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Online rangerrebew

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Thousands Of Bird Deaths Later, PG&E Cuts Ties With Ivanpah Solar Over High Costs And Failures
by Nick Pope  Feb 4, 2025

One of the most expensive green energy projects ever undertaken in American history looks like it is now on borrowed time after eating up massive amounts of taxpayer dollars and killing thousands of birds. [emphasis, links added]


Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) — a major utility company — announced in January that it is terminating power purchase contracts with the owners of Southwestern California’s Ivanpah Solar Power facility, a massive and unique solar project that received hundreds of millions of subsidy dollars as it launched in 2014.

Just over a decade after it started operations the facility appears to be headed toward its demise after killing thousands of birds because it could not provide the utility with sufficiently cheap energy.

https://climatechangedispatch.com/thousands-of-bird-deaths-later-pge-cuts-ties-with-ivanpah-solar-over-high-costs-and-failures/
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Private free market capitalists selected fossil fuels to power their future because they were the most efficient stores of energy available before the advent of nuclear fission.

Private free market capitalists are waiting for Government to get out of its way to build a cleaner, more affordable, reliable methane-based energy infrastructure.

New England could significantly lower its electricity costs using natural gas, but, the Government is the obstacle to adding pipeline capacity, storage capacity, mid-stream processing capacity, electricity generation capacity.

With the shutdown of nuclear, coal, and oil power plants, and 'renewable energy' failing to deliver, New England's higher cost electricity could mean it will miss out on any AI datacenter booms.

American Government needs to get out of the way of the future before the Chi-coms get there first.
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Oil companies can pay up to $2,000 per bird if it contacts any oil.

If you have solar, one can incinerate countless birds at little cost to you, and wind can chop them up so fine you cannot even find them
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