Life in fossil-fuel-free utopia

[bripat9643]

The greenies are too stupid to understand what they are calling for: They would be horrified at the result if their policies were actually put into effect.

Life in fossil-fuel-free utopia​

Whatever the reason, far too many people have a pitiful grasp of reality: natural climate fluctuations throughout Earth history; the intricate, often fragile sources of things we take for granted; and what life would really be like in the utopian fossil-fuel-free future they dream of. Let’s take a short journey into that idyllic realm.

Suppose we generate just the 25 billion megawatt-hours of today’s total global electricity consumption using wind turbines. (That’s not total energy consumption, and it doesn’t include what we’d need to charge a billion electric vehicles.) We’d need more than 830 million gigantic 3-megawatt turbines!

Spacing them at just 15 acres per turbine would require 12.5 billion acres! That’s twice the land area of North America! All those whirling blades would virtually exterminate raptors, other birds and bats. Rodent and insect populations would soar. Add in transmission lines, solar panels and biofuel plantations to meet the rest of the world’s energy demands – and the mostly illegal tree cutting for firewood to heat poor families’ homes – and huge swaths of our remaining forest and grassland habitats would disappear.​

 

[Cellblock2429]

The greenies are too stupid to understand what they are calling for: They would be horrified at the result if their policies were actually put into effect.

Life in fossil-fuel-free utopia​

Whatever the reason, far too many people have a pitiful grasp of reality: natural climate fluctuations throughout Earth history; the intricate, often fragile sources of things we take for granted; and what life would really be like in the utopian fossil-fuel-free future they dream of. Let’s take a short journey into that idyllic realm.

Suppose we generate just the 25 billion megawatt-hours of today’s total global electricity consumption using wind turbines. (That’s not total energy consumption, and it doesn’t include what we’d need to charge a billion electric vehicles.) We’d need more than 830 million gigantic 3-megawatt turbines!

Spacing them at just 15 acres per turbine would require 12.5 billion acres! That’s twice the land area of North America! All those whirling blades would virtually exterminate raptors, other birds and bats. Rodent and insect populations would soar. Add in transmission lines, solar panels and biofuel plantations to meet the rest of the world’s energy demands – and the mostly illegal tree cutting for firewood to heat poor families’ homes – and huge swaths of our remaining forest and grassland habitats would disappear.​

/----/ A quick look at the greenies lifestyle will showcase their double standards. AlBore's carbon footprint is the size of Texas. It's all about taking America down economically

 

[Fenton Lum]

The planet will continue to evole as it has for millions of years, it doesn't require humans for anything, and would probably be better off with a reset regarding hominids.

 

[Tax Man]

The planet will continue to evole as it has for millions of years, it doesn't require humans for anything, and would probably be better off with a reset regarding hominids.

The opening post is quite a paradox of reality and fantasy. The fantasy is the "only turbines" generation of electricity. Another is the idea of everyone having a personal vehicle. There are underwater turbines to generate electricity and solar and solar-thermal.

 

[Fenton Lum]

The planet will continue to evole as it has for millions of years, it doesn't require humans for anything, and would probably be better off with a reset regarding hominids.

The opening post is quite a paradox of reality and fantasy. The fantasy is the "only turbines" generation of electricity. Another is the idea of everyone having a personal vehicle. There are underwater turbines to generate electricity and solar and solar-thermal.

The corporate bought up the media and americans get what they know from the media, too lazy and often too under economic duress to inform themselves.

 

[toobfreak]

The greenies are too stupid to understand what they are calling for: They would be horrified at the result if their policies were actually put into effect.

Life in fossil-fuel-free utopia​

Whatever the reason, far too many people have a pitiful grasp of reality: natural climate fluctuations throughout Earth history; the intricate, often fragile sources of things we take for granted; and what life would really be like in the utopian fossil-fuel-free future they dream of. Let’s take a short journey into that idyllic realm.

Suppose we generate just the 25 billion megawatt-hours of today’s total global electricity consumption using wind turbines. (That’s not total energy consumption, and it doesn’t include what we’d need to charge a billion electric vehicles.) We’d need more than 830 million gigantic 3-megawatt turbines!

Spacing them at just 15 acres per turbine would require 12.5 billion acres! That’s twice the land area of North America! All those whirling blades would virtually exterminate raptors, other birds and bats. Rodent and insect populations would soar. Add in transmission lines, solar panels and biofuel plantations to meet the rest of the world’s energy demands – and the mostly illegal tree cutting for firewood to heat poor families’ homes – and huge swaths of our remaining forest and grassland habitats would disappear.​

If it's Al Gore, it is garbage. Fossil fuels like incandescent light bulbs are a GOOD thing. I plan on using both for many years to come. These new "green" technologies all look good on the surface until you look closer at the toxic waste of the batteries, the little children used to mine the metals to make them and what goes into generating the electricity in the first place to power an electric car.

I'd rather have the sound of my Holley 4-barrel as it roars to life with gasoline sloshing out of the bowl spilling over onto the manifold!