Monday, June 24, 2024

The Sad Truth About Renewable Energy

I feel a draft:  When I suggested several months ago that a new military draft may be in store for young Americans I received some pushback from those who find the idea unthinkable in the current day.  What?  The current day among any current days since the Vietnam draft seems so increasingly tilted toward a brand spanking-new world war that what's old may indeed be new again.  Anybody paying attention to the undercurrents of news reported last week would have detected a subtle discussion coming out of Congress about the draft in general.  While some members focus upon keeping women out of combat -- or exempt from any compulsory military service whatsoever -- I don't observe a laser-focus destined to keep young men out of a draft.  Warning to young males:  If somebody tells you you're eligible for the draft, they probably don't mean a football contract is in your future.  At this time, encouragement of the annoyance of signing up for the draft at age 18 appears to be the biggest news, but even wildfires have sprung up through the innocence of a match tossed aside.

Bright Supremacy:  Oh, pity of pitiful moments, the Democrats hate the fact that the Supreme Court is doing its job, and results aren't to the liking of this corrupt, spoiled political party.  It's funny how these folks are always tearing down "democracy" while claiming efforts to save it.  If rational party members don't tame the growing beast and mental illness they've created to leave Americans ultimately with a one-party nation, our seemingly rock-solid liberties will evaporate like water on the surface of Mars.

Did you hear the one about?
. . .A Government Green Energy Wizard, Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny all walked into a bar and. . .

Ah yes, energy.  Truth is, I'm often so turned off by the constant manure stream hosed upon us by the television industry that I retreat to talk radio, classical FM music stations or anything wholesome enough to flush the glittering muck out of my visual fields.  Radio broadcasting has its own problems, of course, but when one looks for it there's lots to "see" with the human ear.

This weekend, I happened to catch part of Michael Brown's national radio broadcast, a weekly (Saturday) three-hour show generally known as "The Weekend."  Brown, a former Homeland Security chief and politically conservative, is very good at taking complex issues and breaking them down, though, like any good radio show host, he knows how to drag time out a bit.

Brown was discussing increasing failures surrounding the solar panel and wind turbine industries, and the problems are immense.  For one thing, solar panels' ability to harness and contain electricity is fading years faster than expected.  Certain crucial components have shown a disturbing tendency to deteriorate, and there is also the now known observation of toxicity.  As these supposedly wondrous panels from hell are mass-produced by the millions, questions regarding eventual proper disposal of worn-out panels are poised.

Wind farms with giant metallic-blade turbines pose another environmental headache, and Brown references the scandal of "graveyards" where abandoned turbine towers several stories in height end up.  The astounding span of acreage rented by land owners or procured through government efforts to construct these towers, and their solar energy counterparts, appears almost criminal, in environmental terms.  Extraordinarily important farmland is being plowed under these new "farms" can thrive.  Scotland, Brown asserts regarding a story I read myself previously, had taken down millions of trees in order to convert forests and farms into solar and wind "farms,"  thus depriving their people and the world valuable natural resources and food.

In the end, growing evidence seems to support significantly the futility of these hastily planned solar and wind projects.  The question is, what measures will governments and partnering investors take to convince a skeptical public otherwise.

From good radio to potentially very, very bad radio:  Everybody's favorite world transformative influence, George Soros, hopes to purchase Audacy Broadcasting, the second largest broadcast media corporation in the U.S.  If he gets this past the Democrat-dominated FCC (and why wouldn't he?), some 135 million listeners may be affected and, to say the least, important conservative voices may soon be banished -- which may be exactly the game played here, we suspect.

The What Store?  On a not-too-dissimilar note from the above, another mentally twisted killer tragedy has unfolded in Arkansas, this time in front of a store called "The Mad Butcher."  Of course.  I see a motion picture coming out of this.  I wonder what the title will be.