Driving through the state one cannot help but notice all the solar panel farms that have been constructed. I suppose that in comparison to wind turbines this is a better alternative.\u00a0 They don’t make that low frequency hum and that whup, whup, whup, that I hear can drive some people batty. The wind doesn’t always blow but the sun is always shining. At least in the daytime. And if it isn’t cloudy. They are usually constructed in pre-existing fields so they don’t require 50 to 100 acres of forest to be clear cut and long access roads to be built. As an added bonus it means less space for those methane farting cows.<\/p>\n
Of course I read recently that the carbon credits\u00a0are being sold to Massachusetts and Connecticut. So they can lower their carbon footprint. To keep “our” electric bills down, they say.<\/p>\n
Is My own opinion is that “climate change” and “saving the planet”\u00a0is nothing but an\u00a0excuse for “Progressives” and Democrats to rail against free market capitalism and place more government control on more aspects of our lives and our pocketbooks. What is encouraged now will eventually be mandatory.\u00a0 It’s not going to accomplish a damn thing but they will feel good about themselves, and have\u00a0a little tighter grip on our leashes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Driving through the state one cannot help but notice all the solar panel farms that have been constructed. I suppose that in comparison to wind turbines this is a better alternative.\u00a0 They don’t make that low frequency hum and that whup, whup, whup, that I hear can drive some people batty. The wind doesn’t always …<\/p>\nglobal warming <\/del> climate change real? Of course it is.\u00a0 Why 12,000 years ago the spot where I’m typing right now was under a sheet of ice nearly a mile thick. \u00a0We’ve had the Roman warming period, the Medieval warming period. The little ice age, all before the\u00a0industrial revolution. \u00a0We had global cooling in the 70’s, acid rain in the eighties. Remember “Our trees are dying ” mantra. Today they estimate they’re more trees on the planet then they’re stars in the Milky way and Andromeda galaxies combined. All those trees need CO2 to live.<\/p>\n