Mike Tagliavia for State Rep

All the spent fuel produced by the US nuclear industry over 60 years would fit on a single football field stacked less than 10 yards high. This highlights the staggering difference in scale between nuclear and wind waste. It comes down to volume, density and containment. Because this volume of spent fuel is so small, it's easily contained in steel-and-concrete dry casks, engineered to withstand missile impacts and natural disasters. It has a perfect safety record regarding water table contamination. By contrast, wind power requires roughly 10 times more concrete and 90 times more steel in material intensity per terawatt-hour. While a blade is 'stable' in a landfill, the sheer scale of unrecyclable composite waste - thousands of tons every year - creates a massive, uncontained environmental footprint. This stretches off to infinity as entire generations of wind turbines must be written off and replaced at least every 20 years. We manage nuclear 'waste' as a high-value byproduct - but we simply bury turbine waste on a scale of hundreds of locomotives and hope for the best. By contrast, the spent nuclear fuel isn’t ‘waste' at all. That is a fundamental misconception. Roughly 96% of the energy content remains in the fuel after its first cycle. France and Russia already recycle this into MOX (mixed oxide) fuel. Compare this to widely dumped industrial wastes like lead, arsenic, and mercury, which never decay and are toxic for eternity.

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He’s dead on.

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. SCOTUS Justice Sam Alito asks ACLU lawyer "what is a man and a woman?" and they DON'T HAVE A DEFINITION. Alito's response is perfect. ALITO: What does it mean to be a man or woman? ACLU: We do not have a definition for the Court. ALITO: How can a court determine whether there's discrimination on the basis of s*x, without KNOWING what s*x means?! Omg, you can't make this crap up. Seriously.

Helen Andrews On The Problem With the Feminization of Society

"Socialism is a political religion whose God is the State and whose priests are the bureaucrats... It is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal distribution of misery." Winston Churchill

The answers to many modern problems are simple but politically incorrect. So instead of solving anything, everybody pretends they don't know what's going on, and spend years misdiagnosing the issue, talking in circles, and wasting time.

Shocking news!! The government spent $2.2 billion of your money on a solar plant that underperformed for 13 years, incinerated 6,000 birds annually, needed natural gas to start every morning, was made obsolete by cheaper technology within a decade, and now cannot be shut down because California regulators will not allow it. Shutting it down costs you. Keeping it open costs you. You lose either way. And somewhere, a politician is still calling this a win for clean energy. If you gave the government $2.2 billion to make toast, the bread would catch fire, the toaster would need gas to start, and they would make you keep buying toast you do not want for 13 more years. Obama-backed $2.2B green energy 'boondoggle' leaves taxpayers on the hook foxnews.com/us/13-obama-ba… #FoxNews

The world will have to deal with 43 million tons of decommissioned wind turbine blades by Net Zero in 2050. To put that in perspective, it’s the equivalent weight of 215,000 locomotives. These blades are made of high-strength composites designed to survive decades of brutal weather, and they are notoriously difficult to recycle. They were built to last, but they weren't built to disappear. Every turbine standing today will likely be decommissioned and replaced at least once before 2050. Without a cost-effective way to recycle fibre-reinforced polymers, the majority of these massive blades are destined for eternity - buried forever in turbine graveyards. China, Europe, and the US will account for the vast majority of this waste, creating a mountainous industrial heartache that many Net Zero models simply haven't priced in. But 43 million tons of purely composite blade waste every 20 years is a colossal physical reality.

70% of New Yorkers fear that green energy mandates will make their ‘unreasonable’ electricity bills even more expensive.

Everyone should unequivocally condemn the government-imposed racial discrimination Obama is pushing! Obama makes three errors in one post, all of them philosophical. First, the United States is a constitutional republic, not a democracy. The purpose of the Constitution is to protect individual rights from the majority, not to ensure "equal participation in our democracy." The Founders designed the system specifically to prevent what Obama is demanding: unlimited majority rule. Second, "protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach" sounds correct until you examine the premise. Rights belong to individuals, not groups. The moment you define rights by racial group membership, you have adopted the same collectivist framework that produced the discrimination you claim to oppose. Jim Crow categorized people by race and assigned rights accordingly. Modern voting rights activism does the same thing with different beneficiaries. Both are collectivism. Third, gerrymandering is a problem created entirely by the system Obama wants to preserve: a political structure where the drawing of district lines determines outcomes. His solution is not to fix the structure. It is to ensure his side draws the lines. The government must treat every citizen equally before the law. Everyone should reject Obama's framing entirely. He is not defending individual rights. He is defending group power, while using the language of rights to make collectivism sound like liberty.

