02-22-2020, 11:47 PM
There is no "free" energy. At a minimum, there are start-up costs and maintenance involved in the production of energy, regardless of the method used.
With that said, energy could be a LOT cheaper than it currently is. If folks had their own production facilities on a per-home basis rather than relying on huge energy companies to provide it for us, the cost per unit power would plummet. I have known people who were alive when electricity first came to these mountains and the nearby Piedmont. They say that back then, before power lines were strung, each farm had a device called a "delco" that provided their power on a per-home basis, and it was a phenomenal means of self-sufficient power production. I take it that a "delco" was some sort of generator, probably gasoline or diesel powered.
We will never see that again in America on any kind of large scale. Power companies would not allow it, even if a "free" means of energy were realized. Right now, here in the coalfields, the Socialists are attempting to convince us that we can replace coal jobs with "alternate green energy jobs". They're full of shit, of course, as the raw materials for production are not found here. raw materials would have to be shipped IN as well as back out, doubling transport costs. Then there would be the required training and the costs associated with that... the list goes on, but the upshot is that it would be more cost effective to "relocate" us to wherever the State needed us to be good little worker bees, and that is the REAL goal of all this "green energy" bullshit as it relates to us coalfield hillbillies.
As long as we are out here in the boonies, and armed, we are not being the good little proles that the Socialist State wants us to be, and they simply can't have that. Hence the push to disarm us, and the push to urbanize us by moving us to the urban kill chutes where they are moving the rest of the sheep to slowly but surely.
It's not about guns, nor is it about energy - "green", "free", or otherwise. It's all about CONTROL vs. a free people, and how to exert that control OVER a free people.
NONE of the current "social issues" is actually about that issue - ALL of them are geared towards gaining absolute control of this or that segment of the population. Every damned one of them. If it were really about "green economy", they would be, right now, paying for solar panels and associated energy storage and infrastructure in every house - or at least one of the Socialists running and crowing "green" this and that would have already floated the proposal... but that would foster independence and freedom, which a Socialist State cannot survive.
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With that said, energy could be a LOT cheaper than it currently is. If folks had their own production facilities on a per-home basis rather than relying on huge energy companies to provide it for us, the cost per unit power would plummet. I have known people who were alive when electricity first came to these mountains and the nearby Piedmont. They say that back then, before power lines were strung, each farm had a device called a "delco" that provided their power on a per-home basis, and it was a phenomenal means of self-sufficient power production. I take it that a "delco" was some sort of generator, probably gasoline or diesel powered.
We will never see that again in America on any kind of large scale. Power companies would not allow it, even if a "free" means of energy were realized. Right now, here in the coalfields, the Socialists are attempting to convince us that we can replace coal jobs with "alternate green energy jobs". They're full of shit, of course, as the raw materials for production are not found here. raw materials would have to be shipped IN as well as back out, doubling transport costs. Then there would be the required training and the costs associated with that... the list goes on, but the upshot is that it would be more cost effective to "relocate" us to wherever the State needed us to be good little worker bees, and that is the REAL goal of all this "green energy" bullshit as it relates to us coalfield hillbillies.
As long as we are out here in the boonies, and armed, we are not being the good little proles that the Socialist State wants us to be, and they simply can't have that. Hence the push to disarm us, and the push to urbanize us by moving us to the urban kill chutes where they are moving the rest of the sheep to slowly but surely.
It's not about guns, nor is it about energy - "green", "free", or otherwise. It's all about CONTROL vs. a free people, and how to exert that control OVER a free people.
NONE of the current "social issues" is actually about that issue - ALL of them are geared towards gaining absolute control of this or that segment of the population. Every damned one of them. If it were really about "green economy", they would be, right now, paying for solar panels and associated energy storage and infrastructure in every house - or at least one of the Socialists running and crowing "green" this and that would have already floated the proposal... but that would foster independence and freedom, which a Socialist State cannot survive.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’