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Earth Day: "Renewable Energy is So Uneconomic We Have to Use Slave Labor in Africa to Even Pretend it’s Affordable."

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Global warming, regardless of what percent is man-made and what percent is natural, is a genuine issue that reserves genuine solutions.  Rube Goldberg machine for stapling two pieces of paper. That said, there is no question that "green" energy isn't one of them. It is an expensive, unreliable Rube Goldberg system. Here is a short piece that explains how awful green energy genuinely is . 

The Rube Goldberg World of Wind and Solar Energy

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When the  Washington Post  published an article  Wednesday about the human tendency to be unable to reverse one's opinions, regardless of the evidence, I thought of wind energy and the Rube Goldberg devices that are being patched onto it because of its many serious issues. For the young: Rube Goldberg was best known for his popular cartoons depicting complicated gadgets performing simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways. The cartoons led to the expression " Rube Goldberg Machines " to describe similar gadgets and processes. (Wikipedia) Below is an example. This machine was 'designed' to mail a letter.  In the world of electricity generated by coal, gas, hydro and nuclear, things are done in a straightforward way. Unfortunately, wind and solar are so filled with flaws, their workarounds increasingly resemble Rube Goldberg Machines. As a reminder:  Wind turbines only turn when the wind speeds are between about 6 and 30 mph and when the temperature is warmer than...