I have been
challenging the solar advocates that their fervent support was simply business
as usual dressed up. My research has used the videos of the industries
themselves to show that the industrial history of solar and wind energy
capturing devices are not green, renewable or sustainable. I see this advocacy for so-called
“renewables” as maintaining the consumer society for a while longer.
When challenged ‘what
the electricity was to be used for’, the question was ignored or given lip
service on the need for conservation.
Instead of limiting per capita electricity use, the unrestrained and
more importantly unmonitored “free” market was to be allowed to reign; thus
essentially continuing its destructive assault on the earth and its life habitats.
Just as importantly, is the implicit
assumptions by these proponents that humans will change their ways and conserve
energy and not consume, consume, consume. This is akin to Jevons' paradox
(perhaps their is one more germaine). If the energy is available, what will stop
continued consumption of tools and toys? Who will go first with this restraint
and restricting? Think of the uproar if legislated.
My challenges and
research have gotten me unfriended, blocked, “yelled at” and insulted on
Facebook. There is an ardor and almost religious fervor by these technoptimist;
technofantasists; technophiles.
I knew that we would be happily growing along making tools
and toys. “People now spend far more
money on things that use electricity than on the electricity itself, and this disproportion
has been increasing since the 1920s.” (Nye,
David. 2006. Technology Matters. MIT. Cambridge.
pg. 42)
I
simply wasn’t prepared for what I found below.
I was not prepared
for the direct, overt and continued assault on the earth, the scale of it and
how quickly it was happening. This
stunned me. The installation at a Chilean copper mine is a giant step beyond
tools and toys. It is BUSINESS AS
USUAL in capitals and underlined.
The spin on this by the advocates of
renewable,
green and sustainable will be a joy to
behold.
SunEdison To Set Up 70 MW Solar Power
Project For
Chilean Copper Mine
One
of the largest copper mining companies in the world is set install a solar
power project to power part of its operations in Chile.
SunEdison
has announced that it has signed an agreement with Antofagasta Minerals S.A. to
set up 69.5 MW solar photovoltaic power project at one of the
latter copper mine in Chile. Antofagasta plans to use solar power to meet a
part of the electricity demand at its Los Pelambres mine.
Antofagasta’s
Los Pelambres mine in Chile
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When
I photoshopped these pictures, they
were
meant as cartoons with a tinge of sarcasm.
Now, it is irony and reality.
