Thank you JP. My take: it (the truth of it) doesn't really matter because it is not about any actual or real real "transitioning". It is about moving the money around, it is about directing people's attention away from other issues, it is about silly retail politics and global political manipulation.
Yep, I’m sure you are an avid listening of the Power Hungry podcast too. They had a recent Australian guest, ex mining engineer, works for some Finnish mob, that basically asked “where the fck are these metals and ores going to come from”. And no one seems to give a fck about the kids mining cobalt in the Congo. Isn’t there a modern slavery prohibition? Like Uigher’s involved in the manufacture of Poly silicon in China ? Conveniently brushed aside on the alter of net zero. Apologies for the rant. Good article. As for me, I think I need to head further north before the blackouts in NSW start.
Well said! There is also all the cabling to connect the turbines to the grid, which, at least in the uk, is going to tear up the countryside and ancient woodlands. Also causes beaching of whales.
"But is it worth the $1.13 trillion cost, added to our existing $1 trillion of unnecessary COVID national debt? Is it worth the delusion of planting 50% of Australia’s arable land with carbon-offset forests, 17 billion trees per year, in fact? It is worth the ludicrous logistical impossibility of installing 120,000 wind turbines across the land, which would have the side effect of devastating our national bird life?..."
As I read this, I was reminded of the completely delusional, "utopian" mindset of the average commie who promotes the Global Warming myth, and who thinks that there is no price too high for fighting "climate change."
Unfortunately, it's a mindset that's been around since at least the French Revolution - utopia is always right around the corner, we just have to climb over ever higher mountains of debt and dead bodies to get there.
Your list of parameters is well done and inclusive. You have been remiss in not mentioning wind, solar, tide, and geothermal machinery is all 100% recyclable and the energy used to manufacture such things will decrease as more of that same entity come online.
Everything is scalable. Absolutely everything. Uruguay is producing 97% of the entire country‘s power not just electricity but entire country’s energy demands with wind. Tons of municipalities and small sovereign’s, islands are 100% renewable powered. Right now the world is just shy of 13% renewable powered.
Wind, being the cheapest non-subsidized electricity available to consumers.
Considering our current fossil fuel extraction and burn model, which is literally killing life on the planet, all of your claims about environmental damage concerning renewables are ancillary and intentionally disingenuous gibberish.
Fossil fuel fellation tool is proof that the moral bankruptcy barrel has no bottom.
It makes me hope the Christians are correct. There will be no better seat in hell….
We could easily raise that money from the justified liquidation of corporate and shareholder assets of the planet raping fossil fuel extraction entities.
I don’t do stupid, fossil fuel cocksleeve or genetically deficient. Like I’m gonna fuck with somebody who’s batting 1000? Go away botboi, your bother me
Thank you JP. My take: it (the truth of it) doesn't really matter because it is not about any actual or real real "transitioning". It is about moving the money around, it is about directing people's attention away from other issues, it is about silly retail politics and global political manipulation.
Pretty much! As long as folks dont try to calculate the details...
Fantastic work, thanks. Synergises really well with this broader look: https://shadowrunners.substack.com/p/the-loss-of-ukraine-is-the-beginning
EREI (energy returned for energy invested) is a concept I most certainly will come back to. Cheers for the contribution to the discussion!
Yep, I’m sure you are an avid listening of the Power Hungry podcast too. They had a recent Australian guest, ex mining engineer, works for some Finnish mob, that basically asked “where the fck are these metals and ores going to come from”. And no one seems to give a fck about the kids mining cobalt in the Congo. Isn’t there a modern slavery prohibition? Like Uigher’s involved in the manufacture of Poly silicon in China ? Conveniently brushed aside on the alter of net zero. Apologies for the rant. Good article. As for me, I think I need to head further north before the blackouts in NSW start.
You spoiled my part 2! Shhh!
Well said! There is also all the cabling to connect the turbines to the grid, which, at least in the uk, is going to tear up the countryside and ancient woodlands. Also causes beaching of whales.
"But is it worth the $1.13 trillion cost, added to our existing $1 trillion of unnecessary COVID national debt? Is it worth the delusion of planting 50% of Australia’s arable land with carbon-offset forests, 17 billion trees per year, in fact? It is worth the ludicrous logistical impossibility of installing 120,000 wind turbines across the land, which would have the side effect of devastating our national bird life?..."
As I read this, I was reminded of the completely delusional, "utopian" mindset of the average commie who promotes the Global Warming myth, and who thinks that there is no price too high for fighting "climate change."
Unfortunately, it's a mindset that's been around since at least the French Revolution - utopia is always right around the corner, we just have to climb over ever higher mountains of debt and dead bodies to get there.
Your list of parameters is well done and inclusive. You have been remiss in not mentioning wind, solar, tide, and geothermal machinery is all 100% recyclable and the energy used to manufacture such things will decrease as more of that same entity come online.
Everything is scalable. Absolutely everything. Uruguay is producing 97% of the entire country‘s power not just electricity but entire country’s energy demands with wind. Tons of municipalities and small sovereign’s, islands are 100% renewable powered. Right now the world is just shy of 13% renewable powered.
Wind, being the cheapest non-subsidized electricity available to consumers.
Considering our current fossil fuel extraction and burn model, which is literally killing life on the planet, all of your claims about environmental damage concerning renewables are ancillary and intentionally disingenuous gibberish.
Fossil fuel fellation tool is proof that the moral bankruptcy barrel has no bottom.
It makes me hope the Christians are correct. There will be no better seat in hell….
We could easily raise that money from the justified liquidation of corporate and shareholder assets of the planet raping fossil fuel extraction entities.
I don’t do stupid, fossil fuel cocksleeve or genetically deficient. Like I’m gonna fuck with somebody who’s batting 1000? Go away botboi, your bother me
These are the same entitiies that are pushing this agenda via the WEF.
Lastly, you’re just saying shit. You really don’t have any credible references there. You’re simply an industry cocksleeve. Bad optic, bro.