For almost four decades, nothing the U.S. Congress did reduced any global warming gases. There are no public U.S. technical reviews or milestones that evaluate global warming advances and projections, "renewable" energy performance, national energy policies, global temperature increase, impacts of global warming advancements, funding, cost of Nuclear Regulatory Commission policies, etc. All the planning and costs of "renewable" energy are political special interests frauds of hundreds of billions of dollars and denial that global warming temperature increase exists.
Global warming temperature increase is a response to atmospheric accumulations of human and natural carbon dioxide and methane emission since the 1750 CE start of the industrial revolution. The most important reason the world has not responded to to global warming is the result of the U.S. political machinery suppressing for more than 30-years the expansion of nuclear energy as a replacement energy for the U.S. carbon economy.
Continued Political Support Drive Left Democrat Policies
Rather than loose election support from the political machine faithful, President Obama and left Democrat U.S. Senate are engaged in continuing to producing great economic harm to the U.S. economy. The same is true of reducing global warming temperature increase. Rather than taking steps to save the human races for 2050-2099 CE destruction; through obfuscation President Obama and left Democrat Senate have greatly reduced the probability of human survival from global warming.
Winning the November 2012 election means everything to progressive left Democrat neo communists. President Obama and Senate Democrats have held their election ground by not responding to core left Democrat systemic issues. When questioned, there are no responsible policy or performance rebuttals by Obama or Senators regarding unproductive policies. Left Democrats simply ignore all significant arguments. Democrat politicians dwell upon (or create) derisive issues rather than resolve troubling problems.
During President Clinton January 1993-2001 administration the U.S. communist movement made great strides in organizing winning regional, state, and federal elections. Since the 1990s left Democrat block captains organized progressive groups for “grassroots” election turnouts. The Vietnam War Era U.S. student communists had over time previously established small but significant controls over universities and colleges. Vietnam War Era communist body is well established and remains to this day influential in neo communist politics.
A huge amount of government funding within current federal and state government department accounts are “interdepartmental loaned” to other government departments for use by left Democrat neo-communist special interest projects (some say these “loans” are misappropriation of legislated funds). With left Democrats in power, balancing the books is more like juggling the books. There is no federal budget since 2009 because left Democrat Senate and President Obama move funds to support the communist agenda while denying non communist objectives. Without a federal budget President Obama has been given blank checks to run government. The left Democrat Congress is running the U.S. government with many trillions of dollars given to President Obama over the years by the self serving left Democrats within the U.S. Senate. At best, the political management of the lack of federal budget is fiscally disturbing and lacks accountability.
President Obama is the regulator and controller of all Federal Government funds, there is little accountability for how trillions of government funds are spent. Left Democrats live in a world of limitless energy and money, with unaccountable performance and fiscal management at the heart of left Democrat communist politics.
The drafting of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA 2009) (aka, “stimulus bill”) was done 2007-2009 CE by the left Democrat 111th Congress. The rationale for ARRA was from Keynesian macroeconomic theory which argues that, during recessions, the government should offset the decrease in private spending with an increase in public spending in order to save jobs and stop further economic deterioration.
Keynesian Theory does not produce products. An economic theory that considered increasing national economy through production of tangible goods would be a theory of materialism. President Obama and left Democrat U.S. Senate are so deep into Keynesian Economic practice that they cannot now disengage from federal deficit spending. Left Democrat President Obama and U.S. Senators are caught in an infinite loop (or Möbius strip) of increasing federal spending and debt. If they step out of the loop, there is loss of left Democrat election support. The only solution to political infinite loop spending and debt is to not elect any more left Democrats.
Left Democrats drafted ARRA 2009 in support of radical neo-communist election campaigns. Communist election campaigns are standard practice in Europe. It is just that the U.S. spends billions of dollars upon their elections, which makes the U.S. a unique demagoguery whose elected representatives buy their way into power with the aid of expensive political machinery.
President Obama is a product of a U.S. communist education and progressive “grassroots” community organizing for the Chicago left political machinery. With strong communist organization and union backing, the left Democrats wiped out the Republicans in the November 2008 elections. Since it was originally formed 1993-2001 the left Democrats’ election machines remain intact (never broken up after elections). Communist left Democrats retain a formidable election force because its system for elections is experienced, has a successful track record, has processed billions of elections dollars to buy support, rewards those who obey the commands, has no moral scruples, and has spent trillions of government dollars to promote their candidate causes. The left Democrat election machinery only cares about winning elections, nothing else matters.
History has shown that whatever the left Democrats communists are doing, it will not work in the long-run, and will end in massive failures.
Global Warming Progresses
There are only two sources of clean energy that might curb enough global warming to save the human races: nuclear reactor energy and hydroelectric energy.
In 1992, left Democrat neo communist movement started government investments in “renewable” alternative energies that are still popular with the European-US neo communists. The beginning supporting argument for promoting “renewable” energy was to address the need to reduce carbon dioxide gas and curb global warming temperature increase. What occurred was congressional politicians ignored global efforts to reduce global warming temperature increase and covertly promoted continued expansion of hydrocarbon economies (coal, oil, natural gas). Renewable energy was/is used as a public diversion topic and renewable green energy became a vehicle for political graft, corruption, and waste.
President Obama and the left Democrat neo communists are now caught up in failed European-U.S. economic programs and fundamentally failed “renewable” energy corruption so great that they cannot retreat from U.S. economic destruction and global temperature increases. The self serving neo communist politicians are welded to 1990s U.S. left Democrat congressional energy policies.
The human races are now stuck within Spaceship Earth in a political molasses-like-downward-spiral to its final destruction of human races 2050-2099 CE.
The intentions of U.S. left Democrat neo communists is to increase control over national means of production and economies by owning the “renewable” energy sector, eliminate nuclear energy, and have the government regulate carbon energy production for regional political districts’ of coal, oil, natural gas. The U.S. capability and capacity of nuclear energy to produce necessary clean energy to reduce temperature increase has been eliminated over the last four decades by untoward powerful Congress members. Clean hydroelectric expansion has been unable to expand over the last four decades.
For more than two decades, the Democrat’s political funding and management of multinational “renewable” energy has promoted greed, fraud, lies, waste, and global warming destruction. Joining of European-US neo communist leadership produced effective political control of decades of many trillions of dollars of European-US hydrocarbon energy. While U.S. politicians stopped clean energy nuclear growth for more than three-decades, the German politicians went farther and legislated all nuclear energy shutdown by 2023 CE. German and U.S. politicians alone now consume enough hydrocarbon energy to assure destruction of the human races 2050-2099 CE.
U.S. Energy Policy Act of 1992
After more than 20-years of global warming failure, the left Democrats still retain the same counter productive energy policies of EPAct 1992. Congress repeatedly passed the same alternative renewable energy topics in 1992, 2005, and 2009.
There has never been a U.S. political attempt to save the lives of 9 billion people.
The U.S. left Democrats and Republicans promoted the U.S. Energy Policy Act (EPAct 1992) to avoid (or distract from) necessary reductions of global and U.S. greenhouse gases. The politicians remain determined to keep their districts producing coal, oil, natural gas, and keep the U.S. economy dependent upon a carbon economy. EPAct 1992 formed the core “renewable energy” topics used over the last two decades to deflect the global need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Since the EPAct 1992 under President Clinton, Vice President Gore, and Democrat Congress, the U.S. left Democrats addressed energy efficiency, energy conservation and energy management (Title I), natural gas imports and exports (Title II), alternative fuels and requiring certain fleets to acquire alternative fuel vehicles, which are capable of operating on non-petroleum fuels (Title III-V), electric motor vehicles (Title VI), radioactive waste, coal power and clean coal (Title XIII), renewable energy, and other issues. It reformed the Public Utility Holding Company Act and amended parts of the Federal Power Act of 1935 (Title VII).
Title III of the EPAct 1992 addresses “alternative fuels” (ethanol, propane, and electricity, in cars and light trucks). It gave the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) administrative power to regulate the minimum number of light duty alternative fuel vehicles acquired in certain federal fleets beginning in fiscal year 1993. Major amendments to the EPAct 1992 are the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in 1989 established a new licensing process: 10 CFR Part 52. Congress affirmed and strengthened the new licensing process as part of the Energy Policy Act (EPAct 1992). To politically suppress nuclear energy and increase U.S. hydrocarbon energy production, congressional politicians unnecessary increased the costs of building new nuclear energy on the pretext of nuclear "safety" regulations imposed by the politicians and lawyers of the NRC. Nuclear politics of Congress and the NRC members have contributed greatly to increasing U.S. global warming greenhouse gas emissions.
Among many changes the EPAct 1992 effectively deregulated electric utilities, created energy mandates, and in Section 801 directed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate radiation protection standards for the DOE’s Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. In 2009, President Obama and congressional political machinery took over the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) membership and also shut down the completed Yucca Mountain geologic nuclear repository to add to preventing further nuclear development. The EPAct 1992 directed the federal government to decrease energy consumption in federal buildings when feasible, and to integrate the use of alternative fuel vehicles in federal and state fleets. Title XXII in the EPAct 1992 authorized tax incentives and marketing strategies for renewable energy technologies in an effort to encourage commercial sales and production. The untoward Congress members have held fast to the the same unproductive energy policies since 1992, for more than two decades. There have been no reductions of U.S. global warming greenhouse gases resulting from any U.S. energy act.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has not identified how much the EPAct 1992 reduced U.S. global warming gas emissions. It is the U.S. self serving congressional members for MORE THAN the last two decades who have created the downfall of human races by repeating the same failed political energy process for more than 20-years.
U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005
The Energy Policy Act (EPAct 2005) is a bill passed by U.S. Congress Republicans and Democrats on July 29, 2005. The act, described by proponents as an attempt to combat growing (undefined) energy problems, changed U.S. energy policy by providing tax incentives and loan guarantees for energy production of various types of alternative renewable green energy, and increased required corn ethanol. The Act is Republican and is less renewable energy aggressive, but did not result in any U.S. reduction in global warming gases.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) review of the conference version of the 2005 bill estimated the EPAct 2005 would increase direct spending by $2.2 billion over the 2006-2010 periods and by $1.6 billion over the 2006-2015 periods. In addition, the CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that the legislation would reduce revenues by $7.9 billion over the 2005-2010 periods and by $12.3 billion over the 2005-2015 periods. Total revenue reduction and spending is $16.1 billion. The CBO noted that the bill could have additional effects on discretionary spending, but did not attempt to estimate those effects. Major amendments to EPAct 2005 are the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
The CBO has not identified how much the EPAct 2005 reduced U.S. global warming gas emissions.
U.S. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA 2009) and passed by President Obama and left Democrat House and Senate, is commonly referred to as the $850 billion “Stimulus” or “The Recovery Act” that is an economic stimulus package enacted by the United States Congress in February 2009. Drafting of the bill was done 2007-2008 CE.
Some ARRA Energy Project Background Information
There is no accounting for state level spending of ARRA (2009) monies.
The White House has said ARRA (2009) contained $90 billion in renewable alternative green energy funds. Wikipedia lists $48.7 billion of ARRA (2009) alternatives to energy; $27.2 billion energy efficiency, renewable energy research, and investments and total $21.5 billion for energy infrastructure.
U.S. neo communists funded $27.2 billion into useless green renewable energy while U.S. strategic need for scientific research only received a total of $7.6 billion. As with the trillions of dollars, there is no fiscal or performance government accountability of alternative renewable green energy. Like many of the left Democrat communist programs, a stimulus check around $850 billion was given to President Obama by the Democrat House and Senate; there has been little accountability of money spent by left Democrat neo communists. President Obama spends government funds as he wants to.
The left Democrat neo communists have disdain for sciences and engineering (sometimes scientific conclusion are directly opposite of political policies, therefor sciences are suppressed). The Democrat’s communist agenda freely uses other people’s money unhindered by facts or logic or science. Left Democrat politicians funding of school sciences and hard sciences is undesirable for neo communists because science programs draw funds away for social programs. America has no science or education future while neo-communists Senators and President remain in political offices.
