It is 10:11 that is more than slightly delayed.
I wanted to discuss a new film that I think is a documentary about climate science, but, I haven't seen it yet and all I had to work from was a news article.
The film is directed by Jeff Gibbs and its executive producer is Michael Moore. This is a new direction for Moore as he is usually directing his documentaries. I have debated the idea of this Gibbs film being a documentary because he is such a defeatist.
From the fragment of film loops and news articles, I already know this film has to be set straight. It is incredibly negative and basically seems to say, "Why bother."
In this loop below Gibbs states that electric cars are the same impact as gasoline cars. Well, he is flat out wrong. His perspective is to add up all the "manufacturing energy" to make them and then the daily energy surge from everyone returning home after a day of work to plug them in. And of course for Gibbs, the charging energy is coming from a fossil fuel power plant. The coal-fired power plants are leaving the face of Earth and it started some time ago. They no longer provide enormous amounts of employment either.
January 13, 2020
By Scott DiSalvino
U.S. coal-fired power plants shut down (click here) at the second-fastest pace on record in 2019, despite President Donald Trump’s efforts to prop up the industry, according to data from the federal government and Thomson Reuters....
The coal-fired plants produced 32 percent of the USA's carbon dioxide emissions while only producing 9.9 percent of USA power as of 2006. They have been a horrible failure with coal mines of anthracite coal (the cleanest burning coal) completely depleted from the USA.
The only reason coal plants are still talked about is that they serve as political rhetoric that doesn't count the number of Americans dead due to coal mines, black lung disease, and children left without a father. When all that reality is added in and then add the GHG they emit and coal is an antiquated commodity that has no place anywhere as an energy source.
That said, the electric cars are very viable and wind turbines are a real answer for the electric grid of the USA. They don't cause cancer, they don't kill birds and they are extremely quiet when they are running.
Let me say this in defense of the wind turbine and the idea they are worn out in 30 years. Really? 30 years isn't good enough?
Look, one of the reasons environmentalists SHOW UP to fight electric power produced by GHG (greenhouse gases) is due to a strong reality that when the communities of the USA authorize and fund new energy sources it is done every 30 years. So, no means of power sources are every planned to last beyond 30 years.
Then there is the innovation reality and excitement of an entirely new form of investment.
There is a lot to the understanding of SHOWING UP to demand better and more efficient means of power every 30 years. Ask any member of the USNRC and they will tell you once the nuclear plant is built, the life of the source is about 30 to 40 years with authorized refits taking them into the range of 50 to 70 years. It costs more to build and maintain nuclear plants then a wind farm will every cost the American taxpayer and it is much safer than nuclear plants eyed by terrorists.
The most exciting form of alternative energy is "Flower Power." The name of it is "Smartflower."(click here)This sculpture in the yard is a solar generator. It opens in the AM when the sun comes up, follows the sun across the sky, and then folds up and is stored until the next day. It even has a special wind monitor to close the unit if the wind increases. This accompanied by batteries and Americans can be completely autonomous in the production and use of electrical energy. d
But, this is a separate conversation. As soon as I can sit for the Gibbs film I will write about it again.
No industry is perfect and I am glad someone is discussing any corruption and selling out by supposedly "the people with the answers." There are plenty of groups that have ideas and at least a portion of is a sell out to right-wing politics. So, I welcome Mr. Gibbs to air a film that reveals corruption and complains about inefficiency.
I mean, the energy that it takes to produce a gasoline engine is far higher than that of an electric car. And once it is on the road it really outperforms the gas power car in relation to protecting the climate and providing reassurances to the next generation that they parents haven't completely self-indulged in old ways of life when the future doesn't belong to them.
I think this film loop discusses the population of the world. Earth does have a carrying capacity and it was the environmentalists in the 1960s that stated, population control was vital to QUALITY OF LIFE. Here again, there is nothing by political rhetoric standing in the way that wants to remove birth control from women. It is one of the most stupid ideas that politicians came up with to try to influence the religious right to "vote for me."
