Will Breezes and Sunshine Charge Governor
Jay Inslee’s EVs?
American Thinker,
by
Ronald Stein
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
2/10/2023 10:14:18 AM
Washington State Governor Jay Inslee, like California’s Governor Gavin Newsom, is mandating that his state become all-electric. In doing so, Inslee demonstrates serious myopia. He cannot see the ugly side of his wind-, solar-, and EV-mandated world.
Such comprehensive dependence on wind and solar requires vast acreage for turbines and panels. The result? The pathetic destruction of pristine landscapes.
Further, after decades of experience around the world, wind turbines and solar panels have been found to have a life expectancy of about 20 years. Yet no one has discovered a financially viable means of recycling them. As a result, today’s old wind turbines and solar panels are being dumped
Reply 1 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 2/10/2023 10:26:08 AM (No. 1399565)
As the world populates more and more and real estate for wind farms runs low, in a decade or so they'll have to ramp oil back WAAAAAY up. Whoever has the most yet untapped oil then - Wins.
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Washington, the state that elected Inslee and Patty Murray, left-wing extremist loons.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
felixcat 2/10/2023 10:35:37 AM (No. 1399572)
I love (regrettably) in Virginia and thanks to previous governor, the current governor is seemingly tied to an environmental plan that includes copying a lot of California's green edicts and also the construction of the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind is an offshore wind energy project located about 43 km off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia.
So we can expect dead whales waking up on the VA coats once they start construction.
The GOP and the American petroleum Institute or whomever need to start running ads on tv, etc showing the dead whales, bad and other marine life and how these projects are anything BUT green. The mining of rare earths to make the blades, batteries, etc and how fossil fuels are drilled and processed in the cleanest and safest manner in the world. And STOP with the "all of the above" approach to energy. We don't need wind or solar.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 2/10/2023 10:37:33 AM (No. 1399574)
This is just another case of the environment's biggest enemy being environmentalists.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Connor 2/10/2023 10:38:15 AM (No. 1399575)
We are moving away from Washington because of this wacko gov.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
formerNYer 2/10/2023 10:46:15 AM (No. 1399580)
must be something in the water in Washington State, it's populated by too many crazy leftists, the once beautiful Seattle is a crime infested dump now, gee I wonder why?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
2assume 2/10/2023 10:54:39 AM (No. 1399586)
I live in Washington. Not a peep. This is the first time I’ve heard of this.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
felixcat 2/10/2023 11:16:55 AM (No. 1399598)
LIVE in Virginia...
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Birddog 2/10/2023 11:44:40 AM (No. 1399611)
They mention the "working life" of the panels and towers being 20years, but the what about the vehicles? I'm gonna bet that NONE of the Greenies drive 20year old cars today, they won't be willing to drive 20yr old cars five years from now, nor ten, certainly not 20 years from now.
It's all about "Whats New" for them...none would accept a home or commercial building that depreciated to zero in 20 years, yet these vehicles, that cost as much as a house, and the new systems they want to build to charge them do exactly that.
My farm house was built in 1828, the house I bought for my 92yo dad, 1912. I have a BMW 525, and a 4-runner, both built in 2002. My work, hunting, and dancing boots are all over 20years old.
My electric comes from a Nuke, providing over 650 Mw per year...since 1978...45 years.
It's entire footprint is only 228acres.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
hershey 2/10/2023 11:58:58 AM (No. 1399635)
I'm in mind of the Yellowstone episode when Costner confronts his eco-weenie panel about solar panels and what they will do to the habitat of some small creature that lives in the undergrowth...he fires the lot of them...loved it...
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 2/10/2023 1:34:15 PM (No. 1399730)
The average wind turbine installed in the USA is about 2.6 megawatts (MW) in capacity.
If they want to replace all the reliable energy in the US with wind turbines, that means they would need to build about 1.26 million of them.
That's going to take up a whole lot of room and look real ugly.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Rivetjoint 2/10/2023 2:28:10 PM (No. 1399773)
Just a thought, but has the Washington governor not noticed that much of the western half of his state is often shrouded in clouds and rain? The eastern half is rather arid, so do they plan to put the solar burden on that part of the state?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Penney 2/10/2023 2:31:56 PM (No. 1399775)
Washington dem pola have been living in their own fantasy land even as thinking people suffer and are forced to leave the Evergreen State. So very sad.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
MickTurn 2/10/2023 5:24:58 PM (No. 1399904)
Just tap into the Democrap Politicians Hot Air, that will fuel the planet forever!
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Seattle runs the state of Washington. Seattle is filled with woke and crazies. Seattle is on the western side of the Cascade mountain range. The other side, East of the mountains voters are enslaved by the whims of Inslee. Only way to rid Inslee is VOTE him out. Seattle, less Spokane and Cle Elum are stuck with Inslee.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 2/11/2023 1:34:06 AM (No. 1400121)
Electric cars are about 70% powered by coal in many places. Currently, wind and solar are just slightly ahead of unicorn power for total grid contribution.
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What should happen to politicians trying to rush us over the cliff to green energy that, paradoxically, is energy poor and anything but green? Should Inslee and Newsome get plumeopician send offs for boneheaded energy policies and all the economic trouble they're trying to cause for us?