The costs of the U.S. "renewable green" programs are huge. There have been no programmed reduction of global warming temperature increase.
Left Democrat neo communist energy WAST, FRAUD, and CORRUPTION of “loans,” “grants,” and “investments” into green alternative to energy are a significant part of the final American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. It takes a huge amount of taxpayer funding and debt to satisfy this neo communist political base.
As a diversion to the real problem of global warming temperature increase, President Obama and other neo communists have invested in a social program called “renewable energy.”
The Department of Energy states that President Obama’s goal is to generate 80% of our U.S. electricity from “renewable” energy by 2035. It is an impossible goal. By 2035, global warming temperature exceeds +2oC above preindustrial temperatures, atmospheric carbon exceeds 450 ppm, the global carbon budget exceeding-infrastructure was “locked-in” in 2017 CE, and with a temperature rise to exceed +5 oC; there is no hope for human races 2050-2099 CE survival.
2009 CE ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY RESEARCH AND INVESTMENT, Total: $27.2 billion
NOTE: All of the technologies below are old technologies that are in limited use or have previously proposed and rejected over the past 100 years. If there were any greater technologies here, capitalism would have already been using the energy technology and making it better. Although funding for below items have been on the books since 1992, none of the below have produced significant reductions in U.S. greenhouse gases.
● $6 billion for renewable energy and electric transmission technologies loan guarantees for solar, wind, and “smart national grid.” Smart national grid does not work.
● $5 billion for weatherizing modest-income homes
● $3.4 billion for carbon capture and low emission coal research
● $3.2 billion toward Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants
● $3.1 billion for the State Energy Program to help states invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy
● $2 billion for manufacturing of advanced car battery (traction) systems and components
● $800 million for biofuel research, development, and demonstration projects
● $602 million to support the use of energy efficient technologies in building and in industry
● $500 million for training of green-collar workers (by the Department of Labor)
● $400 million for the Geothermal Technologies Program (GTP). Cost of megawatt of Neal Hot Springs geothermal is two to three times more than natural gas electricity.
● $400 million for electric vehicle technologies
● $300 million for energy efficient appliance rebates
● $300 million for state and local governments to purchase energy efficient vehicles
● $300 million to acquire electric vehicles for the federal vehicle fleet (GSA)
● $250 million to increase energy efficiency in low-income housing
● $204 million in funding for research and testing facilities at national laboratories
● $190 million in funding for wind, hydro, and other renewable energy projects
● $115 million to develop and deploy solar power technologies. Solyndra is a bankrupt $535-million solar panel manufacturer. There will be more government failed “green energy” businesses.
● $110 million for the development of high efficiency vehicles
● $42 million in support of new deployments of fuel cell technologies
2009 CE ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE, Total: $21.5 billion
● $6 billion for the cleanup of radioactive waste (mostly nuclear weapons production sites) IF “NUCLEAR WEAPONS CLEANUP” WAS EVER NEEDED IT IS NOW NO LONGER NEEDED – THIS IS PORK BARREL FUNDING WASTE
● $4.5 billion is allotted to the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE). As outlined in the legislation, these funds are provided as “investment in a nationwide plan to modernize the electric grid, enhance security of U.S. energy infrastructure, and ensure reliable electricity delivery to meet growing demand” and build Obama’s smart national grid. The OE is a new private/government Regional Entity responsible for coordinating and promoting bulk electric system reliability in the Western Interconnection. Western Interconnection Synchrophasor Program (WISP or DOE NASPI) includes Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) and involves 18 partners. THE SYNCHROPHASOR “SMART GRID” PROGRAM APPLICATION FOR CONNECTING SOLAR AND WIND FARMS TO BASE LOAD GRID HAS NEVER WORKED LARGE SCALE. Before funding billions of dollars get the electrical systems working to specifications. If the system does not work, do provide funds to build it larger.
Expanding high voltage transmission lines is designed to expand Mid West coal electrical electrical production and transport the carbon energy via high voltage lines to the Pacific Coast.
● $3.25 billion for the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) for power transmission system upgrades is PORK BARREL FUNDING. WAPA appears to be a private/government funding administrator of federal funds for under defined political projects. Expanding high voltage transmission lines is designed to expand coal electrical electrical production and transport the carbon energy to the Pacific Coast.
● $3.25 billion for the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) for power transmission system (smart western grid) upgrades PORK BARREL FUNDING. Congress created BPA in 1937 to deliver and sell the power from Bonneville Dam, Oregon. Expanding high voltage transmission lines is designed to expand coal electrical electrical production and transport the carbon energy to the Pacific Coast.
● $4.5 billion to increase energy efficiency in federal buildings (GSA) LOW OR NO GLOBAL WARMING RETURN ON INVESTMENT
The CBO has not identified how much the ARRA (2009) reduced U.S. global warming gas emissions.
Politics to The End
For more than two decades alternative renewable green energy has been used by politicians to deflect necessary national shifts from hydrocarbon economies of coal, oil, and natural gas. For more than four decades congressional politicians have suppressed new nuclear development to increase use of hydrocarbon energy from congressional voter districts. The only economies that might permit survival of human races past 2050-2099 CE are the nuclear and hydroelectric economies.
When confronted with the review of global warming temperature, President Obama does nothing to correct the deadly results. Left Democrat U.S. Senators follow President Obama’s election lead and are also non responsive. Political greed, fraud, corruption, and untoward policies no longer matter for the Washington political machine. The politicians will delay global warming responses until people in the U.S. are frying eggs in the streets from global warming temperature increase. However, because of carbon-budget infrastructure lock-in, by 2017 CE there will be no need to respond to global warming -- energy responses will be too late to save anyone.
Total U.S. energy: nuclear electric is 8%, conventional hydroelectric power 2.7%, coal 23%, natural gas 23%, and petroleum 40%. Nuclear energy produces about 20% of U.S. electrical energy. The core global warming task is to reduce global energy share of coal, natural gas, and petroleum, to be replaced with hydrocarbon free nuclear and hydroelectric energy.
The price of correcting global warming temperature increase is high. The price of not doing so is much greater.
Unless there is change, all those who are not yet born, and those who are now children and young adults under the age of 30-years, shall die 2050-2099 CE (more like 2050-2055 CE), ending the 160 thousand year journey of mankind.
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Global Warming - 2009-2010 Washington DC
The European-U.S. years of “renewable alternative green energy” drive was further enabled by withholding permitting for U.S. expansion of nuclear energy and Germany leadership shutdown of its nuclear energy facilities. U.S. politicians, insiders, special interests, and global criminals all had/have access to U.S. renewable green energy funding; specifically, renewable energy political corruption of renewable green energy funding under US$ 90 billions of the $850 billion ‘American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’ (ARRA 2009).
Added to the problems of political promotion of renewable energy crime, corruption, and special interests is the decades of information suppressed regarding the direct 260-year impact of both human and natural carbon dioxide emissions and direct impact of natural methane emissions. Arctic Region methane and carbon dioxide emissions have been increasing since 1750 CE to the point of noticeable human induced global warming impact. The combination of natural and human greenhouse gas accumulations influences global temperature increase produces a clear “thumbprint” of human impacts on climate change. A positive temperature regenerative feedback loop was and continues to be established within Arctic Region methane. Coincidentally the global carbon budget is reaching a 2017 CE saturation point. Unless there is a quick and effective political response to combined atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide and methane, there result a global warming temperature increase that terminates human life 2050-2099 CE.
White collar political criminal activity has a long history within the U.S. Its activity rises and falls with political supplies of legislated funding. To one degree or another politicians are aware of political corrupting of the legislation system, but turn away from correcting (or reporting) criminal activity. Because government white collar crimes are part of political systems, prostitution for internal sponsored political fraud is difficult. For politicians it is better to sleep with criminals than it is act against self interests or come out and act for the best interests of humanity.
Renewable green energy is about US$ 90 billions within the ‘American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’ (ARRA 2009). Renewable energy legislated “Stimulus” is systemically flawed; criminal monies are non recoverable; funding is (mostly) legally legislated and processed. Political white collar crime has been around longer than U.S. criminal mafia activity, and before the 1980s rise of the U.S. illegal drug industry. U.S. illegal drug industry is backed by drug cartels and has U.S. political support. Concealment and billions of dollars in money laundering of political white collar crime uses similar procedures as used by organized crime: front companies, legal companies, international trading, bank transfers, poor/fraudulent contracting, kickbacks, over charging, collusion, redundant funding, systems of government non accountability, etc. Multinational carbon cap-and-trade markets are trading paper, which requires that the whole political European-U.S. system of renewable green energy to be investigated.
Since the 1990s, wind, solar, geothermal, and alcohol fuels (corn ethanol) are developed as corruption schemes for politicians to channel US$ 100s of billions dollars government money to special interests while controlling political special interest US$ trillions within national hydrocarbon economies. The pretext is that renewable energy investments are a solution to global warming temperature increase. For more than three decades the pretext for not building nuclear facilities is that nuclear facilities are “unsafe.” The reality is green energy, hydrocarbon energy, and political special interests destroyed human races while nuclear energy could save human races.
U.S. Global Warming Foundation Legislation
UN’s ‘Earth Summit’ formed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992. The UN Kyoto Protocol is an agreement of UNFCCC. Significant U.S. legislated with presumed support of the 1992 UN Earth Summit: U.S. ‘Energy Policy Act’ (1992), ‘Energy Policy Act’ (2005), and ‘American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’ (ARRA 2009).
Example of Direct and Indirect Energy Funding Impacts
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) review of the conference version of the 2005 bill estimated the ‘Energy Policy Act’ would “increase direct spending” by $2.2 billion over the 2006-2010 periods and by $1.6 billion over the 2006-2015 periods. In addition, the CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that the legislation would “reduce revenues” by $7.9 billion over the 2005-2010 periods and by $12.3 billion over the 2005-2015 periods. Energy Policy Act total direct and indirect costs are many billions. The CBO noted that the bill could have “additional effects on discretionary spending,” but did not attempt to estimate those effects. That was for a Congressional relatively small budget bill compared to the mother of funding bills, the ‘American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’ (ARRA 2009).
Some ‘American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’ (ARRA) 2009 Renewable Green Energy Examples of Concern
The act, described by proponents as an attempt to combat growing (undefined) energy problems, changed US energy policy by providing tax incentives and loan guarantees for energy production of various non standard types. The rationale for ARRA was from Keynesian macroeconomic theory which argues that, during recessions, the government should offset the decrease in private spending with an increase in public spending in order to save jobs and stop further economic deterioration. In the case of Keynesian-global-warming, U.S. legislation transferred wealth without producing a product that can decrease the global temperature increase.
The 2009 CE left Democrat Congress legislated ARRA 2009 as a blank check to be filled in by President Obama. There is to be an in depth accounting of the more than US$ 90 billion 2009-2010 CE global warming renewable energy expenditures and performance.
Tempus Fugit
Left Democrat administration continues to tinker with government departments’ data and the reporting of national energy and global warming. All U.S. federal government data and reporting are now considered unreliable. Much of university and college global warming R&D is controlled by left Democrats through control of state and federal government grants and funding. Colleges, universities, and government departments’ reporting is considered unreliable when it comes to left Democrat foundation topics and social history. The Internet has and is being falsified to favor the causes of left Democrats. Internet attacks are mounted against individuals whose expressed options that conflict with established political funding procedures. Media corporations are extremely politically biased, oriented to presenting the public with unrealistic biased views. A significant amount of left Democrat smoke and mirrors political misdirections has been directed at building up U.S. special interest funding for expanding “renewable alternative green energy.” In effect, since the early 1990s, left Democrat leadership are the cause of delaying real global warming responses.
With the exception of expanding nuclear power, all other U.S. national energy proposals and policies are NOT viable. U.S. and global energy policies simply do not reflect real clean energy needs and real energy growth demands. Life-cycle process of all human energies (except nuclear energy and hydroelectric) emit large amounts of human carbon dioxide and natural methane.
