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CBR Chair of Politics, Censorship & Free Speech @UAustinOrg : Dao Journalism Winner : Time, "Hero of Environment" : Author, “Apocalypse Never,” "San Fransicko"

Aug 8, 2019, 6 tweets

New Michael Moore-backed documentary debunks renewables & challenges propaganda by ⁦⁦@algore⁩ ⁦@billmckibben⁩ ⁦

It’s only a matter of time before people understand that low-energy density fuels are inherently worse for the environment weareiowa.com/news/national-…

By 2025 Germany will have spent $580B to make electricity 50% more expensive without reducing emissions

Germany spends ~2x more for electricity that’s 10x more polluting than France’s

Renewables can’t power civilization because they weren’t meant to

forbes.com/sites/michaels…

As a bonus, the expansion of industrial wind turbines is threatening the extinction of the hoary bat, golden eagle, red kite, whooping crane and other endangered species, making renewables a lose-lose-lose for the economy, climate & wildlife

forbes.com/sites/michaels…

Solar & wind farms require at least 400x more land than natural gas or nuclear plants.

And unlike industrial wind farms, nuclear and nat gas plants don’t send spinning blades or heat into the airspace that birds, bats, and insects use as habitat.

I used to believe innovation could reduce the massive ecological impacts of solar & wind farms

Then I realized that we can't make the sunlight and wind more energy-dense, or reliable

quillette.com/2019/02/27/why…

Oregon's supreme court has just blocked a proposed wind farm that would have killed threatened species bald eagles, golden eagles and bats

Expect much more of this to come
hoodrivernews.com/news/summit-ri…

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