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re: Wind Power Production Drops Despite 6.2GW of Added Capacity
Posted on 5/1/24 at 1:36 pm to Cuz413
Posted on 5/1/24 at 1:36 pm to Cuz413
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Cuz413
Great summary. A couple of additions.
Ethanol doesn’t come close to competing with petroleum based fuels on a $/Btu basis. It is heavily propped up by subsidies.
Because we are squeezing corn into our fuel tanks instead of it being in the food chain, the prices on everything from tortillas to ribeyes are driven up.
The subsidies now make it attractive for farmers to plant marginal tracts, that would have previously been retired under the CRP program. Since the quality of these tracts are marginal at best, more fertilizer has to be applied (unaccounted for in the carbon intensity voodoo they do) and adding to the hypoxia (dead zone) in the Gulf. And taking CRP land to production has a profound negative impact on a variety of wildlife, particularly waterfowl.
It. Is. All. A. Hoax.
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Posted on 5/1/24 at 6:53 pm to Icansee4miles
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to plant marginal tracts, that would have previously been retired under the CRP program
Yup, so instead of having grazing ruminants on the land building fertility back into the soil, we are depleting the soil of all biology to make an ineffective fuel.
Only the government could frick something up this bad.
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