Since first global warming awareness of the 1960s, a great deal of necessary response time has passed, but there is still hope for changes to global warming temperature increase. Politicians just have to soon find the time and funding to alter established global warming course of events.
Added to the problems of political promotion of renewable energy crime, corruption, and special interests is the decades of information suppressed regarding the direct 260-year impact of both human and natural carbon dioxide emissions and direct impact of natural methane emissions. Arctic Region methane and carbon dioxide emissions have been increasing since 1750 CE to the point of noticeable human induced global warming impact. The combination of natural and human greenhouse gas accumulations influences global temperature increase produces a clear “thumbprint” of human impacts on climate change. A positive temperature regenerative feedback loop was and continues to be established within Arctic Region methane. Coincidentally the global carbon budget is reaching a 2017 CE saturation point. Unless there is a quick and effective political response to combined atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide and methane, there result a global warming temperature increase that terminates human life 2050-2099 CE.
White collar political criminal activity has a long history within the U.S. Its activity rises and falls with political supplies of legislated funding. To one degree or another politicians are aware of political corrupting of the legislation system, but turn away from correcting (or reporting) criminal activity. Because government white collar crimes are part of political systems, prostitution for internal sponsored political fraud is difficult. For politicians it is better to sleep with criminals than it is act against self interests or come out and act for the best interests of humanity.
Renewable green energy is about US$ 90 billions within the ‘American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’ (ARRA 2009). Renewable energy legislated “Stimulus” is systemically flawed; criminal monies are non recoverable; funding is (mostly) legally legislated and processed. Political white collar crime has been around longer than U.S. criminal mafia activity, and before the 1980s rise of the U.S. illegal drug industry. U.S. illegal drug industry is backed by drug cartels and has U.S. political support. Concealment and billions of dollars in money laundering of political white collar crime uses similar procedures as used by organized crime: front companies, legal companies, international trading, bank transfers, poor/fraudulent contracting, kickbacks, over charging, collusion, redundant funding, systems of government non accountability, etc. Multinational carbon cap-and-trade markets are trading paper, which requires that the whole political European-U.S. system of renewable green energy to be investigated.
Since the 1990s, wind, solar, geothermal, and alcohol fuels (corn ethanol) are developed as corruption schemes for politicians to channel US$ 100s of billions dollars government money to special interests while controlling political special interest US$ trillions within national hydrocarbon economies. The pretext is that renewable energy investments are a solution to global warming temperature increase. For more than three decades the pretext for not building nuclear facilities is that nuclear facilities are “unsafe.” The reality is green energy, hydrocarbon energy, and political special interests destroyed human races while nuclear energy could save human races.
U.S. Global Warming Foundation Legislation
UN’s ‘Earth Summit’ formed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992. The UN Kyoto Protocol is an agreement of UNFCCC. Significant U.S. legislated with presumed support of the 1992 UN Earth Summit: U.S. ‘Energy Policy Act’ (1992), ‘Energy Policy Act’ (2005), and ‘American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’ (ARRA 2009).
Example of Direct and Indirect Energy Funding Impacts
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) review of the conference version of the 2005 bill estimated the ‘Energy Policy Act’ would “increase direct spending” by $2.2 billion over the 2006-2010 periods and by $1.6 billion over the 2006-2015 periods. In addition, the CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that the legislation would “reduce revenues” by $7.9 billion over the 2005-2010 periods and by $12.3 billion over the 2005-2015 periods. Energy Policy Act total direct and indirect costs are many billions. The CBO noted that the bill could have “additional effects on discretionary spending,” but did not attempt to estimate those effects. That was for a Congressional relatively small budget bill compared to the mother of funding bills, the ‘American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’ (ARRA 2009).
Some ‘American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’ (ARRA) 2009 Renewable Green Energy Examples of Concern
The act, described by proponents as an attempt to combat growing (undefined) energy problems, changed US energy policy by providing tax incentives and loan guarantees for energy production of various non standard types. The rationale for ARRA was from Keynesian macroeconomic theory which argues that, during recessions, the government should offset the decrease in private spending with an increase in public spending in order to save jobs and stop further economic deterioration. In the case of Keynesian-global-warming, U.S. legislation transferred wealth without producing a product that can decrease the global temperature increase.
● $6 billion for renewable energy and electric transmission technologies loan guarantees for solar, wind, and “smart national grid.”
● $6 billion for the cleanup of radioactive waste (mostly nuclear weapons production sites). This $6 billion useless spending and is a promotion of anti nuclear corruption and payoffs to PORK BARREL political special interests.
● $4.5 billion to the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE) as outlined in the legislation.
● $4.5 billion to increase energy efficiency in federal buildings (GSA)
● $3.25 billion for the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) for power transmission system “smart grid.” Political power transition is intended to expand the hydrocarbon industry.
● $3.25 billion for the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) for power transmission system (smart SYNCHROPHASOR western grid)
● $3.4 billion for carbon capture and low emission coal research
● $3.2 billion toward Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants
● $3.1 billion for the State Energy Program to help states invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy.
● $2 billion funding for manufacturing of advanced car battery-traction systems and components.
● $800 million funding for biofuel research, development, and demonstration projects
● $602 million is to support the use of energy efficient technologies in buildings and within industry.
● $400 million funding for the Geothermal Technologies Program (GTP)
● $400 million for electric vehicle technologies
● $300 million for state and local governments to purchase energy efficient vehicles
● $300 million to acquire electric vehicles for the federal vehicle fleet (GSA)
● $204 million is insignificant funding for research and testing facilities at the well managed U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratories and Technology Centers.
● $190 million in funding for wind, hydro, and other renewable energy projects
● $115 million is part of billions of dollars to develop and deploy solar power technologies in the solar panel industry.
● $110 million is for the development of high efficiency vehicles.
The 2009 CE left Democrat Congress legislated ARRA 2009 as a blank check to be filled in by President Obama. There is to be an in depth accounting of the more than US$ 90 billion 2009-2010 CE global warming renewable energy expenditures and performance.
Tempus Fugit
Left Democrat administration continues to tinker with government departments’ data and the reporting of national energy and global warming. All U.S. federal government data and reporting are now considered unreliable. Much of university and college global warming R&D is controlled by left Democrats through control of state and federal government grants and funding. Colleges, universities, and government departments’ reporting is considered unreliable when it comes to left Democrat foundation topics and social history. The Internet has and is being falsified to favor the causes of left Democrats. Internet attacks are mounted against individuals whose expressed options that conflict with established political funding procedures. Media corporations are extremely politically biased, oriented to presenting the public with unrealistic biased views. A significant amount of left Democrat smoke and mirrors political misdirections has been directed at building up U.S. special interest funding for expanding “renewable alternative green energy.” In effect, since the early 1990s, left Democrat leadership are the cause of delaying real global warming responses.
With the exception of expanding nuclear power, all other U.S. national energy proposals and policies are NOT viable. U.S. and global energy policies simply do not reflect real clean energy needs and real energy growth demands. Life-cycle process of all human energies (except nuclear energy and hydroelectric) emit large amounts of human carbon dioxide and natural methane.
Since first global warming awareness of the 1960s, a great deal of necessary response time has passed, but there is still hope for changes to global warming temperature increase. Politicians just have to soon find the time and funding to alter established global warming course of events.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Global Warming POLITICS (Part 2) U.S. Renewable Energy Fraud
Rev 01 Jan 2012
Understanding special interest maneuvering within the seventeen sessions of the UN Conference of the Parties (COP) talks, there must first be acceptance that the talks (and all further talks) will fail to reduce global warming temperature increase. We are in fact looking at the continued collapse of human races resulting from increased populations, excessive use of hydrocarbon fuel (coal, oil, and natural gas), accelerating increases of atmospheric methane, with exceptional high corruption within governments and in subsidized “renewable energy,” “carbon-cap-and trade,” and wealth transfer schemes to “poor” national leaders.
Carbon-intensive infrastructure, including power stations, buildings, and factories, planned over the next five years will lock the world into a high-emissions trajectory (“business as usual”). If emissions do not plateau by 2020 and rapidly decline thereafter, the 2 degree C target will slip out of reach. The consequences of exceeding global warming tripping points are very severe. Small groups of life not destroyed 2050-2099 shall be quickly destroyed in 2100 plus.
December 2011, regarding the failure of 2009 Copenhagen COP15 conference environmentalist Joss Garman wrote: "...In a single day, in a single space, a spectacle was played out in front of a disbelieving audience of people who have read and understood the stark warnings of humanity's greatest scientific minds. And what they witnessed was nothing less than the very worst instincts of our species articulated by the most powerful men who ever lived."
President Obama's determination to redirect billions in foreign aid dollars to "climate change" programs to promote “green economies” around the world contrasts dramatically with his domestic drive for cosmetic green jobs. Obama says he wants to use U.S. taxpayer subsidies to fund job creation in environmental industries, but overseas, Obama’s plan seems to mean limiting economic growth and imposing “green welfare” on developing economies. A global ideological effort is at play to impose a radical climate social agenda on the developing world at the behest of left Democrat “green” environmentalist groups. Obama’s White House as stated in December 12, 2011, that "The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA 2009) also included over $90 billion in clean energy investments." None of President Obama's planning or funding involves addressing global warming temperature increase. None of Obama’s invested $90 billion has or will produce any reduction in greenhouse gases or reduction in global warming temperature.
Most of the important global warming negotiators are no more than mouthpieces for self-serving “world leaders” who have greater interests in maintaining corruption of many US$100s billions while satisfying carbon economies special interests. These “world leaders” do not care that their families, as well as all other families will perish 2050-2099. Thanks to the abysmal and unforgivable failures over 20-years of the world’s leadership, the throwing under the buss of nine billion people shall happen in order to continue feeding the needs of “world leaders” drive for corruption and continuing global warming special interest of US$100s billions per year. It is not that the professional global warming negotiators at all seventeen Conference of the Parties (COP) meetings do not know of the connections between global warming, death of human race 2050-2099, corruption, and their untoward world leader bosses, negotiators know connections and what their job is. The problem with negotiators is that world leader bosses require allegiance to who is boss. Negotiators do what the boss tells them to do. Global politics has expanded corruption to become global evil. Ask God to save us because no world leader politician shall. Self-serving politicians are the global warming problem and they are not part of the solution.
For more than two decades, the Left Democrat’s political funding and management of “renewable” energy has promoted greed, fraud, lies, waste, and global warming destruction. The sole function of the 2009-2010 Congress was to advance neo communism. The joining of EU-US neo-communist leadership and effective control of most energy has assured global warming destruction of the human races 2050-2099.
Within the text of global warming sciences, it is not always clear as to what “carbon” level is. Methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) global warming atmospheric gases are part of equivalent carbon dioxide (CO2-eq) levels. When computing atmospheric global warming, both methane and carbon dioxide levels are taken into consideration as “carbon” (along with other important factors). The “carbon (C) level” is not part of the global warming potential (GWP) equation. However, carbon (C) in different areas of global warming temperature increase is an important factor.
Caused by excessive human carbon dioxide emissions since 1750 Christian Era (CE) and resulting methane emissions - Earth's Modern Global Warming is similar to End-Permian Mass Extinction (252.28 Ma). A major difference between Moder Global Warming temperature increase and End-Permian is that current temperature increase during the beginning stages is about 10 times faster than the End-Permian Mass Extinction.
Historical Earth’s natural interglacial temperature cycles resulting carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) levels are of interests. Of great influence to “natural warming cycles” is the well understood Milankovitch Cycle changes of the sun’s global warming strength.
“Natural” earth temperature ~100,000-year interglacial cycles are no longer occurring. Resulting from human activity since 1750 CE, global warming greenhouse gases have increased very-dramatically. The curve of global warming gas increase is a “hockey stick curve.” Current ice-core methane content is well above the normal Milankovitch Earth orbital variation interglacial temperature cycle. Since pre industrial times, the concentrations of greenhouse gases has increased significantly. The greenhouse gas increased above natural global warming concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) is increased ~39% and methane (CH4) concentration is increased ~164%. The 1750 CE greenhouse concentrations levels were historic interglacial carbon dioxide peak levels of ~280 ppm and interglacial methane peak levels of ~700 ppb. Present concentrations levels are carbon dioxide (~390 ppm) and methane (~1,850 ppb).
