From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
Very succint discussion between John Redwood and Jacob Rees-Mogg:
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new analysis shows Ontario renewable cost is high and will continue to be high
https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/20240724_Wind-power-Sepulveda_PAPER-v12-FINAL.pdf
This is Parker Gallant’s perspective concerning the report:
Well, Elephants Can’t Fly and Wind Energy Isn’t Cheap
Labour have had 14 years to think about their policies…..
Ed Miliband has been appointed as Secretary of State for energy security and net zero. Even his job title shows how little understanding the current British government has of our energy system. Ed Miliband is a typical green fanatic, an innumerate imbecile who thinks that he is cleverer than everyone else. The very fact of his prominent presence in the government is utterly damning by itself.
Islington rules
Spot on
Tories had nearly 10 to actually do something, including Mogg and Redwood.
We’re ill served by politicians of all shades apart from a few exceptions.
I expected nothing. I wasn’t disappointed
The Tories were effectively hobbled by the heir to Blair AKA call me David, now Lord Cameron who was as Woke as any Tory has ever been. His running away when the Nation voted to leave the Woke EU allowed the hyper EU supporter and immigrant importer Theresa May to take charge
Not only was May seeking to stop the UK leaving the EU she went as close as any politician ever has to destroy the UK democratic Parliamentary process. Her removal by Boris Johnson ensured the Green nonsense was then reintroduced on steroids because Boris’s new wife was an XR supporter and climate change alarmist.
It is little wonder Labour were given a go because the Tories had shown they were incompetent and hopeless at doing the right thing.
Labour will be worse.
There is no pretending the Tory leadership was not totally enthralled by the climate agenda and just about as stupid and ignorant as the current Labour leadership.
Leading the country down a deep dark hole.
To be fair, the whole Covid thing screwed everything up post 2020.
The WuFlu?
Which came from China, and was helped in its effects of infantilising the UK by – er – a ‘Conservative’ Government [and Sir Starmer wanted harder and longer lockups, and IIRC harsher penalties on anyone expressing doubts about the whole shebang].
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And then act all surprised when Grangemouth Refinery closure is announced due to Climate policies. Where are the Green jobs? Millivolt is asked, splutter is the only answer.
The green jobs are in China. Is Ed Miliband the Manchurian candidate?
Tough choices
Labour reveals new junk food ad ban
Bans cost nothing
Keir Starmer: a bad man who identifies as good. https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/09/12/keir-starmer-a-bad-man-who-identifies-as-good/#google_vignette
I sometimes wonder how bad the other applicants must have been when Starmer applied for the post of Director of Public Prosecutions. We do know who he was up against when he stood for leader of the Labour Party – Labour were desperate to find a female leader to tick the boxes but the best that they could come up with were too hopeless. So they ended up with a man with zero redeeming features, a man who can’t even be honest about his own parents. It’s alleged that he’s not liked by many Labour MPs, but the outcome of last week’s vote on winter fuel allowance in which almost all dissenters took the coward’s way out by abstaining rather than voting against (one of them had a dental appointment, apparently!) I don’t sense much of an urge to topple him anytime soon. And if he were to go there’s Rayner, whose brain-cell count is at the lower end of the range for a Labour MP. We’re well and truly stuffed.
The main political parties around the world have this same unhealthy, irrational and highly dangerous disregard for the truth – human sourced carbon dioxide (i.e. fossil fuel) induced climate change is a scam endorsed by such as the United Nations which has failed miserably to deal with other panic inducing scams such as COVID-19. Politicians surround themselves with “experts” whose advice supports existing party policy whoever they are and do not seek advice from those who may expose these choices as massive untruths.
There are always people who can be bought just ask that Gates fellow whose fortune rested on the purchase of someone else’s intellectual property. Opportunism has existed since the very earliest signs of nature – great or small – and those who benefit are the last to want to fix it.
Disregard…
We did not do impact assessment of winter fuel payment cut, No 10 admits – The Guardian
“There are always people who can be bought just ask that Gates fellow whose fortune rested on the purchase of someone else’s intellectual property.”
Gotta admit it was smart business- I think Gates paid they guy who wrote DOS 1.0 something like $500- then Gates went to IBM and convinced them sign a contract that they’d use it in all their PCs. I wish I had thought of that. 🙂
Connections matter – John Opel, Chairman of IBM, and Bill Gates’ mother served together on the national board of the United Way.
Friday funny
The minister in charge of policing had her purse stolen at a conference about…policing. Crime, Policing and Fire minister Diana Johnson met with senior police officers earlier today when her wallet was nicked, having just spoken at the conference bemoaning the “epidemic of anti-social behaviour, theft and shoplifting”.
https://order-order.com/2024/09/12/policing-ministers-purse-stolen-at-policing-conference/
You have to smile, just imagine, this is the Political Party that thinks releasing career criminals from Jail in order to make way for grannies who were angry at children being knifed to death and tweeting about it can be sent to jail for three years.
