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Category Archives: Energy
The Lithium Calamity: Poison Mountain, Green Idiocracy
Who Wants to Follow China’s Long Toxic Walk? China has long been famous for its poisoned air, toxic rivers, and deadly soil. Now the aging dragon faces a new toxic calamity: a looming mountain of poisoned and unusable lithium batteries … Continue reading
Posted in China, Energy, Environment, Green Quagmire, Groupthink, Poison
Tagged Green Idiocy, Poison
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100% Intermittent Energy: Can it Work?
The extensively documented article below is excerpted from an article originally published in Low Tech Magazine How (Not) to Run a Modern Society on Solar and Wind Power Alone … [A] renewable power grid needs an oversized power generation and … Continue reading
As Much as 2 Trillion Barrels of Recoverable Oil in Texas, N.M.
In the Permian Basin alone, the southwestern US may eventually be found to contain as much as 2 trillion barrels of economically recoverable oil. “The research we’ve done indicates that we have at least half a trillion barrels in the … Continue reading
Solar Panels: 300X More Toxic Waste Than Nuclear
Governments of Europe and California are willing to lay waste to their economies in pursuit of unreliable and destructive forms of energy — big solar and big wind. We already knew that these untrustworthy forms of energy bring instability to … Continue reading
Posted in Electrical Power Grid, Energy
Tagged Green Idiocy
This’ll Kill Ya: They’re Coming For Your Electric Power
Up to 90% of the inhabitants of advanced nations would die within one year, if all electrical power were lost. No, I Am Not Talking About Electromagnetic Pulse Although both North Korea and Iran are steadily working to build the … Continue reading
Posted in Electrical Power Grid, Energy, Green Quagmire
Tagged energy, Green Idiocy
Even in Gas-Rich USA, Nuclear Energy is the Future
Nuclear demand is high where air pollution is at its worst and where economic activity is fast and furious — in Asia generally, and in China and India in particular… China and India are building half of the 60 new … Continue reading
Climate Change Hurrah! CO2 and the Greening Earth
More CO2 Leads to More Forests! Greenhouse operators have long known that enhancing CO2 levels enhances plant growth. Research scientists are discovering that higher atmospheric CO2 levels boost biological growth on land (and sea). We show a persistent and widespread … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Energy, Green Quagmire, Groupthink
Tagged Climate Apocalypse, Green Idiocy
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Making Your Home Self Sufficient in Power and Heat
Making Your Own Heat and Electricity In Any Climate or Location Suddenly it is becoming possible to make all the electricity and heat for your home that you could need — no matter your latitude or weather conditions. Using “micro … Continue reading
Posted in Electrical Power Grid, Energy, Survival Prepping, Technology
Tagged Microgrid, Nuclear Energy
There Is No Future Without Power
What Does Energy Suicide Look Like? With the best of stated intentions, Germany is cutting its own throat. The unfolding disaster called Energiewende is slowly but surely destroying the foundations of Deutschland’s industrial base, thus destroying Germany’s economy in a … Continue reading
Posted in coal, Electrical Power Grid, Energy, Future, Germany, Green Quagmire, Groupthink
Tagged Green Corruption, leftist idiocy
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Gods of the Apocalypse Fade, as True Believers Slip Away
The late 20th century was a mother lode for prophets of the apocalypse. Of all the apocalyptic faiths of the 1980s and 1990s, none was more strongly held than the one true faith in Peak Oil Armageddon. And why not? … Continue reading
Green Energy is an Unimitigated Disaster
Germany, Australia, and Ontario — among other jurisdictions — made catastrophic errors in judgment when they committed their constituents to a dependency on unreliable, unaffordable, poor quality wind and solar energy. Now, these governments are beginning to pay the price … Continue reading
Posted in Electrical Power Grid, Energy, Europe, Germany, Green Quagmire
Tagged Green Idiocy
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Elusive Fusion Power: Our Greatest Challenge? It Will Not Invent Itself
We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? — Is he in hell? That damned, elusive Pimpernel __ The Scarlet Pimpernel Controlled nuclear fusion is like the Scarlet Pimpernel: damned elusive, … Continue reading
Why the World is Turning to Coal: It Works!
