Bret Baier has come under fire for amplifying the voices of climate change doubters and renewable energy critics. But parts of his D.C. mansion are covered in solar arrays.
Source: https://wapo.st/4q6e1wh (Gift article, no paywall)
PS> Murdoch must pay his staff well.
Amazing what they pay for someone to read off an auto cue.
I would have done the same thing for the green tax credits these states give.
Smart move for a red guy to do in a blue state, then the next millionaire isn’t the bad guy who cut down trees to install these.
I don’t think it’s hypocritical to have solar panels regardless of how you feel about climate change. If it warms, if it cools, the panels still work depending on where you live and what direction they’re pointed. If the government pays to help install, even more reason. It’s entirely a financial decison. I drive a Prius not because I think it’ll help save the planet or stop climate change. I drive a Prius because it was a reliable used car that has an unexpectedly large amount of room inside– and it gets great gas mileage. I’m dubious about the idea that it’s good for the environment, however. All those battery metals may or may not be any better for the environment than is the additional 5-10 mpg of petroleum burned for a traditional engine. In the end, I’m cheap– not a climate justice warrior.
I’ve got solar panels … because idiot governments pay big subsidies for them, not to save the climate.
It’s warming up nicely.
Not much call for AC in the home where I live but solar panels with a heat pump and under floor heating would seem to be a great fit where the house is on a concrete slab.
Massive heat absorbed by solar panels, make you wonder of the net effect if its about global warming?
Pretty insignificant when compared to all the asphalt roads in the world.
its called a talking head:)_
Debating over the hypocrisy of the uber elite & political leaders is pointless if your doing so to claim your side is better than the other. Here’s 3 easy examples of extreme hypocrisy from those on the left. A public school union leader who is vehemently opposed to private schools sending her son to a private school where the teachers aren’t represented by a union. A very vocal anti-2nd Amendment politician who spends over a million a year on security with everyone around her carrying guns. And probably worse of all, a humble 60 yr public servant out for the little guy, fighting capitalism & corruption who has a net worth of a quarter of a billion.
Nasa released data on 2 solar fields they monitor in the USA and said the local temps have gone up.
A panel absorbs 3 times the heat of the sun than ground trees or grass
Sure all concrete absorbs sun heat
The Latisha James has redefined hypocrisy
I don’t how far back you go living in Singapore, but when I started to call Singapore my home (in 1967) and well into the 1980s especially the night temperature was substantially lower than today.
PS> If fact a low of 19.6C was recorded at Paya Lebar Airport one early morning in 1976. The first and only time temperature below 20C has ever been recorded in Singapore.
Why has that changed?: Well, Global warming is obviously a factor.
Another factor is the number of large building, roads and parking lots constructed during that period and since then. That is a large surface that absorb a lot of heat during the day and expels it during the nigh.
In addition, air-conditioning was not common in those days, Even taxis with air-conditioning charged extra. Many shops and offices only had ceiling fans for cooling.
(Who can forget spending hours waiting in the Immigration Office at Empress Place?)
Some rich people had A/C in their houses already in the late 1960s, but even A/Cs in the bedrooms were very rear until well into the 1970s/early 1980s. (still iunkommon n HDB flats until the 1990s/2000s)
A/Cs (especially window units) when extract heat from inside add heat to the outside area. Not a problem in rural areas, but when you pack 5.7 mn. people into a small area and “all” live in airconditioned comfort 24/7, that adds up.
PS> Large central units with water cooling is now common in the downtown area.
agreed cities are heat sinks and ac raises temp
Power consumption of every person going up and SG not running on hydro so more btu per person and the power source, heavier cars, etc etc
As you know LKY introduced the “Garden City” idea and started the “Keep Singapore Clean” campaign already in the early 1970s and the “restricted zone” (aka “Congestion Pricing”) for cars in the downtown area in mid-1970s.
All pioneering ideas that has been copied more or less worldwide.
Congestion charging is good one,
each gantry takes about 1 million dollars off the motorists a day and you are always in grid lock as its takes the money from your card machine….
oh the irony
Take the MRT, or bus. It is cheap, fast and you don’t have to pay for parking either.
It started in 1975 to ease traffic in the downtown zone during rush hours.
You had to buy a card in a petrol station or other outlets, valid for one day, or one
month. And the checking was manual at each gantry:
If you don’t remember, read more here:
The accommodation at the naval base at Sembawang did not have AC in the 60’s. The junior officers shore billets had very high ceilings with fans, bat wing doors like a western saloon and mozzie nets over the bed. The officers houses had terrazzo floors, the windows were unglazed with a grill and shutters. All the wardrobes had a light bulb in a screened box at the bottom to stop clothes and shoes getting mildew.
I slept like a babe.
Gardens and keeping things clean he learnt that from the British colonies worldwide then saw what happened when they left.
So he knew it was important
I saw first hand what Singapore was like at the end of the colonial era,
Yes there were the Botanical Garden, but it was not clean and green in a wider sense.
“Divide and rule” had made for separation not only of races, but of the various Chinese dialect groups to were they could only communicate with each other in “Bazar Malay”, or in some cases “Singlish”.
it was dirty, with open sewage flowing into rivers and the sea. Chinese Triads rule the scene, with corruption widespread.
LKY did learn from the British. He studied at Cambridge and learnt that Malaya should NOT be rule the way it had been by the British colonial authority.
