Nantucket Needs A New Mayor : Open Those Beaches! 🏖️

 

Instapundit: Nantucket beaches closed due to offshore windturbine failure! and Sue Them!

BREAKING: NEFSA obtained an exclusive photo Monday night of the broken offshore wind turbine that has Nantucket beaches closed during the height of summer - Vineyard Wind claimed the turbine blade was still mostly intact. pic.twitter.com/gkAYrISwew

— NE Fishermen's Stewardship Assoc. (@fishstewardship) July 18, 2024

AoSHQ: Morning Report 07.18.24

BREAKING:

Nantucket windmill company has been revealed to be a major Healey contributor donating to her over 38 times

Is this why they were able to secure the contract so easily?

Now the “green energy” windmill is littering the ocean

Great job Healeyhttps://t.co/lBNgTaZIlD

— Bostonians Against Mayor Wu (@AntiWuCoalition) July 30, 2024

Antarctica's Humming Ice Shelf

Popular Mechanics: The Antarctica wind and the humming Ross Ice Shelf

For Gaia: PETA girls wearing lettuce...

It is all rather silly, but here are PETA protesters wearing lettuce in Manila.

With the USA abandoning the Paris Agreement, and Leo DiCaprio weeping for the future, I can "toss" this for Rule 5. I can't tell if it is bib lettuce, but Let the sun shine in! 

Hot Dog!

Lettuce Babes in Havana

Courtney Stodden, that just doesn't look kosher...

Instapundit: NRO/Kathrine Timpf: Modern Veganism 'completely erases' Trans people? 

EBL: Katherine Timpf: Veganism erasing Trans People

EBL: Jaden Smith's Canada Pancake Horror The price Vegans pay to be virtuous.

Instapundit: Democrats lost on climate change and We need a Terrorism Accord

Proof Positive: Not sure what the big deal is? and Sex in Advertising

The Blaze: Outrage when 'Green' Turbines kill a family of whales

Powerline: Freakout in Paris and Ted Cruz Responds

Powerline: Riding Bare for Clean Air

Woodsterman: Goes Bannanas

Rule 5 and FMJRA

Eagles die so environmentalist can pretend they are supporting "green" power…

Wind power turbines kill eagles and other migratory birds and bats.  Why the double standard?

Breeding pairs of golden eagles can't keep up…

Obama's White House sacrifice eagles for their supporters who benefit in these subsidized industries…  

Warren Buffett admits, wind power only makes sense with tax subsidies.

EBL: Some of us have to sacrifice to be green… (especially the eagles)

Wombat Live at Five : Not so much for the Eagles…

Obama Administration says it is okay for wind farms to kill eagles...

At least for thirty years or so...

Some have to sacrifice to be green...

Sacrificed on alters of green...

Wombat (Live at Five Eight): Obama administration close to giving a decades long extension to Democrat Party Donors wind companies.

Update:
Smitty: Flipping the Benghazi Bird

Turning air and vapor into gasoline?

It sounds too good to be true.  And I am somewhat skeptical.  Assuming it works (and that is assuming a lot), it obviously requires energy to create the fuel (my guess is it requires a significant amount of energy).   For example you can make hydrogen gas fairly easily at home, but while explosive is not very practical as a fuel source (the cost of generating hydrogen outweighs the benefit of creating it).  So they have to prove it can work and they have to show at what cost it will work.  These types of programs have shown up before and have not yet panned out.  But, let's say that is true and the energy requirements are not enormous, this is the sort of process that can make wind and other renewables economical.  The biggest draw back of wind is its intermittent nature and the inability to rely on it for grid electric needs.  But if you could potentially make gasoline economically when the wind is blowing, you can effectively store that energy.

Does this mean I am all for Barack Obama's green programs.  Heck no.  Other than maybe some grants or support of that nature, the government is terrible at this sort of investment picking.  Which is why Obama's crony capitalist green programs like Solyndra failed miserably.  If this process works it will fund itself.  What government needs to do is get out of the way.  Venture capitalists will be all over it.  

Karl Rove supports tax credits for wind energy...

The Architect

Why?  

What possible justification is there for this?   If it cannot work on its own, why would we subsidize it as a matter of policy?  Other than if you have a profound dislike for eagles and bats.  Hmmm, could it be Karl has friends who happen to be connected to this industry?

We have to be watching out not just for Democrats and leftists.  There are plenty of Republicans who do not have our best interests at heart.

We don't need no stinking giant fans... 

Update:
If wind power was such great idea, the IPOs for these companies would dwarf Facebook's (and there would not be a massive sell off the next day).  Ask yourself who benefits from tax deals and subsidies.
Hot Air is wondering why...

Wind Power: It is mighty green...

Wind Power is the future!  

We might want to reconsider big wind generator farms since the "green" will be the dollars going to pay for a far less efficient (and more expensive) system.  Of course Canadian dollars (I did link to Small Dead Animals) are not green but you get the point.  Of course if you know the right people, and happen to have lots of Seimens or GE stock options, wind power can be a very good thing!

Talking about small dead animals:  If a few eagles and bats have to suffer, it is all for the smug satisfaction of being "green."

Update:
Well it is not all bad news:  Soylent Green reports two Pennsylvania bat shredder projects have been scrapped.  

Windmills: Some of us have to sacrifice to be green...even the eagles!

A golden eagle in flight.  Could become extinct in U.S.?

California wind "subsidized" mills (of course)
I am staring to get a new 
perspective on Cervantes...

More dead eagles!  Managed by the federal government!

• Golden eagles being killed by the score by California windmills...
• The Federal government gives permits to allow eagles to die...
• Windmills kill hundreds of thousands of birds each year...
• Where dead eagles go...
• Windmills make no economic sense...
• Windmills kill other animals too...
• Germany is phasing out solar subsidies (they don't make economic sense)
• But not everyone has to sacrifice (like Kennedys and other Cape Cod Lefty Elites)...
• But maybe those Democrat Cape Cod elitists have a point?
• It is good to be a friend of Barack Obama.
• Love among the eco-ruins...
• Small Dead Animals:  What are those towers?
• Obama insider energy deals...
• Althouse has the human price for windmills:  neighbors vs. neighbors
• The Government is giving up on wind energy? 
• Protein Wisdom on Obama's quixotic wind program...
• Smitty at TOM: Rare bird killed by Giant Turbine in Great Britain…birders watch in horror.  
• Instapundit: No Nukes!