Funding the Climate kooks

 National Review:

Solar Project Backed by Biden ‘Gold Bars’ Vows to Save Millions, Protect the Earth. Critics Doubt It

A politically connected left-wing nonprofit aims to draw on tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to finance a new solar energy project which they claim will save Arkansas’s university system tens of millions of dollars while drastically reducing carbon emissions — but the project’s backers can’t, or won’t, show the math behind their rosy projections.

Proponents of the project — 18 separate solar projects, mostly in rural areas — claim it could save the University of Arkansas System over $120 million in energy costs over 25 years and generate over four billion kilowatt-hours of clean electricity over 40 years; the equivalent of removing over 7 billion passenger car miles from the roads or planting 46 million trees.

To get the project off the ground, the left-wing nonprofit Climate United announced in October that it would provide $31.8 million in federal dollars for pre-construction financing — for things like making utility interconnection deposits, securing American-made equipment, and acquiring land. The taxpayer-financed loan is supposed to come from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, or GGRF, a pot of $20 billion for green-energy projects established by the so-called Inflation Reduction Act under the Biden administration.

But opponents contend the Biden-era green-energy banking plan is a waste of taxpayer resources aimed at standing up environmentalist fantasies and funneling billions of dollars to Democrats’ progressive allies. If green-energy projects like the Arkansas solar installation are as efficient and valuable as their supports say, they should stand on their own without government subsidies, critics of the spending say.

Free-market energy experts also cast doubt on the projections touted by the backers of the Arkansas solar project, noting that they’ve provided little information about how they calculated them. National Review reached out to the groups behind the project asking them to detail how they calculated their estimates — for the most part, they did not.
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I do not view solar energy as a dependable source of energy. It requires sunshine and clear days and is not always available when energy is needed the most. It is safe to say that I am a critic of Big Green.

See also:

EPA admin Zeldin announces 31 ‘historic actions’ targeting Biden admin’s ‘Green New Scam’

Among the regulations Zeldin said the EPA would reconsider are the “illegal” Clean Power Plan 2.0., the endangerment finding, the electric vehicle mandate, and rules regarding particulate matter. 

And:

 Trump Administration Unveils Sweeping Environment Rollbacks

President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday announced a wave of environmental rollbacks targeting Biden-era green policies, including carbon limits on power plants, tailpipe emissions standards and protections for waterways.

The 31 actions are part of what Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin called "the greatest and most consequential day of deregulation in US history," as he promised to "unleash American energy" and "revitalize the American auto industry."
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