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Feb 14, 2023 9 tweets 3 min read Read on X
Something the #GreenEnergy advocates never want to talk about is the environmental damage so called "renewables" do to the planet. I mean who cares about a vast man-made lake of poison in northern China, as long as it's not in my backyard. Right? 🧵
Much of China’s green energy boom was supported by a phenomenal growth in coal consumption which rose from 300 million tons annually in 1970 to 4.3 billion tons last year.
As a consequence, the air is unbreathable in many cities, and soil contamination has left 20% of China’s arable land too polluted to grow crops safely. The air is so polluted the chimneys from a smelting plant are barely visible.
Other nations are wreaking environmental damage on themselves as well for the Almighty Dollar, but China is the “winner”. No other nation can compete. China controls about 63% of rare earth metals, and 90% of the supply chain.
Baotou is the world’s biggest supplier of rare earth minerals — the fundamental ingredients used to make today’s technologies The refinery on the other side of the lake is the largest rare earth plant on the planet and all the waste material from this process is dumped here.
This toxic waste in this lake was found to have radiation levels ten times higher than in the surrounding countryside and was made up of a cocktail of acids, heavy metals, carcinogens and radioactive material used to process the 17 most sought after minerals in the world.
People too began to suffer, their teeth fall out, their hair turned white at unusually young ages, and they suffer from severe skin and respiratory diseases. Children were born with soft bones and cancer rates rocketed.
Official studies carried out in Dalahai village confirmed there were unusually high rates of cancer along with high rates of osteoporosis and skin and respiratory diseases.
But who really cares about all this, as long as we have our shiny white wind turbines, solar panels and EVs to show the world we really care, right?

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Some have asked "John why are you so interested in the Boston bridge?" Here's why. I made my living working on the largest land based equipment in the world, avid boater my entire life and almost died when my boat lost power in the St Clair river/tanker bearing down on me. 🧵
When I'm told by certain individuals to "Stay in my lane" mining, to me that's an insult. Believe it or not I have many diverse interests that I have studied and experienced at great lengths. I am not a one dimensional person.
I have farmed, built houses and worked on/repaired just about everything on Gods green earth. Climbed mountains, studied psychology and politics.
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Mar 26
What is this? It's a schematic of an emergency steering system, as the name suggests, is a system that is used during the failure of the ship’s main steering system. Follow along and I will show you where I'm going with this. 🧵 Image
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Documents filed by Xcel Energy for it’s Nobles Wind facility, 134 turbines. The wind turbines lasted 12 years. Cost to decommission $85,533,609. Cost to refurbish $204,000,000. But wait, let me show you how this scam works. #GreenEnergy thread 🧵
Repowering wind projects allows them to requalify for the wind Production Tax Credit (PTC), a lucrative federal subsidy that expires after the first 10 years of a project’s life.
It should come as no surprise, then, that data from the U.S. Department of Energy shows that the wind facilities repowered in 2021 ranged in age from 9 to 16 years old with the median age being 10 years.
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Nov 12, 2023
Are batteries the future? A lot of people seem to think so, but are they? Let's put this argument to rest once and for all. What would it take to power the US for 24 hours (11.12 TWh)? In this thread I will discuss sodium, Li-ion and lead acid batteries. #GreenEnergy 🧵 Image
If lithium were used for both EV and energy storage, reserves would not last long. But there’s a lot of sodium. A sodium battery is better than lithium as well because it is safer and keeps most of the charge when temperatures fall far below freezing.
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Good Sunday Morning. Let me tell you a story about Canada's "free" health care system. This is my friend Mike with his band the Black Orchids. His son became very ill. They took him to different doctors trying to find out what was wrong. The doctors then referred him to .. 🧵 Image
specialist for further testing. The problem was his son was getting sicker and it was going to take months for further testing because of the backlog of cases. Mike and his wife said enough is enough and crossed the border into Detroit. They found out in a week his son had cancer
But this wasn't cheap and costs were not reimbursed even though Canadians pay for their "free" health care from cradle to grave. No, doctors and nurses don't work for free in Canada. Someone pays. The Canadian tax payers.
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If large power transformers are destroyed by a geomagnetic disturbance (GMD) electromagnetic pulse (EMP), cyber-attack, sabotage, severe weather, floods, or simply old age, parts or all of the electric grid could be down in a region for 6 months to 5 years. Image
This is because the USA imports 85% of them (and all of the largest ones), there is competition with other nations for limited production and raw materials such as special grade electrical steel, a high cost ranging from $5 to $20 million dollars.
They are custom built, with long lead times to design, bid, manufacture, and deliver, with components that depend on long foreign production and supply chains.
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