Per a report from the World Coal Association, there [are] currently 861 billion tons of proven coal reserves worldwide, implying that there is enough coal to last nearly 112 years at current rates of production. In comparison with this, proven … Continue reading
Climate Apocalypse Cult; Green Energy Swindle
The Mainstream Offers You Fantasy; The Reality is Much More Interesting The corrupt scam begins to unfold Climate Apocalypse Cult More charts at source A nice summary of the climate controversy Green Energy Swindle Adding More Erratic Intermittently Unpredictable Energy … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Electrical Power Grid, Energy, Germany, Green Quagmire
Tagged Green Corruption, Green Idiocy
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Confidence, Oil, Sperm to Surge Under Trump
Surging Confidence by Consumers, Small Business, and Big Business The change in US presidential administration seems to be signalling a significant boost in confidence toward the future at all levels of the productive sectors of the economy. Consumer Confidence Surges … Continue reading
Future Power: Particle Beams and Solid Ion Conductors
Without Abundant, Reliable, Affordable High Quality Power, Humans Have No Future Today’s article looks at some technologies that can make power systems more reliable, affordable, and more prolific creators of high quality power. To create an abundant and expansive human … Continue reading
German Bundesrat Moves Closer to Banning Human Beings
The German legislature has voted to ban all motor vehicles — except “zero-emission” vehicles — by the year 2030. As we see from the graphic above, almost all CO2 emissions come from natural sources, including human beings. It makes no … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Electrical Power Grid, Energy, Germany, Green Quagmire
Tagged Climate Cult, Green Idiocy
The Peak Oil Fad Loses Traction
What Happened to the Great 2005 Peak Oil Collapse? The rapid growth in North American oil production leading to the global oil glut, has dominated public concerns about oil for the past few years. Oil surpluses are likely to continue … Continue reading
Green Billionaires Threaten Foundation of Modern Societies
Warren Buffet, billionaire and major investor in wind energy, has admitted that wind isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. “The only reason to build them [wind farms]” is the subsidies; “They don’t make sense without” them. … As … Continue reading
Posted in Doom, Electrical Power Grid, Energy, Green Quagmire, TEOTWAWKI
Tagged energy, Green Corruption, Green Idiocy
US Shale Kicks Putin, OPEC, in Teeth
If U.S. shale can withstand domestic political pressure against hydraulic fracking, and regulatory incentives promoting a shift to renewable energies, it stands to disrupt OPEC’s global oil cartel and Russia’s strong influence in Europe, and establish the United States as … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Oil Prices, Oil Prices Fiscal Breakeven
Tagged oil prices, Putin's Folly
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Oil Price Outlook: July 2016
Where Things Stand According to the EIA, crude oil prices actually peaked in March of 2012 with Brent Light Sweet Crude (Brent) topping out at more than $125 per barrel and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) reaching nearly $110. They have … Continue reading
Climate Apocalypse Cult-Ideology Drives Green Energy Disaster
Without the Climate Apocalypse Cult, Why Would Anyone Buy Into Unreliable Intermittent Energy? The people and government of South Australia are discovering to their horror and regret what happens when bureaucrats buy too deeply into the intermittent, unreliable green energy … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Energy, Green Quagmire, Groupthink
Tagged Climate Cult, Green Corruption, Green Idiocy
The Age of Petroleum Has Just Begun
At Most, Humans Have Only Used 2% of Earth’s Petroleum Petroleum is formed from that portion of the organic matter deposited in sediments in a chemically reducing environment – no free oxygen. That condition requires a deep water depositional environment … Continue reading
Emerging North American Independence
“When the United States pulls back this time, it’s going to tear down the global order with it,” he said. “The only question in my mind is, will it fall apart next year, or will it take a decade?” Source … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Energy, geopolitics, Peter Zeihan
Tagged economics
Boosting Power Supply Resilience: Islanding via Microgrid
Basic Microgrid Concepts First of all, microgrids have nothing to do with unreliable intermittent energy schemes such as big wind farms and industrial solar power arrays. Microgrids are about building robust resilience into larger power systems. They are also about … Continue reading
Posted in Electrical Power Grid, Energy, Nuclear Power
Tagged energy, Microgrid
