I provide this video for informational and entertainment purposes only. I have no opinion pro or con on it. Videographer Paul Budline writes:
First, pardon the overwrought subject heading. But I would like as many people as possible to see a 5-minute piece that I just finished. It focuses on the unintended consequences of marchers demanding an end to fossil fuels.It’s obviously shot on a shoestring and relies heavily on stock footage, but it’s an important topic:
Great video, great title. People need to be shocked out of their complacency on this.
About time. THe truth is a powerful weapon.
Bravo. Keep pointing out the truth, the facts.
Well done, very good short video. Won’t change any of the watermelons but may educate a few average Joes out there.
Incredible to see selfish super rich scum like Gore and DiCaprio marching to try and keep poor people in their position of poverty.
Neville,
Elites like Gore and Decaprio keeping poor people in poverty is the way humanity has always been; feudalism, serfdom, tribalism, communism, etc. Not incredible, just normal.
That the impoverished serfs admire the Gores is normal, too.
The Enviro-Aristocrats.
Exactly Neville, then they leave in their SUV’s and private jets. All of this hypocritical soothsayer filgercarb without any evidence of warming caused by Man. Jail ’em.
I find it incredible that Di DiCaprio did not hesitate when asked to give a speech on ‘climate change’ in New York. He didn’t think about his multiple villas, private jet flights, multiple cars etc. Ditto for the master hypocrite Gore.
COOKING WITH DUNG
http://gfmindia.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/cow-dung-oven1.jpg
HOMEWORK TIME
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Environment/Pix/columnists/2013/3/7/1362673826951/MDG–Energy-poverty–stud-008.jpg
http://one-org.s3.amazonaws.com/us/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/powerafrica_sirleaf_669.jpg
Very good, succinct and direct.
Those advocating for a return to pre-industrial age energy sources don’t care about third world poor. In fact, the more outspoken ones will readily admit they think the world is overpopulated with human beings and the deaths of a few billion would be a good thing for the planet. Of course, they don’t want to lead by example. It’s only the rest of us who are disposable.
I’ve inquired of a Progressive acquaintance if he would prefer war or plague for population reduction. Without pause, he said plague. I was trying to evoke a reaction to the absurdity and inhumanity of the question. Nope, he had already thought this through. Then I said YOU FIRST. He, of course, disagreed.
A fascist I think, Hitler was of the same mindset!
A stink weed by any other name will still smell stinky John Law.
Well-done.
Good video. Already they are warning the British people to get used to power cuts in the future:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/11156113/Scrap-the-Climate-Change-Act-to-keep-the-lights-on-says-Owen-Paterson.html
Speaks for itself – excellent movie.
If any new green movement is looking for a name to call itself, a good one would be Nidhoggr.
In ancient Norse mythology Nidhoggr was the serpent which continually gnawed and chewed at the root of Yggdrasil, the tree of life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%AD%C3%B0h%C3%B6ggr
Fossil fuels are the tree of life for actual human society. Those wishing to undermine and degrade humanity by denial of access to energy should perhaps be called the “nid-hogs”. They are rich already and just want to “hog” the riches and easy lifestyle for themselves, while denying it to others.
The efficiency, “greenness” and pollution free existence of competent Hydro Power is being sidestepped by all sides of this “debate.” Two dammed Alaskan valleys could power the entire state and huge parts of Western Canada. Similar results can be achieved via Hydro-Quebec for much of the US northeast. Too many dim bulbs not seeing the real potential here (or in Africa, or in the Himalayas), keeping actual bulbs dim too!!!
Gabon, in central Africa, comes to mind since I lived there. They have the capacity to create a lot of hydro; in fact, small dams on any of a number of branch rivers can and, locally, do provide power for specific communities or mines. The problem is, you cannot built a massive hydropower infrastructure with large-scale, efficient dams/powerhouses, because there is no realistic market for the electricity. But the potential is huge. Manganese from COMUF. iron from Belinga, electricity from hydro, and US gauge rail to the Port of Owendo. Looks like a mini-Ruhr at, say, Booue. But who do you sell the steel to?
Gabon is not a great example. Its a major regional oil producer and almost half the government’s revenue comes from oil. The Trans Gabonais railroad was an economic disaster. Built using money borrowed from the IMF and world bank it was supposed to run from Belinga in the North to carry iron ore to the coast. However the President decided to build it instead from his home region in the south for political reasons.
