IT TAKES LOTS OF GREEN TO COVER GREEN LOSSES -3, 36, 44*
Posted in Uncategorized by Baba - Oct 30, 2015
Obama just spent another $120 million to shore-up a struggling solar energy boondoggle.
The $2.2 billion Ivanpah Solar project in the Mojave desert, already the beneficiary of 1.6 billion Energy Department dollars, and a $539 million grant from the Treasury Department, has been shown to be producing twice the carbon emissions allowed by Obama’s Cap-and-Trade debacle.
That’s because the plant relies on natural gas as a supplementary fuel. The sales pitch that got the plant approved said they would need about an hour a day of gas to optimize operations. They are actually using about 4.5 hours a day!
As an added bonus to the environment the operation fried 3,500 birds and displaced the entire desert tortoise population in the first year of operation.
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