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Category Archives: Green Quagmire
Mark Mills and Adam Rozencwajg Provide Crucial Insights and Benchmarks on Our Energy Future
These are people who know what they are talking about. I have listened to many other podcasts from the HC Insider channel, and these two are definitely the best of the group. Physicist and energy analyst Mark Mills provides strong … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Green Quagmire, Renewables
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Is Society Suddenly Dominated by Screaming Loonies? The Darker Impulse
The spirit of doom is highly contagious. Society is being inundated with the sense of doom by screaming loonies who are based in governments, schools, news and entertainment media, the workplace, and by social institutions in general. Combined with the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Doom, Environment, Green Quagmire
Tagged leftist idiocy
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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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Tagged Green Idiocy
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Is Re-Electing President Trump the Only Alternative to the Unutterable Madness and Decay of Wokeism?
Wokeism has taken over the US Deep State and most large social institutions in the US. The slow release of the Twitter Files by the innovative entrepreneur Elon Musk, is gradually unwrapping the ugly truth behind the government and the … Continue reading
Posted in Donald Trump, Education, Elon Musk, Government, Green Quagmire, Groupthink, Philosophy, Politics
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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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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
Posted in Childhood Development, Climate, Energy, Everything You Think You Know Just Ain't So, Future, Germany, Green Quagmire, Ideology, Jordan Peterson, Nuclear Power, Postmodernism, psychology, Russia
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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
Posted in Energy, Germany, Green Quagmire, Groupthink
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China Retreats from Green Abyss, Re-Embraces Coal Power
Renewables and the high electricity rates they ushered in drove individuals into energy poverty and led industry to flee, putting the lie to the claim that wind and solar are the fuels of the future. __ FP China, Germany, Japan, … Continue reading
Reaming Texas Bloody w/ Wind Turbines
Texas Fell Head Over Heels for Wind Farms Nothing proclaims a politician’s virtue better than legions of hundred-metre high steel whirly-gigs marching off into the horizon. How green! How climate friendly! How . . . scatter-brained?!? Giant wind turbines begin … Continue reading
Unrepentant Failed Doomer Paul Ehrlich After 50 Years: Still Predicting Total Collapse of Civilisation “Any Day Now”
Stanford biologist Paul R. Ehrlich published the book of doom “The Population Bomb” 50 years ago, with his wife. According to Ehrlich, catastrophic global collapse was inevitable by the 1970s — or the 1980s at the latest. Ehrlich has managed … Continue reading
Where Would We Be Without Renewable Energy?
Big wind and solar were supposed to replace coal, natural gas, and nuclear power plants . . . any time now. And yet, something is happening to global investment in big wind and solar that calls the entire “renewables revolution” … Continue reading
Did Obama Knock General Electric Off the Dow Jones?
During the Obama years, General Electric rode the federally subsidised green energy steamroller to the limit. GE assumed that Hillary Clinton would be the next US president, and that the green scam would continue endlessly into the future. But with … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Green Quagmire, Wind
Tagged Green Corruption, Green Idiocy
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Europe: Cold, Dark, and Growing Poorer
While the US is pumping record amounts of oil and is producing unbelievable levels of natural gas, Europe has chosen the intermittent and unreliable energy path. And the continent will pay dearly for its mistake. Europe’s energy policies are worse … Continue reading
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Fossil Fuels Beat Greens Into Submission
Continue to Supply Over 80% of World’s Energy Needs Every year since 1971, more than 80% of all our energy has come from fossil fuels. That’s still true today, which is surprising for two reasons. Most nuclear power plants came … Continue reading
Posted in Electrical Power Grid, Energy, Germany, Green Quagmire, Nuclear Power
Tagged Green Idiocy, Nuclear Energy
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Renewable Energy Skyrockets, and Other Little Heard News
Unfortunately for Renewables, The Rocket Was Heading Down! We have spent the last two centuries getting off renewables because they were mostly weak, costly and unreliable. __ Limits to Artificial Energy For over 200 years, humans have been trying to … Continue reading
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No Fool Like a Green Fool
Mark Z. Jacobson: 100% Renewable Excrement Debunked champion of the 100% renewable future, discredited Stanford professor Mark Jacobson has sunk to his lowest level yet. Hoping against hope to redeem his justly savaged reputation, he is suing the authors and … Continue reading
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How California Can Secede from US, and the World
Kim’s Missiles Can Reach California With this year’s revelation that North Korea’s nuke-tipped missiles could likely reach the West Coast of United States, a more insidious threat has gained prominence—an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack. While not deadly on its own, … Continue reading
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
A Fundamental Misunderstanding of Disruptive Innovation
Brian Wang discusses future disruptive technologies as if the disruptors of the past will also be the disruptors of the future: Technological disruptors like Elon Musk, Google and Amazon will force industries and companies to accelerate or die. Companies will … Continue reading
Posted in Disruptive Technologies, Google, Green Quagmire, Groupthink, innovation, Technology, Uncategorized
Tagged Green Idiocy, Groupthink, leftist idiocy
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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
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Tagged energy, Green Idiocy
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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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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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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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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
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