Eco-wackos on parade: Now they’re suing to stop a solar plant

But … but … but how can this be? We thought solar was the fuel of the future, the salvation of mankind, the inexhaustible green gift that keeps on giving.

Reuters has the tale of the confused conservationists:

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Yes, it's confusing, but the eco-extremists won't even approve sources of power they approve of

A U.S. conversation (sic) group has sued the federal government over its approval of a major solar power plant in the California desert, the latest in a string of challenges to the nation’s renewable energy goals from the environmental community.

According to court papers, the non-profit Western Watersheds Project alleged U.S. regulators approved Brightsource Energy’s 370-megawatt Ivanpah solar energy plant without conducting adequate environmental reviews, and asked the court to order the defendants to withdraw their approvals.

Let’s see now. We can’t use coal because it’s dirty. We can’t use hydroelectric because it destroys natural waterways. We can’t use oil because it causes global warming. We can’t use wind because it kills birds and bats and destroys the view from the Kennedy’s Hyannisport estate. And now we can’t use solar because … well … we’re not quite sure why we can’t use solar.

Luckily, we saw this coming at IHateTheMedia.com and took steps to solve the problem of increasingly restricted fuel supplies. Our entire operation is powered with the high grade Japanese whale oil. Smells like hell, but it puts out a lovely warm glow that both heats and lights.

Source: Reuters

This post was last modified on January 21, 2011

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  • We have the Four Corners Generation Station in northwest New Mexico, which burns coal, and produces 2,060 mega-watts of electricity, enough power to supply about 300,000 homes. The entire complex occupies about 20 square miles, or 12,800 acres.

    A solar plant large enough to supply the same 300,000 homes would cover 258 square miles, which means about 1,664,000 acres would be covered with solar panels to produce electricity for the Bronx section of New York City. Which is what, 10 square miles? For once I agree with the eco-freaks, solar is not the answer.

    Ok, let’s go with wind power! Clean, quiet and no pollution! A windmill complex large enough to produce 2,000 mega-watts of electricity would have to be spaced out over 600 square miles of land. 3,840,000 acres of prime property where nothing could be built. And, this output estimate is based on the assumption that the wind will blow at least 20 miles per hour, every day of the year. Our state of Rhode Island covers 1,545 square miles of land. A windmill system large enough to supply electricity to Providence alone would cover almost half the state. That sound like a good idea or what?

    Then we have the Palo Verde Nuclear Generation Station, the largest nuclear power plant in the country, west of Phoenix. It occupies about 4000 acres, less than 7 square miles. It produces 30 MILLION mega-watts of electricity per year, enough to supply power to 4 MILLION homes. It spews nothing into the atmosphere, no smoke comes out of its smokestacks, just water vapor. It does not use any groundwater for cooling. All the cooling water used is treated sewage, effluent water, piped in from the surrounding communities. Including Phoenix which is over 50 miles to the east of the plant. It’s a win situation for the entire area.

    Experts say we have enough uranium in our country, most of it in the southwest, to supply electricity to the entire country for the next 1000 years so why are we not taking advantage of it? Politics, oil companies, and eco-freaks without a clue. Clear and simple, just follow the money. I don’t know which is worse, stupid people, thieves or crooked politicians. Or all rolled into one? Think about it.

  • Hey Editor! Some of us are old and can't see too well!! I have tried twice to post a reply on this story about the benefits of nuclear power and both times the TSA (just kidding, the captcha code) was so warped I could not read it. At least it didn't want to touch my junk.

    • I know, I apologize. My eyes are crap and I hate them too, But I hate spammers on auto pilot so we unfortunately need them. But I have chosen the most readable variety.

      HOWEVER, and everyone take note, you only have the captcha if you you are not signed in with an account here. In fact, the whole process of posting is easier if signed in: no name, email required each time.

      Anyone who comes by often to comment, should register for an account. Takes just a minute to do.

      • What is it these kids say today? Sorry, my bad, or some such nonsense? I thought I was logged in because my name and email was displayed above the comment box. Now, apparently, I am logged in properly because just my name shows and no capture code, or whatever it is called. It's not only the eyes, it's trying to join the modern age at an older age and I am no 'puter geek yet!

  • Is there a way to selectively turn off the electric power to the environmentalists, one home at a time?

  • These people are not "eco wackos", they are "eco-leftists". The goal of the eco-left is to de-industrialize the United States leaving its citizens literally freezing in the dark and ripe for a radical takeover. They are a 21st century Fifth Column that need to be stripped of its ability to further damage this country and its people.

  • Just realise that these eco-wackos are progressive marxist-socialist (progmarxilists) libtards. They whine and cry about anything and everything just like two years olds and just like two year olds they can't tell you what they want. I don't think they know what they want...except the total annihilation of America and everything it ever stood for. These people are complete and total traitorous idiots! If you really knew what they had in store for you when and if they took over you'd gladly drive your HUMVEE through a crowd of them while they were marching onto the townhall of your hometown...then you'd back up and do it again, and again, and again. What did Barry Goldwater say ... "patriotism is no vice...?" Something like that. These monsters need to be burned at the stake!

  • Ok...what about monkeys on bikes attached to generators...I mean its good exercise and we get something out of it, besides we would be giving homeless monkeys from the stripped jungles somewhere to live and a good job...then there are the homeless...we could put them on bikes and all we would have to pay them is a bottle of MD 20/20 every night...gets em off the street and out of the gutter!

    • Anyone who remembers MD 20-20 is an old degenerate! Kind of like me! Anyway, it would not keep the booze hounds off the street or out of the gutter but it would guarentee a steady supply of bike "riders".

      • MD 20-20, White Port and Old English 800. Fine liquor of choice for my 20 year old self living in L.A. in the 70's. Amazingly, I lived through it all.

        • In New Mexico back then it was "Pass the Word, It's Thunderbird!" Some of the nastiest "wine" ever made but sad to say it is a thing of the past. Now all the drunks along Central Avenue prefer Copita, which is nastier, and costs less than MD 20-20. My friends and I had class though, we were sucking down Boone's Farm Wild Mountain Grape and Strawberry Hill. No Old English 800 here when I was young, the brew of choice was Carlings Black Label. If I remember right you could get a case of it for $2.75.

          • Don't forget Annie Green Springs...remember the commercial with the 'granny' on a motorcycle, popping wheelies? Too funny!

  • The Sun is hot, heat causes violence and hatred (most riots and strikes happens in hot days), the Sun must be banned.

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