I see where Seattle is now having a problem with thieves destroying charging stations for the junk value of copper. Do you think this will now go nationwide?
A year or two ago, it was catalytic converters that were being stolen in the middle of the night by drug addicts who were then selling them to their local junk yards. This appears to be more of the same thing.
Here’s an example of how stupid the greenies are: They have set up a system by which companies who want to advertise how environmentally friendly they are, to buy carbon credits by paying people to not cut down trees. The State of Alaska is considering putting it’s millions of acres of state forest up for sale to the tune of $30 billion over the next 20 years. Mind you that the vast majority of that forest is untouched land that are covered with mature forest that emits as much carbon as it captures because it is in balance … old trees die and rot releasing their carbon (and methane) at the same rate as the living trees capture it. But hey, if someone is dumb enough to pay us for doing something we are already doing, we are willing to take their money.
A friend of mine owns 25 square miles in eastern NC. There’s nothing there but swamp, thickets and roads dividing this into square blocks. He told me when this “carbon credit” thingy was initiated, that his property earned a bunch of credits that he could then sell to companies. Talk about our stupid government and the stupid policies their stupidity conjures up…
Probably the absence of a negative factor. No fossil fuel emissions means we stop adding to the problem (by the way they figure it.)
But I’ve been wondering for a long time … “Stealing the wind’s energy” (as you put it) DOES take some marginal energy from natural air currents. What happens if, 50 years from now, we discover that we’ve irreparably altered the jet streams?