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Tag Archives: Green Corruption
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
Posted in Electrical Power Grid, Energy, Nuclear Power
Tagged Green Corruption, Green Idiocy
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Green Activists and Politicians are Forcing People into Poverty
Compare electricity prices with renewable energy penetration for European countries. What might you conclude? Activists and politicians are always pushing energy policies that drive up the cost of energy. This is not a problem for the wealthy, but for lower … Continue reading
Wind Power Boom Is Over
… the 20-year subsidies granted to wind, solar, and biogas since 2000 will start coming to an end next year. “The wind power boom is over,” Der Spiegel concludes. __ https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/05/06/the-reason-renewables-cant-power-modern-civilization-is-because-they-were-never-meant-to/#2a527dd2ea2b No economy can afford to run its industry and … Continue reading
South African Power Company Eskom in Death Spiral
Eskom is now in a death or debt spiral – or arguably both – as it engages in a stand-off with the government. __ Antigone Miltiadous A few years after South Africa changed to a popular rule system of government, … 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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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
Posted in Green Quagmire
Tagged Green Corruption, 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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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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Exterminator-Elect Moves to Drain Swamp — With a Vengeance
He ran against the system, both parties, and almost all the media and the polls, to “drain the swamp,” against the OBushtons: all the Clintons and Obamas and Bushes and the Republican and Democratic lookalike also-rans (Carter, Dukakis, Quayle, Gore, … Continue reading
Posted in Draining the Swamp, Economics, Government, Groupthink, Idiocracy, Politics
Tagged Green Corruption, Politics, Swamp Draining
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Robin Hood in Reverse: Buffett, Gates, Zuckerberg, Brin Steal From the Poor
Electricity Prices Set to Skyrocket Thanks to Rich Green Cronies We see it happening in Germany, Canada, South Australia, Spain, and wherever else it has been tried. Rapid politically-driven construction of big wind and big solar projects drives up the … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Green Quagmire
Tagged Google, Green Corruption, Green Idiocy
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Understanding Cycles of Oxygen, Water, and Carbon
The Oxygen Cycle Notice that most of the Earth’s oxygen is tied up in the lithosphere — planetary rock. Atmospheric levels of oxygen can rise and fall, naturally, and have done so over billions of years. Major reservoirs involved in … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Green Quagmire, Science
Tagged Climate Apocalypse, doom, Green Corruption, Science
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The Inevitable Economic Collapse of Leftist – Controlled Places
The economy of Venezuela is in seemingly terminal decline with riots, shortages, and enforced slave labor imposed in an attempt to force more production out of the population. Meanwhile, the economies of Brazil and Argentina — while not comparable to … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Dysgenics, geopolitics, Government, Green Quagmire, Politics, Venezuela
Tagged geopolitics, Green Corruption
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More Predictions for a New “Little Ice Age”: Winter is Coming
Do Not Fear the Warming: Fear the Killing Cold British scientist Valentina Zharkova and her team at Northumbria University in the United Kingdom… predicted that a coming periodic reduction in the sun’s radiation will soon lead to major global cooling. … 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
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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
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Energy Bridge: Cheap Oil & Gas for Next Few Decades
The Age of Cheap Oil & Gas Begins Scientific American: Another 40 million barrels per day of global oil production looms on the near horizon. Geopolitics will never be the same. A world of growing and geographically diversified oil supply … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Europe, Green Quagmire, Nuclear Power, Oil Prices
Tagged Disruptive Technologies, Green Corruption, Green Idiocy
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Time to Stop Worshiping the Fickle Ancient Gods of Wind and Sun
Advanced, safe, clean, affordable, reliable nuclear power is the future. Unless advanced human societies all collapse, wind and solar will always be the fickle gods of the past. Wind and solar energy are weather-dependent, variable and intermittent, i.e., therefore not … Continue reading
Posted in Electrical Power Grid, Energy, Green Quagmire, Groupthink, Nuclear Power, Oil Prices, Sun, Technology, Wind
Tagged Green Corruption, Green Idiocy, sun, Wind
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Climate Apocalypse Crusade Stymied by Inconvenient Hiatus
The Map is Not the Territory. The Model is Not the Reality In order for climate science to be settled, there are many requirements. I will list four for now, although I am sure you can think of many more. … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Green Quagmire, Groupthink, Ideology
Tagged Climate Apocalypse, Climate Cult, Green Corruption, Green Idiocy
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Malthusian Monkeys Screech of Doom
Update: New steel alloy has strength to weight ratio of titanium at one tenth the cost (Nature Abstract) When Paul Ehrlich, John Holdren, and John Harte wagered Julian Simon $10,000 that the cost of commodities and natural resources would always … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Creativity, Doom, Fertility, Green Quagmire, Groupthink, Materials, Natural Resources, Ocean, Optimism, Peak Oil, Science, Technology
Tagged Green Corruption, Green Idiocy, TFR
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Are Wind Energy Advocates Terrorists?
Wind Farms Don’t Make Economic Sense … the observation of serial wind energy “investor” Warren Buffett: “We get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That’s the only reason to build them. They don’t make sense … Continue reading
Kill Them All?
Fraud is an integral part of the way science is organised today.__ Scientific Fraud and the Power Structure of Science The human future depends upon the integrity of science. Those who threaten the integrity of science, threaten the human future. … Continue reading
You Believe the Science? What “Science?”
Science fraud is apparently rampant, and those who arrogantly declare “I believe the science!!!” will have to do better than that in the future, if they wish to be taken seriously. The website “Retraction Watch” is a useful location for … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Green Quagmire, Groupthink, Ideology, Media, Science
Tagged Green Corruption, Green Idiocy
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