A little GREEN REALITY for those who need Redemption on Earth Day

Peter Huber, like thousands of others have stumbled into the truth about the stupid A-Green policies of liberals. I say A-Green as I would A-Moral or A-Symmetrical. I heard from the Throne this morning and He told me He would like it very much if we didn't despoil his gift to us when he created the Heavens and the Earth.

Peter Huber identifies the insanity that Ecological Earth Worship gets you....

Shoveling wind and sun is much, much harder. Windmills are now 50-story skyscrapers. Yet one windmill generates a piddling 2 to 3 megawatts. A jumbo jet needs 100 megawatts to get off the ground; Google is building 100-megawatt server farms. Meeting New York City’s total energy demand would require 13,000 of those skyscrapers spinning at top speed, which would require scattering about 50,000 of them across the state, to make sure that you always hit enough windy spots. To answer the howls of green protest that inevitably greet realistic engineering estimates like these, note that real-world systems must be able to meet peak, not average, demand; that reserve margins are essential; and that converting electric power into liquid or gaseous fuels to power the existing transportation and heating systems would entail substantial losses. What was Mayor Bloomberg thinking when he suggested that he might just tuck windmills into Manhattan? Such thoughts betray a deep ignorance about how difficult it is to get a lot of energy out of sources as thin and dilute as wind and sun.

It’s often suggested that technology improvements and mass production will sharply lower the cost of wind and solar. But engineers have pursued these technologies for decades, and while costs of some components have fallen, there is no serious prospect of costs plummeting and performance soaring as they have in our laptops and cell phones. When you replace conventional with renewable energy, everything gets bigger, not smaller—and bigger costs more, not less. Even if solar cells themselves were free, solar power would remain very expensive because of the huge structures and support systems required to extract large amounts of electricity from a source so weak that it takes hours to deliver a tan.

This is why the (few) greens ready to accept engineering and economic reality have suddenly emerged as avid proponents of nuclear power. In the aftermath of the Three Mile Island accident—which didn’t harm anyone, and wouldn’t even have damaged the reactor core if the operators had simply kept their hands off the switches and let the automatic safety systems do their job—ostensibly green antinuclear activists unwittingly boosted U.S. coal consumption by about 400 million tons per year. The United States would be in compliance with the Kyoto Protocol today if we could simply undo their handiwork and conjure back into existence the nuclear plants that were in the pipeline in nuclear power’s heyday. Nuclear power is fantastically compact, and—as America’s nuclear navy, several commercial U.S. operators, France, Japan, and a handful of other countries have convincingly established—it’s both safe and cheap wherever engineers are allowed to get on with it.

Step away from the hybrid cars, close down the idiotic wind farms, stop destroying the environment with silly solar panels, quit fantasizing about ethanol, start creating clean fuel from coal, nuclear and biomas. Start drilling holes in the ground, deeper. There's more there than you know. CH3 is a great fuel, use it.

Here's the real question. What if the whole idea of global warming caused by CO2 emissions is just fantasy? It is. There is no global warming. The earth cycles, but you didn't cause it and you can't stop it. So, stopping commerce by capping trade and carbon credits is a simpleton's fairy tale.

There, I have done my part to try to bring just a little sanity to the insanity that terrifies little children of a hell on earth from Global Warming. Isn't that a sad pitiful commentary on what this evil religion has descended to??