New batch of Farmer interviews that I am working through right now.
I’m actually overwhelmed with new footage at the moment, at the same time my cell is blowing up as the fossil fuel industry goes ballistic on Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s new clean energy goals for my home state of Michigan.
Above, Jeff Ehlert is a multi-generational farmer in Lenawee County, in the far southeast, last stop before Ohio – who has seen anti-clean energy mob actions up close for a dozen years. What’s striking about all these interviews is the similarity of the stories that farmers tell, of intimidated local officials, underhanded tactics, and fossil fuel operatives bringing in outsiders to bully and harass local citizens.
Below, John Tuckerman, another more-than-centennial farmer just down the road, is a former County Commission chair, and expresses poignantly the emotional reactions of farmers who feel betrayed by community members, many of whom have benefitted from farmer’s generosity in the past.
Here’s another example of the previous interviews I’ve been doing.
I hope everyone will take a look at these, and share them out. Most urban and suburban folks don’t have a clue about the critical battle for clean energy, and a livable planet, that is happening in the rural Heartland. Fossil fuel operatives deeply involved, and I am engaged.
Ho hum. Green energy is not ready for prime time. And windmills are a dead end. This article admits it’s a boondoggle.
Except of course that renewables deliver about 1/7 of the world’s primary energy now (https://ourworldindata.org/renewable-energy). About half of that is hydropower, but hydro is pretty tapped out while wind and solar are growing rapidly.
As wind turbines are the fastest growing source of renewable energy, not sure why you think they are a dead end. They are certainly less dead than those that depend on digging up oil for increasingly large amounts of effort, money, and externalities.
Green energy is not a perfect solution because – newsflash – there’s no such thing. We’ve been spoiled by the cheap, transportable, high energy density of oil and you are doing your best to ignore the crucial externalities.
We don’t have a direct substitute, so not all applications will benefit from a switch to green electricity. But the transition is happening faster and better, finally.
Wind is about 3% of global energy usage : https://ourworldindata.org/energy-mix
Wind and solar are dead ends because the sunniest, windiest, closest sites are established first. Going forward, the less windy, less sunny, farther away sites will come on line. Worse: as these sources are intermittent, at a certain point we’ll need to provide [for wind] 93 KW of backup generation for every 100 KW of wind generation to maintain peak power delivery (or some kind of massive electricity storage capacity).
Then there’s the fact that renewable energy puts our energy security in the hands of our 21st century main enemy, China, for providing the turbines and the exotic materials refining.
Finally, these machines/panels wear out and disposing of them has not been addressed.
If you want to go renewables, nuclear is the only way to go.
What a great big cherry pie you will have with all the cherries you just picked!
I’m sick of having my inbox clogged with your insane bullshit, asshole. Get into psychotherapy.
I’m stopping my subscriptions to the articles & comments here.
Bye, bye, Pumpkin Boy.
Agreed – please block the asshole.
asshole has been blocked, due to popular demand.
Thank you, Peter! 🙂
Where did that old can-do American spirit go? We can do this!
AGW is pseudo-science. Why would we want to waste money on something so stupid?
AGW is a kind of intelligence test. You keep failing the test. Sad.
How long are we going to have to put up with this troll making unsupported or counterfactual assertions on these blog posts? DHR comes in, drops a turd displaying his willful scientific ignorance, and leaves.