Artificial Innovation in the form of renewable energy in Michigan at it’s highest when they cut 400 acres of forest for solar and wind. Artificial Influenza with H5N1 possibly resulting from gain of function research by the FDA. And Artificial Integrity when AI can simply produce the underlying references that comprise its answers.
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Artificial Innovation
https://energybadboys.substack.com/p/america-can-save-the-electric-grid
We have been fooled that solar and wind can replace coal and natural gas as the source of energy to meet our current needs.
Our sacrifice will not only be huge swaths of land, but reliability.
Grid or Grift?
Federal subsidies for wind and solar, particularly those included in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), are identified as a primary driver of the reliability crisis. These subsidies are seen as handouts that undermine the grid’s stability. The subsidies are currently at a level where the power companies can get a stream of revenue where they still make profits and not provide the same level of service.
Here are the issues:
- North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC): According to NERC’s Long-Term Reliability Assessment (LTRA), many areas in the U.S. face an elevated or high risk of rolling blackouts within the next five years. This risk is due to rising power demand, the retirement of reliable power plants, and the unreliability of wind and solar.
- Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO): The MISO region is identified as being at high risk of rolling blackouts, possibly as early as the summer of 2025, even under normal weather conditions. MISO is particularly vulnerable because of the replacement of retiring coal plants with solar, wind, and battery facilities. The source claims these facilities do not provide consistent reliability. MISO is also projected to have shortfalls during winter months.
- Regulatory Factors: NERC explains that “economic, policy, and regulatory factors” are primarily driving the retirement of fossil fuel generators, thus compromising grid reliability
It’s Only 212,000 Acres of Land for Solar or Wind, What’s the Problem?
209,000 acres is roughly 340 square miles of land. And while some may say that it can be distributed throughout the state so as to be non-intrusive, contiguous areas are the most efficient way to managed the massive amount of panels. Think about it – how will you transport all the ADDITIONAL electricity over large distances and not experience attenuation and LOSE power? How will you be able to monitor and maintain the countless panels in remote regions?
This is the area required, and this is a problem. A HUGE PROBLEM.
Perhaps We are Finally Waking Up?
In Gaylord Michigan the Department of Natural Resources was contemplating simply re-assigning public land for solar panel wasteland use. I refuse to call it solar farms. You don’t grow anything on that property, you have to cut down trees. No shade – that’s how it works.
Several Michigan lawmakers are expressing outrage about plans to lease 420 acres of state forestland for a solar farm in Otsego County.
An official with the state Department of Natural Resources confirmed the agency continues to respond to multiple inquiries from legislators about siting solar panels on state-managed public lands after an MLive report published Thursday. Several Republican state lawmakers issued statements on Friday, arguing anyone at the DNR responsible for this decision should be fired.
The bigger question is how much oversite does our legislature and our governor truly have over the agencies once the receive their money? Whitmer claimed MDHHS operated on principles of science and medicine and stood aside to let them shutdown our entire state and jail people. Our House and Senate give out the money to MESC, then they seem powerless to even get documentation.
There is ANOTHER project in the region that required 1000 acres
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is considering leasing 420 acres of state land in Hayes Township, near Gaylord, for a solar energy development. This land would be used to expand an existing 1,000-acre solar project planned on nearby private property by RWE Clean Energy
The DNR considered this site suitable because it is bisected by power transmission lines and has been impacted by logging, oil and gas drilling, and damage from a 2022 tornado. The DNR has been exploring ways to use state land for renewable energy development. The land is not pristine and includes logged areas, oil and gas development, and storm-damaged areas
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources will issue a public notice Tuesday of its intent to lease the property in Hayes Township, just west of Gaylord, said Scott Whitcomb, director of the agency’s public lands office.
The parcel abuts private property already slated for a roughly 1,000-acre solar development by RWE Clean Energy. Whitcomb said company officials approached the DNR about a year ago looking to expand onto state land.
We Got Lucky
Why is the DNR qualified? Are they? Where is the counter survey, study?
For years, DNR officials have explored ways to use state land for renewable energy development as the state transitions away from fossil fuels. The Gaylord-area property seemed promising because it is bisected by power transmission lines that could transport solar energy, and has been impacted by logging, oil and gas drilling and damage from a 2022 tornado.
By Monday afternoon, RWE was distancing itself from the proposal.
“RWE is not seeking to lease state-owned land for this project,” company spokesperson Patricia Kakridas said in an email to Bridge.
The fight exemplifies the growing tensions in Michigan and nationally as the climate crisis fuels an energy transition that will require vast quantities of land for wind and solar farms.
In Michigan, Democratic lawmakers last year passed legislation requiring utilities to achieve 100% clean energy by 2040. To meet that mandate, Michigan may need to devote another 209,000 acres to wind and solar energy.
The Ugly Truth – More Land is Required for the Transmission Lines When We Use 100% Electricity.
Data Centers just received an extension on tax breaks to locate to Michigan. Michigan has roughly 25% of the world’s fresh water, and the data centers require millions of gallons or water daily.
In Maryland, a huge swath of land is required to create a corridor of transmission lines to support the data centers that the state hopes to build. The dimensions in Maryland are 70 miles by 15 miles. Below that are is plotted onto a Michigan map.
Maryland imports 40% of the electricity that it currently needs, and yet it is in a lower risk area than Michigan.
Eminent Domain is being invoked to TAKE FARM LAND TO ACQURE THE AREA NEEDED. HOW SOON UNTIL MICHIGAN FACES THE SAME ISSUE?
