Category Archives: Energy

Africa’s Golden Age Ending Before It’s Begun

The image below comes from NASA in 2012. It shows Africa at its peak, before the great electrical grid collapse of the dark continent. The African Power Grid is Collapsing, Starting in South Africa; Why? In recent years South Africa’s … Continue reading

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$3.8 Trillion in Renewables Investment Moved US Fossil Fuels Use from 82% down to 81% in 10 years!

“…At the end of last year, overall, fossil fuels represented 81 percent of overall energy consumption. Ten years ago, they were at 82. So though, all of that investment in renewables, you’re talking about 3.8 trillion, let me repeat that … Continue reading

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You Must Read About 10,000 Books to Understand What is Happening; But These Videos Will Give a Head Start

The benefit of understanding the processes upholding our worlds, is that it becomes more difficult for our overlords to bamboozle and hornswoggle us. If we allow ourselves to be deceived over some particular issues, we may be signing our own … Continue reading

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The Dark Side of Renewable Energy: Adam Rozencwajg

In the video above, natural resource investor Adam Rozencwajg discusses the many reasons why renewable energy is a flat out loser and always will be. Rozencwajg has made a long study of energy resources and energy economics. He favors nuclear … Continue reading

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The Bottleneck: Why Lithium Mines Cannot Keep Up

Every optimistic prediction about the growth of the EV market is a lie. It takes almost 10 years for a lithium mining project to be fully developed, and even if all current projects are completed on time there will be … Continue reading

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Does Global Control of Lithium and Cobalt Supplies Give China a Stranglehold Over Elon Musk and the Human Future?

Australia is the largest mining producer of lithium, but China buys 90% of Australia’s production. China turns most of its bulk lithium imports into lithium batteries for EVs and other uses such as electronics. Lithium mining and refining is a … Continue reading

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Surviving a Fake Climate Apocalypse is Going to be Harder than Surviving a Real One Would Have Been

We are supposed to be undergoing a genuine climate apocalypse, according to the corporate media mainstream information gatekeepers. According to these highly placed persons of limited intellect and even more limited knowledge, we have been on the verge of — … Continue reading

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Why Choice of Fuels Will Determine if Fusion Works

High energy neutrons are hard on a fusion reactor vessel. The private nuclear fusion startup Helion Energy is building an aneutronic reactor that will cost a tiny fraction of the huge costly ITER tokamak reactor in Europe. And perhaps because … Continue reading

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Europe’s Wind Fantasy vs. Russian Energy Realpolitik

Dreams of powering huge electric power grids using nothing but wind and solar energy, have always been more fantasy than reality — although European politicians and pundits would never admit that. For decades, Germany’s leaders have pretended to base their … Continue reading

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Fossil Fuels are the Near to Intermediate Future; Nuclear is the Long-Term Future

The Energy Crisis is Artificial, Brought to You by Greens Germany is on the cusp of a catastrophic fuel shortage leading to an economic collapse and civil unrest, thanks to the influence of Green politicians and government officials and the … Continue reading

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Another Russian Gas Pipeline to Europe Down

Winter is coming to Europe, just as supplies of Russian natural gas are being choked off. Is this an unfortunate coincidence, or do the geopolitics of Putin’s bloody war on Ukraine have something to do with it? For years, mainly … Continue reading

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Germany’s Collapse is Understandable — But Australia?

For years, Germany has been shutting down its indigenous nuclear power production in favor of burning Russian natural gas — and strangely calling the transition “Green.” Sure Germany built a lot of expensive wind and solar “nameplate capacity”– but it … Continue reading

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Rejecting Your Most Cherished Beliefs

Have you ever changed your mind about something that was of critical importance to you? Have you had beliefs that you were sure you would never change, but which you were forced to change by the evidence? That has happened … Continue reading

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A Trendy Left-Wing Child Sacrifice: Transgenderism

I saw a video the other day featuring an American surgeon bragging that he had performed more than 3,000 double mastectomies on young women who had paid for gender reassignment, individuals confused – one might say encouraged – by those … Continue reading

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A 90 Minute Ultra-Depressing Look at the Future

Some people think that totalitarian dictatorships are the only workable approach to governing in the complex unpredictable world of the future. They look into the future and see an Orwellian “1984” network of dictatorships spanning the globe. In the 90 … Continue reading

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Fossil Fuels: Still How Energy Gets Done

There is a popular fantasy shared by large numbers of politicians, media hacks, and the recently university educated. It is a fantasy of a great “energy transition” away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy and electric vehicles. It is … Continue reading

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Peter Zeihan: Global Famine, Depression, War Coming

Peter Zeihan predicted Putin’s invasion of Ukraine when most analysts thought the little dictator was bluffing. Now he is predicting the aftermath. Read his books, and you can see why Zeihan and his readers may be the only ones who … Continue reading

Posted in Coming Anarchy, Demographics, Energy, food, geopolitics, Natural Resources, Oil Prices, Peter Zeihan, Russian Collapse, Ukraine | 4 Comments

Germany vs. France: Who Will Run Out of Power Soonest?

France produces significantly more power than Germany, but a lot less CO2. Most of Germany’s power comes from coal — but the country is steadily phasing out its coal production in favor of imported natural gas from Russia. Germany’s situation … Continue reading

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Electric Airplanes: If You Don’t Really Care About Getting There

The barrier to entry can be found in an energy density comparison between jet fuel-powered aircraft and those powered by batteries. Expressed in watt-hours or kilojoules per kilogram (Wh/kg), batteries today fall well short. A jet-fueled engine packs 12,000 Wh/kg. … Continue reading

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How to Stay Alive in the Coming Ice Age

The arctic blasts of cold weather known as polar vortices, are just a foretaste of what is coming, as the long overdue “coming ice age” bears down on human civilization, with a vengeance. When the deep cold finally hits us, … Continue reading

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Texas Power Failures Look Like California!

Like California, Texas went all-in for big wind turbine farms. And like California, Texas is beginning to suffer the high prices, low reliability, and blackouts that California has been living with ever since it jumped into the green energy swamp. … Continue reading

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Effective Power at the Flip of a Switch

Unlike intermittent energy schemes based on wind and sun, nuclear fusion offers the promise of useful power when you want it. And unlike the cash guzzling “government fusion” project ITER, private fusion is showing actual promise within a meaningful time … Continue reading

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Asia is Going Gangbusters for Coal!

Don’t write the obituary for coal just yet. In many lands near the end of global energy supply lines — China, Japan, Vietnam, Philippines, even India — coal is booming like never before! China and India are home to over … Continue reading

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Junk Electricity: Don’t Be a Sucker!

If the system has more power than it needs at any instant, its frequency will increase. If there is not enough power to meet demand at any time, the system frequency falls. … Sometimes AEMO [Australian Energy Market Operator] detects … Continue reading

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In California You Must Have Solar Panels

As of January 1, 2020, all new houses built in California must incorporate photovoltaic panels in the construction. This government mandate is expected to add between $9,000 and $20,000 to the cost of each new home. Median home prices in … Continue reading

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