This raised the cost 20 fold to over $5 billion and forced the abandonment of the line to the mines at Belinga destroying most of the economic basis for it. As of 2001 just 3 passenger trains a week were run each way and around 3 million tons of freight per annum were carried. The initial planning was based on a shorter, cheaper railway carrying 10 times that level of traffic. The current revenues don’t even cover the operating costs let alone service the capital.
At the beginning of this year the Belinga iron reserves were still not being mined, the latest developments being that the Gabonese government had cancelled the contracts it had signed with the Chinese in 2007 by 2009 and were now trying to convince BHP Billiton to accept the poisoned chalice.
All true Keith. Your critque is spot on. They actually built an unnecessary tunnel where it was not needed because “every railroad needs a tunnel.” The great justification for its route was not just to link Franceville with the coast, but to render obsolete the transport through the Congo the manganese coming from the COMILOG mines (I said COMUF incorrectly in my original post). Bongo never could abide the Congolese government. Pres. Bongo never really intended for the RR to go to the northeast and Belinga.
But they hydro potential still exists. So does the Belinga deposit. BTW, I was actually offered to work on the Trans Gabonais, but I got hit with schisto and malaria and repatriated my sorry rear home for treatment (I also recognized I was becoming “bien cuit”).
I mentioned Booue because they built the marshaling yards there and it would the take-off town for a branch to Belinga. The deposit is high-grade, but the size is limited.
As you know, reserves of Gamba are declining, so Gabon and E. Guinee are squaring off for the potential rich oil fields in the offshore area between the two countries.\
All in all, the country in resource-rich, but it doesn’t translate well for the people there. I could go on and on about the squandering of potential there, and how the government avoids rebellion, but you probably already know.
“Pour moi quoi….”
MAKAYA
The largest hydro project in Africa is being built in Ethiopia. A lot of downstream countries are a little bit worried about that.
Not a little bit worried: a lot worried. We’re talking about the Nile, here.
You can’t be serious ……. we’ve (US) already torn out most of the hydro plants in this country ….. God knows we can’t hurt the fish.
Mark Mills’ talk at the conference was superb. I’d highly recommend him for any audience!
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/mills.htm
Hopefully, the TPPF will put video of the talks online soon.
Quite a few years back, when Scientific American Magazine, reported on Science matters with not much of a political agenda, they published a special issue that was entirely devoted to world energy and world food production. One article tracked food production versus energy input, for all manner of worldwide societies, from the most primitive or simple, to the most complex.
For example, they followed the food productivity of Arctic ice dwelling communities, who moved from animal skin coated boats (umiaks) and dog sled transport, along with their simple spears and harpoons, that they used to hunt seals and whales, to snow mobiles and jet skis, and rifles to improve their kill ratios. The energy of their fuels and ammunition powder, were included in the energy accounting.
What the study found, was that world wide, the societal food production output was linearly proportional to the energy into the food system, whether it was “gunpowder” or harvester machinery, and fertilizers.
Only two places on earth were found in this study, to be off the food/energy line by any significant amount, and both were off in the higher productivity direction. Those two places were France and New Zealand. Both were the result of unique climate conditions, rather than some state secret. New Zealand’s mild oceanic environment is very conducive to crop growing.
The problem is of course, that both of these countries together don’t really amount to much in the total world food requirement numbers. Their efficiency cannot be exported to the USA, Canada, Russia, let alone India and China, or South America.
This video should be a part of every school curriculum, and be shown at every United Nations conference.
Just today, in the mail, I received my PG&E monthly energy bill, along with a paper wasting bulletin, announcing that I would soon be the beneficiary, of a twice per year “climate credit”, where major energy producers in California, would be extorted by Governor moonbeam’s strong arm tactics, to give me an air pollution (green house gas) mordida, so they could continue their practice of polluting my air with their water vapor, and the same CO2 that I exhale myself.
These people are criminally insane, and we need more wake up messages like this Texas video, to combat these lunatics.
I applaud those who put this informative short message together.
Mostly middle class greens I’ve met have no comprehension of why someone would want to catch and eat an elephant, or cut down a few trees to grow some crops.
