“Far Left Green Energy über alles,” Say Oregon’s Lunatic Democrats

Portland OR

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“Far-Left Green Energy über alles,” Say Oregon’s Lunatic Socialist Democrats are making another of their Power Gab moves, meteorologist and Oregon State grad Chuck Wiese isn’t buying into it! Just as the national Socialist Democrat Party is chasing their imaginary pot of gold at the end of the flawed green energy rainbow, so too are Oregon’s Socialist Democrats, they`re all-in on wind, solar, and hydroelectric power as the ONLY sources powering Oregon’s electric grid. Here is an excerpt from an Oregon Public Broadcasting report about the Democrats’ plan: Oregon would adopt one of the country’s most ambitious timelines for eliminating carbon dioxide emissions from its power grid under a major bill advocates believe will pass the Legislature this year. House Bill 2021 … sets a timetable by which Oregon’s two major power companies, Portland General Electric and Pacific Power, must eliminate emissions associated with the electricity they provide. HB 2021′s central thrust isn’t groundbreaking by today’s standards. At least 17 other states and the District of Columbia have already adopted similar goals, according to the Clean Energy States Alliance. Advocates say Oregon’s plan stands out in both approach and timeline. The bill requires PGE and Pacific Power to submit plans to reduce emissions by 80% from a baseline amount by 2030, 90% by 2035, and completely eliminate emissions by 2040. Some Oregonians actually understand that science and are aghast that Oregon Democrats are hell-bent on committing “green energy suicide” by dooming the state to dozens of future black outs, brownouts ala California. One of them is meteorologist Chuck Wiese. He sent the below blistering email to his long-time friend Lars Larson, a nationally-syndicated radio talk host, and has graciously consented to having it posted to a wider audience here. This is what he had to say (lightly edited): I thought I’d briefly examine the insanity of Oregon’s political class wanting to convert our electric grid to nothing but hydro and renewables like solar and wind by eliminating coal and natural gas because of the fake claims about these sources causing the climate to change. Never mind that nuclear power would be a great substitute for solar, wind and natural gas, but the environmental nut jobs won’t have any of this either and so far are able to convince the incompetent politicians like Sen. Michael Dembrow (D) and Rep. Karin Powers (D) that these power sources are dangerous and bad for the environment. This is also untrue. Here is a now-defunct link to Oregon’s 2020 electric energy use and production, “State of Oregon Energy Risk Profile.” Before it was taken down (to avoid embarrassing Democrat legislators?), this information was available for perusal: SOURCE ENERGY USED RATED CAPACITY Coal 2.6 TWh.6 GW Hydro 30.3 TWh 8.4 GW Natural Gas 20.9 TWh 4.4 GW Wind & Solar 7.2 TWh 3.8 GW TWh = terawatt-hour (1 terawatt-hour = 3.6 x 10^15 J) GW = gigawatts (10^9 multiple) Total electric energy consumed in 2020 was listed as 51,940 GWh = 1.86984 x 10^17 J Total rated capacity excluding wind and solar is 13.4 GW = 4.22583 x 10^17 J So, without solar and wind, we were at the ratio of these numbers or 1.86984/4.22583 = 44.2% or 44.2% of rated capacity. I don’t have an exact number to estimate the number of electric vehicles that would be charging continuously on the grid given this information, but I think 30% is a reasonable estimate. Using this number, we would have 213,720 vehicles charging continuously and using this power. In one year, that would equal.546604 x10^17 J. If we take this number and add it to the 2020 power consumption, we are then at 2.41644 x10^17J / 4.22583 x10^17 J = 57.2% of rated capacity excluding solar and wind. Now let’s take out coal and natural gas and add solar and wind into the hydro mix as the Oregon Legislature plans: That changes the numbers substantially as we get 2.41644 x 10^17 J / 2.90822 x 10^17 J = 83.1% of rated capacity. Now in this calculation, I did NOT use the rated capacity for solar and wind because the available power NEVER reaches rated capacity. The true capacity is strictly a function of earth latitude and our yearly climate statistics of cloud cover and wind. I compared last year’s generated number of solar and wind to the 2014 table listed below from that link, and the numbers are nearly identical proving the true available generated power is only approximately 22% of the rated maximum, therefore.25920 x 10^17 J for the 2020 year. This should be good for 2030 unless a huge amount of solar and wind is added which will be incredibly expensive, and which would go directly to the cost of generating a kilowatt-hour of energy. And that will blow up in the face of electric vehicle owners as the cost of a Tesla battery re-charge could approach $ 150.00. Right now, PGE is charging 50 cents per kilowatt-hour of electricity. At $2.00 per kilowatt-hour, it would cost $150.00 to charge a Tesla battery for 315 miles MINUS lights, heat and entertainment. Here is the 2014 table. The lesson from all of this is that the total electric consumption in this state will approach 85% of rated capacity if the Oregon Legislature continues to mess up our electric grid as planned. Also remember that this number doesn’t show us the equation that would graph the variable load on the grid through time which would have day time peaks and night time minimums that rises above and below the mean consumption loading for a day. Therefore, even at 85% of capacity, peak loading could "exceed capacity causing brown-outs, black-outs, and electric use we will have government controlled power rationing", just like California has in it`s lack of proper generation of power of wind & solar. Considering what we now know about the Covid-19 power gab lies used to lock us down and attempted forced vaccinations, it is so very clear why the socialist political elite class entertains this insanity. They MUST know that by doing this they will cause the price of electric energy generation to sky-rocket upwards rapidly in addition to creating shortages forced energy rationing. This they apparently love, as it will then become just another opportunity of force control each of us individually by the greedy so very corrupt socialist 1 party rule of tyranny upon us all. By creating electrical power shortages, resulting rationing will lead to programs that determine who gets to drive a car on a certain day, who must use public transportation, as well as what you can set your smart thermostat to for heating or air conditioning – all in the name faults forced view of “savin the planet.” And if you have adequately brainwashed all adults and our youth with the lies they continually are 24/7 told through faults public education and faults propaganda media about the climate (thanks to those incompetents like Michael Mann, Kevin Trenberth, Gavin Schmidt, Phil Mote, etc.), this just might work to keep all in line to their socialists agenda. These people do not care about our standard of living or what they are doing to the dollar and financial system. That is also apparent from their cutting off our energy independence and getting brainwashed radical Board seats occupied by socialist climate loons such as those just seated at Exxon Mobil, as well as assigning ESG (Environmental and Social Governance) scoring and standards to these companies and all others in America. This country has been infected with far-left radical communists in our university system and their ties to important positions in government and the criminal justice system. It’s very plain to for me to see that the Biden regime is deliberately attempting to destroy the economic engine of this country and force us into a globalist system they are inventing on the fly. If they succeed and we don’t stop them now, this is going to have profound consequences to all freedom-loving people and the standard of living throughout the free world. Conclusion. Consider all of the America Last decisions that The Hologram and his minions have taken since Inauguration Day in January in the context of Chuck Wiese’s warning in the last paragraphs of his email above. He is spot on and has summarized the Far-Left’s plan of action aimed at destroying the American economy by substituting totalitarian controls associated with implementing their “Green New Deal” for our free-market economy with abundant and inexpensive energy resources from which we have all benefitted since the US was founded. Is it any wonder that rural counties in Oregon want to secede and join Idaho to escape the inevitable Orwellian dystopia that will result from Oregon`s Socialist Democrats’ green fake dreams?