Tag Archives: Green Idiocy

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

Posted on 13 February, 2023 by alfin2101

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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Snoozing Germany Rudely Awakens to a Cold World

Posted on 2 July, 2022 by alfin2101

Snug and warm at the helm of the European Union and powered by Russian natural gas, German politicians and Green strategists faced the future with smug, complacent grins on their faces. But something happened on the way to Germany’s Green … Continue reading →

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Texas Power Failures Look Like California!

Posted on 16 February, 2021 by alfin2101

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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Asia is Going Gangbusters for Coal!

Posted on 22 February, 2020 by alfin2101

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!

Posted on 3 February, 2020 by alfin2101

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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Green Activists and Politicians are Forcing People into Poverty

Posted on 19 November, 2019 by alfin2101

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 →

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El Paso Shooter Wanted to Kill Tens of Millions

Posted on 4 August, 2019 by alfin2101

Twenty-one year old accused mass murderer Patrick Crusius wanted to eliminate tens of millions of US residents so that Universal Basic Income could work more efficiently. He seems to have left a manifesto explaining his thoughts behind his actions: “In … Continue reading →

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When Elon Musk Screwed the Pooch

Posted on 30 July, 2019 by alfin2101

We are on record saying that Elon Musk has one good company — SpaceX. His other signature company, Tesla, has been bleeding large sums of money for several years now, with no end in sight. Elon is in the process … Continue reading →

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Wind Power Boom Is Over

Posted on 8 May, 2019 by alfin2101

… 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 →

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China Retreats from Green Abyss, Re-Embraces Coal Power

Posted on 29 September, 2018 by alfin2101

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 →

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Reaming Texas Bloody w/ Wind Turbines

Posted on 17 July, 2018 by alfin2101

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 →

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Wind Power’s Limits to Growth

Posted on 19 May, 2018 by alfin2101

Every technology contains an innate “economy of scale” for the system within which it operates. As seen in the graph below, grid-scale wind energy is beginning to run into inherent limits of applicability in US power grids: The amount of … Continue reading →

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Unrepentant Failed Doomer Paul Ehrlich After 50 Years: Still Predicting Total Collapse of Civilisation “Any Day Now”

Posted on 25 April, 2018 by alfin2101

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 →

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Did Obama Knock General Electric Off the Dow Jones?

Posted on 31 January, 2018 by alfin2101

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 →

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Europe: Cold, Dark, and Growing Poorer

Posted on 26 January, 2018 by alfin2101

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

Posted on 6 December, 2017 by alfin2101

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 →

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No Fool Like a Green Fool

Posted on 4 November, 2017 by alfin2101

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

Posted on 15 October, 2017 by alfin2101

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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The Lithium Calamity: Poison Mountain, Green Idiocracy

Posted on 29 September, 2017 by alfin2101

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 →

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100% Intermittent Energy: Can it Work?

Posted on 22 September, 2017 by alfin2101

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 →

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A Fundamental Misunderstanding of Disruptive Innovation

Posted on 28 August, 2017 by alfin2101

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 →

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Solar Panels: 300X More Toxic Waste Than Nuclear

Posted on 29 June, 2017 by alfin2101

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 →

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This’ll Kill Ya: They’re Coming For Your Electric Power

Posted on 22 June, 2017 by alfin2101

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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Climate Change Hurrah! CO2 and the Greening Earth

Posted on 17 May, 2017 by alfin2101

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 →

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Green Energy is an Unimitigated Disaster

Posted on 13 March, 2017 by alfin2101

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 →

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