OZFest covered this in a previous Morning Mission episode.
Show Notes: RBG On The Farm
Where Are We Headed?
We will sacrifice farmland, and FOOD, in order to bring the Renewable Energy Dream to Life. The implications are clear, as this article in Cultural Courage lays out.
Artificial Influenza – What The Hell is a Quad-Demic?
Of course the mis-used PCR test will be used to identify Bird Flu. Yet what they ignorant media does not relay that presence of the virus does not indicate that you have been SICK with the virus. You have been exposed to bird flu, and have a mere cold (same symptoms) yet show the strain.
Just In Time For the Inauguration, Bird Flu Death with 65 year Old Victim
- Patient Demographics: The deceased was over the age of 65 and had underlying medical conditions.
- Exposure: The patient was exposed to H5N1 through a “combination of a non-commercial backyard flock and wild birds”.
- Location: The case and death occurred in Louisiana.
- Transmission: There is currently no evidence of person-to-person transmission of H5N1 related to this case. This is the only reported human case of H5N1 in Louisiana [4].
- Public Health Risk: The LDH emphasizes that the risk to the general public is low. However, those who work with or have recreational exposure to birds, poultry, or cows are at higher risk.
HMPV – A New Disease, Same Symptoms
What Is HMPV
Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) is a respiratory disease that causes flu or cold-like symptoms, but can increase risks or lead to more serious complications like bronchitis or pneumonia, particularly among the elderly, young children, and immunocompromised people.
The disease is in the same family as respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and has been around since at least 2001 when it was first identified in the Netherlands. Its outbreaks are concentrated during colder seasons.
What is human metapneumovirus, are cases surging in China, and should we be worried?
Surging HMPV cases in northern China have prompted some online alarm but experts say the risk of another Covid-like pandemic is low
Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) is a respiratory disease that causes flu or cold-like symptoms, but can increase risks or lead to more serious complications like bronchitis or pneumonia, particularly among the elderly, young children, and immunocompromised people.
The disease is in the same family as respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and has been around since at least 2001 when it was first identified in the Netherlands. Its outbreaks are concentrated during colder seasons.
Why is HMPV in the news? If We Are Not At Risk Why Worry?
Cases have been surging in northern China, particularly among children, according to local authorities. The country’s centre for disease control (CDC) has warned people to take precautions with health and hygiene, but has also pushed back against online claims of overwhelmed hospitals and fears of another Covid-like pandemic.
“Respiratory infections tend to peak during the winter season,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Friday.
“The diseases appear to be less severe and spread with a smaller scale compared to the previous year.”
The apparent increase in cases is likely partly due to new technology more easily detecting and identifying HMPV, experts told the Guardian.
Also, “I think we’re just more cautious of outbreaks now”, said Dr Jacqueline Stephens, a senior lecturer in public health at Flinders University in Australia. “Everyone is hypervigilant, and you hear this term human metapneumovirus and it sounds kind of scary.”
What Are The Factors That Traditionally Have Made Flu More Deadly In China? Environment and Nutrition
Immune systems in Asia are under assault from pollution and have not been bolstered with good nutrition. Close quarters and poor hygiene leads to increased rates of infection, and is also why Covid was so deadly.
But now that so many have been vaxxed in the US, particularly children, what has happened to their immune systems? They are so compromised that child ailments that we easily weathered such as RSV are now virulent and in some cases deadly.
Crisis Actors … Calling it A Crisis
Did you know that @DrLeanaWen has been a crisis actor since the Boston Marathon Bombings?
— Dr. Simon Goddek (@goddeketal) July 7, 2023
In this video, you can see her 'performing' in front of a green screen. However, there are many more inconsistencies regarding Leana Wen. Let's explore them in a thread.🧵⬇️ pic.twitter.com/Qu1QiqNnuf
🇺🇸 La fanatique du confinement Leana Wen préconise la vaccination contre la grippe aviaire avant l’entrée en fonction de Trump
— La liberté d’exprimer publiquement des opinions 📢 (@brienico) January 6, 2025
Biden s’efforce d’obtenir l’autorisation de la FDA pour l’utilisation à grande échelle du vaccin contre la grippe aviaire. 💉🐓🦃https://t.co/voX6WTIarc https://t.co/JFo7UqJz2x
How Good A Doctor Is She?
Yet Leana Wen is still actively pushing for masks, lockdowns and useless vaccines to combat a manufactured bird flu threat. https://t.co/8IbUgMmwrE
— Cyn Clagar (@cynclagar) January 6, 2025
Artificial Integrity – If AI Can’t Provide Sources, How Much Productivity Does It Provide?
I recently tested Gemini 2.0, the latest Large Language Model AI implementation from Google. In many ways it’s impressive with rapid responses with language that is eloquent and authoritative. But that’s the problem.
Here are the parameters that I supplied that required any references that Gemini used for it’s answers to be listed at the bottom of the response.
So I asked Gemini about proponents and theorists of Natural Law, and instructed Gemini to build a timeline of the evolution of the thinking that formed that basis of Natural Law. Since this is established history, there shouldn’t be an impact with a training date cut off for Gemini. The corpus of information that Gemini was trained with was Internet source from June 1st 2024 and earlier, as well as journals, books and transcripts from countless sources.
While creating authoritative answers, I decided to click some of the links.
From this one request 3 resources were listed.
Here are the results. They are not correct.
So I asked Gemini to correct the situation. It failed to do so.
I was warned that the MAY be a possibility of unsafe content.
