It ain't easy being Green

Green energy, that is. In fact, it's impossible. It's a hippie's pipe dream, used by cynical politicians as a tool to manipulate the scientifically ignorant and under-educated. But that doesn't stop starry-eyed crusaders from repeatedly ramming their heads into the wall -- and making you foot the bill for it:

Baker ultimately turned his monumental mission into a mission accomplished. [The Department of Energy] $80-million Research Support Facility (RSF) open[ed] last June, in large part due to Baker’s persistence. The 220,000-sq-ft office building, packed with proven energy-efficient technologies, beats the national standard for energy consumption by 50%. Within months, the facility will rank as the world’s largest net-zero energy-use building...

That's roughly $30 million more than what a facility of that sort should cost to build, (I've been helping put up commercial and industrial buildings for many years; just trust me on this one). How long does it have to run at "net-zero" -- a physical impossibility, by the way -- before it makes up for that $30 million overrun? (That's your $30M, by the way; this was a federal project.)

...thanks to several photovoltaic arrays, which when complete, will produce as much energy as the building uses annually.

And how much did those cost, versus a traditional energy infrastructure? I'm guessing quite a big chunk of that $30 million. But, wait! It says "which when complete..." So they're still spending money on this "net-zero" project that opened last June?

And how much will these fancy arrays cost to maintain and replace versus a traditional infrastructure? Is said maintenance cost factored into that "net-zero energy use"? Somehow, I doubt it. Greenies like to ignore Inconvenient Truths which don't fit their carefully polished political agenda.

Baker never gave up on his green-building odyssey, despite two devastating defeats along the way.

Said "devastating defeats" are not detailed. I suspect they involved huge amounts of wasted taxpayer dollars.

Green energy doesn't work. The entire concept is quite literally bankrupt, always operating at a net loss and requiring huge amounts of subsidization, (windmills are subsidized at around 20:1 operating costs per watt-hour produced, compared to coal- and gas-fired power plants). TINSTAAFL, or no perpetual motion machines, or however you want to describe it; it's all the same principle. The laws of the universe don't change to accommodate ignorance and political whim.

Drill here. Drill now. And stop that fucking sniveling.