News Flash by Kip Hansen — 26 March 2024
As the Anthropogenic Climate Crisis intensifies, the U.S. Federal government has rushed to the aid of our planet. In a truly beneficent act, the government is providing $170,900,000 (in words it sounds even more impressive: one hundred and seventy million, nine hundred thousand dollars) to Save The Planet through Green Macaroni.
You may not have known that the production of macaroni (with or without cheese) has been endangering all life on Earth – a literal existential threat — but it is apparently true — $170 million worth of true.
As reported in the always faithful New York Times:
“Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Monday that her agency would partially fund 33 different projects in 20 states to test methods for curbing emissions from a wide variety of factories and industrial plants, calling it ‘the single largest industrial decarbonization investment in American history.’….”Kraft Heinz, a food manufacturer, would get up to $170.9 million to install electric boilers and heat pumps at 10 facilities across the country, where they would be used to generate the large amounts of heat needed for things like drying macaroni without directly burning fossil fuels.”
Haven’t we always told you that the government is here to help you, the common man, have a better and happier life?
Soon you will be able to help Save the Planet® by eating Green Macaroni.
Enjoy!
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Kraft Heinz? gotta keep it in the family. 😉
Is this a sop to Lurch?
Why not use the outflow from his wife’s private jet’s engines to dry out the pasta?
J.L. Kraft must be spinning in his grave.
Any more beans, Mr Taggart?
they’ll be fuelling their own demise.
Thus proving that Granholm is amongst the dummest Biden cabinet members.
I loved the one where an interviewer on tv asked Granholm what she was going to do to reduce the price of gasoline and she burst out laughing, as if that was the funniest thing she had ever heard!
She is pretty clueless. She can recite the latest Democrat talking point,though. But anyone can do that, even Kamala.
The Creepy Joe Biden kook and clown show.
Why not ingratiate John Kerry while saving the planet?
The Department of Energy deliberately works to block energy development in our country (by several sources).
The Department of Education deliberately blocks educational opportunities for our children, supporting instead a one-sided indoctrination.
Please, no more federal agencies labelled the “DOE”!
Quote from the article:-
“the large amounts of heat needed for things like drying macaroni without directly burning fossil fuels.”
So the indirect use of burning of fossil fuel is acceptable then?
Just ask any Tesla owner. They don’t see any emissions from their automobile.
Story tip – not so smart
The number of smart meters in Great Britain not working properly has risen by over a million, the latest figures show.
According to data from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (Desnez), 2.7 million were not operating in smart mode as of June 2023 – by the end of the year this had gone up to 3.98 million. – BBC
It’s worse than they thought
“not operating in smart mode”
Just emulating the politicians and government bureaucrats !
At a cost to tax payers in excess of £12 Billion and rising!
My supplier keeps insisting that I must have one installed, but I had to point out to them that all of the meters for my apartment block are in the basement and you cannot get a cell phone signal down there. The supplier of the communal electricity in the block insisted that they have new system that doesn’t use a regular cell phone signal and will work, but they installed it and, surprise, surprise,it doesn’t.
‘Net zero’ in microcosm – horrendous expense that achieves zilch.
My supplier emailed to say my existing meter was a safety risk. How they knew without examining the meter is beyond me.
I said ok but I’m not having a smart meter. They insisted the only way was a smart meter, so I sent them a letter stating I would not have a smart meter and that any attempt to force me into accepting a smart meter would be taken as harassment.
They stopped emailing me about the smart meter and then all of a sudden my existing meter was no longer a safety risk.
However, YOU have now ended up on the “safety risk” list.
Hopefully, for all of us, that “list” will soon become unweildy.
Great…. now we are going to end up with partially cook macaroni !!
This is a heinous crime against humanity.
Kraft Heinz… a $171 million farewell gift to John Kerry.
How much more of this sort of blatant corruption do the American people have to put up with !!
John Kerry is going to go out and campaign for Biden so they have to pay him something.
Ooooo, a John “Lurch” Kerry rally, the people will be lining up for days prior to get in…
I don’t think Kerry has political rallies, he just smoozes with the Elites.
How is that “green steel” working out?
“Zero-emissions steelmaking is possible in Hamilton by using “green hydrogen” in the future, says an industry study but for now green hydrogen is prohibitively expensive and “not a credible solution” for steelmakers, according to a study done for the Canadian Steel Producers Association.
