Among other things I write fiction books, creating a wide range of stories and scenes totally from imagination. However, as I’ve mentioned before, if I tried for a thousand years I couldn’t come up with much of the stuff I read in the news every day because it’s so ridiculous I can’t conceive that anyone could concoct anything so inane. And today’s a perfect example.
As all those watching yesterday’s Super Bowl know, a blackout occurred 90 seconds into the second half, lasting nearly 34 minutes. Authority’s said it was caused by power coming into the Superdome and no other areas were affected.
Now, here’s the thing that intrigued me. While scanning Drudge just now I came across a link to a website: energy.gov. And there I found an article by John Horst, Public Affairs Specialist with the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
I’ve inserted a couple of paragraphs below to give you the gist of the story.
“To make this the greenest Super Bowl, the New Orleans Host Committee has partnered with fans and the community to offset energy use across the major Super Bowl venues.
The system draws only 10 kilowatts of electricity -- equivalent to the amount of energy used by a small home -- and the lights are expected to last for many years before needing replacement.”
So, here we have proponents of “Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy” boasting before the game about how they’ve been able to reduce energy consumption and maximize utilization. And then both teams along with worldwide football fans had to sit on their their hands for half an hour because the Super Bowl was stopped due to electrical problems.
To me this ranks right up there with the incumbent’s energy efficient cars that don’t work, nobody buys which amounts to a total waste of time, tax-payers funds and greenhouse speechmaker's breaths. The lunacy just doesn’t get more vivid than this.
To give you the facts, I’ve included a link to energy.gov’s item: Energy Dept- 'City Leads on Energy Efficient Forefront'
That’s it for today folks.
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