Methane clathrate (or methane hydrates) results from millions of years of natural leaking oil and natural gas deposits and coal fields with aerobic bacteria degradation of organic compounds in low oxygen environments under reduced temperature and increased pressure. Methane clathrate can initiate a positive carbon/methane feedback cycle and resulting “methane clathrate gun effect.” The clathrate gun is the popular name given to the hypothesis that rises in sea temperatures can trigger the sudden release of methane from methane clathrate compounds buried in cold seabed and permafrost. Because methane itself is a powerful greenhouse gas, methane leads to further regional and global temperature rise and further methane clathrate destabilization. Methane (CH4) (about 85% of natural gas) is about 105 times worse than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas (GHG) over a 20-year period and taking aerosol impacts into account. In effect, initiating a methane clathrate gun runaway process is irreversible once started, as is the firing of a gun. When the methane clathrate gun triggers, Earth’s temperature quickly rises tens of degrees. The Arctic/Antarctic methane clathrate gun is one of several MAJOR global warming “trip points.”
Ultimately, the latest scientific understanding of climate change allied with current emissions trends and a commitment to limiting average global temperature increases to below two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels demands a radical re-framing of both the global warming agenda, and the economic characterization of contemporary carbon based economic society. Up until now, national politicians and world leaders have critically delayed responses to global warming temperature increase.
The most distinctive nature of global warming temperature increase is that human races are to die 2050-2099 unless global economies soon shift to carbon neutral economies. The only global energy that has the energy capacity to save human races is a swift buildup of nuclear energy that replaces carbon energies coal, oil, and natural gas.
Until U.S. politicians accept the fact that global warming is their responsibility, there is no saving of human races 2050-2099.
U.S. Energy Policy Act of 1992 - There are many Congressional ‘energy acts’ and legislated bills. Presented are three major energy acts of 1992, 2005, and 2009. Since the U.S. Energy Policy Act of 1992 under President Clinton, Vice President Gore, and Democrat Congress, the U.S. left Democrats addressed energy efficiency, energy conservation and energy management (Title I), natural gas imports and exports (Title II), alternative fuels and requiring certain fleets to acquire alternative fuel vehicles, which are capable of operating on non-petroleum fuels (Title III-V), electric motor vehicles (Title VI), radioactive waste (Title VIII), coal power and clean coal (Title XIII), renewable energy (Title XII), and other issues. It reformed the Public Utility Holding Company Act and amended parts of the Federal Power Act of 1935 (Title VII).
Title III of the 1992 Energy Policy Act addresses “alternative fuels” (ethanol, propane, and electricity, in cars and light trucks). It gave the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrative power to regulate the minimum number of light duty alternative fuel vehicles acquired in certain federal fleets beginning in fiscal year 1993. Major amendments to the Energy Policy Act of 1992 are the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and the later American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.
Corn ethanolethanol was the political substitute for gasoline oxygenate blending compounds such as MTBE or ETBE. Corn ethanol is an expensive destructive agriculture product affecting all consumers and taxpayers, whose political usefulness is destroying the environment, food sources, waterways, depletes the Ogallala Aquifer reserves, produces hypoxia in water ways, destroys marine life in the Gulf of Mexico, increases cost of goods, uses coal, and degrades gasoline power equipment. In 2005, Congress passed Energy Policy Act (2005), which mandated the incorporation of 7 billion gallons of corn-based ethanol into the American fuel supply. With the Energy Policy Act of 2007, Congress passed legislation to require by 2022, an additional 21 billion gallons a year of ethanol, or other biofuels. Current U.S. renewable fuels policies are artificially manipulating corn prices and putting a heavy strain on global corn supplies. With enactment of the “American Clean Energy and Security Act” (2009), the left Democrats are “requiring retail electricity suppliers” to burn corn-ethanol in electrical power plants and provide carbon “cap-and-trade credits” for destroying the U.S. environment and economy. U.S. corn ethanol is made by extracting sugar from corn, an energy-intensive process. In 2010, the U.S. corn ethanol to feed cars industry will consume about 41 percent of the U.S. corn crop, or 15 percent of the global corn crop.
U.S. National Energy Plan 2000 to 2011 - The only U.S. energy plan promoted since the 1992 ‘Earth Summit’ formed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is to create “alternative renewable energy” while phasing out the much superior nuclear energy sources. President Obama, left Democrat congressional leadership, and crony special interests define the U.S. national energy plan. High-handed regulation, best exemplified by Obama’s failed cap-and-trade legislation, promptly followed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) trying to impose the same conventional-energy-killing agenda by administrative means. The only purpose of these programs is to increase the cost of U.S. energy and increase profits of coal, oil, and natural gas producers.
To date, the Obama and congressional left Democrat energy plan is to increase the cost of energy, stop domestic offshore oil drilling, stop Gulf of Mexico oil drilling, stop the Keystone north-south oil pipeline, build expensive capacity-limited “renewable energy,” expand required use of “alternative energy” ethanol, phase out of U.S. nuclear energy by closing down Yucca Mountain geologic repository, strangle the nuclear energy sector with Nuclear Energy Commission (NRC) anti nuclear regulations, give to China highly valuable Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactor technology, and give to China U.S. Argonne National Laboratory developed advanced DOE’s Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) that promised safe nuclear power unlimited by fuel supplies. Obama and left Democrat leadership has sold out the future of young adults (under 30 years of age) by left Democrats hugely profitable politics of crony energy corruption.
The politics of the U.S. national energy policy is driven by multinational greed factors. No doubt Obama and the left Democrat leadership are self serving. Their only interest in national energy is gains of political power and special interest momentary gains. Those who gains the most from left Democrat energy policies is China who most certainly gained vital nuclear energy technology in exchange for loaning money to debtor nation U.S. Domestically, Obama gained support of coal miner unions and national coal, oil, and natural gas producers who profit by passing along cost increases and keeping multinational carbon energy production as is. German coal industry and coal unions gained the most. Politics of the UN’s seventeen “climate change” talks is designed to continue increasing production of multinational carbon energy (coal, oil, natural gas) while increasing the risk of all human races 2050-2099 demise.
Kyoto Protocol created carbon trading mechanisms such as the EU's ETS (Emissions Trading Scheme) saw a big business of political corruption warm to global warming. Politically connected carbon players saw their expanded role with every European carbon unit of European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) “validated” by UNFCCC. One EU Allowance Unit of one tonne of carbon dioxide, or "EUA," was designed to be identical ("fungible") with the equivalent "Assigned Amount Unit" (AAU) of carbon dioxide defined under Kyoto Protocol. EU ETS and UNFCCC created a vast artificial market trading in a artificial paper "carbon cap and trade" product to access billions of dollars of multinational government funding and increased utility costs that was expand the corrupt "alternative renewable energy" product. In 2006, California's AB 32 (Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006) created a similar to EU ETS carbon cap and trade paper trading schema. Latter, President Obama’s global warming response was to turn AB 32 into a U.S. national program. Only two years ago the EU ETS and UNFCCC trading scheme of global warming corruption was predicted to be the biggest legitimate commodity and industrial market in the world.
Politics of the UN’s “climate change” talks is designed to continue increasing production of multinational carbon energy (coal, oil, natural gas) while passing on increased energy corruption costs with increasing risk of all human races 2050-2099 demise.
Energy Policy Act of 2005 - The Energy Policy Act of 2005 is a bill passed by U.S. 109th Congress Republicans and Democrats on July 29, 2005. The act, described by proponents as an attempt to combat growing (undefined) energy problems, changed US energy policy by providing tax incentives and loan guarantees for energy production of various types.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) review of the conference version of the 2005 bill estimated the ‘Energy Policy Act’ would “increase direct spending” by $2.2 billion over the 2006-2010 periods and by $1.6 billion over the 2006-2015 periods. In addition, the CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that the legislation would “reduce revenues” by $7.9 billion over the 2005-2010 periods and by $12.3 billion over the 2005-2015 periods. Energy Policy Act total direct and indirect costs are $24 billion (2.2 +1.6 +7.9 +12.3 = 24). The CBO noted that the bill could have “additional effects on discretionary spending,” but did not attempt to estimate those effects. The gold standard of measurement for any congressional bill is the estimations of “increase direct spending,” “reduce revenues” and “additional effects on discretionary spending.” In Congressional bills, an "authorization" of a discretionary program is a permission to spend money, while an "appropriation" is the actual decision to spend it.
Some provisions of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 are:
Major amendments to ‘Energy Policy Act’ of 2005 are the ‘American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’ of 2009.
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 - The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 abbreviated ARRA and passed by President Obama and left Democrat House and Senate, is commonly referred to as the ‘Stimulus’ or ‘The Recovery Act’ is an economic stimulus package enacted by the 111th United States Congress in February 2009. The rationale for ARRA was from Keynesian macroeconomic theory which argues that, during recessions, the government should offset the decrease in private spending with an increase in public spending in order to save jobs and stop further economic deterioration. Keynesian Theory does not produce products. An economic theory that considered increasing national economy through production of products would be a ‘theory of capitalist materialism.’ Marxist theory rejects capitalist materialism while Keynesian Economic Theory only redistributes existing income and increases Federal Debt. Obama’s White House as stated in December 12, 2011, that "The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA 2009) also included over $90 billion in clean energy investments."
There is no accounting for state level spending of ‘Stimulus’ monies. A huge amount of ‘Stimulus’ funding within government department accounts can be “interdepartmental loaned” to other government departments for use by left Democrat neo-communist special interest projects. President Obama is the regulator and controller of all Federal Government funds. Few will ever learn details of how and where the Obama administration has distributed government funds. The identified “renewable” energy portion is only $48.7 billion of the $787 billion ‘Stimulus’ bill. It is the 2009-2010 Keynesian macroeconomic theory and the anti capitalism political response to the housing mortgage crash that started in midyear 2007 that has brought down the U.S. economy, not the Mideast wars.
The Neo-Communist Democrat Congress funded ARRA of 2009 a total of $48.7 billion for “Efficiency” and “Renewable Energy” ($27.2 billion) AND “Infrastructure” ($21.5 billion). If ARRA measured estimations of “increase direct spending,” “reduce revenues” and “additional effects on discretionary spending,” the 2009 renewable energy direct and indirect costs would be well over $400 billion. Not much of that $400 billion produces any clean energy. The lack of clean energy return on government investments is a huge long-term political mistake.
U.S. neo-communists funded $48.7 billion into useless green energy while U.S. strategic need for National Labs scientific research only received $204 million. Out of fear that science education funding removes funds from social education, U.S. neo-communists have underfunded for decades basic and advanced sciences in our universities, colleges, and U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) National Laboratories and Technology Centers.
Left Democrat Neo-Communists have disdain for sciences and engineering. The Democrat’s communist agenda freely uses other people’s money unhindered by facts or logic. For left Democrat politicians the funding of school sciences and hard sciences is unnecessary. U.S. left Democrat Neo-Communists continued ignorance of science and hard studies is leading to the decline of goals for American education. America has no science or education future while neo-communists are in political offices.
Renewable Energy Funding/Efficiency and Infrastructure
Costs of the U.S. "green" programs are huge. There are no Keynesian macroeconomic benefits, national economic benefits, or reduction of global warming temperature after more than two decades of billions of dollars of “green energy” investments. There been any Congressional "authorization" or "appropriation" in any bill for funding reduction of global warming temperature increase. Left Democrat neo-Communist energy are FRAUDS of “loans,” “grants,” and “investments” into green "renewable" energy technology. Significant parts of the final. Left Democrat Neo-Communists are using American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA 2009) over the years to buy left Democrat base-voter support. It takes a huge amount of taxpayer funding and debt to satisfy this Democrat neo-Communist political base.
