Boulder has an incredibly clean coal/natural gas power plant which provides 100% reliable electricity 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It is so clean and unobtrusive that most residents are not even aware of its existence.
But the City of Boulder has been brainwashed into believing that somehow this clean energy is dirty, and wants to become the first city to run 100% off environmentally destructive energy forms like wind power.
NREL wind turbines just south of Boulder
I attended a meeting of the Boulder Clean Power Plan at CU last year. They bragged that less than 200 wind turbines could power the city on a windy day.
I spend much of my time photographing birds in the South Boulder open space, like this one I took yesterday. These birds would be decimated by 200 wind turbines.
[Empty space for the City of Boulder to insert NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) wind turbine rhetoric]
We get some very windy days in Boulder, but even in the springtime we have more days that are dead calm. The wind turbines would be completely useless much of the time, and the city will need to find other forms of electricity. Nothing will destroy a modern city faster than unreliable utilities.
NCAR Foothills Lab Weather (english, weekly)
Temperatures in Boulder peaked 65 years ago. There is zero evidence supporting the idea that CO2 has affected Boulder’s climate.
There is also zero evidence that either Boulder or the United States has any control of global CO2 emissions. US emissions have been declining for several years due to fracking, while China’s CO2 emissions are skyrocketing.
Climate Goals Pledged by China and the U.S. – The New York Times
Under the deal which China made with Obama, China’s emissions will continue to grow for another 13 years.
Boulder’s tiny contribution to the global CO2 balance would be like putting a dollar into a joint bank account, where another co-owner is stealing millions.
This is awful, but the Boulder Municipal Power Plan story gets much uglier. The second half of this very dark anti-environmental story will be revealed soon.
