Solar Subsidies ... Wasting Taxpayer Money!
I
posted the following on our local power utility's Facebook page in
reply to people whining about wanting to get “government subsidies”
to finance solar PV installations. Before you continue reading, just
keep in mind that none of the things you enjoy in your daily life
came about as a result of government subsidies, they came about
because inventors and innovators creating things worked well and
saved you time or money. If solar PV systems cannot produce an ROI
(Return On Investment) either in dollars or energy, then why do
people think that the government should confiscate money from
taxpayers to fund things that waste energy, time, and resources? …
My
Reply:
I
was "green" before it became the "cool thing" and
while we managed to survive the "imminent ice age" hoax,
and now the "global warming" hoax ... the one thing they
have in common with solar power plants, is that none of them have any
facts to support the claims.
From
Japan, to Norway, to Australia, to Iceland, to the USA, not one
single utility-scale solar plant has prove profitable. The Ivanpah
plant in California has not been able to operate without burning
massive amounts of N-gas, and doing it exceeding inefficiently at
that!
Government
involvement has done nothing but stifle innovation by subsidizing
technology, methods, and project we know will fail, while
simultaneously prohibiting the implementation of technologies and
methods that have been proven viable. Government has wasted massive
sums of our tax money, and destroyed countless acres of land with
solar and horizontal wind farms we knew would fail before they were
even proposed. Meanwhile we have 1350 miles of shoreline and dozens
of rivers and canals going to waste. Doesn't anyone else find it
curious that government will subsidize small-scale solar projects
they know will never produce an ROI, while at the time prohibiting
low-impact hydro, and wave-pneumatic which are proven efficient and
environmentally sound technologies? Private companies have been
denied permits to construct those hydro projects, as well as vertical
wind turbines, at zero cost to the taxpayers because they are proven
to produce rapid ROI. Government is also the reason why over 18% of
our total energy demand is being dumped into landfills rather than
utilized! Not to mention that over 40% of landfill material can be
recycled or repurposed if not for the hideously stupid government
mandates!
Jimmy
Carter created the Department of Energy, and in the thirty-nine years
since October 1977 they have not only NOT solved the so called "oil
crisis", but they've only managed to amass one vehicle for every
employee, hire foreign workers instead of Americans, sell Energy Star
stamps to the highest bidder, and make it so that "durable
goods" which used to have an average thirty-year lifespan, now
last less than five years while costing exceedingly more money! Just
look at the massive waste of taxpayer money going on Bushnell*, and
not a single thought was given to implementing thermal-solar into the
massive heat-islands they're building that are going to increase the
amount of energy required for cooling.
*
Road and other taxpayer-funded construction projects currently
happening in Bushnell, Florida.
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