Great clip! Amazing how liberals keep harping about the poor. They love them so much they keep creating more.
– got that right – all talk and no do – assuages their guilt and makes them cool –
The energy use of an i-phone for an hour-and-a-half-long movie downloaded over the internet is equivalent to that used by your refrigerator? Equals a “pound of coal”? Hmm.
I don’t have an i-phone. Is it worth a pound of coal an hour?
While the energy use of an iPhone is negligible (less than 4 KWh per year), the information infrastructure behind it is estimated to require 100 times that energy per year which is roughly equivalent to the energy use of a refrigerator.
http://www.tech-pundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Cloud_Begins_With_Coal.pdf?c761ac&c761ac
BINGO
@Bill Parsons October 11, 2014 at 7:22 pm:
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Think of all the web servers making heat to generate the video streaming… and all the infrastructure required to support the data streams. I don’t say hmmm… you say hmmm because you may not appreciate what energy does.
Also, do not forget to factor in the inevitable heat loss at every step of the way.
There should be a simple way to calculate the energy consumption needed to keep an iPhone going.
Sum up the energy consumption of all the data farms run by Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. This would represent the baseline of preparation of data for all digital devices.
Determine the percentage of data devices in use, followed by the respective numbers of devices.
Divide the latter into the former and you will have the energy costs of maintaining the ‘cloud’ for each device. Add this to the direct energy consumption of each device.
The reason I’m bringing this up is found here:
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/08/25/2518361/iphone-electricity-refrigerator/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2013/09/07/how-much-energy-does-your-iphone-and-other-devices-use-and-what-to-do-about-it/
As a 52 yr old Texan living in Arizona, I think I just fell in love with Brooke Rollins.
My ex saw the movie GasLand. She thought it was a must-see for everyone. Fracking for natural gas was so bad as she saw it. I tried to tell her everything substantive in it had been debunked, i.e. cinematic lies. The movie, just like Inconvenient Truth, was a BIG lie for gullible people unable to investigate issues. Of course she got angry. Of course, her becoming more Liberal and me more conservative spelled doom.
And then after last week’s Gwyneth Paltrow sickening fawning over the Liar President, I just couldn’t help but (irrationally) think, “Was there some kind of Liberal virus illness descending on America?” And how did my ex-wife get so infected and deceived?
You Go Brooke!! This world needs so many more of you.
I feel bad for you. Liberalism is a mental disorder. People like you describe do not have opinions and they need to know that. Their opinions are put into their heads by bumper sticker slogans and misinformation that they cannot bother to check. It’s lazy and herd like mentality of simplistic animals. They do as they are programmed. Anger in place of reason is based on primal instinct and not of intellect.
morever I must say we are fed up of having Dicaprio and schawzeneger giving lessons
It’s a conundrum. They want to feel “good”, but feeling “good” makes them also feel guilty. And then, sorta like a crack addict, they’ll say/believe anything to justify it all.
“Don’t bother me with reality; what I’m looking for is a good fantasy” is the disease that infects the Left. And they’re willing to control you to get it. That’s what enables the disease.
Something for the average person to understand. Well done. I hope it gets lots of ‘hits’ and sees distribution beyond YouTube.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jatropha_curcas
Eye’s wide shut from the green side. ……
Facts hurt sometimes.
How about a dung grilled burger?
Think about it!
http://dailysignal.com/2014/09/05/poverty-climate-change-bigger-concern-china-india/
Travaux sur le pétrole (Jean Laigret)
Après avoir multiplié les expérimentations Jean Laigret a pu constater que 100 g de savon donnaient 75 cm3 de pétrole grâce à l’action du bacille Clostridium perfringens[réf. souhaitée]. Selon les matières, les résultats varient un peu, une tonne d’huile fermentée donne 800 litres de pétrole brut et 200 m3 de gaz combustible, 1 tonne de déchets de viande donne 450 litres de pétrole et 140 m3 de gaz combustible, les déchets de poisson fournissent 70 % de leur poids en pétrole, les écorces d’orange et de citron 37 %, et les feuilles mortes 25 %.
