I was reading an article in the Sacramento Bee today “Proposal to harness wind power off Mendocino coast worries fishing industry” and it really pissed me off once I started thinking about it.

This energy thing is like doing battle with customer service at the phone or insurance company.  Dumb asses.  All of them.  Either we’re breeding them dumb or they all go to the same “Dumb Ass” school.

What is so damn difficult about harnessing free energy.  Wind.  Solar.  Water.  All free.  All right in front of our faces.  No exploration required.  All they have to do is get it to the power plants.  Something that is so pure and natural and in such abundance.  Mother Nature already did the hard part.  Just get it from point A to point B.  No refining process necessary.  How hard is that?

“Moreover, the potential for wind and waves depends on someone building transmission lines to connect offshore power to the state’s grid.”

Let’s see…

• They spend millions of dollars on exploration to find coal, oil, natural gas, etc.
• They spend millions of dollars destroying the earth to get to it.
• They spend millions of dollars transporting it to refineries that cost millions to build.
• The refining process poisons our air, water and ground.
• Then they pick it apart and only use a portion of it to generate electricity and the rest is used to poison the world in some other way.
• They spill it and pollute the land, killing everything in its path.
• They have the technology and money to build massive refineries.
• They have the technology and money to put a man on the moon. Now THAT’S rocket science.
• They have the technology and money to split fucking atoms, something that we can’t even see.
• Yet they complain that it “costs to much” too set up wind turbines.
• It costs too much to build desalinization plants for drought-stricken regions of the world with oceans in their front yards.
• It costs too much to build solar houses. Why? They’ve had the technology for years! I know they were licensing solar contractions in CA in the early 80’s because a framing contractor boyfriend of mine got one. Here it is over 26 years later since he got his license and solar power is STILL not the norm on new construction.
• They whine that they have to get the power generated by waves, wind, and sun to a power plant a few miles or even several hundred miles aways and that’s AFTER they had already built the Trans-Atlantic cable THOUSANDS of miles long.
• This is in a world where every little thing has been digitized and where every other thing is wireless.
• They can do all that, but they won’t transport free energy to a fucking power plant so they can distribute it on an ALREADY FUCKING EXISTING power grid.
• No one ever died from a water spill.
• No one ever died from a breeze in their face.
• No one ever died from spilled sunshine. Heaven fucking forbid it ever brighten someone’s day.  I’d like to take that sunshine and blow it up someone’s ass.
• And if there was an affiliate program tied into it all, I’d sell it.

And I love the last two paragraphs of that Sac Bee article:

“A federal deadline has passed for gaining an official voice in the legal planning for the wave projects, alongside PG&E and federal energy regulators.

Mitchell has filed a request for a belated entree with the Federal Electric Regulatory Commission. She argues that an isolated community, with limited high-speed Internet service, and few residents who even know what FERC is, could not have met the deadline.”

That coming from one of the most technologically advanced countries on the face of the earth. It blows my mind.

I think Doctor McCoy from StarTrek said it the best, “Jim, you really piss me off.”