“Rex Murphy: The folly of green economics“

[Guest]

He has yet to answer. My thought is that if the numbers were a slam dunk in favour of a solar installations he would have quickly quoted them but now that he has waited so long to respond my guess is he wants time to massage the numbers. Let’s be realistic our natural resources are here, a lot of the technology to harvest those resources is created here, how can you import solar panels from China and related hardware and create as much wealth? That is like me importing hay from China to feed my cows instead of growing my own silage and feeding my cows, it makes no sense!

There is no solar there
He is not as ill informed as he seems

[AlbertaFarmer5]

There is no solar there
He is not as ill informed as he seems

Thanks for verifying and getting back to us. So he denies his own identity, denies his political history, denies his CWB affiliations, Lies about his supposed solar panels. Then spends his days lying and name-calling and insulting on agriville.
Claims the moral high ground on every issue.
The perfect personification of the morally corrupt left.

[furrowtickler]

Yup Rex, ex CBC celebrity is a beacon of all that is wrong with Canada. Just what we need another celebrity opinion with a fat taxpayer pension from CBC! LOL

Is he trying to get a job writing speeches for Kenney and O'Toole?

Again you miss the point
It’s a waste of money to put on a powered vehicle....
So if Tom Mulcare said it would it change your mind ? Probably not

[binthere]

In this case changing the mind is not applicable. Deprogramming is warranted.

[6V53]

Is hydrogen considered green and clean? Because Alberta is going to look at using its gas reserves for hydrogen. Will Rex criticize hydrogen from natural gas too?

Hydrogen and nitrogen,both from natural gas. Better lock it in the ground and starve.

[chuckChuck]

You guys have a short memory! LOL. Remember when we were discussing solar in Australia and in one of the articles I posted the system operator was clearly quoted as saying that solar and wind were the cheapest forms of generation there. Both require backup which adds cost but the reality is as a generation source they are cost effective. The southern prairies is actually a pretty good place to harness both wind and solar. But since you have already made up your mind that both are a waste of money, is there any point in looking at the numbers? LOL

Further, you arm chair experts of the pessimistic kind, seem to forget that it’s not either solar and wind or fossil fuels it’s a combination of gas, hydro, wind, solar, cogeneration, maybe coal with CCS that is in the long term plans for Saskpower with the objective of reducing carbon emissions. But you science deniers don’t believe in carbon emissions or science so there is nothing to worry about!

No doubt you will all starve and freeze in the dark because of my 25kw solar system! You seem oddly obsessed by someone else’s investment. Some farmers have A way more money invested in their pontoon boats and cottages, and camper trailers. Real money makers that get used just a few times. And remember farmers and fossil fuels are also subsidized so you don’t need to raise that red herring! Hahaha. Happy harvest! Get er in the bin Before the snow! Less time on Agrisilly and you will get more done!

[Oliver88]

The “Green New Deal” is getting a preview in California currently with all their power outages.

[chuckChuck]

California is getting a preview of what climate change does to the length and intensity of the fire season.

At the peak of electrical demand because of scorching temperatures, they are losing generation sources and distribution infrastructure to wild fires.

[jazz]

California is getting a preview of what climate change does to the length and intensity of the fire season..

gezus chuck, have you no limit to your nonsense? That was a man made fire. has zero to do with climate change. I suppose a combine fire is climate change too?

[chuckChuck]

More Jazz logic? Or should I say lack of logic? LOL

So increased temperatures and longer droughts have nothing to do with the intensity and severity of fires?

Regardless of who or what starts fires, climate change has an impact and the science clearly says this.

[jazz]

So increased temperatures and longer droughts have nothing to do with the intensity and severity of fires?

Yes they do, but let us know when that starts happening because it hasn't yet.

Temps same, cyclical and seasonal dry periods unchanged in the world. Jumping to conclusions is hardly evidence of anything.

[farming101]

https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/fires/article230481684.html https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/fires/article230481684.html

By some estimates, many of the state’s forests have up to 100 times the amount of small trees and underbrush than what grew prior to white settlement. Meanwhile, researchers estimate that prior to 1800, some 4.5 million acres of the state’s forests burned in a typical year — more than the 1.9 million acres that burned in 2018, the most in modern history.

Yet in a state with more than 30 million acres of forest, only about 87,000 acres of California land were treated with prescribed burns last year to reduce undergrowth prior to the state’s deadly fire season, according to data from Cal Fire, the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.