On peut y ajouter les boues d’égouts (environ 185 litres de pétrole brut par tonne), auxquelles pourraient s’ajouter les ordures ménagères, les déchets d’abattoirs, sang et animaux malades, plus des algues (l’iode favorisant la fermentation, également utilisées pour en faire de l’algocarburant) et les broussailles (ce qui réduirait de beaucoup les feux qui dévastent chaque été les forêts, incendies souvent très étendus, meurtriers, extrêmement coûteux à traiter, sans compter le rôle que toute cette biomasse brûlée joue sur le taux de carbone).
Work on oil (John Laigret )
After multiplying experiments Jean Laigret was found that 100 g of soap gave 75 cm3 of oil through the action of the bacillus Clostridium perfringens [ref. desired ] . Depending on the subject , the results vary slightly , a ton of fermented oil gives 800 liters of crude oil and 200 m3 of fuel gas , one ton of waste meat gives 450 liters of oil and 140 m3 of fuel gas , waste fish provide 70 % of their weight in oil , orange and lemon peel 37% , and the dead leaves 25%.
Can be added to sewage sludge (about 185 liters of crude oil per ton) , and could include household waste , slaughterhouse waste , blood and diseased animals , more seaweed ( iodine promoting fermentation , also used to make algaefuel) and brush (which would greatly reduce the fires that devastate forests every summer , fires often extensive , murderers, extremely expensive to treat , not to mention the role that all this biomass burned plays on the rate of carbon).
@ur momisugly Garfy October 11, 2014 at 8:17 pm
This is america, why are you telling about soap and carbon in French? This trolling post should be eliminated. Off topic and off language.
sorry, but I thought that the works of Jean Laigret were interesting – and my english is not good enough to translate – if it is off languague it is not off topic
Not America here, sorry to disappoint you.
What’s with dang Americans thinking everything must be in English?! 🙂
Easy enough to get a translation. I am sure Anthony is very pleased to have international readership.
(not in America here, either… It’s Indonesia… This week, at least.,)
Just a guess, but I’m betting you’ve hit the daily double by poorly communicating a stupid idea.
thanks –
I just want to share what I was reading a few minutes ago :
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/10/11/lie-machine-paul-craig-roberts/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jatropha_curcas
another possibility – but petroleum origin is “abiotic” – so ………….
a well has been re-opened in Alsace
It is ironic that we are entering a world wide scare for 4000 deaths of the poor by the Ebola virus and ignores the dying from energy poverty of millions currently (due to bad living conditions), and the future huge size of the death toll in the poorest countries.
The sky keeps falling so people can not see the stealthy/wealthy thieves stealing the chickens.
Why do these periodic new diseases come from where they come from?
And yet the CDC predicts there will be 1,000,000 ebola cases by January, 2015 and from past experience the fatality rate will range from 50% to 90%.
The reason they’re emphasizing it over the ~1.5 billion people who are dying from energy poverty is because ebola could actually infect those in the elite machine that report what’s important. To them, those other 1.5 billion people are mere “bumps in the road”.
Don’t worry, once ebola shows up among the poor in latin America, there will be a rush of carriers through the US southern border, and then with our rapid travel systems here, it will be all over the USA,
The Aids epidemic that has cost millions of lives spread in the US from a single carrier, who was also a traveler.
4,000 deaths from ebola, will look like the good news.
But Obama has it under control; you can’t get it from sitting in a bus; or out on a golf course. Well his people couldn’t even keep a deranged visitor, out of his hallway.
I agree – an honest and fair video, imo. Here are some of my posts on cheap abundant energy [excerpts]:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/09/06/analysis-solar-wind-power-costs-are-huge-compared-to-natural-gas-fired-generation/#comment-1730316
Seriously, good people: Cheap abundant energy is the lifeblood of modern society.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/08/23/cold-summer-us-daily-record-minimum-outnumbering-record-maximums-3-to-1-in-the-last-30-days/#comment-1717275
rgbatduke says: August 25, 2014 at 3:23 am
NOW you can conclude “For this we should destroy our economy?”.
This I agree with. And not just our economy — we are killing the poorest people in the world, disproportionately children, with the deliberate distortion of energy prices brought about by the stridently anti-carbon policy.
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Allan says:
On Cheap Energy:
I strongly agree with your last sentence. All societies rich and poor benefit from cheap abundant energy.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/08/10/oxburghs-climate-madness/#comment-1056398
The developed world is entirely dependent on inexpensive, efficient energy for its economic and physical survival.