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DrHenley

DrHenley

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Germany has decided to cut down the ancient Reinhardswald old growth forest, also known as the "Grimms Fairy Tale Forest" in order to build a wind farm. Green idiocy at its finest...
https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...earold_forest_in_the_name_of_going_green.html
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Meanwhile conservatives like me are the real conservationists...
And I can prove it!
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Yes, my tree farm is actually certified by the state as carbon negative - we earn carbon credits for the new tree growth which we sell to companies who need to buy them in order to soothe their "green conscience." Yes it's a racket, but as they say "Don't look the gift horse in the mouth" LMAO.
 
https://gcaptain.com/the-last-coal-ship-departing-hawaii-will-deepen-us-navys-oil-problem/According to Gizmodo Hawaii uses more oil for electricity than any other state.In 2015, more than 67% of its electricity generation came from oil, while more than 15% came from coal. These fossil fuels are all imported from out of state, helping to make Hawaii’s electricity costs the highest in the country and nearly three times the national average.

The problem is further complicated by the Jones Act which requires that oil imported from other US states must be carried on US-flagged tankers operated by American shipping companies. But these companies, like Overseas Shipholding Group ($OSG), are running out of available ships.

The state will also compete with the US military for oil tankers.

The military is struggling to meet the need for oil tankers in the Pacific after a leak in the world’s largest underground fuel tank storage facility – Hawaii’s Red Hill – forced the Secretary of Defense to close it down in March.
 
The green energy movement

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GeorgiaPeachie said:
OMG!!! AMAZING!
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Pardon me if I and deeply skeptical. Yes you could get some energy from radio waves, and maybe power a flat screen TV (maybe)...but power a welding machine? Not without a humongous antenna.
Unless he lives next door to a huge radio transmitter (which would be hazardous to your health)
 
Power falls off log10 by the meter.

Unless that guy lives next door to a radio station and has some sort of "net" to extract the energy, he is a liar.

You can't have something for nothing. Also, if he's extracting power from broadcasts, then the broadcast station is paying for his electricity.

But I wonder, why did he include batteries? If he's pulling all the power he needs "from the air" what are the batteries for? Added comedy, I guess.
 
DrHenley said:
Pardon me if I and deeply skeptical. Yes you could get some energy from radio waves, and maybe power a flat screen TV (maybe)...but power a welding machine? Not without a humongous antenna.
Unless he lives next door to a huge radio transmitter (which would be hazardous to your health)
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My hubby said the same. It would be nice if true though.
 
GeorgiaPeachie said:
Things are looking clearer everyday. Green energy is simply another way to harm the citizenry.
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Anything green costs much more to originally buy than old technology , I have Solar( 20 Kw lithium batteries ( really need 40 / 50 kw to cover for overcast days but not worth the cost ) , my reason is due to the loadshedding in SA , at least I keep every thing running , it cost me the equivalent of at least another 15 / 18 years of buying electric when available from the grid , they are talking 16 hours off in the bad times in winter , also put in 9 tanks to hold 40.000 lt of rain water , went off local water back in 2008 , we can go 30 / 60 days at time with no water in our village ,this will take another 11 / 15 years to pay for it self , I will be lucky to last another 10 years makes me 86 , but at least we are self contained / comfortable in our village , the state of infrastructure in the country is collapsing faster each year , less than 50% is all that can be produced from our power stations , as said before to move out of the country, exchange rate , would never be able to buy a quarter of what we have now ,cheers all
 
Why oh why do so many swear by solar for "every need" to be fulfilled...if it does not work for at least longer than it takes to PAY FOR IT, insure it, maintain it, repair it and/or the guarantee runs out before it is paid for???????????
You can use solar for running some lights and maybe small machines like rechargeable drills, circular saws or electric chainsaws, OK. But to run a complete house, barn, stable, cellar and the 6 foot wide TV screen??
You gotta screw your wishes down one way or the other...either live on a high horse and PAY PAY PAY...
Or, go for a smaller house, lesser wishes and save your money for more important things like food, water well, weapons, ammo, winter clothes and gold/silver....
Realistically speaking- prepping is getting ready to live alone, off-grid, without outside help, spare parts from China, needed seeds, fertiliser, animals and materials to simply SURVIVE and LIVE in the near SHTF/TEOTWAWKI....
Without Rule Of Law: without rule of the gov't telling you what, how, where, why and when to do something you do not want to do/pay for.....FREEDOM is being free from NEEDING something you cannot get or afford and the idea that if you do not get it but someone else does--
you are a slave to your overstaked desires and not free to get what you NEED and not what you WANT...
Spend more time being THANKFULL for what you have and less worrying/thinking about what you don't have. Gary
 
GaRp58 said:
Why oh why do so many swear by solar for "every need" to be fulfilled...if it does not work for at least longer than it takes to PAY FOR IT, insure it, maintain it, repair it and/or the guarantee runs out before it is paid for???????????
You can use solar for running some lights and maybe small machines like rechargeable drills, circular saws or electric chainsaws, OK. But to run a complete house, barn, stable, cellar and the 6 foot wide TV screen??
You gotta screw your wishes down one way or the other...either live on a high horse and PAY PAY PAY...
Or, go for a smaller house, lesser wishes and save your money for more important things like food, water well, weapons, ammo, winter clothes and gold/silver....
Realistically speaking- prepping is getting ready to live alone, off-grid, without outside help, spare parts from China, needed seeds, fertiliser, animals and materials to simply SURVIVE and LIVE in the near SHTF/TEOTWAWKI....
Without Rule Of Law: without rule of the gov't telling you what, how, where, why and when to do something you do not want to do/pay for.....FREEDOM is being free from NEEDING something you cannot get or afford and the idea that if you do not get it but someone else does--
you are a slave to your overstaked desires and not free to get what you NEED and not what you WANT...
Spend more time being THANKFULL for what you have and less worrying/thinking about what you don't have. Gary
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We power our whole house, shop and fur shed completely on solar. We have all modern appliances, 2 chest freezers, 5 TVs, satellite TV etc. I have a backup generator to make up for cloudy days. Currently it runs an average of 2.1 hours per day. I recently bought 4 - 410 watt solar panels to supplement our current panels. That should reduce the generator run time to less than an hour per day over a year average.
Our well pump is on a separate generator because of the depth of the well, hp of the pump and distance to the house.
Our decision to go solar was a simple one, it was far cheaper than running power lines from 5 miles away.
 
Arcticdude said:
Our decision to go solar was a simple one, it was far cheaper than running power lines from 5 miles away.
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Same here. For the cost of running power lines we can get a very good solar setup. Yes I do want to learn how to do as much as possible without electricity or fuel, and I will be talking to a nearby Amish community to learn how they do it. But in the meantime solar is cheaper up front than grid power, and there is no power bill, and if the grid goes down, we don't go down. I also want a separate power source for the well due to the distance, and will be looking at windmills, which have been used for pumping water for centuries.
 
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