Sub's Alternative Energy Thread

[pinstripers]

Katie Pavlich @KatiePavlich

Climate Hoaxer Al Gore, who said the earth would be gone over a decade ago and made his fortune from oil money, will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Biden for his work on “climate change. Former Climate Czar John Kerry will receive one too.

[Atxshoxfan]

Pretty sure this has been mentioned before, but just some numbers on what they do.

Baltimore's Mr. Trash Wheel: a Decade of Garbage Gobbling Equates to 5.2 Million Pounds



Fairly simple ways to help clean waterways

Many cities don't allow burning of trash because environmentalists complained about the affects on air quality and the ozone layer. So while this is a great idea, it won't come without a rebellion by some environmentalists.

[SubGod22]

Pretty sure this has been mentioned before, but just some numbers on what they do.

Baltimore's Mr. Trash Wheel: a Decade of Garbage Gobbling Equates to 5.2 Million Pounds

The Baltimore Harbor’s most beloved resident is celebrating his decennial, and what better way to look back on his years of service than listing a few of his achievements?

Mr. Trash Wheel is a national icon. Since his installment in the Inner Harbor in 2014, his popularity led to the installment of other trash-collecting wheels, like Gwynnda the Good Wheel of the West, which have formed his ‘family’ of four.

5.2 million pounds have floated onto their conveyor belt tongues, been carried up into their water wheel gullets, and dropped into the floating dumpsters behind them.

Mr. Trash Wheel boasts an extensive fan club: the Order of the Wheel, which welcomes in anyone willing to pledge a reduced reliance on single-use plastics and an intent to occasionally clean up their community. 3,000 members have joined the Order’s ranks.

Approximately 45,000 homes have been powered with electricity generated from the incineration of biological waste captured by Mr. Trash Wheel and his family.

The Trash Wheels clean a total of 123 square miles of water catchment. Gwynnda and Mr. Trash Wheel each clean 60, while Professor Trash Wheel covers 2 square miles and Captain Trash Wheel has 1.

Fairly simple ways to help clean waterways

[WstateU]

All it needs is a sail added to boost its speed in Kansas and Oklahoma.

My puddy-tat early this morning...

[ShockerPrez]

Federal subsidies are just more gears in the money laundering operation.

[Shockm]

I agree on that point. Subsidies to the rich and to the friends of politicians should never happen. They are often paybacks to the organization who supported the politicians election. And often put money in that politicians pocket through kickbacks. All on the tax payer.

Stop the subsidies, and take the energy gloves off that hinder the easy production of oil in Alaska, and other places in America where we have "tons" of it. The price would come down instantly. They would build their own refineries if they could plan long term.

[Kung Wu]

All it needs is a sail added to boost its speed in Kansas and Oklahoma.

Would be as effective.

[Atxshoxfan]

Solar power ain't gonna do squat. This is just an EV with maybe a 5% boost at best.

Maybe, MAYBE, if the friction coeffs can be reduced to something interesting then solar power can give a useful boost when at cruise speed and relying on inertia.

All it needs is a sail added to boost its speed in Kansas and Oklahoma.

[Kung Wu]

Will be interested to see how it actually performs once it's fully functional and ready to go. They claim the car will have a range of 1,000 miles.

The Car Fueled Entirely by the Sun Takes Huge Step Towards Production



It can also be plugged in and charged like an EV.

Solar power ain't gonna do squat. This is just an EV with maybe a 5% boost at best.

Maybe, MAYBE, if the friction coeffs can be reduced to something interesting then solar power can give a useful boost when at cruise speed and relying on inertia.

[WuDrWu]

Playing favorites and giving advantages for money is definitely the same. I don't care about the semantics behind one or the other. Both energy sources get government help, and one gets about 18x more than the other.

Yeah, again, NOT taking money from someone is different than GIVING money to someone else.

[Atxshoxfan]

According to the US Senate Committee on the Budget, the oil industry in the US alone is subsidized at a rate of $646 billion a year. Worldwide is over $5 trillion according to them as well.

I pretty much hate all subsidies, but let's at least be consistent and honest about them. If you hate green energy getting $35B, you must really hate fossil fuels getting $646B.

I agree on that point. Subsidies to the rich and to the friends of politicians should never happen. They are often paybacks to the organization who supported the politicians election. And often put money in that politicians pocket through kickbacks. All on the tax payer.

[SubGod22]

Playing favorites and giving advantages for money is definitely the same. I don't care about the semantics behind one or the other. Both energy sources get government help, and one gets about 18x more than the other.

[pinstripers]

tax deductions not the same at all

[pinstripers]

not the same at all

[SubGod22]

I read somewhere that green energy companies have been subsidized over $35,000,000,000 ( that's billions) over the past few years. Inflation sucks more tax dollars from us by way of state and local sales taxes and the feds get more of our tax dollars at the pump. So government makes more, green energy is getting richer by the hour all at the expense of tax payers, who will be required to spend even more to accommodate the attacks on all appliances and vehicles.
In contrast the oil industry subsidies over the same time frame was at $1,000,000,000 (billion) . Way too high but at least 35 times less than the green energy sector.
Feds don't spend money like it's the citizens money. They spend it like it's grains of sand from the Sahara dessert. Keeps their buddies in the big bucks who generally feed some back to their favorite politicians.

According to the US Senate Committee on the Budget, the oil industry in the US alone is subsidized at a rate of $646 billion a year. Worldwide is over $5 trillion according to them as well.

I pretty much hate all subsidies, but let's at least be consistent and honest about them. If you hate green energy getting $35B, you must really hate fossil fuels getting $646B.