The Democrats are getting ready for their blowout convention in Denver August 25th. Have you heard about the extensive revisions to the Pepsi Center that are going on?
It’s a massive rebuild-then-rebuild-back operation. 300,000 pounds of lights and speakers, so much they’ll have to reinforce the ceiling!
The existing lighting is good enough for professional sports, but not brilliant enough to illuminate the Democrats as they convene.
They’re ripping out suites, adding 160 miles of copper cable, 3000 data lines outside to the media city showing up, plus extra transformers to handle the massive power draw. Then when the convention is over, they rebuild the rebuilt Pepsi Center back to a sports arena.
Is this “sustainable design?” There is little concern for the wasteful teardown-rebuild-throw-away and rebuild-back of Denver’s arena.
Wait…aren’t these the same folks that are pushing a ban on incandescent bulbs, required energy conservation, mandated compact fluorescent lamps, carbon sequestration/credits, and energy conservation in general?
Saving the planet is in our hands, we’re told. To do that, we must empower Democrat’s, whose objectives include the “green” policy of burning less coal. Coal-fired electric power plants produce more carbon dioxide (CO2) than other kinds. They have the notion that the man-made CO2 is warming the planet too much.
Here’s the ringer – Denver gets it power primarily from coal-fired power plants. Denver has added a huge solar plant, but it doesn’t add much power.
The coal plants do all the heavy lifting in Denver, day and night. The Dem convention will be a major electrical load. If they are so concerned with green power, why didn’t they pick a site that has it? Or moderate their power draw to somewhere close to normal?
Yet this convention is promoted as the “Greenest Show on Earth.” Biodegradable balloons, no fried foods, lean’n green catering guidelines, an Official Carbon Advisor, a carbon count for every participant, and so on.
85% of all waste is to be recycled or composted. 70% of food ingredients should be organic or locally grown. If you don’t know what’s “green,” and you probably don’t, they’ll tell you. Renewable energy projects are OK, but coal power never appears on their green list.
When the product is left-wing goodness, it matters not one bit how that power is generated. Apparently coal is just fine to power the party chosen by anti-coal activists.
But the common man is handed a dim bulb and a condescending attitude. My own local power company wanted to build a new coal-fired power plant. Activists derailed it. The non-activist rate payers lost.
Incredibly the coal burned in Denver is actually pretty clean. The conventioneers won’t damage a plant or an animal, or cause harm to the planet as a consequence of their over-exuberant power party. Global air temperatures continue to fall, now below normal even as the coal burns.
The irony is low-carbon advocates draw large amounts of high-carbon energy at a supposedly virtuous low-carbon event, after which the environment is not harmed.
It’s like a gathering of teetotalers having a blast celebrating the virtues of their abstinence, never realizing their punch was spiked.
Ratchet up the power at those coal plants. Turn them all the way up to furnace cracking “Democrat Convention” power level! And don’t back off until they’re done.
Thomas Clark Oden is an independent equity investor and technical analyst and lives in Oklahoma City.
