I'm not particularly interested in this bullshit "percent talk" about so called "renewable energy" which is called, with tremendous ignorance, "green energy."
It's not "green," nor is it really "renewable."
It's 2018. We are half a century into cheering for so called "renewable energy." We nearly hit 412 ppm of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide in the planetary atmosphere in 2018.
The fact is that in Iowa, 60% of the energy doesn't come from so called renewable energy.
The fact is that wind and solar are completely and totally dependent on access to dangerous fossil fuels, the waste of which is dumped directly into the planetary atmosphere.
The cloture of the Duane Arnold nuclear plant, Vermont Yankee, Oyster Creek, etc, etc, etc will replace energy that was produced with less than 25 grams of CO2/kwh with energy that is produced with 500 grams of CO2/kwh, dangerous natural gas.
Moreover, it will raise the cost of energy by requiring redundant systems, screwing poor people, not that we give any more of a crap about poor people than we do about future generations.
The problem is that people can't think. The Duane Arnold Nuclear plant came on line in 1975. When it closes - prematurely because we don't include external costs in the cost of energy and thus are perfectly OK with killing people - it will have operated 45 years. It was built using technology developed in the 1950's. If it were allowed to operate throughout it's full licence - which would only happen if the dangerous natural gas industry were required to pay to store its wastes for eternity to be publicly accepted - it would have been saving lives until 2032.
The wind crap in Iowa will be land fill in 25 years, if it's lucky. Future generations will need to trash that crap, this in an atmosphere greatly degraded, and then find energy to replace that junked crap as well.
Clearly we hate them, particularly if we're so myopic and so out of our minds and so ignorant as to look at the map you've provided and think it's some kind of victory.
The only people profiting at all from that disgusting map is the gas industry.
It's horrible, but only if you know what you're talking about. What I've come to understand is that the ability to lie to oneself is hardly limited to Trumpsters. Self declared "environmentalists" - despite not knowing shit from shinola about what environmental technology actually involves - are pretty damned good at lying to themselves too.
I see it all the time, and since I value young people, and since I value my planet, seeing such ignorance breaks my heart.
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