(With expanded coverage of all the Western States)
by Patrick Ruckert
www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230727-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf
A Note to Readers
A chorus of voices in the U.S. media, like the chorus on the rest of the Woke agenda, finds that almost every article on drought or weather will at some point in the article state that the author will write, “It is all caused by “climate change.” And a large portion of those articles then promote so-called “renewable energy” as the solution.
This week we take a look at some aspects of this, as I call it, mental disease.
This week’s Feature, “Reply to Charles Benoit: Green Energy Is Not the American System,” discusses the broader economic and financial policy required to be able to ensure the real industrialization of the nation. Within that context, the article takes on the absurdity of focusing our economic policy on building solar power plants.
Two further articles can be found in the section labeled, “What Are the Real Numbers for “Renewable Energy.”
The first is a chart from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) that shows that 12% of U.S. electricity production is produced from “renewable sources” and, of this 12%, 40% is from “biomass.” But biomass is burned to run turbines and doing so produces carbon dioxide.
The second article, which demonstrates the absurdity of building solar production facilities anywhere and everywhere is on the proposal to cover canals with solar panels, producing electricity and reducing evaporation from those canals. Of course, reducing evaporation is a net gain. But there are 4,000 miles of canals in California, and the first “test site” will build just 1.6 miles of canals for a price tax of $20 million. Do the math and we get over $40 billion dollars for just 2,000 miles of canals covered. For that same amount of money we could build 40 desalination plants like the one in Carlsbad CA.
On the drought, of course, we have the U.S. Drought Monitor map for California, and a report from Colorado that the reprieve from drought lasted just two weeks as sections of the state have reverted to drought conditions once again.
The food supply of the nation continues to be threatened by drought. The next section shows that U.S. farmers are raising the fewest beef cows since at least 1971, as drought conditions whittled herds,
The Colorado River, it is claimed, has lost in the last two decades enough water to fill Lake Mead, due to climate change. Despite every study on the topic not making that claim, but more conservatively saying that drought and climate change intensifies water loss and the drought itself.