President Obama and other neo-communists have invested in a social program called “energy.” All of the U.S. energy policies that remain support left Democrat neo-communist political objectives. There are no objectives to reduce global warming greenhouse gases.
President Obama’s goal is for the DOE is to generate 80% of our U.S. electricity from “renewable” energy by 2035 is more impossible than Germany “renewables” generating an incredible/impossible 42.4% of the country’s electricity in 2020. These are impossible political goals. By 2030-2040, global warming temperature exceeds 2oC above preindustrial temperatures.
ARRA 2009, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Research and Investment - NOTE: All of the technologies below are old technologies that are in limited use or have been previously proposed and rejected over the past 100 years. If there were any greater technologies here, capitalism would already be using the technology and making it better while making a profit. There is no science, engineering principals, or common sense applied to the government funding of the proposed “renewable” technologies. The Congressional neo-communists are using taxpayer energy funds to buy votes for the 2012 election. More defrauding of ARRA renewable energy funds will occur. Each portion of the ARRA bill has “increased direct-spending,” “reduce revenues” and “additional effects on discretionary spending.” Not identified are reduced revenues and discretionary spending effects.
The basic technical problem with SYNCHROPHASOR and “smart grid” is solar and wind electrical generators are indefinable and unpredictable electrical suppliers. Solar and wind power output comes-and-goes and shifts unpredictably from region-to-region. These shifting power supply sources transmit eclectic energy via long high voltage transmission lines to base-load electrical generators and energy using customers. Base-load generators are large machines operating on nuclear, hydroelectric, coal, oil, or natural gas that does not take well to either rapidly changing customer load requirements or electrical transmissions from some wind turbines that suddenly stops generating electricity. Power generating utility companies have 10,000s of person-year base-load experience handling customer power-requirement changes. However, no one knows how to manage shifts in power supplied by 1,000s of solar panels and wind turbine farm energy and over long distances. The problems with attaching indefinable wind and solar to base-load electrical generation and customers is tied up in the laws of electrical physics and time. One can no more change electrical physical laws than change the laws of gravity. Funding “renewable” solar, wind, and “smart western SYNCHROPHASOR national grid” does not work and making “renewable” energy bigger is not improving a bad situation. “Smart grid” and SYNCHROPHASOR constructed for “renewable” energy do not now have necessary solutions to the electrical laws of physics and time. Big and small EU-US “smart grids” do not work. The Obama/Chu Department of Energy (DoE) is now building an unproven $10s billion “smart grid” North American Synchrophasor Initiative (NASPI) for the left Democrats’ green energy project. U.S. President Obama and German Chancellor Merkel have acted upon the similar energy policies: phase out nuclear energy, promote sun and wind "renewable" energy, and both leaders are developing expensive German Siemens Ultra-HVDC SYNCHROPHASOR systems that most likely will never work adequately with non base-load electrical sources.
Government’s subsidized energy pricing structure undermines private capitalism. This has not been an issue before. However, there now is a neo-communist political energy monopoly that is anti-capitalism. The U.S. neo communists have a policy and funding to nationalize U.S. energy sectors and undermine the capitalism energy sector.
Government smart grids and energy efficacy investments have been ARRA funded $41.852 billion. There is no resulting reduction in global warming temperature increase.
Renewable energy goes to the pockets of political special interests and collects votes for neo-communists who have been milking EU-US economies dry. U.S. Neo-Communists have no interests at all in reducing global warming temperature increase. President Obama and neo-communist anti-capitalism policies cause waste, economic decline, greed, fraud, and lies.
Most 2009 ARRA funds are spent. It would take an act of Congress to stop spending money on the “renewable energy” political waste. Perhaps in 2013 we will have a cost vs. benefit Congress that understands the value of money. To make maters worse, President Obama and left Democrat leadership have linked European and American neo-communist movements. Resulting is that there is little hope that EU-US politicians will respond in time to save human races from complete destruction by global warming temperature increase. Chances for our children living to an old age are decreasing unless global warming temperature increase politics soon changes.
In 1992, the German Green Party came to power after decades of flower power and anti nuclear street protests. U.S. left Democrats passed the U.S. Energy Policy Act of 1992. The spread of Communism within Europe is a systemic occurrence. Also in 1992, UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) (aka, ‘Earth Summit’) that formed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The spread of Communism within the U.S. originates from Vietnam War protesters becoming politicians and universities/colleges providing departments to teach communist-activism. U.S. communist oriented students in the tens of thousands are in support of an EU-US communist revolution. Over the course of three or four decades, the communist movement built its presence in politics and anti nuclear movements.
The U.S. ‘Energy Policy Act’ of 1992 established the shift from an energy policy contained expansion of nuclear energy to neo-communist politics that closes down nuclear energy and regulates corrupt “renewable.” If the U.S. nuclear energy expands, the U.S. would have huge amounts of stored excess energy. Instead of assuring necessary energy supplies for national and global economies, the U.S. neo-communists, working with EU neo-communists has turned critical energy sectors into social welfare programs. It took from 1992 until 2006 for the EU Commission to follow U.S. Democrat Neo-Communist “renewable” energy politics. Before 2006, Senator Obama had established himself as de facto leadership of the EU-US neo communism movement. Germany also followed the U.S. left Democrat lead in abolishing clean nuclear energy and nuclear geologic repositories.
In 2006, the EU Commission established the future European (and U.S.) energy policy with the publication of a ‘Green Paper.’ The European Commission, following a consultation process, on 10 January 2007, published the decision to develop a common “green” energy policy. First proposal, “Energy for a Changing World” (Texts adopted 17 December 2008 - Strasbourg).
On 14 February 2007, the European Parliament adopted a non-binding resolution demanding that the key proposal cut carbon emissions by 20%. The proposals were approved at a later meeting of the European Council on 8/9 March 2007. The package was to reduce the EU's dependency on imported fuels and set the pace of “a new global industrial revolution.” The EU neo-communists positioned Europe’s whole economy to rely upon unproven energy sources that have never worked properly under required growing energy demands. The increase in EU-US carbon emissions as well as EU national doomed economies is a product of neo-communist policy failures.
It is customary for communist politicians’ social transformations to ignore science, economics, and facts. Communist politicians are social reformers who ram their legislation without providing verifiable justifications. Communists’ words sound great, but communists’ systems have never worked. Making proper energy decisions without sciences, engineering, or capitalist economic principals is unachievable and very costly.
Since there is no political accountability for funds spent, to date, the U.S. and EU’s energy and climate change 'package' remains a costly unjustified failure while the global warming temperature keeps increasing. Nuclear energy is the only energy source that has the clean energy capacity capable of reducing human and some natural greenhouse gas emissions.
However, Germany and the U.S. have anti nuclear fanatics while corruption is profitable. The EU Commission chose to take an "agnostic" stance regarding faith-based anti-nuclear radical ant nuclear element. The EU left it up to member states to decide the future of nuclear energy.
In January 2010, the European Union approved an energy tax-plan to “fight” climate change, at an average cost of three euros a week for every citizen of the 27-nation bloc, the president of the European Commission said at the launch of the project. Where is the accounting for EU energy tax monies collected? Does the “three euros a week” reduce any global warming temperature increase or is the three euros per week another EU general tax increase? Perhaps the EU energy tax is another transfer of income scheme.
Under existing EU-US global warming politics, there is an assured global mass suicide by global warming temperature increase 2050-2099.
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Understanding special interest maneuvering within the seventeen sessions of the UN Conference of the Parties (COP) talks, there must first be acceptance that the talks (and all further talks) will fail to reduce global warming temperature increase. We are in fact looking at the continued collapse of human races resulting from increased populations, excessive use of hydrocarbon fuel (coal, oil, and natural gas), accelerating increases of atmospheric methane, with exceptional high corruption within governments and in subsidized “renewable energy,” “carbon-cap-and trade,” and wealth transfer schemes to “poor” national leaders.
Carbon-intensive infrastructure, including power stations, buildings, and factories, planned over the next five years will lock the world into a high-emissions trajectory (“business as usual”). If emissions do not plateau by 2020 and rapidly decline thereafter, the 2 degree C target will slip out of reach. The consequences of exceeding global warming tripping points are very severe. Small groups of life not destroyed 2050-2099 shall be quickly destroyed in 2100 plus.
December 2011, regarding the failure of 2009 Copenhagen COP15 conference environmentalist Joss Garman wrote: "...In a single day, in a single space, a spectacle was played out in front of a disbelieving audience of people who have read and understood the stark warnings of humanity's greatest scientific minds. And what they witnessed was nothing less than the very worst instincts of our species articulated by the most powerful men who ever lived."
President Obama's determination to redirect billions in foreign aid dollars to "climate change" programs to promote “green economies” around the world contrasts dramatically with his domestic drive for cosmetic green jobs. Obama says he wants to use U.S. taxpayer subsidies to fund job creation in environmental industries, but overseas, Obama’s plan seems to mean limiting economic growth and imposing “green welfare” on developing economies. A global ideological effort is at play to impose a radical climate social agenda on the developing world at the behest of left Democrat “green” environmentalist groups. Obama’s White House as stated in December 12, 2011, that "The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA 2009) also included over $90 billion in clean energy investments." None of President Obama's planning or funding involves addressing global warming temperature increase. None of Obama’s invested $90 billion has or will produce any reduction in greenhouse gases or reduction in global warming temperature.
Most of the important global warming negotiators are no more than mouthpieces for self-serving “world leaders” who have greater interests in maintaining corruption of many US$100s billions while satisfying carbon economies special interests. These “world leaders” do not care that their families, as well as all other families will perish 2050-2099. Thanks to the abysmal and unforgivable failures over 20-years of the world’s leadership, the throwing under the buss of nine billion people shall happen in order to continue feeding the needs of “world leaders” drive for corruption and continuing global warming special interest of US$100s billions per year. It is not that the professional global warming negotiators at all seventeen Conference of the Parties (COP) meetings do not know of the connections between global warming, death of human race 2050-2099, corruption, and their untoward world leader bosses, negotiators know connections and what their job is. The problem with negotiators is that world leader bosses require allegiance to who is boss. Negotiators do what the boss tells them to do. Global politics has expanded corruption to become global evil. Ask God to save us because no world leader politician shall. Self-serving politicians are the global warming problem and they are not part of the solution.
For more than two decades, the Left Democrat’s political funding and management of “renewable” energy has promoted greed, fraud, lies, waste, and global warming destruction. The sole function of the 2009-2010 Congress was to advance neo communism. The joining of EU-US neo-communist leadership and effective control of most energy has assured global warming destruction of the human races 2050-2099.
Within the text of global warming sciences, it is not always clear as to what “carbon” level is. Methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) global warming atmospheric gases are part of equivalent carbon dioxide (CO2-eq) levels. When computing atmospheric global warming, both methane and carbon dioxide levels are taken into consideration as “carbon” (along with other important factors). The “carbon (C) level” is not part of the global warming potential (GWP) equation. However, carbon (C) in different areas of global warming temperature increase is an important factor.
Caused by excessive human carbon dioxide emissions since 1750 Christian Era (CE) and resulting methane emissions - Earth's Modern Global Warming is similar to End-Permian Mass Extinction (252.28 Ma). A major difference between Moder Global Warming temperature increase and End-Permian is that current temperature increase during the beginning stages is about 10 times faster than the End-Permian Mass Extinction.
Historical Earth’s natural interglacial temperature cycles resulting carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) levels are of interests. Of great influence to “natural warming cycles” is the well understood Milankovitch Cycle changes of the sun’s global warming strength.
“Natural” earth temperature ~100,000-year interglacial cycles are no longer occurring. Resulting from human activity since 1750 CE, global warming greenhouse gases have increased very-dramatically. The curve of global warming gas increase is a “hockey stick curve.” Current ice-core methane content is well above the normal Milankovitch Earth orbital variation interglacial temperature cycle. Since pre industrial times, the concentrations of greenhouse gases has increased significantly. The greenhouse gas increased above natural global warming concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) is increased ~39% and methane (CH4) concentration is increased ~164%. The 1750 CE greenhouse concentrations levels were historic interglacial carbon dioxide peak levels of ~280 ppm and interglacial methane peak levels of ~700 ppb. Present concentrations levels are carbon dioxide (~390 ppm) and methane (~1,850 ppb).
