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Category Archives: Green Quagmire
The Great Green Energy Crash and Burn
The West’s humiliating electric car climbdown has begun: There is a lesson in the humiliating climbdown. State-led industrial strategies never work. Indeed, the failure of the drive into EV is a textbook example of everything that goes wrong. First, it … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Energy, EVs, Green Quagmire, Groupthink
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What Do Men and Fossil Fuels Have in Common? Civilization Would Collapse Without Either One
If all men disappeared overnight, and women were left to cope with the job of maintaining critical civilizational infrastructure, civilization would collapse within a few weeks. If access to all fossil fuels disappeared overnight, the collapse of civilization would occur even … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Green Quagmire, intermittent unreliable energy, Nihilism, Sex Differences
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Joe Rogan and Elon Musk Discuss the Ruling Death Cult
Elon Musk has revealed he decided to buy Twitter – which he has rebranded as X – because it was being used as an “information weapon” to propagate a far left “mind virus” to the rest of earth. The tech … Continue reading
Posted in Elon Musk, George Soros, Green Quagmire, Groupthink, Ideology, Idiocracy, Nihilism
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Crash and Burn of Germany Inc.
If Germany is toast, Europe is burnt toast. Germany needs cheap, abundant, reliable energy if it is to be the industrial powerhouse that it needs to be to have a future. Germany’s skilled industries have placed it at the top … Continue reading
Posted in Demographics, Dysgenics, Europe, Germany, Green Quagmire, IQ
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The $100 Trillion Caper That Will Clap Your Children and Grandchildren in Chains If You Don’t Catch On
For most people, numbers are boring. But the numbers provided by Mark P. Mills in the video presentation below, are numbers that can save you and your descendants a mountain of pain and hardship. Mark P. Mills is a physicist … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Green Quagmire, intermittent unreliable energy, Natural Resources
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Not an Investment, They’re a Death Wish! Wind Turbines Are a Prescription of Death to a Modern Society
Expensive Unreliable Electric Power that Kills It is a one way road of decline, unless at least one major country wakes up and sounds the alarm. The renewables will consume valuable resources that cannot be replaced. This is not an … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Germany, Green Quagmire, intermittent unreliable energy, Wind
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Just One More Deadly Cliff Your Government Wants You to Step Over
What do you need to learn to keep from being suckered into a suicide run by your own government? You might start with the following video from the chief metallurgist at Aalto University in Finland, Mari Lundstrom, if you fancy … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Green Quagmire, intermittent unreliable energy
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After Viewing the Movie “Oppenheimer,” Biden Orders a Repeat Nuke Strike on Hiroshima
In the middle of a White House viewing of the box office hit movie “Oppenheimer,” Biden stood up and yelled for the Joint Chief of Staffs to be convened immediately. “It just came to me all of a sudden,” Biden … Continue reading
Posted in Electrical Power Grid, Energy, Green Quagmire, satire
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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
Posted in Electrical Power Grid, Energy, Green Quagmire
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
Posted in Energy, Green Quagmire
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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
Posted in Energy, Green Quagmire
Tagged Green Corruption, Green Idiocy
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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
Posted in Energy, Green Quagmire, Russia
Tagged Green Corruption, Russia
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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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Tagged Green Corruption, Green Idiocy
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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
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