Local unemployed socialist skel Clayton Tucker has fallen into a pretty predictable pattern: post two or three times a day about [water/power/hemp/noise] and then ask to “sign a petition” so he can harvest email addresses for grifting purposes.
He just recycles the same “study” over and over. Here it is again:
Shrinking reservoirs? LOL:
One hundred years ago, Texas had only eight major reservoirs (those with capacities over 5,000 acre-feet) with a combined storage of about 288,340 acre-feet. Today, the state boasts over 200 major reservoirs with a massive total conservation storage capacity exceeding 34 MILLION acre-feet (with Toledo Bend alone storing nearly (4.5) million)
Water crisis? I’ve gotten 21.5 inches of rain out here since April 1st. The Corpus Christi reservoir was 8% full when Comrade Clayton lied about standing in the middle of it (it was 45 deep at that time) and it is now almost 15% full – a near DOUBLING.
Monitored reservoirs in Texas are 75.5% full today – versus 77.5 a year ago.
Is water precious in Texas? Absolutely! Should we be careful in planning for the future? Of course! But that doesn’t mean ending modern society and crawling back into mother’s womb, where Clayton has lived for the last 35 years.
Here are the ACTUAL details of the “study” he keeps recycling:
There are ALWAYS a lot of COULDs and MIGHTs in Comrade Clayton’s bullshit he spews. He’s been doing that for about 10 years now:
The year 2040 is 14 years away. Not exactly “staring down” the barrel of a gun. This ESTIMATE also assumes ZERO technological advances in 14 years. Highly unlikely. All it takes is some nerd to invent a new hardware or software workaround and the power needs could be cut in half overnight:
AI breakthrough cuts energy use by 100x while boosting accuracy.
The study says “between 3% and 9%” which is wide enough to drive a truck through – and Comrade Clayton ALWAYS uses the “9%” figure in his scare tactics.
The study ALSO admits that usage today (with around 500 data centers in operation in Texas) is LESS THAN 1%. It’s actually 0.4% (or 0.004) of all water usage.
So 99.6% of all Texas water usage is NOT data centers. Comrade Clayton’s study admits that in black and white.
Then again, this is the same moron who switched from fake cattle ranching to fake goat ranching because of “global warming” then watched beef prices skyrocket while he missed out on the entire thing. LOL. Yes, you read that correctly: he is worried about the heat and water 100 years from now when the lifecycle of a cow from birth to slaughter is about 18 to 24 months. HAHAHAHAHA!!! What a maroon!!!
