“What is driving the irrational push for use of alternative energy?”

Experience teaches me that when irrational policies are adopted there are multiple amplifying agendas at work. Consider the following:

1) Governments always seek to centralize power and influence;
2) The ‘scientific’ community relies upon government grants for funding;
3) China’s export of solar cells alone represents an annual trade surplus of $30 billion;
4) There are international ideological forces at work seeking to weaken the US economy. They lobby our governments.

I am reminded of the CFL (compact fluorescent light bulbs) debacle during the early 2000’s. The *real* science and engineering had been settled since the 1980’s: LED light sources were far more energy efficient than fluorescent (about 5x), far healthier (heat, audio, and spectral output), and far more environmentally friendly (CFL’s contain mercury, and the substantial electronics in them are not recyclable).

Switching from incandescent to CFL was an irrational move economically and environmentally. Instead of producing all that environmental waste and only saving 2.5x energy, we could have produced far less waste and saved 20x the energy. Nevertheless, governments forced the transition on the public because the agendas favored our competitors and our enemies.

In the end, the CFL industry created more energy waste, economic waste, and more pollution than it ever saved. Irrational.

As data centers begin demanding more and more of our energy, humans will be competing for it. Again, I expect irrational agendas will dominate. Expect brown-outs and soaring electrical costs (especially in places like California). It’s supply and demand.

The science and engineering to address this has already been settled for decades: we will need to start installing modular nuclear reactors. They are clean and recyclable, safe, good for our economy, and good for our trade deficit.

Twenty years from now there are going to HUGE piles of spent, unrecyclable solar cells in the US, and HUGE lakes of toxic chemicals in China resulting from their manufacture. At that juncture, people will finally acknowledge the stupidity of widespread use of solar cells for mass power production, just like we now acknowledge the stupidity of CFL’s.

Since the U.S. government is now thoroughly infiltrated by Marxist ideology, I expect the scientifically irrational, but ideologically strategic forces to dominate.

This is not a technical, scientific debate; it is an ideological one. Our people are ignorant and complacent. There are rough days ahead.

Kyrie eleison.

Foreign interference in our elections... from CHINA and SOUTH KOREA.

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