JIM “PAPPY” MOORE: The Eclipse is Coming!
By Jim “Pappy” Moore
April 8th in the Year of Our Lord 2024 a major eclipse of the Sun by the Moon will occur, cutting a swath across the United States. It may be the most oversold, overexaggerated solar eclipse in the history of the country.
The old tale about Chicken Little having an acorn fall on her head and concluding the sky was falling comes to mind. The hysteria borders on the ridiculous.
I read an article which predicts in solemn tones the impact the event will have on solar farms and their energy production across America during this celestial happening. Keep in mind solar energy always depends on sunshine hitting those panels to produce the energy they produce.
Psst. Hey all you TV commentators and journalists writing about the impact this very brief, very limited period of daytime darkness, guess what? Did you know that EVERY NIGHT the grid doesn’t get any power from those solar panels which may produce an hour less, at most, on the day of the eclipse? We call it night, and it happens once every twenty-four hours, lasting between ten and twelve hours each night.
While you’re at it, doomsday freaks, how does the darkness of the eclipse seriously differ from an hour of a thunder storm which blocks the sun’s rays? Is it really any different, or do those panels somehow keep creating energy while they are pelted with rain in decidedly overcast skies?
We have major media which wants to sell us on solar energy. It is considered a “green” energy by those who promote it. The goal is to increase use of what they like to call “green energy” and thereby limit the use of what they consider to be “dirty” energy. The latter includes energy from nuclear power, coal, gasoline, diesel, and natural gas. The green proponents worship windmills and solar farms, even though both of those have serious problems, particularly the creation of materials which are not biodegradable, and therefore must be buried in vast areas, where they will not deconstruct and become a friendly part of the environment.
There are places where solar energy and windmills make sense. It is therefore useful to have them where they can reasonably be relied upon for some periods and some seasons. But both are dependent upon factors which cannot be controlled, mostly sufficient wind in sufficiently warm weather, or sufficient hours of sunlight for long periods of time.
For these reasons, places which are not near producers of oil, gas, coal or nuclear but do have plenty of sunlight and wind make ideal areas for the use of those green energy components. Even so, when the sun isn’t shining, the solar panels are merely sitting there. And when the wind isn’t blowing or it’s too cold, those windmills won’t be producing much energy.
In the end, a one-hour eclipse which cuts off sunshine for a limited area is not much of an impact on either the grid or the region’s energy production. They’re using it to write more about solar energy and to promote it. Most of major media is in the business of pushing propaganda, and this is one of the things they do: push the narrative. They’ll tie in the scare tactics of the Climate Change fanatics, and it will be a few days of more of the same malarkey they routinely feed citizens.
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