{"id":120369,"date":"2021-12-06T11:30:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T16:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=120369"},"modified":"2021-12-06T10:31:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T15:31:17","slug":"one-turbine-turning-six-burning-three-dead-turkey-vultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=120369","title":{"rendered":"One Turbine Turning, Six Burning, Three Dead Turkey Vultures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-90331\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/April-2019-Lake-Michigan-IBSP-North-High-surf-1-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/April-2019-Lake-Michigan-IBSP-North-High-surf-1-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/April-2019-Lake-Michigan-IBSP-North-High-surf-1-768x493.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/April-2019-Lake-Michigan-IBSP-North-High-surf-1-500x321.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The article below end of a scam: destruction of a coal-to-gas plant that is\/was one of the biggest scams ever inflicted on the public.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/gussa_this-is-the-glorious-footage-of-the-kemper-activity-6853542779985911808-X5aF\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/gussa_this-is-the-glorious-footage-of-the-kemper-activity-6853542779985911808-X5aF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When this utter nonsense ends about how dangerous nuclear power is and how wind\/solar crap is so much better (maybe when a blizzard hits and the power and heat shut off in the homes of the green idiots and the snooty jerks, as it did last winter in Texas) , we will likely get back to building new nuke plants and the nonsense will stop. Speaking of Texas, my relatives down there told me that they were not happy having to deal with a power grid that was unable to handle bad weather and an increased demand by users, and I know that Texas can be quite cold and non-friendly when it wants to.<\/p>\n<p>I personally prefer gas heat and gas for cooking over using electricity for those needs, because of a lifetime of being exposed to the reliability of gas. Steam heat from a gas-fired boiler into a radiator in my apartment in my home town was more reliable than electricity for heat, especially in really bad winter weather.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, I would rather have a house with a wood-burning fireplace where I can cook if needed, instead of knuckling under to the idiots who think the planet is being destroyed by using carbon-based fuels. If using wood and\/or coal to cook is so destructive, then someone needs to explain just how all those old settlements that have the remains of kitchens in them, with charred wood in what was likely a cooking\/heating area, did not destroy the planet over a period of 15,000 years.<\/p>\n<p>As the late, great George Carlin said: \u201cThe planet is fine.\u00a0 The PEOPLE are [not so much].\u201d The idiocy of the Greenies and ecohippies is aimed at putting the entire world&#8217;s population back in the equivalent of the 12th century, or worse.<\/p>\n<p>And this article below comes from National Review, in regard to how 15 states are refusing to follow so-called \u201cwoke capitalism\u201d by threatening to cut off banks that refuse to service coal and oil industries. I find it sad that my own state is not part of this, but the current &#8220;governor&#8221; is &#8220;woke&#8221; about daydreams. If the power goes out again this winter, I may send him a nasty letter about it and blame him for it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/fifteen-states-threaten-to-cut-off-banks-that-refuse-to-service-coal-oil-industries\/\">https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/fifteen-states-threaten-to-cut-off-banks-that-refuse-to-service-coal-oil-industries\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a genuinely big deal. From the article:\u00a0 A coalition of financial officers from 15 states sent a letter to the U.S. banking industry on Monday warning they plan to take \u201ccollective action\u201d against banks that adopt corporate policies to cut off financing for the coal, oil, and natural gas industries.<\/p>\n<p>The group threatens to scrutinize or potentially curtail future business with banks that adopt an \u201ceconomic boycott\u201d of those industries, in a letter obtained exclusively by National Review.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust as each state represented in this letter is unique in its governing laws and economy, our actions will take different forms,\u201d writes the group, led by West Virginia treasurer Riley Moore.\u00a0 \u201cHowever, the overarching objective of our actions will be the same \u2014 to protect our states\u2019 economies, jobs, and energy independence from these unwarranted attacks on our critical industries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group of state treasurers, auditors and comptrollers from West Virginia, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming, Alabama, Texas and Kentucky say they have a \u201ccompelling government interest\u201d to eleven major financial institutions that \u201care not engaged in tactics to harm the very people whose money they are handling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, and Goldman Sachs were among the recipients. \u2013 end of quote<\/p>\n<p>I will leave the reactions to this (IMHO) sensible attitude to your discretion. I can only say \u201cIt\u2019s about damned time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While natural gas and oil are finite resources, as is coal (a product of the Silurian and Carboniferous epochs), nuclear energy is far more reliable than wind and solar, and does not trash the environment when a plant is taken offline. Remember that if there is no wind, there is no turbine turnin&#8217;, and cloudy days, night skies and storms impede the vaunted production capacity of solar panels.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re wondering about the title, it refers to the dead birds in my area that were whacked this year by wind turbines because they were caught in the vortex created by the blades. Turkey vultures are predator birds, as are hawks and eagles, and they are necessary for a healthy environment because they hunt and kill rodents, among other things. Rodents damage crops and carry diseases that you don&#8217;t want near you.<\/p>\n<p>The planet is fine. As George Carlin says, the people are screwed up. And Mother Nature will get the Greenies for their foolishness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article below end of a scam: destruction of a coal-to-gas plant that is\/was one of &hellip; <a title=\"One Turbine Turning, Six Burning, Three Dead Turkey Vultures\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=120369\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One Turbine Turning, Six Burning, Three Dead Turkey Vultures<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,430,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-2020-election","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120372,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120369\/revisions\/120372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}