On the Chris Matthews show “Hardball” on Monday December 23, as well as a brief segment on the “11th Hour with Brian Williams,” featuring Brian Williams, President Donald “Fat Boy”Trump was, to the surprise of many citizens, featured discussing one of the many environmental causes which candidate and President Donald J. (Judas) Trump champions and for what ever reason, [Fake News!] he does not receive the credit he so richly deserves.
Many environmentalists, for whatever reason, [Fake News!] seem to believe that President Trump is not an environmentalist, because they misunderstand or refuse to concede that withdrawing the United States from the Paris Accords was done primarily in order to save the thousands of trees that would have been sacrificed in order to print the thousands of pages necessary to publish the Paris Accords worldwide.
Some misguided critics have suggested that the Paris Accords could have been published electronically, via computers and electronic files.These misinformed commentators seem to believe that electrons are some sort of natural limitless resource, like hot air, but they are wrong. Most people don’t realize that computer specific electrons have to be manufactured and are created mostly from a combination of sand, rare earth minerals and red clay. This is an expensive and complicated process. But be that as it may, that is not the purpose of this essay.
I am proud to support President Trump for his under appreciated efforts to bring to the attention of the world the danger of Windmills. Readers can access the entire speech that President Trump gave in front of the conservative high school and college youth at the Turning Point USA conference on Saturday.
I will only touch on the most important highlight. Several times in his mostly off the cuff and brilliant spontaneous speech he highlighted little known facts which like myself, many conservative experts consider to be one of the most dangerous aspects of windmills fueled with fossil fuels. Most importantly, several times in the speech he emphasized the incredible amount of toxic fumes and dangerous gasses which these hazardous windmills recklessly spew into the atmosphere.
As a resident of Georgia and former resident of Atlanta, I can testify that the largest electric utility in Georgia, the Georgia Power Company, resisted calls from environmentalists for decades to desist from powering the majority of their electric generation plants and windmills with coal or diesel fuel.
Thankfully, fracking has provided the US with an abundance of clean natural gas which finally convinced the executives at the Georgia Power Company to convert their coal powered electric generation plants and windmills to clean natural gas.
While thoughtless critics complain that fracking has polluted ground water and caused an unprecedented number of earthquakes, a little known fact is that there is good news. Ground water that has been infused and supplemented with the chemicals used in fracking can be safely extracted and can simplify the complicated and expensive process of manufacturing electrons.
Also, while many nervous Nellies bemoan the increase in the number of earthquakes around the country due to fracking, an earthquake is just another form of free energy like sunlight or the ocean tides that can be harnessed and converted into electricity which frankly, would be too cheap to meter.
However, President Trump points out correctly that there are still many windmills around the USA and the world that are fueled with fossil fuels, primarily diesel gasoline, which emits noxious fumes and gasses which pollute the air and the environment at large.
I can assure readers that President Trump is not opposed to windmills per se, or that he has some sort of ingrained prejudice against that particular form of energy production.
I believe, and I think President Trump would agree, that windmills can play an important role in the production of energy and specifically electricity in the future going forward. The challenge facing the American people, the best and the brightest of our technology experts and industries, and energy production companies in particular, is to figure out a method of converting our valuable windmill resources to some sort of alternative and efficient form of environmentally friendly source of power, instead of polluting fossil fuels , as presently happens.
Personally,you might be surprised that I’m not an energy expert, and I have to admit that I can’t think of any practical solution that would fix the serious problem of windmills powered by fossil fuels. But, like President Trump. I do have faith that Americans can solve this problem and quickly. So Americans, let’s roll up our sleeves and get to work.
We will have the wind at our back!
Jim McMeans
Danielsville, GA