“Dofasco has vowed to build its new “green steel” project, partly funded with $900 million in taxpayer cash, to be “hydrogen-ready” with a long-range plan to transition to green hydrogen “as and when a sufficient, cost-effective supply … becomes available.”
https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilton-region/green-hydrogen-too-costly-to-fuel-arcelormittal-dofasco-s-makeover-study/article_e93da5e4-7c60-549f-9087-4b149644e780.html
Then Dofasco and Kraft-Heinz must be part of the “leftist” cabal that’s sucking the wealth out of the population to justify a program to solve an imaginary problem. In fact, if governments are going to be in the business of financing the fight against a baking earth they must give that money to an entity that’s capable of at least the pretense of that effort. Leaving pallets of money outside of coffee shops and video game parlors wouldn’t look good. So it goes to corporations like Mortenson Construction who not only build immense, tax-payer subsidized football stadiums but also design and put together huge solar panel and battery arrays. If public funds are going to be spent on anything, from ballistic missiles to protect us from the loathsome Russians to ineffective drugs to cure us of undefined diseases to economically disastrous solutions to meaningless and inconsequential climate change, those funds go to major businesses, not leftist soccer moms and liberal arts students.
I understand ‘green macaroni’ grows on trees. Where can I get one of those for in my garden?
I hope you mean these people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti-tree_hoax
OK I went to WIKI, but stopped at the last sentence of the first paragraph where they quoted the BBC as saying it was the biggest hoax by a “reputable” news agency.
We all no that is just a big fat lie. The BBC is no way a reputable news agency. It is, however, a well know propaganda arm of the Labor Party of the UK.
So Yankee Doodle is “investing” in macaroni processing. We need a new verse to that old silly song.
with the billions Kraft makes? they could pay for their own fn upgrades surely?
having tried that MUCK once and once only. it would do the planet AND humanity a big favour if they just stopped poisoning people with that crap in a pack
I suppose, it won’t be long, before they scrap ‘decarbonization’ technology in an attempt to decarbonize the decarbonization industry.
“. . . macaroni (with or without cheese) . . . .”
There’s only one word that describes this supposed food item–Ugh!
Unfortunately, there was a period in my life (along with my wife) where we had to feed ourselves on what was in those cheap packages.
I feel your pain!
I once had some leftover macaroni cheese that went green.. and fuzzy !
Even the next door neighbour’s dog wouldn’t touch it !!
“Green Macaroni”! Or do they mean the Soylent variation?
Why are taxpayers paying for things that corporations can pay for themselves — if they are really needed?
Because government is those thing we do together that we really don’t want to do at all.
They will make up for it by raising taxes on corporations and the rich. Not themselves, mind you.
Granholm’s action will not reduce emissions, it will increase them.
Here in southern Maryland, our local utilities electricity is about 40% natural gas,15% coal and a tiny bit from oil. Thus about 55% of our electricity comes from fossil fuel combustion. Nationally, US electricity is about 60% from fossil fuel combustion.
Drying macaroni from thermal sources of heat likely uses nearly 100% of the heat of combustion much like modern home gas furnaces that deliver over 95% of the heat of combustion to a house.
Typically, thermal sources of electricity operate at 30% to 40% thermal efficiency, the rest of the energy is dissipated in cooling towers, lakes, the ocean and some (but not much) up the smokestack. This is not a consequence of faulty electric plant design but is a consequence of the laws of thermodynamics. Thus to get one Watt of electric energy out of today’s grid, about 2 or 3 Watts of thermal energy is expended along with the carbon dioxide released by the combustion.
What does this mean? It means that Jennifer Granholm’s move to push Kraft-Heinz to electric drying of macaroni instead of thermal drying will increase CO2 emissions of the process by about 2 or 3 fold. Add to that the inefficiencies of converting electricity back to heat and it gets worse.
Way to go Jennie. We knew (unfortunately) that ya had it in you!
Converting electricity into heat is inherently inefficient. It’s one thing if we are talking about small stuff, like electric stoves, water heaters and clothes dryers in private homes. But entirely another thing to do that on a commercial/industrial level.
The simplest, most direct way to produce heat is by burning fuels (other than heat produced by radioactive elements, which of course isn’t directly used for industry). Generating electricity (usually by combusting various fuels), and then taking advantage of the properties of electric resistance to produce heat is a totally Rube Goldberg way of generating heat. Why not just burn fuel on site? Much easier, and much cheaper, but sadly the PTB don’t want that….