Methane clathrate (or methane hydrates) results from millions of years of natural leaking oil and natural gas deposits and coal fields with aerobic bacteria degradation of organic compounds in low oxygen environments under reduced temperature and increased pressure. Methane clathrate can initiate a positive carbon/methane feedback cycle and resulting “methane clathrate gun effect.” The clathrate gun is the popular name given to the hypothesis that rises in sea temperatures can trigger the sudden release of methane from methane clathrate compounds buried in cold seabed and permafrost. Because methane itself is a powerful greenhouse gas, methane leads to further regional and global temperature rise and further methane clathrate destabilization. Methane (CH4) (about 85% of natural gas) is about 105 times worse than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas (GHG) over a 20-year period and taking aerosol impacts into account. In effect, initiating a methane clathrate gun runaway process is irreversible once started, as is the firing of a gun. When the methane clathrate gun triggers, Earth’s temperature quickly rises tens of degrees. The Arctic/Antarctic methane clathrate gun is one of several MAJOR global warming “trip points.”
Ultimately, the latest scientific understanding of climate change allied with current emissions trends and a commitment to limiting average global temperature increases to below two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels demands a radical re-framing of both the global warming agenda, and the economic characterization of contemporary carbon based economic society. Up until now, national politicians and world leaders have critically delayed responses to global warming temperature increase.
The most distinctive nature of global warming temperature increase is that human races are to die 2050-2099 unless global economies soon shift to carbon neutral economies. The only global energy that has the energy capacity to save human races is a swift buildup of nuclear energy that replaces carbon energies coal, oil, and natural gas.
Until U.S. politicians accept the fact that global warming is their responsibility, there is no saving of human races 2050-2099.
U.S. Energy Policy Act of 1992 - There are many Congressional ‘energy acts’ and legislated bills. Presented are three major energy acts of 1992, 2005, and 2009. Since the U.S. Energy Policy Act of 1992 under President Clinton, Vice President Gore, and Democrat Congress, the U.S. left Democrats addressed energy efficiency, energy conservation and energy management (Title I), natural gas imports and exports (Title II), alternative fuels and requiring certain fleets to acquire alternative fuel vehicles, which are capable of operating on non-petroleum fuels (Title III-V), electric motor vehicles (Title VI), radioactive waste (Title VIII), coal power and clean coal (Title XIII), renewable energy (Title XII), and other issues. It reformed the Public Utility Holding Company Act and amended parts of the Federal Power Act of 1935 (Title VII).
Title III of the 1992 Energy Policy Act addresses “alternative fuels” (ethanol, propane, and electricity, in cars and light trucks). It gave the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrative power to regulate the minimum number of light duty alternative fuel vehicles acquired in certain federal fleets beginning in fiscal year 1993. Major amendments to the Energy Policy Act of 1992 are the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and the later American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.
Corn ethanolethanol was the political substitute for gasoline oxygenate blending compounds such as MTBE or ETBE. Corn ethanol is an expensive destructive agriculture product affecting all consumers and taxpayers, whose political usefulness is destroying the environment, food sources, waterways, depletes the Ogallala Aquifer reserves, produces hypoxia in water ways, destroys marine life in the Gulf of Mexico, increases cost of goods, uses coal, and degrades gasoline power equipment. In 2005, Congress passed Energy Policy Act (2005), which mandated the incorporation of 7 billion gallons of corn-based ethanol into the American fuel supply. With the Energy Policy Act of 2007, Congress passed legislation to require by 2022, an additional 21 billion gallons a year of ethanol, or other biofuels. Current U.S. renewable fuels policies are artificially manipulating corn prices and putting a heavy strain on global corn supplies. With enactment of the “American Clean Energy and Security Act” (2009), the left Democrats are “requiring retail electricity suppliers” to burn corn-ethanol in electrical power plants and provide carbon “cap-and-trade credits” for destroying the U.S. environment and economy. U.S. corn ethanol is made by extracting sugar from corn, an energy-intensive process. In 2010, the U.S. corn ethanol to feed cars industry will consume about 41 percent of the U.S. corn crop, or 15 percent of the global corn crop.
U.S. National Energy Plan 2000 to 2011 - The only U.S. energy plan promoted since the 1992 ‘Earth Summit’ formed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is to create “alternative renewable energy” while phasing out the much superior nuclear energy sources. President Obama, left Democrat congressional leadership, and crony special interests define the U.S. national energy plan. High-handed regulation, best exemplified by Obama’s failed cap-and-trade legislation, promptly followed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) trying to impose the same conventional-energy-killing agenda by administrative means. The only purpose of these programs is to increase the cost of U.S. energy and increase profits of coal, oil, and natural gas producers.
To date, the Obama and congressional left Democrat energy plan is to increase the cost of energy, stop domestic offshore oil drilling, stop Gulf of Mexico oil drilling, stop the Keystone north-south oil pipeline, build expensive capacity-limited “renewable energy,” expand required use of “alternative energy” ethanol, phase out of U.S. nuclear energy by closing down Yucca Mountain geologic repository, strangle the nuclear energy sector with Nuclear Energy Commission (NRC) anti nuclear regulations, give to China highly valuable Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactor technology, and give to China U.S. Argonne National Laboratory developed advanced DOE’s Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) that promised safe nuclear power unlimited by fuel supplies. Obama and left Democrat leadership has sold out the future of young adults (under 30 years of age) by left Democrats hugely profitable politics of crony energy corruption.
The politics of the U.S. national energy policy is driven by multinational greed factors. No doubt Obama and the left Democrat leadership are self serving. Their only interest in national energy is gains of political power and special interest momentary gains. Those who gains the most from left Democrat energy policies is China who most certainly gained vital nuclear energy technology in exchange for loaning money to debtor nation U.S. Domestically, Obama gained support of coal miner unions and national coal, oil, and natural gas producers who profit by passing along cost increases and keeping multinational carbon energy production as is. German coal industry and coal unions gained the most. Politics of the UN’s seventeen “climate change” talks is designed to continue increasing production of multinational carbon energy (coal, oil, natural gas) while increasing the risk of all human races 2050-2099 demise.
Kyoto Protocol created carbon trading mechanisms such as the EU's ETS (Emissions Trading Scheme) saw a big business of political corruption warm to global warming. Politically connected carbon players saw their expanded role with every European carbon unit of European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) “validated” by UNFCCC. One EU Allowance Unit of one tonne of carbon dioxide, or "EUA," was designed to be identical ("fungible") with the equivalent "Assigned Amount Unit" (AAU) of carbon dioxide defined under Kyoto Protocol. EU ETS and UNFCCC created a vast artificial market trading in a artificial paper "carbon cap and trade" product to access billions of dollars of multinational government funding and increased utility costs that was expand the corrupt "alternative renewable energy" product. In 2006, California's AB 32 (Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006) created a similar to EU ETS carbon cap and trade paper trading schema. Latter, President Obama’s global warming response was to turn AB 32 into a U.S. national program. Only two years ago the EU ETS and UNFCCC trading scheme of global warming corruption was predicted to be the biggest legitimate commodity and industrial market in the world.
Politics of the UN’s “climate change” talks is designed to continue increasing production of multinational carbon energy (coal, oil, natural gas) while passing on increased energy corruption costs with increasing risk of all human races 2050-2099 demise.
Energy Policy Act of 2005 - The Energy Policy Act of 2005 is a bill passed by U.S. 109th Congress Republicans and Democrats on July 29, 2005. The act, described by proponents as an attempt to combat growing (undefined) energy problems, changed US energy policy by providing tax incentives and loan guarantees for energy production of various types.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) review of the conference version of the 2005 bill estimated the ‘Energy Policy Act’ would “increase direct spending” by $2.2 billion over the 2006-2010 periods and by $1.6 billion over the 2006-2015 periods. In addition, the CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that the legislation would “reduce revenues” by $7.9 billion over the 2005-2010 periods and by $12.3 billion over the 2005-2015 periods. Energy Policy Act total direct and indirect costs are $24 billion (2.2 +1.6 +7.9 +12.3 = 24). The CBO noted that the bill could have “additional effects on discretionary spending,” but did not attempt to estimate those effects. The gold standard of measurement for any congressional bill is the estimations of “increase direct spending,” “reduce revenues” and “additional effects on discretionary spending.” In Congressional bills, an "authorization" of a discretionary program is a permission to spend money, while an "appropriation" is the actual decision to spend it.
Some provisions of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 are:
● increases mixed amount of biofuel (usually ethanol) with gasoline sold per year in the United States to 4 billion US gallons (15,000,000 m3) by 2006, 6.1 billion US gallons (23,000,000 m3) by 2009, and 7.5 billion US gallons (28,000,000 m3) by 2012. Two years later, the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 extended the target to 36 billion US gallons (136.3 million liters) of ethanol per year (140,000,000 m3) by 2022. It is cheaper and better for Earth if Congress eliminated ethanol and instead returned to using the 1990s MTBE gasoline blend. In order to avoid the problem cased by the political required use of ethanol, switch back to allowing gasoline-blenders to use again use methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE). Stopping politicians from depending upon the subsidizing corn ethanol would be a start to global warming problem solving.
● seeks to increase coal as an energy source while also reducing air pollution, through authorizing $200 million annually for clean coal initiatives, repealing the current 160-acre (0.65 km2) cap on coal leases, allowing the advanced payment of royalties from coalmines, and requiring an assessment of coal resources on federal lands that are not national parks. Expanding U.S. coal industry is a political commitment to union mine workers.
● authorizes subsidies for wind and other alternative energy producers
● authorizes $50 million annually over the life of the law for biomass grants (more ethanol)
● includes provisions aimed at making geothermal energy more competitive with fossil fuels in generating electricity
Major amendments to ‘Energy Policy Act’ of 2005 are the ‘American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’ of 2009.
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 - The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 abbreviated ARRA and passed by President Obama and left Democrat House and Senate, is commonly referred to as the ‘Stimulus’ or ‘The Recovery Act’ is an economic stimulus package enacted by the 111th United States Congress in February 2009. The rationale for ARRA was from Keynesian macroeconomic theory which argues that, during recessions, the government should offset the decrease in private spending with an increase in public spending in order to save jobs and stop further economic deterioration. Keynesian Theory does not produce products. An economic theory that considered increasing national economy through production of products would be a ‘theory of capitalist materialism.’ Marxist theory rejects capitalist materialism while Keynesian Economic Theory only redistributes existing income and increases Federal Debt. Obama’s White House as stated in December 12, 2011, that "The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA 2009) also included over $90 billion in clean energy investments."
There is no accounting for state level spending of ‘Stimulus’ monies. A huge amount of ‘Stimulus’ funding within government department accounts can be “interdepartmental loaned” to other government departments for use by left Democrat neo-communist special interest projects. President Obama is the regulator and controller of all Federal Government funds. Few will ever learn details of how and where the Obama administration has distributed government funds. The identified “renewable” energy portion is only $48.7 billion of the $787 billion ‘Stimulus’ bill. It is the 2009-2010 Keynesian macroeconomic theory and the anti capitalism political response to the housing mortgage crash that started in midyear 2007 that has brought down the U.S. economy, not the Mideast wars.
The Neo-Communist Democrat Congress funded ARRA of 2009 a total of $48.7 billion for “Efficiency” and “Renewable Energy” ($27.2 billion) AND “Infrastructure” ($21.5 billion). If ARRA measured estimations of “increase direct spending,” “reduce revenues” and “additional effects on discretionary spending,” the 2009 renewable energy direct and indirect costs would be well over $400 billion. Not much of that $400 billion produces any clean energy. The lack of clean energy return on government investments is a huge long-term political mistake.
