The green image of hydro power as a benign alternative to fossil fuels is false, says Éric Duchemin, a consultant for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). “Everyone thinks hydro is very clean, but this is not the case,” he says.
Rotting vegetation is now bad for the environment….
H/t: Kevin
Related, Gunter: Climate alarmism will hurt your pocketbook
Via, Tom.
By the time these a-h0!*4 reach the level of life they want us to leave there will be no nations, no civilization and only scattered bands of humans living and dying in caves. When will the nations of the world and the people finally going to stand up and tell these characters to go to hades. Unfortunately here in Canada, thanks to a high percentage of morons who voted for the 40+ year old child, not for at least 4 years. Will we even have a nation left at that time. His father wanted to destroy a country the boy child may finish the job.
Rotting vegetation? Now they’re just messing with us.
Notice the Countries that have a lot of hydro power?
Canada,USA,China,Russia,India,Brazil?
Perhaps we Big Six hydro power producers should tell the UN to go f*** themselves,or else they’ll think up another way to steal money from us.
It has to start somewhere, the leech Nations live to suck the life outta those of us that produce, so maybe this is the item to rally around,otherwise,look for us to be paying a hydro tax to the thieving bastards.
Remember, somewhere there is a naive PM just anxious to make everyone happy by giving away our wealth to assuage his white guilt.
Good, now we can penalize Quebec and Ontario and force them to transfer huge chunks of their wealth to green Alberta to prevent global warming.
Renewable energy means …
Can’t burn coal;
Shouldn’t burn gas;
Pollute horribly with wood.
So we’re left with Wind and Solar (assumes tidal, geothermal, fairy dust and unicorn farts are not technically and economically feasible). Canadian wind power works at an estimated 22-24% load factor; is vulnerable to weather conditions i.e. Not much wind at -35 or at +35, etc. which is generally when you want heat/air conditioning; tends to be less windy at dusk, too, just when you’re getting home and plugging in that new electric car and preparing dinner. Some evenings you might even want light. And, guess what? Most people prefer to live in “non-windy” areas – so line losses loome larger, further increasing their inefficiency.
Ahhh! Solar. Put aside the obvious – no sunshine at night. So we get a good shot of juice in the summer; and precious little in winter (remember, that a short day and a skiff of snow or layer of frost will dramatically affect its efficiency). Count on a south-facing array roughly 80 feet long and 11 feet high on your roof, but you better have an off-grid style house and be prepared to alter your standard of living – Oh, and get your heat somewhere else.
No utility-scale storage systems exist and 100% fossil fuel redundancy is required. What could possibly go wrong?
Assholes! It’s not like they are flooding huge tracts of land every day. Now natural phenomena are evil but only if man was around. These Asshats turn everything around to suit their own narrative. As carbon based life forms and producers of CO2 one can only wait for the inevitable breathing tax.
By all means let’s do a full cost analysis of all power generation. Count the “cost” of the dam, then count the “cost” of the wind farms, which will require replacement at greater rate than the dam.
Typical balderdash from the someone else must take immediate action to save the planet.
The only action I’ve seen is taxaction.
Once upon a time there were people living on Easter Island. No one knows exactly what happened but it appears that things there were so good they could afford to indulge themselves with stupid ideas about how to live to the point that now there are no people living there.
This reminds me of something.
I truly cannot stand these people anymore.
Is there a word that is stronger than “cult” ? If not I think we need to invent one.
These green fascists are evil personified.
The real obstacle to reasonable solutions to future problems is that, in North America and Europe at least, a very very small proportion of the population has ever been cold and hungry. The future might be a lot brighter if we replaced our elected representatives and the attendant bureaucracy with a randomly selected parliament of the homeless. Sure, it sounds crazy, but look at where we’re headed with what we’ve got.
I’m convinced the only true cure for these idjits is a spade shovel upside the head!
Yes.
Yes same word but with a n
And here I have been putting my rotting vegetation to the curb just like the enviro wienies wanted me to in form of leaf waste in biodegradable recycled paper bags, to be sold by said municipal waste handler as viable compost next spring. Kitchen scraps go into the back yard compost bins for use in the gardens.
Someone please make it stop. Just kidding all … do what I want when I want including the “burning”.
Actually, Texas, this is an issue. Grew up in a region where hydro was “de rigeur”. Not so bad when a series of small dams on a river which left enough of the valleys for the wildlife to survive; more of an issue when a major project flooded out farms, orchards, and settlements upstream. Never mind what would happen downstream should one of these bigger dams fail or get taken out.