Had a real conversation today… A man told me: “Black people just lost their ability to vote.” I asked him one question… Why only Black people? Why not Asians… Indians… Germans… Italians? He pivoted… Said the Supreme Court “won’t give Black people special circumstances anymore.” So I asked him plainly… You’re saying Black Americans need permanent federal oversight to vote? Indefinitely? Because without it… what… they can’t participate? He had no answer. Let’s deal in facts… The 15th Amendment already guarantees the right to vote regardless of race. That protection never went away. What changed is this… The Court questioned whether decades-old emergency provisions should continue without current, measurable evidence. That’s a constitutional question… not racial suppression. If your argument is that one group needs a permanent exception to the standard applied to every other American… You better be able to explain why. Because if you can’t… You’re not defending rights. You’re defending dependency. #SilentMajoritySpeaks #AStoneGroove

Every wind turbine and solar panel on earth today is expected to be decommissioned and replaced long before Net Zero in 2050. We aren't just building a new energy grid, we're initiating the world’s largest, most resource-intensive replacement cycle. The staggering cost of these recurring cycles is expected to add trillions to an already massive price tag. McKinsey Global estimates the transition requires $9.2 trillion per year, totaling $275 trillion by 2050. However, these figures are only the baseline - they don't account for the new price ceiling driven by the physical failure and required replacement of first-generation infrastructure. Most of today’s 225,000 wind turbines (over 1.2 TW capacity) will exceed their 20–30 year lifespans by 2050. This necessitates waves of decommissioning or 'repowering' on a scale never seen before. With wingspans rivaling an Airbus A380 or Boeing 747, these massive composite structures are fueling blade graveyards that present a disposal challenge unmatched in human history. Projections suggest 43 million tonnes of blade waste and 60–80 million tonnes of solar PV waste by 2050. A global rebuild of this scale must compete for finite resources. China currently refines 90% of the global rare earth supply, creating a precarious geopolitical dependency for the permanent magnet technology required for modern turbines. * Rare earths: Neodymium and praseodymium for magnets; dysprosium and terbium for heat resistance. * Essential metals: Massive quantities of copper for wiring, tungsten for components, and tin for soldering. * Physical scale: Larger direct-drive turbines require 0.5–2 tonnes of rare-earth magnets per MW, supported by vast quantities of steel and concrete. A 'second transition' is destined to become a third, and a fourth—replacing the entire global inventory every few decades. This demands a WWII-scale 'D-Day' mobilisation of capital and labor, occurring just as subsidies fade and private investment thins due to uneven returns. Furthermore, the 'diesel paradox' remains: heavy mining equipment is still powered by the very same fossil fuels the transition seeks to eliminate. The math suggests a looming collision between physical reality and political agendas. Image: The Casper Regional Landfill in Wyoming has become a global focal point for 'clean energy waste'.

Milton Friedman best response to a socialist.

“Different people have very different reactions to President Barack Obama. Those who listen to his rhetoric are often inspired, while those who follow what he actually does are often appalled.” — Thomas Sowell

West Antarctica sits on top of a volcanic rift. Thwaites and Pine Island, Antarctica's two fastest thinning glaciers, sit directly above strong geothermal anomalies. The glaciers are being melted from below, not above, and atmospheric data backs this up. A recent study shows central/west Antarctica has cooled around 1C per decade over the past 20 years. Bird Station, the only long-running record on the ice sheet, shows the trend. The surface is cooling, the base is heating, and melt is concentrated where the crust is hottest. Public messaging insists CO2 is melting Antarctica, but the air is cooling, with the only real melt restricted to the west, to regions sitting atop a hot volcanic rift.

Nuclear is the future for baseload electricity... And the waste isn't much of a problem.

We are told ocean acidity has increased by 30% in two centuries. But oceans aren’t acidic; they are alkaline. On the pH scale, 7.0 is neutral. The oceans have shifted from roughly 8.2 to 8.1 in 200 years - remaining firmly alkaline. So where does 30% come from? The pH scale is logarithmic. A tiny decimal shift represents a 30% change in hydrogen ion concentration, but the water itself is nowhere near becoming an acid. It’s a classic case of math creating psychological exaggeration. Using boron isotope proxies in ancient shells, paleoclimatologists track ocean chemistry back millions of years. The record shows oceans thrived under much higher CO₂ and lower pH levels in the deep geological past. The 'dissolving' narrative ignores the ocean's scale. With an average depth of 2.35 miles and 1.3 billion cubic kilometers of water, the ocean possesses massive chemical inertia. Atmospheric changes take centuries to even reach the deep abyss. Marine life is remarkably resilient. Many species actually calcify faster in CO₂-rich environments. The oceans are not a fragile bowl of acid; they are a vast, self-regulating engine that has remained resilient for millennia. #ClimateNuance #Oceanography #NASA #Greening

The top 2.5 metres of the world's oceans hold as much heat energy as the entire atmosphere above it. The oceans are the world's thermal powerhouse and it takes a massive amount of energy to nudge its temperature even a fraction of a degree. It's vast heat capacity is the key. Once oceans begin to warm or cool they don’t just slow down, they operate on timescales of centuries and millennia. The deep oceans are still responding to changes that happened hundreds of years ago. It’s a slow-motion ballet that ignores all modern noise. The key lies in the Thermohaline Circulation - a global conveyor belt that takes a thousand years to complete a single return trip. It means that water currently resurfacing in some parts of the world hasn't seen the atmosphere since the Middle Ages. The oceans hold 50 times more carbon than the atmosphere and any slight shift in oceanic outgassing or absorption dwarfs all human output. It’s the tail that wags the dog. Understanding this inertia is the ultimate antidote to climate panic. We're living in a world dominated by water, with its massive, built-in buffer system that has stabilised life for eons.

Scientist Gregg Braden warns that efforts to dramatically reduce atmospheric CO₂ could take us dangerously close to the extinction threshold, endangering all life on Earth. "If we were to meet the [the UN's climate] goals... we would see a CO₂ level right around 220 or so parts per million." "Extinction level CO₂ on this planet—when the CO₂ drops below a certain level, forests die and life does no longer thrive—that is 180 parts per million." "It's not good for us. Those proposals are not good for humans."