U.S. neo-communists funded $48.7 billion into useless green energy while U.S. strategic need for National Labs scientific research only received $204 million. Out of fear that science education funding removes funds from social education, U.S. neo-communists have underfunded for decades basic and advanced sciences in our universities, colleges, and U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) National Laboratories and Technology Centers.
Left Democrat Neo-Communists have disdain for sciences and engineering. The Democrat’s communist agenda freely uses other people’s money unhindered by facts or logic. For left Democrat politicians the funding of school sciences and hard sciences is unnecessary. U.S. left Democrat Neo-Communists continued ignorance of science and hard studies is leading to the decline of goals for American education. America has no science or education future while neo-communists are in political offices.
Renewable Energy Funding/Efficiency and Infrastructure
Costs of the U.S. "green" programs are huge. There are no Keynesian macroeconomic benefits, national economic benefits, or reduction of global warming temperature after more than two decades of billions of dollars of “green energy” investments. There been any Congressional "authorization" or "appropriation" in any bill for funding reduction of global warming temperature increase. Left Democrat neo-Communist energy are FRAUDS of “loans,” “grants,” and “investments” into green "renewable" energy technology. Significant parts of the final. Left Democrat Neo-Communists are using American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA 2009) over the years to buy left Democrat base-voter support. It takes a huge amount of taxpayer funding and debt to satisfy this Democrat neo-Communist political base.
President Obama and other neo-communists have invested in a social program called “energy.” All of the U.S. energy policies that remain support left Democrat neo-communist political objectives. There are no objectives to reduce global warming greenhouse gases.
President Obama’s goal is for the DOE is to generate 80% of our U.S. electricity from “renewable” energy by 2035 is more impossible than Germany “renewables” generating an incredible/impossible 42.4% of the country’s electricity in 2020. These are impossible political goals. By 2030-2040, global warming temperature exceeds 2oC above preindustrial temperatures.
ARRA 2009, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Research and Investment - NOTE: All of the technologies below are old technologies that are in limited use or have been previously proposed and rejected over the past 100 years. If there were any greater technologies here, capitalism would already be using the technology and making it better while making a profit. There is no science, engineering principals, or common sense applied to the government funding of the proposed “renewable” technologies. The Congressional neo-communists are using taxpayer energy funds to buy votes for the 2012 election. More defrauding of ARRA renewable energy funds will occur. Each portion of the ARRA bill has “increased direct-spending,” “reduce revenues” and “additional effects on discretionary spending.” Not identified are reduced revenues and discretionary spending effects.
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Research - Total: $27.2 billion
● $6 billion for renewable energy and electric transmission technologies loan guarantees for solar, wind, and “smart national grid.” The Department of Energy (DoE) is now building an unproven $10s billions “smart grid” North American Synchrophasor Initiative (NASPI) for Obama’s green energy project. (Note: The DoE Synchrophasor Initiative is part of “liberal” schizophrenia renewable politics, which is a complex political mental disorder that makes it difficult to tell the difference between real and unreal experiences.) - Install capacity and investment payback for solar and wind is extremely limited. It is doubtful that existing wind and solar farms function near capacity.
● $5 billion for weatherizing modest-income homes is a Jobs Program.
● $3.4 billion for carbon capture and low emission coal research. Carbon sequestration is a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by removing carbon from fuel supplies (or from stack gas). Carbon dioxide cannot be storage deep underground. There is a significant risk that captured carbon dioxide leaks out destroying life above by CO2 poising as the carbon dioxide surfaces to the atmosphere. On August 21, 1986, possibly triggered by a landslide, Lake Nyos, Congo, suddenly emitted a large cloud of CO2, which suffocated 1,700 people and 3,500 livestock in nearby towns and villages. Today, the lake also poses a threat due to its weakening natural wall. A geological tremor could cause this natural dike to give way, allowing water to rush into downstream villages all the way into Nigeria and allowing much carbon dioxide to escape. There are no known acceptable “safe” long-term storage containers for captured carbon dioxide. Unless the U.S. National Labs resolve long-term carbon storage-containment problem is resolved, there is no reason to invest billions into carbon capture. However, in spite of lacking long-term carbon storage, the DoE in February 2009 designated $3.4 billion for carbon capture, transportation, and storage (CCS) programs. Funding was broken down into three major sources; $1.52 billion for a competitive bidding for industrial CCS projects, $800 million for the Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI), and $1billion for political Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) FutureGen large-scale integrated system. CCS is an intense process of spending a lot of money quickly that will produce few long-term energy or global warming benefits. The DoE has badly managed the billions spent on the CCS program. Unless DoE solves the CCS long-term storage problem, no amount of carbon capture benefits global warming greenhouse gas reduction. - Carbon capture is high risk with a low expensive return that can be deadly.
● $3.2 billion toward Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants are ways to distribute government funds without fiduciary accountability. - There is little accountability for “grant” funds. .
● $3.1 billion for the State Energy Program to help states invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy. State energy programs and efficiency are too often distributing government funds without fiduciary accountability. - Laws of physics govern “efficiency,” not politicians.
● $2 billion funding for manufacturing of advanced car battery-traction systems and components. A traction control system (TCS) is typically (but not necessarily) a secondary function of the anti-lock braking system (ABS) on production motor vehicles, designed to prevent loss of traction of driven road wheels. Typically, traction control systems share the electro-hydraulic brake actuator (but does not use the conventional master cylinder and servo), and wheel speed sensors with the anti-lock braking system. TCS design is complicated but the government investing $2 billion in this safety project is unprecedented. - Provisions should be make to make the “safety” features available to all automotive manufactures.
● $800 million funding for biofuel research, development, and demonstration projects is more wasteful ethanol funding. The required ethanol has been previously mandated and expanded by Congress and with 36 billion US gallons per year of ethanol by the ‘Energy Policy Act’ of 2005. – Since the U.S. Energy Policy Act of 1992, corn-ethanol has grown to produce significant environmental damage and produce higher energy costs.
● $602 million is to support the use of energy efficient technologies in buildings and within industry. - Unless Congress passes energy efficiency building efficiencies code laws, the $602 million produces no product.
● $602 million $602 million is to support the use of energy efficient technologies in buildings and within industry. - Unless Congress passes energy efficiency building efficiencies code laws, the $602 million produces no product.
● $400 million funding for the Geothermal Technologies Program (GTP) is not justified. Using existing technology cost of megawatt of Neal Hot Springs, geothermal electrical output is two to three times more than natural gas electricity rates. Apparently, Neal Hot Springs builds with government funds a small geothermal electrical plant than sells the electricity at a high profit margin to a conventional utility company that has to buy the electricity from the private/DoE arrangement. Site thermodynamics limits energy retrieved from geothermal sites. Neal Hot Springs project backing is questionable.
● $400 million funding for the Geothermal Technologies Program (GTP) is not justified. Using existing technology cost of megawatt of Neal Hot Springs, geothermal electrical output is two to three times more than natural gas electricity rates. Apparently, Neal Hot Springs builds with government funds a small geothermal electrical plant than sells the electricity at a high profit margin to a conventional utility company that has to buy the electricity from the private/DoE arrangement. Site thermodynamics limits energy retrieved from geothermal sites. - Neal Hot Springs project backing is questionable.
● $300 million for energy efficient appliance rebates is like cash for clunkers program but does provide reduced energy returns.
● $300 million for state and local governments to purchase energy efficient vehicles provides a customer base for energy efficient vehicles.
● $300 million to acquire electric vehicles for the federal vehicle fleet (GSA) provides a customer base for electric vehicles.
● $250 million to increase energy efficiency in low-income housing provides low-income housing cost effective energy use reduction.
● $204 million is insignificant funding for research and testing facilities at National Laboratories. It appears that President Obama AND University of California (UC) Berkeley Secretary of Energy, Dr. Chu is phasing out the U.S. DoE National Laboratories and Technology Centers. Since inception, University of California (UC) Regents ineptly managed the labs at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory CA and Los Alamos National Lab, NM U.S. National Labs and Technology. These extremely important national labs did suffer under long-term malaise administration by California “liberal” UC Regents. The U.S. National Labs were once the best energy R&D laboratories in the world. President Obama AND Secretary of Energy, Dr. Chu place science information third, after the neo-communists’ “renewable” programs and dismantling the U.S nuclear energy sector. Under President Obama, the neo-communists and anti nuclear movement, the American science, technology, and U.S. National Labs are going downhill along with other U.S. science education within our schools, colleges, and universities. The Republican disdain of funding science and national R&D is not far behind that of President Obama.
● $190 million in funding for wind, hydro, and other renewable energy projects appears to be one of many DoE North American Synchrophasor Initiative (NASPI) projects. - Since the funding is so small, it is most likely earmarked PORK BARREL funding.
● $115 million is part of billions of dollars to develop and deploy solar power technologies in the solar panel industry. This $115 million could be PORK BARREL earmark funding. Solyndra is a bankrupt $535-million solar panel manufacturer. There will be more government failed “green energy” businesses in the “renewable” industry. - The only customer for green renewable energy is government subsides.
● $110 million is for the development of high efficiency vehicles. - Is PORK BARREL earmarked funding.
● $42 million is in support of new deployments of (hydrogen) fuel cell technology does address a need to develop a capitalist market sector. Although it is a small amount of funding, the funding is a moving in the correct R&D direction. However, the majority of fuel cell manufacturing jobs are in Asia, as the supply chain accrues around a number of manufacturing centers in China, India, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Unless R&D protection, patent protection, and profitable capitalist business plans are in pace, the U.S. will again quickly loose advanced technology and production to offshore companies.
ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE - Total: $21.5 billion
● $6 billion for the cleanup of radioactive waste (mostly nuclear weapons production sites) IF “NUCLEAR WEAPONS CLEANUP” WAS EVER NEEDED IT IS NOW NO LONGER NEEDED – This $6 billion useless spending is anti nuclear corruption and payoffs to PORK BARREL political special interests.
● 4.5 billion to the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE) as outlined in the legislation. These funds are “an investment in a nationwide plan to modernize the electric grid, enhance security of U.S. energy infrastructure, and ensure reliable electricity delivery to meet growing demand and build Europe-U.S. smart national grid.” - The "smart national grid” does not work for "renewable" energy.
The OE is a new private/government Regional Entity responsible for coordinating and promoting bulk electric system reliability in the Western Interconnection. Western Interconnection Synchrophasor Program (WISP or aka DoE NASPI project) includes Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) and involves 18 partners. THE SYNCHROPHASOR “SMART GRID” APPLICATION FOR CONNECTING RENEWABLE SOLAR AND WIND FARMS TO CONVENTIONAL BASE LOAD GRIDS HAS NEVER WORKED WITH LARGE SCALE RENEWABLE ENERGY FARMS.
If the “smart grid” system does not work in the first place, politicians should not fund more billions of dollars to build it bigger. If politicians just want to build electrical transmission lines to coalfields and new coal fired electrical generators they should not lie about it.
● $4.5 billion to increase energy efficiency in federal buildings (GSA) is many billions spent on reducing building heat loss. Spending billions on heat loss becomes a question as to what is the energy cost return on investment and what is the return on reducing global warming greenhouse gases? - Is the billions spent reasonably justified?
● $3.25 billion for the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) for power transmission system “smart grid” DoE SYNCHROPHASOR upgrades is PORK BARREL FUNDING. WAPA appears to be a private/government funding administrator of federal funds for political projects. WAPA markets and delivers hydroelectric power and related services within a 15-state region of the central and western U.S. It is one of four energy/water marketing administrations within the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) and its energy-producing partners. Each energy and water project maintains separate financial system and records. California politicians use private/government construction contracts and funding-administrators to funnel political kickbacks and fraud. Follow up government audits of the use of private funding administrators is non-existent. Fraud, abuses, and kickbacks are huge within some government departments as is standard with PORK BARREL funding. - Audits resulting in criminal charges for political wrongdoing do not exist for government departments.
