The Future of Energy

[ratty]

From Ronald Stein, an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book “Clean Energy Exploitations.”

An easy guide to rational energy policies

[blustnmtn]

May 10, 2023 11:49:47 GMT ratty said:

From Ronald Stein, an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book “Clean Energy Exploitations.”

An easy guide to rational energy policies

But those behind the curtain have a completely contrary agenda with regards to these noted minor concerns:


"Before implementation of any policies that impact the supply chain of crude oil, a replacement must be identified that can maintain the supply chain of more than 6,000 products and various fuels that support the health and food requirements of the 8 billion now on this planet and the 50,000 merchant ships and 50,000 jets that are moving products around the world for global trade flows, and the military and space programs."

[glennkoks]

Nuclear power is the only true viable green energy there is that can produce the amount of energy we need followed closely by natural gas. Wind and solar are just pipe dreams that won't make it without subsidies.

[ratty]

May 10, 2023 22:02:26 GMT glennkoks said:

Nuclear power is the only true viable green energy there is that can produce the amount of energy we need followed closely by natural gas. Wind and solar are just pipe dreams that won't make it without subsidies.

Looks that way ... I might be using this graphic a lot:

[ratty]

Those attacking living standards in Australia will probably find this idea quite attractive .... it's very green:

Finally, A Solution To The Problem Of Intermittent Power Generation -- The "Virtual Power Plant"

It’s “smart” thermostats, and “smart” water heaters, and “managed” EV charging. If I might, let me translate that into layman’s terms. On the coldest days of the winter, when the grid does not have enough power, first we will take the liberty of draining the power out of your EV battery. In the all EV utopia that we envision, you are now stuck at home. Then, we will remotely turn off your heat and hot water. Hey, it’s to save the planet!

In this vision, the convenience and comfort, let alone the physical safety, of the people are of no importance. No more the American dream, where you can improve your life by hard work. Now it’s to be forced sacrifice to satisfy the jealous gods of the pagan climate cult.

It’s one more front in the all-out war against your well-being now being waged by our government.

[ratty]

Exxon Crushes Progressive Dreams That “Net Zero” Has Any Chance By 2050: It Would Mean Collapse In “Global Standard Of Living”

In a world of suffocating snowflakery, ESG hypocrisy and, well… Tranheuser Busch, a corporation telling the truth without fear of reprisals from the Open Society-funded virtue signaling cabal is rarer than an mRNA-injected, genetically engineered hen’s teeth.

And yet that’s what the company hated by every progressive, Exxon Mobil, did this week when it became the first corporation to denounce the insidious and laughable claims that “net zero” is even a remote possibility by 2050.

The US supermajor pushed back against investors pressing the company to report on the risks to its business from restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions and potential environmental disasters when in a reply to proxy advisor Glass Lewis, Exxon said the prospect of the world achieving net-zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 is remote and should not be further evaluated in its financial statements.

A shareholder proposal seeking a report on the cost of having to abandon projects faces a shareholder vote on May 31. Glass Lewis backed the initiative, concluding Exxon could face material financial risks from the net-zero scenario.

Exxon disagreed, and said the world is not on a path to achieve net-zero emissions in 2050 as limiting energy production to levels below consumption demand would lead to a spike in energy prices, as observed in Europe following oil sanctions against Russia over Ukraine.

Exxon, is of course, correct however that won’t stop the green fanatics from beating the drum that somehow the world can transition to “green” energy (at a cost of some $150 trillion mind you) in the next 27 years without an energy cataclysm.

At the heart of the issue is the 2050 net-zero emissions (NZE) scenario of the International Energy Agency (IEA) which envisions a path to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius. For the NZE scenario to be met, the IEA had hilariously said new oil exploration would have to have stopped in 2021 and nations would have to switch to renewable energy from fossil fuels (good luck with that). Exxon is among the companies heavily investing in new exploration to generate oil and gas for decades to come, and in retrospect, one can thank their deity of choice for Exxon’s decision to do so as opposed to sending the world back into the dark ages, an outcome which so many from the World Economic Forum seems to aspire to.

“It is clear that the IEA NZE does not, by the scenario authors’ own assessment, meet the level of likelihood required to be considered in our financial statements,” Exxon said in a response filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday.

“It is highly unlikely that society would accept the degradation in global standard of living required to permanently achieve a scenario like the IEA NZE,” Exxon said in dismissing the proposal.

[missouriboy]

Useful or bogus?

news.yahoo.com/scientists-discover-lithium-replacement-may-111500394.html

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Jun 18, 2023 13:57:58 GMT missouriboy said:

Useful or bogus?

news.yahoo.com/scientists-discover-lithium-replacement-may-111500394.html

Not good for the crabs, sounds a bit like the whale oil boom.

ksj.mit.edu/tracker-archive/who-would-believe-nasa-used-whale-oil-vo/

[ratty]

Jun 18, 2023 13:57:58 GMT missouriboy said:

Useful or bogus?

news.yahoo.com/scientists-discover-lithium-replacement-may-111500394.html

Trust the science.

[blustnmtn]

www.foxnews.com/politics/nebraska-solar-farm-crippled-hail-underscoring-power-sources-fragility

"The solar complex was destroyed by hail," Scottsbluff City Manager Kevin Spencer said in an interview. "They're assessing the damage, but it certainly looks destroyed to me."

Not to worry though!:

"I don't think we're ready to give up on solar power," Spencer added. "It was our understanding that these solar panels were at least hail resistant. This hail was extreme, you know, the size and probably the speed of it. So, I don't know that we would give up on it just yet."

[missouriboy]

The European Energy Story

wattsupwiththat.com/2023/06/28/europes-crisis-blame-green-energy-policy/

[blustnmtn]

Jun 30, 2023 22:15:56 GMT missouriboy said:

The European Energy Story

wattsupwiththat.com/2023/06/28/europes-crisis-blame-green-energy-policy/

Since the US is in the grips of the same mass insanity, we’re on a similar path.  Urbanites who apparently can’t think, voting for stuff they don’t pay for, empowering inbred, power hungry pigs.

[missouriboy]

Patrick Moore,  Stopped here at his energy vision for the future.

[glennkoks]

Jun 18, 2023 13:57:58 GMT missouriboy said:

Useful or bogus?

news.yahoo.com/scientists-discover-lithium-replacement-may-111500394.html

You bet your ass its useful.  And my ship is about to come in!  As a commercial crab fisherman I am at the front of this gravy train waiting to cash out.

[ratty]

Jul 2, 2023 23:44:48 GMT glennkoks said:

Jun 18, 2023 13:57:58 GMT missouriboy said:

Useful or bogus?

news.yahoo.com/scientists-discover-lithium-replacement-may-111500394.html

You bet your ass is useful.  And my ship is about to come in!  As a commercial crab fisherman I am at the front of this gravy train waiting to cash out.

Let us know when you intend to float.