Not only are the tenets of the climate cult lies, but so are their solutions. If there is some warming, it’s not a threat. In fact, human thriving across the earth’s history correlates with periods of warming. Warming, if any, is not driven by CO2—it’s chemically impossible, though not nearly as unbelievable as their solution: EVs, wind, and solar. As or more dangerous to human life and the environment.
And what do they plan to do with all the leftover bits from the Ivanpah solar facility in the Mojave Desert? Someone received an estimated $2.2 billion from a project that has not only failed to deliver the promised energy utopia, but it has also always required a natural gas-powered backup just to operate.
The cult forcibly relocated hundreds of desert tortoises so their solar dream could kill an estimated 6,000 birds annually—more than 70,000 birds (my estimate) since its start-up in 2014—and some unknown number of emissions to build and maintain operations.
This post-Solyndra Obama-era, Google-promoted solar wet dream has been nothing short of a complete failure.
Construction started back in 2010, and four years later it was complete, but now 12 years on, it is earmarked for closure next year, in 2026.
In 2011, the US Department of Energy, during President Barack Obama’s second-term, provided $1.6 billion in three federal loan guarantees for the project.
Despite its ambition, Ivanpah never produced the energy it promised, and quite incredibly, it also relied on natural gas to stay running – hardly the green solution it claimed to be.
“Ivanpah stands as a testament to the waste and inefficiency of government subsidized energy schemes,” Jason Isaac, CEO of the American Energy Institute, told Fox News.
“It never lived up to its promises, producing less electricity than expected, while relying on natural gas to stay operational,” he added.
When it launched, Ivanpah was the
2.2 billion could have done a lot of real good, first and foremost by leaving it in the pockets of the people who earned it—invested a few dollars at a time in the open marketplace instead of picking from the pockets of taxpayers to backstop environmental fever dreams that warmed the planet.
As with most, if not all, left-Wing claims, we got the opposite of what was promised and a worse outcome than if we’d done nothing at all.
