I mentioned in my previous post about the fraud James Hansen that he might run afoul of the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from partisan campaigning.
Now, Patrick Michaels, writing for the National Review, has noticed the same thing:
Yet Hansen persists. He recently said “the 2008 election is critical for the planet. If Americans turn out to pasture the most brontosaurian congressmen,” maybe we’ll be able to save the planet from the doom he envisions this century.
So perhaps if Hansen the fraud decides to meddle with political races, enough people are watching that he may have to do it as a private citizen. I'm sure the Soros organization will foot the bill for his buffoonery.
Put oil firm chiefs on trial, says leading climate change scientist | Environment | The Guardian
Let me put this as succinctly as possible: James Hansen is a fucking idiot fraud. Anyone who listens to him for more than 5 seconds is a fucking idiot.
It is reported that he also plans to actively campaign against members of congress who, in his opinion, have not hewed sufficiently to the warmist party line.
Now if I so much as wear a button for one candidate to work, I can be fired for Hatch Act violations. So how does Hansen get to campaign in congressional races?
This is a question I plan on asking as many times as necessary to his superiors if he does indeed do this while still employed at NASA. It's long past time this scammer was taken off the public payroll.
They've been going on and on lately about what a great location Texas is for wind farms, how Texas wind can provide half the power needed for the western U.S., but not if the wind isn't blowing: Loss of wind causes Texas power grid emergency.
And thus another green religious icon crashes down.
Home turbines can't light a candle | The Register
Here's another report: Plenty of spin but where’s the power?
Wuthering Heights: The Dangers of Wind Power - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News
Clean energy seen 50 pct of supply by 2050: report | Top News | Reuters.com
of wind power: Star-Telegram | 11/26/2006 | Wind-power push raising ire
Here's an ERCOT (Energy Reliability Council of Texas) represenatative on wind, and remember they are very pro-wind:
"You cannot plan your grid around it," Bojorquez said. "During historic summer peaks, you can only count on wind to generate 2.6 percent of its capacity. Wind energy does mean you will use fewer amounts of coal and oil, but it doesn't mean you will replace any power plants. You will still the need the same number because wind is variable."
When you need the power most, wind can give you 2.6% of its installed capacity. Oh, yeah, that's going to save the world.
ERCOT says wind is offsetting 1,500,000 pounds of CO2 per year. My little Chevy pickup gets about 20 miles/gallon on my 28 mile daily round trip, so at 19.56 pounds of CO2/gallon, thats around 6,825 pounds of CO2/year, just from my little 4-cylinder fuel injected pickup. So in 220 years, I will make 1.5 million pounds of CO2. Good trade? tell it to the 300 or so other drivers around me every day, in one very small part of Texas. They (along with me) will make 2 million or more pounds of CO2 every year, and thats just a tiny fraction of the vehicles in this area, much less the state.
Realistically wind is offsetting less than .1% of total CO2 production in Texas, probably less than .01%. But they get huge tax breaks for doing it.
Wind is a tax scam.
World's Largest Solar Photovoltaic Project to be Built in Nevada: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
From the article:
36 MW = 36,000 KW, so the math says 36,000 homes will be powered by 1 KW each.
Now my home is modest sized, and at peak consumption it is drawing about 5 KW from the grid. So, if that 36,000 home figure is accurate, don't plan on air conditioning, electric dryers, hot water, or warm food.
I'm just sayin'.