Posted by Tina
I wondered over to Anthony’s blog to see “Watts Up” in the world of climate fraud and found an interesting article about the money in the big green scare. Turns out the green conglomerate is even bigger than Wall Street or the 1%:
$1.5-trillion-a-year business! That’s equal to the annual economic activity generated by the entire US nonprofit sector, or all savings over the past ten years from consumers switching to generic drugs. By comparison, annual revenues for much-vilified Koch Industries are about $115 billion, for ExxonMobil around $365 billion.
According to a 200-page analysis by the Climate Change Business Journal, this Climate Industrial Complex can be divided into nine segments: low carbon and renewable power; carbon capture and storage; energy storage, like batteries; energy efficiency; green buildings; transportation; carbon trading; climate change adaptation; and consulting and research. Consulting is a $27-billion-per-year industry that handles “reputation management” for companies and tries to link weather events, food shortages and other problems to climate change. Research includes engineering R&D and climate studies.
And that’s just a start!
Please do yourself and your country a favor and wonder on over to Watts Up With That yourself…the article is a mind blower!
In AZ, many people have taken advantage of the year-round sunshine and have gone to great expense (even with tax credits) of installing solar panels. Any excess electricity generated is a credit on their utility bill.
Now the utility companies are clamoring for big-time fees and surcharges on the solar folks to make up for lost revenue and for “future energy development.” Being a green cost-effective consumer doesn’t always equal “$aving$” when you add in all the fees and surcharges that always seem to pop up after a rate hike request . . . .
Same things is happening California, the utilities want a rate increase because of solar. Since solar has an effective life of about 20 years and it starts a noticeable drop in output around their 15th year what are we going to do with all those dead and dying solar panels? I have heard they don’t recycle well.
Solar modules contain some dangerous materials such as silicon tetrachloride, cadmium, selenium, and sulfur hexafluoride, a potent greenhouse gas. Recycling takes energy too. It’s not going to be cheap to separate the glass and metals for recycling.
Solar modules have an expected lifespan of at least 20 years so most have not yet reached the end of their useful lives. We better come up with a plan and what to do with the e-waste.
The Arizona scam is even worse than Soden described. On my monthly APS bill there is a special charge called “energy recapture.” I had to research that because I don’t have solar panels. What it refers to is not recapturing energy but recapturing profits for APS that they lose because of people who do have the panels. In other words, while my neighbor is bragging about savings, I am paying a continuing subsidy for his use of solar panels.
Energy recapture? Just another to fleece the citizens.
There is so much downside to this scam!
And as Jack points out, new costs seem to arrive daily. What we are already paying is out of sight. “$1.9 trillion per year” is paid by American businesses and families” now just to “comply with mountains of federal regulations.”
Is it any wonder the average American is feeling like he’s losing ground financially?
Anthony Watts’ http://wattsupwiththat.com is an outstanding site for science and climate information and has been the premier site for climate science and news . Anthony’s site has been winning awards for what, over a decade? Anthony and his many climate scientist contributors have been educating me and others for years. I have him on an RSS feed (and Post Scripts too). Announcements for his blog posts can also be seen on Twitter.
Mr. Watts is an intelligent, thoughtful, and deeply decent man and I am proud to say he is also my friend.
Mine too.
I just happened to run into this on Twitter —
Study: German Scientists Conclude 20th Century Warming “Nothing Unusual” …Foresee “Global Cooling Until 2080″
http://notrickszone.com/2015/08/21/study-german-scientists-conclude-20th-century-warming-nothing-unusual-foresee-global-cooling-until-2080/#sthash.NRtJCZNt.6QZHbMZx.dpbs
Completely Off Topic (But Hilarious)
Chris — our resident progressive peanuts gallery wizard on who is racist and racism in the comments section — cannot hold a candle to these folks when it comes to being ridiculous, absurd, and totally whacked.
Ten Things You Didn’t Know Were Racist
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/422819/racist-microaggression-list
Right now I’m very pleased with my solar panels I had installed last August. During the past summer months I was averaging around $350 a month to run the AC, pool and pond filers. Twice during the year I had credit on the books that carried forward to my next month’s bill. Most of my PGE electricity charges has been around $20 since I’m locked in at level one. The highest my solar bill has been $46. Even with the $240 “true up” charge due this month I’ve saved a pot full of money. Just for the four hottest months (June-Sept.) I was paying out $1500.
I didn’t pay for the panels or for the labor to install them. Since they still belong to the solar company anything that goes wrong with them or the roof is their responsibility. When the time comes to replace the roof they will remove and replace them at no cost to me.
Hopefully, someone will resolve the disposal issue before the panels need to be replaced by the next owners. A recycle program much like what we have for cans and bottles and not end up like Yucca Mt. would be nice.
I asked the rep. about a battery storage system that could be run when there is a power outage that would plug directly into the electrical box. Since I can’t get to the plug behind my refrigerator I want a system I can just flip a switch some where. He said he had gone to a regional meeting just days before where what I wanted had been addressed. They were in the developmental stage with experimental homes a year ago.
Peggy you negotiated your solar deal very well, congrats! Savings to individuals is wonderful; I hope it stays that way.
The only problem I can foresee for you, and the rest of us, was pointed out by Soaps…our various governments never lose an opportunity to tax or regulate.
The problems discussed in the article have to do with the big federally supported wind farms. The cost for maintenance and replacement parts will hit taxpayers in the wallet one way or another and for what? A dirty little (Marxist) trick for power and control.
The Article at Anthony’s blog isnlt just about solar panels. It addresses the many costs associated with this scam…trillions each year.
Anthony Watts:
$1.5-trillion-a-year business! That’s equal to the annual economic activity generated by the entire US nonprofit sector, or all savings over the past ten years from consumers switching to generic drugs. By comparison, annual revenues for much-vilified Koch Industries are about $115 billion, for ExxonMobil around $365 billion.
According to a 200-page analysis by the Climate Change Business Journal, this Climate Industrial Complex can be divided into nine segments: low carbon and renewable power; carbon capture and storage; energy storage, like batteries; energy efficiency; green buildings; transportation; carbon trading; climate change adaptation; and consulting and research. Consulting is a $27-billion-per-year industry that handles “reputation management” for companies and tries to link weather events, food shortages and other problems to climate change. Research includes engineering R&D and climate studies.
Isn’t this pretty clearly an example of comparing apples to oranges? Watts admits he is counting pretty much every single activity related to the green industry to get the 1.5 trillion number, but then he compares this number to the profits of just TWO oil companies. How is such a comparison useful? Wouldn’t it be more relevant to compare the profits of the green industry as a whole to the profits of the oil industry as a whole? If he’s gonna count every activity related to green energy, he should also count every activity related to oil. As it stands, it seems obvious to any critical thinker that Watts is attempting to make the profits of the green industry look much bigger than the profits of the oil industry without backing that up with real evidence, and hoping his loyal readers won’t notice the bogus comparison.