Jim Bates: Utopia meets reality

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Published: 01-17-2024 3:53 PM

I’m so happy I could cry. Have you ever heard that song?

Well, local activists are crying in Wendell over a proposed battery storage project.

I seem to recall activists in Wendell holding a funeral ritual and praying over tree stumps after they were cut for forest management.

These are also the same activists who were shouting “no pipeline,” “no nukes,” a few years ago. Then they screamed and cheered for solar, solar, solar! Well, utopia meets reality.

Now, the activists do not want a solar battery backup in their backyard.

They want energy to heat their homes, drive their cars, cook food, use their computers, cell phones, and lighting to read chairman Mao’s “Little Red Book.” However, they do not want energy produced from fossil fuels, nuclear, bio and now solar. Unless they live in a cave burning dung and paraffin, everyone else, hospitals, schools, cannabis stores need energy. Fossil fuels are the most consistent and cost-effective source. Nuclear is a true net zero energy.

You don’t get something from nothing.

Apparently, the activists in Wendell think they can.

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