure how this makes green energy dumb. That is like someone saying in the 1980s that we should stop building roads because everyone will have flying cars in the future.

Find out how much steel carbon and heavy metals it takes to get 500Mw out of wind or solar. Then find out what it takes out of a torroidal reactor.


Also land area required.


Then once it's obsolete which will be well before it's end of life... Who will take down all the windmills and solar panels? Or will they become relics like abandoned oil Wells?



We literally could power all of Canada with hydro electricity but it's not cool and the political will isn't there. Way better to spend billions on unproven and unreliable solar and wind... When we could have clean, emission free, high density water power.

[ALBERTAFARMER4]

We literally could power all of Canada with hydro electricity but it's not cool and the political will isn't there. Way better to spend billions on unproven and unreliable solar and wind... When we could have clean, emission free, high density water power.

If you think the sun and wind are unreliable why are you a farmer?

[the big wheel]

What do trucks burn as fuel?
Who controls the government? Less trucks =less fuel= less under the table money for political people. It's really that simple.

Who pays more? If you don't know go stand in front of a mirror tell me the dumbie you see in front of you.

[Braveheart]

It's not that green energy is dumb (likely is tho), green energy is about wealth transfer. It's about quashing the oil corps and redirecting the wealth to flow elsewhere. The anti corporate crowd that's against GMOs, Monsanto, even McDonalds are the main proponents of green. They see green energy as the new tool to recruit those unsuspecting people in society that just live day to day without an anti corporate agenda.

[bucket]

Klause

If they put 4 dams on the Saskatchewan river system the same water would generate power multiple times....

Then let's talk where depleted solar panels go to die.....