California mandates big increase in zero-emission trucks

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8. Before making such a claim...

...one should be confident that he or she is completely knowledgeable about the laws of thermodynamics, the environmental and economic costs of redundancy, the effect of vairability on maintenance costs and infrastructure lifetime, including not only the mass intensive so called renewable energy junk itself, but also the engineering and thermodynamic impacts, as well as economic impact, of the essential gas plants necessary to give the illusion of viability. A turbine that repeatedly shuts down will experience torques and thermal variations repeatedly when it is shut because the wind will be blowing for an hour or two and will not last as long as a turbine that runs continuously.

I'm sorry to report that I am too old and too experienced and too well read to give any credibility to any of the endless glib "percent talk" by which renewable energy advocates attempt to justify selling this wishful thinking and this inattention to either details or observed results as "progress." Since renewable energy was abandoned in the 19th century because it was insufficient to provide for a healthy and reasonable lifestyle for the population of that time, one may argue that fondness for it is reactionary, not progressive.

The observed result of decades of "by 20xx" stalling is in. More people than ever are dying from air pollution, more dangerous fossil fuels are being consumed than ever, the rate of resource depletion is accelerating and we hit 417+ ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere "by 2020."

We really should stop lying to ourselves, and work to try to move humanity beyond the age of the lie.