Thursday, April 25, 2019
Biomass Follies -- Austin, Texas Is The Latest City To Find It Isn't Easy Being Green
Last week, Steve Adler, the mayor of Austin, Texas, announced that city taxpayers would be paying $460 million
for a biomass power plant they’d previously paid $128 million to help
build on top of a yearly payment of $54 million for six years—that
generated electricity for all of two months. The Nacogdoches Generating
Facility in East Texas will likely be mothballed or torn down. How the city of Austin came to own an unused power plant is a tale of willful government foolishness. Austin city officials set a goal of obtaining 65% of the city’s
electricity from renewable sources by 2027. But the wind doesn’t always
blow and the sun doesn’t always shine. Until the challenge of
electricity storage is solved, wind and solar power alone aren’t enough
to keep the lights on...MORE
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Total clowns caught up in the Chicken Little Climate Hysteria Cult........OR........they personally have some sort of financial interest.
Either way......as with most politicians......they need to move along on their way and quit stealing taxpayer money. I DO realize that is a very difficult habit to quit.
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