Reality is, there is no free lunch here either. Valleys have been traditionally areas of settlement, winter pasturage for large animals, and transport corridors. We may choose to build dams as being the most “green”, but there are still consequences and it would be wise to remember that.
Willis Eschenbach debunks this urban myth about methane:
“… which means that if by some chance the methane levels were to double in the next hundred years, the total effect would be an increase in the atmospheric absorption of 0.8 W/m2. Less than a quarter of the effect of a doubling of CO2 … say what? This is supposed to be the dread methane, eleventy times more powerful than CO2? Less than one watt per doubling?”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/10/11/scientific-urban-legends/
“Rotting vegetation? Now they’re just messing with us.”
That was my exact thought. They’re talking about new bylaws forbidding organic waste going into landfills, because it causes greenhouse gasses. What? Organic matter has been decaying for millennia, and NOW it’s a problem?
They’re just making this shit up as they go now. No, not even that, I think it’s a computer script that strings random environment-related words together and automatically issues doomsday predictions.
So. It turns out NOTHING is good for the environment.
Canada will be the greenest country on the planet, however we will also be the country with the highest unemployment as most manufacturers will vacate this jurisdiction. I wonder what the liberal plan is to collect taxes when no one is working.
Human stupidity is our natural “sustainable resource”.
So Hydro is out?
Evil dams polluting the pristine wilderness,controlling spring flooding and providing summer irrigation.
Evil sediment traps, providing reliable,affordable electricity .
I have the answer.
The organic electricity generation system.Reliable,affordable and far cheaper to implement than Solar,Wind or Hydro.
Human driven treadmills, individual wheels ganged together to drive generators.
If the Eco-Nasties want to deprive us of the luxury of hydrocarbon fuels and bring back slavery, I say them first.
Round up every believer and promoter of the Magic Gas Scam and set them to work trudging upon the wheels of retribution.
Freedom will come when they generate the Kwatt equivalent of the public treasure they stole or wasted on the Mass Hysteria of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming.
(They say Climate Change now, but they are all about warming, even when we have none).
For these nights of zero wind and funnily enough, no sun, these fools and bandits will be the base load, having shutdown coal plants, I guess these sustainable nitwits will have to be the substitute,failure to produce? Death or banishment to Coates Island, works for me.
Powerplant supervisors can be recruited from relatives of those poor folk killed by the cold or failure of the electrical grid, people with a serious vengeance agenda.
Could even make a couple of “real “reality TV shows.
Especially of the fat,entitled lazy thieves banished to Coates Island..Polar bears have to eat too.
Now you figured out why they want to get rid of 6 billion people.
Hmmm. Coming up to Black Friday, I was checking hosting companies for a deal. A couple of the them boasted that they are “wind powered only”. Who was not completely insane, would pick them? If your income/living depended on uptime – would you pick them?
I would like one of the jack azz environment freaks to tell me just how they are going to build windmills and solar panels without fossil fuels. Steel plants and glass plants require the burning of massive amounts of fossil fuels. I also wonder just how they are going to control volcanoes and the sun?. Stupid, stupid people.
The enviro-fascists have always been opposed to hydro power. Why? Because it works. They are only in favor of electricity produced by methods that do not work.
In fact, I’m pretty sure they are actually opposed ti electricity. This is always a good point of departure for a “debate” with enviros: Are you opposed to fire? Of course they must be because it produces (evil) CO2. It starts by showing how stupid they are.
Right on cue, the CBC tells us what we think:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/grenier-climate-polls-1.3331159
Oz, I wonder what happened to my reply to Frances?
I see that Hanoi John(Kerry)wants global warming skeptics silenced and not surprising coming from a totaly anticonstitution liberal scumball like him who has rubbed elbows with Hanoi Jane this is the same traitor(Kerry)who signed the UN SMALL ARMS CONTROL TREATY he and obama need to go
How are we going to fight all of the *gasp* carbon spewing forest fires without fossil fuels? What a stupid, stupid idea. I am ashamed to live in this era of human history.
Not to mention what happened to my reply to you. As an ex-West Kootenay person, totally got hydro; just understoond flooding valleys are not without consequences. I agree it was a great and prosperous time back then, but doubt the Deer Park residents who lost their homes and livelihoods would agree, whatever the compensation (and heard it wasn’t that great).
I guess we gotta start shooting beavers…