$34-trillion in debt and climbing. Clearly Biden is not concerned about that.
Gov’t doesn’t even need to print money any more…just let banks loan it out to whatever deserving money sink the gov’t emails the bank they are guaranteeing repayment for. Voila, a bank account with millions in it is created….works as long as everyone believes they will get paid back…can collapse spectacularly…
Because 10% of $34 trillion is a LOT of $$$.
Perhaps our government could spend a few thousand dollars to figure out how to keep ocean-going ships from running into major bridges.
See: Baltimore Bridge collapse – – – let’s see the total CO2 “footprint” of this event
It’s going to take a lot of steel to rebuild that bridge…. Sadly most comes from China these days (burning lots of coal), so it will make ‘ol Xi happy.
FSK bridge. The ships engine FAILED and the crew lost control of the vessel. Black smoke was emitting from the engine room in visible clouds.
The ship was heading down river form Port Baltimore when control was lots and it slammed into the bridge support at around 1 am local time.
The entire center section, all steel fell. The bridge typically handles 1 million cars a month. At last report, 2 rescued and 7 missing. It could have been a lot worse had it been rush out, orders of magnitudes greater casualties. Fortune smiled.
Unknown the status of the crew.
Now consider what it would have been like had that ship been transitioned to all electric with LIPO batteries (lithium ion polymer organic cell chemistry). Think of the burning busses, cars, laptops, etc. on steroids trapped under the fallen bridge.
Think of the 1000 C fires and the toxic clouds.
I will never own an EV. Period.
Think of the CO2 footprint of 10s of thousand of cars unable, as was I, to make their morning commute but had to sit for hours in stalled traffic.
Better stated as “one hundred and seventy million, nine hundred thousand dollars and no sense“.
Scarecrow ==> Good one!
Thank goodness we can help out these small, cash-strapped companies like Kraft Foods by funding some capital purchases.
As ever, the “greenest” part of “green” energy is the metric tonne of taxpayer greenbacks going to projects that profit the rich and connected.
From the above article’s quote from the New York Times:
“Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said . . .”
I literally stopped reading the article right then and there.
File this under “bad idea of the day” for sure. Many years ago my husband worked for SB Thomas (the maker of the iconic English muffins) in their plant in Frederick, Maryland. They have a 15 inch gas main feeding the plant (which, at the time, used as much gas as the city of Frederick itself!) to run all of the ovens. Converting a plant like that to all electric would likely black out a good portion of the east coast power grid. It’s one thing to electrify some private homes and very small businesses, but yet a whole other animal to even attempt to electrify large industry.
If I look in the fridge and find some green leftover macaroni, I throw it out.
Fortunately, there will be no leftover macaroni in my fridge. I eschew macaroni in my house.
“One Man’s treasure is both Man’s trash?”
(Depending on how fresh?)
PS To me, there’s no such thing as a “good” Brussels Sprout. My wife loves them but, nobody’s perfect.
PPS I’m sure either “thorns” or “thistles” was originally “brussels sprouts” in Genesis.
(Or maybe it was just omitted from the text?)
For those who take comments literally, both of the PPS’s are only meat as humor.
(Though I don’t find anything funny about those little green balls of evil!) 😎
It isn’t easy being green. Just ask Kermit.
Someone needs to start a website or blog that hands out the “Green Macaroni” award to whoever concocts this idiocies.
It would be similar to the Darwin Awards.
You understand.
At first, I was almost on-board, because I glanced at the photograph first.
Imagine my disappointment when I discovered it wasn’t traditional UK mushy peas (with vinegar). No sarcasm. Pasta is for poodles.
“As the Anthropogenic Climate Crisis intensifies”
That’s where I stopped reading. If something starts at zero and intensifies, it’s still just more nothing. Just like the intellect of the morons who push this nonsense.
Thanks.
So the subtitle must have gotten cut off and slightly inaccurate.
Energy Dept. Awards $6 Billion for Green Steel, Cement and Even Macaroni Factories
Industries produce 25 percent of America’s planet-warming emissions but so far have proved very hard to clean up. The Biden administration
is trying.is however, successfully bankrupting the country in trying.Why not just partner with with Kitchen Aid and send people a stand-up mixer and pasta attachment. Nothing better than homemade pasta… with that money can send about 430,000 high end machines.
They would have to set aside their smart phones and do some actual beneficial activities.
Panem et cecenses.