I’m thinking back to all those threads about climate change over the past years with members who have long ago pushed away from the tall table.

My point was always that climate change was never as serious an issue as it was made out to be. It was overhyped and use as a weapon by one particular political party, and their partners in the media.

The recent release from the IPCC on climate change proves that out.

My brother and I went for a long motorcycle ride through Central Illinois this weekend, passing a small town called Ballwin Illinois. There’s a massive coal plant there and right next door,  one of the largest solar farms I’ve ever seen. I read up on it when I got back and learned this plant was supposed to close in 2025 but they’re keeping it open until 2027. The corporation that owns the plant bought 400 acres next-door and put up solar panels.

What does that have to do with anything? I’m not sure precisely. One thing it tells me is that the idea of that “Clean energy“ can reliably provide the energy we need on a daily basis, is as flawed as the overhyped IPCC scenarios.



https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/no-rcp85-did-not-become-implausible

I honestly don’t know enough about large solar farms to know their actual effectiveness at delivering energy. We’ve just had nearly 3 days of rain in this area so the output of any solar panels has to be minimal, single digits of what would be expected on a clear day would be my guess.

That’s why the coal plant remains open.

Needles wrote on 05/21/26 at 06:13:06:


So only the, 'old' ones are hazardous.
What percent of panels, are to be considered, 'old' ?
and ALL of the new ones are perfectly safe ?

So the burying of the Wind Propellers,
is perfectly Safe also ??

(Because they cannot be recycled)

A-Yep.
Again the FDS, DFI, WOKE Socialists at work.
TRYING to make this Nation a SHIT HOLE.

Solar and wind are not the cheapest forms of energy in the real world for a very good reason. Their Internet and power sources which means you either have to have energy storage or you have to have traditional power generation services online 24-7.

Energy storage does not exist to fill that role. It just doesn’t. It sounds good in speeches and in the papers but in reality it does not exist in the quantity needed to maintain the level of service we all expect now, and that’s not even counting for the increase energy requirements in the future.

Which means you need traditional power plant operating 24/7.  You just can’t turn a coal plant on in a fraction of a second. That’s why that plant I was referring to did not close because despite the public comments and feel good stories, they knew doggone good and well that if they closed it, there would be a drop off in service.

So every windmill and solar farm that installed it does not decrease energy cost. It only increases it because you still need the other sources in play.

The only long-term solution is nuclear energy. There’s a reason why major companies are investing in modular nuclear reactors.

Needles wrote on 05/22/26 at 04:44:24:


 Row Crop farming is still the vast, Vast, VAST, part of farming.

Their are people that plant, where crops, planted and harvested by hand, are in-between panels.
And their are places where other crops, are Under the panels, because they do not need a lot of sun.

GREAT ideas, use that land for TWO uses !

    And  Yet   Again,
you repeat what you are
TOLD TO SAY !


And ("... Albania, Bhutan, Nepal, Paraguay, Iceland, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo...")

Have the same elect needs that the MAJORITY of other Nations  who have VASTLY more people/elect needs ??????????????