Climate Hoax

[Lipdrag]

The next "solution".  Accelerate nature because she is just too slow.  

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2025/10/08/enhanced-rock-weathering-carbon-capture/

[Lipdrag]

"it has become yet another example of central planners squandering taxpayer money on an ill-conceived green-energy boondoggle. "

"In this emerging world, there should be no place for subsidized, intermittent wind and solar power, much less the soon-to-be shuttered Ivanpah monstrosity in the Mojave Desert."

$2.2 bn  - $1.6 bn via government backed loans.  Anyone want to bet if those loans have been paid back with interest and the government (i.e. our grandchildren as taxpayers paying the money we borrow today to back boondoggle loans) is off the hook? 

https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2025/10/09/bonner-cohen-taxpayer-backed-solar-facility-in-mojave-desert-will-shut-down-next-year/

[ionel]

If you aren't on a bicycle maybe you are the problem and killing the planet.  

[Lipdrag]

58 minutes ago, ionel said:

If you aren't on a bicycle maybe you are the problem and killing the planet.  

Screw windmills and dreamcatching solar panels.  Hook up stationary bicycles to the grid!  But make sure you don't fart while pedaling.

Where is the perpetual motion machine?  I thought the EU mandated that we all have one by 2025.

[mspart]

A stirling engine is as close as you will come.   They don't have the greatest performance but maybe that is a tradeoff we could adjust to.   Most efficient but the power is lacking.  

mspart

[Gene Mills Fan]

13 hours ago, ionel said:

If you aren't on a bicycle maybe you are the problem and killing the planet.  

some salmon want a word

[Lipdrag]

On 10/15/2025 at 7:21 AM, Gene Mills Fan said:

some salmon want a word

Word.

[Lipdrag]

Stupid is as stupid does:

"In 2021, General Motors CEO Mary Barra announced the auto giant would phase out all gas-burning vehicles by 2035."

"Ford announced it was shifting focus from electrics to hybrids. The automaker had separated its production lines into traditional and electric divisions just two years earlier, and since then, "Ford's electric vehicle division has lost $12 billion, including $2.2 billion in the first half of this year,"

https://reason.com/2025/10/15/g-m-takes-1-6-billion-loss-after-electric-vehicle-subsidy-goes-away/ 

Tens of BILLIONS of dollars destroyed.  Value flushed.  The nincompoops are un-EVing factories so they can make cars people want again.  How do Barra and Farley and all the other hoaxamanaic climateer glue sniffers keep their jobs?  Those shareholders are the most forgiving putzes in the world.

[Scouts Honor]

[mspart]

That is the tact here in WA.   We pay more for carbon (gas, diesel, nat gas, propane) and this will help the planet.   WA refuses to release the data on how much carbon reduction there has been.   

But we are paying more so that's good right?   $5.19/gallon for diesel and that is on the low side here.   $4.85/gallon for gas.   My car is diesel so I don't know what the gas stations I drive by charge for gas as I don't pay attention.   But WA has the highest fuel prices in the nation and we are proud of it. 

mspart

[Lipdrag]

3 minutes ago, mspart said:

That is the tact here in WA.   We pay more for carbon (gas, diesel, nat gas, propane) and this will help the planet.   WA refuses to release the data on how much carbon reduction there has been.   

But we are paying more so that's good right?   $5.19/gallon for diesel and that is on the low side here.   $4.85/gallon for gas.   My car is diesel so I don't know what the gas stations I drive by charge for gas as I don't pay attention.   But WA has the highest fuel prices in the nation and we are proud of it. 

mspart

And your climate is more stable than everyone else's.  See.  It worked.  That data is right there in the state archives somewhere.  But without standing as a climate user you will never be able to access that data.  Can we find anyone who uses the climate who can get the data?

[Lipdrag]

The headlines keep pouring in.  From the sunniest continent on  earth - Australia:

 

https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/chris-bowens-flagship-solar-panel-scheme-spectacularly-flops-as-vast-majority-of-500-million-grant-budget-remains-unused/news-story/48c39aebf4e5f0ca67277e8452c218b6

[Scouts Honor]

its amazing that the money didn't disappear completely

[Offthemat]

Problems abound.  In Texas and Florida, the two states you would least suspect, guaranteed profits for wind and solar have them investing almost exclusively in wind in Texas, solar in Florida.  Both are projected to run short of power in the next 2-5 years while their bills double, triple, and quadruple.  The fix is unobtainable given all the available and future production of gas powered turbine generators have been purchased by private entities who expect to profit most by selling them to AI data centers.