Legend says that if you displeased the King of Siam, he would give you a white elephant. These rare and protected elephants were incredibly expensive to keep.
So a “White Elephant” came to mean a possession that is useless, troublesome, expensive to maintain, and difficult to dispose of – like a Sacred Cow, but much bigger. [bold, links added]
Today, the deluded rulers of the Western world are gifting us and future generations with plagues of Green Elephants – useless, expensive, protected green rubbish.
The biggest green elephants in Australia are the five desalination plants built hurriedly when climate catastrophist Tim Flannery forecast that burning hydrocarbons would create perpetual drought.
He forgot La Nina with its cycles of rain and floods for Australia. Flannery’s complex, expensive de-sal plants have largely sat idle.
The sun powers the greatest desalination plant on earth, all for free. If we had spent all that desalination money on dams we could have moderated La Nina flood damage, insulated against El Nino droughts, and provided naturally desalinated water for many towns and industries.
Australia was also conned into a war on hydrocarbons by American climate catastrophist Al Gore and his animated cartoon.
This generated another epidemic of Green Elephants — solar panels, wind turbines, and spiderwebs of power lines that squander capital, uglify our landscapes and destroy grasslands, forests, and birdlife, as well as destroying our once-cheap and reliable electricity supply.
Future generations will be faced with the removal and disposal of these Green Monuments to Stupidity.
Another Green Elephant is being suckled in the Snowy Mountains – Snowy 2 Pumped Hydro. Its plant and transmission lines will cost $10 billion for a facility that is a net consumer of electricity.
More huge batteries are required to “solve” the chronic intermittency of wind/solar energy.
More Green Elephants are being planned by hydrogen speculators. These net consumers of energy will guzzle huge quantities of freshwater to produce a dangerous explosive gas that cannot be used by motorists or industry without much research and new infrastructure.
Some even dream of exporting our precious freshwater via hydrogen (nine tonnes of water for every tonne of hydrogen).
Perhaps the world’s biggest Green Elephant is being bred in Australia’s Northern Territory.
This green folly would connect the world’s biggest collection of solar “farms”, wind turbines, and batteries to Singapore via the world’s longest undersea extension cord across a deep submarine trench that is subject to many earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions.
These disastrous Green adventures are driven by the UN Billionaires’ club and promoted endlessly by government, media, education bureaucracies, and vocal vested interests.
This plague of Green Elephants will destroy our industries, our farms, and our access to cheap reliable fuels and electricity.
It is time for a Green Elephant Hunt.
What they dont need in the land down under is more idiotic regulations based upon a Total Lie
The great big green lie. As Sean Hanity says “the cult of climate change” – all faith, no understanding. Abandoning 85% of the energy that has made us the best fed, longest living, most prosperous human beings in human history. Complete ignorance that life is carbon-based. And that any level of CO2 below 2,000ppm is a STARVATION LEVEL LOW!
This news should not surprise anyone. Australia isn’t known for its ability to create or invent anything that’s of value to human life. It is well known for following the crowd and not thinking for itself, such as selling ship loads of coal to other countries but not using it themselves. China and India love Aussie coal. China makes most of what Aussies consume thanks to the coal sent to them.
It’s really sad to think that today’s Australians’ grandparents didn’t have to worry about the price of their electricity back in the 1950’s because it was so cheap and plentiful, when now, in a vastly more modern society, one of the biggest problems is insufficient electricity. Who would have thought that, given how much coal (and gas) Australia has?
Future Australians will look back (at today’s decision makers) and wonder what the hell was wrong with them?