Hoover Dam generates, on average, about 4 billion kilowatt-hours of hydroelectric power each year for use in Nevada, Arizona, and California. This is enough to serve electrical needs for 1.3 million people and Los Vegas energy needs. Hover Dam’s Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the United States and is a water source for nearly 25 million people. For the last 100, years U.S. energy used national by high-voltage alternating current (HVAC) for national electric transmission lines. Now a Department of Energy (DoE) press release identifies that the TransWest Express (TWE) Transmission Project was listed as one of seven ("smart grid") projects that will serve as a pilot accelerating Federal permitting process across Federal lands to build over 1,000s of miles of high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission lines. The ‘TransWest Express Transmission Project’ is an ultra-high-voltage direct current (UHVDC) electric transmission system. TWE UHVDC Project is to transfer energy produced by COAL of Wyoming to the "renewable" SOLAR energy Desert Southwest region (Arizona, California, and Nevada). The general route will begin in south-central Wyoming, extend through northwestern Colorado and central Utah, and end near Las Vegas (from Rawlins WY to Las Vegas NV - 725 miles). Under development since 2005 (Energy Policy Act of 2005), the transmission line is to begin construction in 2013. As designed for Las Vegas NV growing electrical demands, the TWE UHVDC Project is to augment Hover Dam decreasing hydroelectric supplies with increased Rawlins WY coal generated electricity. The neo communist Congressional Democrats do not respond to the increasing threats of global warming temperature increase.
How, when, and where HVAC and HVDC is used depends upon specific technical application needs. For political reasons President Obama and left Democrats are building 1,000s of miles of HVDC (or UHDC) transmission line to satisfy an overall “renewable” energy plan.
Nothing about “renewable” energy works as people wish it would. Since 1992 the wishfully thinking left Democrats have been building, “renewable” dreams of creating energy and defying laws of physics. Lacking batteries to store “renewable” energy, the only proposed way to add Midwest solar/wind farms and south-central Wyoming COAL generated electricity to the national electric grid is by transmitting long distances energy over HVDC or UHVDC distribution. Noted is that there is not yet a solution to the problem of large variable renewable energy supplies causing voltage/current swings that can take down the nation’s entire electric grid. Converting national distribution from HVAC to HVDC to add sun and solar energy to the national electric grid is going to be VERY expensive if not impossible, even if the concept of DoE SYNCHROPHASOR should happen to work. If Los Vegas needs more energy, I suggest they get it from new nuclear electrical energy facilities built along the West Coast with access to seawater cooling. Nuclear energy is less expensive and safer to build than “renewable” energy farms or coal/gas fired electrical plants.
When WAPA electrical power runs low (as in the current 10-year drought conditions), WAPA would need to secure power from other regions to supply power to their 15 state contract customers. WAPA contracts expiring in September 30, 2017 is a very important national economic and energy event. Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s Los Vegas uses about one quarter (23%) firm electrical energy generated by Hoover Dam. Current costs for Hoover Dam electricity (and water) consumed is according to 1930s pricing, which is well under current market value. WAPA contracts expire September 30, 2017. Congressional legislation for WAPA electricity pricing is now under political review. New Hoover Dam Congressional legislation and post WAPA September 30, 2017 contract terms must reflect current and increasing market values for energy and water. What happens to the surplus revenue above costs from government provided energy and water must now be decide. Remember, with increasing populations, increased energy use, and increased temperatures there are decreasing potable surface and ground water stored reserves and decreased available hydroelectric power.
Because of decreasing water resources, additional dams and surface storage capacity need construction for increasing hydroelectric demands for clean energy, municipal water use, and agriculture water irrigation. New conjunctive water management systems may (or may not) require increased surface water storage capacity for surface water transfers into long-term groundwater storage. Demand for fresh water is exceeding water supply in California and Midwest and many other parts of the world. How local agencies long-term manage water resources must change. Conjunctive water management is a strategy recognizing the interconnection between groundwater and surface water and has broad water management and hydrological implications. Aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) is a water resources management technique for actively storing water underground during wet periods for recovery when needed, usually during dry periods. The period of aquifer water storage can range from months to decades. Conjunctive use is a combination of management practices intended to make the best use of surface water during wet periods and ground water during dry periods, but does not necessarily imply the active water storage activities used in ASR. Artificial recharge (AR) actively moves water from the surface into ground water systems. AR is the storage part of aquifer storage and recovery. More than 100 ASR facilities are in operation worldwide. Many states (Arizona, California, Florida, Nevada, and Texas to name a few) have ASR sites ranging from pilot projects to full operations. Global warming is going to alter weather patterns and decrease surface water resources. Groundwater over drafting is increasing. Aquifer storage and recovery programs require expansion. Reference: USGS "Aquifer Storage and Recovery" (ASR) http://ca.water.usgs.gov/misc/asr/ Matching clean nuclear energy power facilities for viable energy hungry desalination facilities also needs to be a requirement of new and old desalination facilities.
To assure future base-load electrical energy availability for Los Vegas and others, President Obama and Senator Harry Reid need to complete construction of the Yucca Mountain geologic repository and restart the U.S. nuclear energy sector. Obama/Reid must fund many aquifer storage and recovery programs.
● $3.25 billion for the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) for power transmission system (smart SYNCHROPHASOR western grid) “smart grid” upgrades is PORK BARREL FUNDING. Congress created BPA in 1937 to deliver and sell the power from Bonneville Dam, Oregon. About one-third of the power consumed in the Pacific Northwest comes through BPA. BPA provides transmission to direct service industries and public and private utilities. BPA is another private/government funding administrator of federal funds. NOTE: Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), and Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) are political run semi-government units operating in competition with private/public energy generators.
Other notable private/government administrators are home loan agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Electrical administrators WAPA, BPA, WECC have $17 billion to implement the left Europe-U.S neo communist’s “smart western SYNCHROPHASOR grid” that has not worked as required up to now. “Renewable” energy continues to be a political fraud. Instead of funding billions for the “smart western SYNCHROPHASOR grid,” the left Democrat neo communists need to restart the U.S. nuclear electrical energy generation.
The basic technical problem with SYNCHROPHASOR and “smart grid” is solar and wind electrical generators are indefinable and unpredictable electrical suppliers. Solar and wind power output comes-and-goes and shifts unpredictably from region-to-region. These shifting power supply sources transmit eclectic energy via long high voltage transmission lines to base-load electrical generators and energy using customers. Base-load generators are large machines operating on nuclear, hydroelectric, coal, oil, or natural gas that does not take well to either rapidly changing customer load requirements or electrical transmissions from some wind turbines that suddenly stops generating electricity. Power generating utility companies have 10,000s of person-year base-load experience handling customer power-requirement changes. However, no one knows how to manage shifts in power supplied by 1,000s of solar panels and wind turbine farm energy and over long distances. The problems with attaching indefinable wind and solar to base-load electrical generation and customers is tied up in the laws of electrical physics and time. One can no more change electrical physical laws than change the laws of gravity. Funding “renewable” solar, wind, and “smart western SYNCHROPHASOR national grid” does not work and making “renewable” energy bigger is not improving a bad situation. “Smart grid” and SYNCHROPHASOR constructed for “renewable” energy do not now have necessary solutions to the electrical laws of physics and time. Big and small EU-US “smart grids” do not work. The Obama/Chu Department of Energy (DoE) is now building an unproven $10s billion “smart grid” North American Synchrophasor Initiative (NASPI) for the left Democrats’ green energy project. U.S. President Obama and German Chancellor Merkel have acted upon the similar energy policies: phase out nuclear energy, promote sun and wind "renewable" energy, and both leaders are developing expensive German Siemens Ultra-HVDC SYNCHROPHASOR systems that most likely will never work adequately with non base-load electrical sources.
Government’s subsidized energy pricing structure undermines private capitalism. This has not been an issue before. However, there now is a neo-communist political energy monopoly that is anti-capitalism. The U.S. neo communists have a policy and funding to nationalize U.S. energy sectors and undermine the capitalism energy sector.
Government smart grids and energy efficacy investments have been ARRA funded $41.852 billion. There is no resulting reduction in global warming temperature increase.
Renewable energy goes to the pockets of political special interests and collects votes for neo-communists who have been milking EU-US economies dry. U.S. Neo-Communists have no interests at all in reducing global warming temperature increase. President Obama and neo-communist anti-capitalism policies cause waste, economic decline, greed, fraud, and lies.
Most 2009 ARRA funds are spent. It would take an act of Congress to stop spending money on the “renewable energy” political waste. Perhaps in 2013 we will have a cost vs. benefit Congress that understands the value of money. To make maters worse, President Obama and left Democrat leadership have linked European and American neo-communist movements. Resulting is that there is little hope that EU-US politicians will respond in time to save human races from complete destruction by global warming temperature increase. Chances for our children living to an old age are decreasing unless global warming temperature increase politics soon changes.
In 1992, the German Green Party came to power after decades of flower power and anti nuclear street protests. U.S. left Democrats passed the U.S. Energy Policy Act of 1992. The spread of Communism within Europe is a systemic occurrence. Also in 1992, UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) (aka, ‘Earth Summit’) that formed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The spread of Communism within the U.S. originates from Vietnam War protesters becoming politicians and universities/colleges providing departments to teach communist-activism. U.S. communist oriented students in the tens of thousands are in support of an EU-US communist revolution. Over the course of three or four decades, the communist movement built its presence in politics and anti nuclear movements.
The U.S. ‘Energy Policy Act’ of 1992 established the shift from an energy policy contained expansion of nuclear energy to neo-communist politics that closes down nuclear energy and regulates corrupt “renewable.” If the U.S. nuclear energy expands, the U.S. would have huge amounts of stored excess energy. Instead of assuring necessary energy supplies for national and global economies, the U.S. neo-communists, working with EU neo-communists has turned critical energy sectors into social welfare programs. It took from 1992 until 2006 for the EU Commission to follow U.S. Democrat Neo-Communist “renewable” energy politics. Before 2006, Senator Obama had established himself as de facto leadership of the EU-US neo communism movement. Germany also followed the U.S. left Democrat lead in abolishing clean nuclear energy and nuclear geologic repositories.
In 2006, the EU Commission established the future European (and U.S.) energy policy with the publication of a ‘Green Paper.’ The European Commission, following a consultation process, on 10 January 2007, published the decision to develop a common “green” energy policy. First proposal, “Energy for a Changing World” (Texts adopted 17 December 2008 - Strasbourg).
On 14 February 2007, the European Parliament adopted a non-binding resolution demanding that the key proposal cut carbon emissions by 20%. The proposals were approved at a later meeting of the European Council on 8/9 March 2007. The package was to reduce the EU's dependency on imported fuels and set the pace of “a new global industrial revolution.” The EU neo-communists positioned Europe’s whole economy to rely upon unproven energy sources that have never worked properly under required growing energy demands. The increase in EU-US carbon emissions as well as EU national doomed economies is a product of neo-communist policy failures.
It is customary for communist politicians’ social transformations to ignore science, economics, and facts. Communist politicians are social reformers who ram their legislation without providing verifiable justifications. Communists’ words sound great, but communists’ systems have never worked. Making proper energy decisions without sciences, engineering, or capitalist economic principals is unachievable and very costly.
Since there is no political accountability for funds spent, to date, the U.S. and EU’s energy and climate change 'package' remains a costly unjustified failure while the global warming temperature keeps increasing. Nuclear energy is the only energy source that has the clean energy capacity capable of reducing human and some natural greenhouse gas emissions.
However, Germany and the U.S. have anti nuclear fanatics while corruption is profitable. The EU Commission chose to take an "agnostic" stance regarding faith-based anti-nuclear radical ant nuclear element. The EU left it up to member states to decide the future of nuclear energy.
In January 2010, the European Union approved an energy tax-plan to “fight” climate change, at an average cost of three euros a week for every citizen of the 27-nation bloc, the president of the European Commission said at the launch of the project. Where is the accounting for EU energy tax monies collected? Does the “three euros a week” reduce any global warming temperature increase or is the three euros per week another EU general tax increase? Perhaps the EU energy tax is another transfer of income scheme.
Under existing EU-US global warming politics, there is an assured global mass suicide by global warming temperature increase 2050-2099.
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