Labour certainly have all their priorities and determination to hit those OAPs when ever they can.
Winter fuel allowance anyone.?
NB It would be even funnier if they find the thief is one of those they just released from jail.
Is the present government naive? or is it deliberately globalist in trying hasten the new world order at the expense of its citizens?
Can’t be one without the other. So, both.
I’ve posted before, a Sun Tzu quote taken from Ed Hoskin’s analysis “The supreme art of war is to subdue your enemy without fighting”. Virtually every western government is pushing net zero policies that will make us all more easily subdued. Making our electrical grid more expensive and less reliable while making all fossil fuel energy more expensive will at the very least impair our economies if not out right destroy them.
It is obvious. China, Russia, and others know most western nations, especially the US, when society is united is indomitable. They cannot go toe to toe with us. So, the solution, as you pointed out is clear. Divide society, get us to fight amongst ourselves and at the same time crash our economy.
Essential reading on this topic:
https://davidturver.substack.com/p/royal-society-large-electricity-storage-report
The situation developing in the UK is far, far worse than you think. The Royal Society did us one great favor, it did a detailed study of weather going back 30 years, so it did establish the parameters of wind intermittency in the UK’s geography, and they are worse than anyone had previously admitted.
However, as this piece documents, they also then made a series of unjustified assumptions, contrary to the available evidence, to arrive at the conclusion that nevertheless UK net-zero is doable and affordable, using wind, solar and hydrogen storage.
As this analysis shows, its neither. You cannot make enough electricity from wind and solar to meet any plausible estimate of future demand. You cannot hope to store enough hydrogen to tame intermittency even if you could.
[And even could you do both of those things, you then will have no local grid capacity to power all the heat pumps and EVs that the current UK plan is calling for, but that’s another story.]
Blind credulity, complacent ignorance and wishful thinking are taking the UK over a cliff.
You will have nothing and you will be happy.
The problem that we face in communicating this to the general public is innumeracy.
Too often we allow the argument to be over technical feasibility rather than commercial feasibility.
It is probably technically feasible to build out a surplus capacity of wind and solar, use the surplus power for electrolysis, cooling, and compressing hydrogen, and then burn the hydrogen as a fuel in a dispatchable power plant whenever demand exceeds wind/solar output. Perhaps you can even electrify everything and build enough capacity to produce the replacement solar panels, wind turbines, electrolyzers, compressors, chillers, storage tanks, pipelines, gas turbines, heat pumps, EV batteries, etc., etc. that you will need to continuously produce and recycle forever.
Just to throw out some hypothetical numbers, say that electricity currently represents 20% of current energy, and a wild guess that the remaining 80% of energy can be replaced at an 80% efficiency. Then total electricity demand would average about 6x current demand. Bear in mind that this assumes no economic growth, no new demand for power from AI or cryptocurrency mining, or any other purpose.
Now if a country has 20% of its current electricity demand supplied by wind and solar, then 6/.2 = 30x is the build-out factor required to provide 100% of current energy utilization. However, a vast amount of energy will be required to mine, process, fabricate, transport, erect all those windmills and solar panels, and then replenish them continuously forever. I’m not sure how to estimate that additional demand, but it must be substantial. Let’s just guess that it adds 20% to the capacity required. So we’re looking at something like 36x the windmills and solar panels already built. How much did those cost? A few trillion dollars? So the new capacity would be on the order of magnitude of $100 trillion? And then there’s the entire hydrogen infrastructure and at least a 5x build-out of the grid to consider. How much has the grid cost to build over the past 125 years? Are we approaching quadrillions of dollars?
Anyone who can do basic calculations can see that this is a hopelessly expensive project that would divert all of the resources in our economy just to get back to where we are today in terms of energy use. If the only thing we are building is the energy infrastructure, how does that allow for maintaining modern civilization?
I forgot to account for the abysmal round-trip efficiency of electrolysis-compression-cooling-combustion process for storing energy as hydrogen.
But the numbers were already absurd before accounting for this. It’s a pure fantasy.
Ideally the world wakes up to the scam and we just keep using the lowest cost energy sources available while gradually developing next gen nuclear as it is needed.
If the goal is to stabilize CO2 concentration, you only need to cut emissions roughly in half.
You don’t need any impossible engineering projects to achieve that goal. One approach would be to force everyone to use half as much fossil fuel and live a much poorer lifestyle.
We know it isn’t going to be a wind/solar/storage economy, because it’s impossible. Which approach is the real plan? I would guess that the climate-industrial complex continues to maintain the hoax that CO2 must be reduced, but the impractical net-zero objective keeps receding from view. The overlords get more and more control and ordinary people get driven more and more into poverty.
Rich,
“If the only thing we are building is the energy infrastructure, how does that allow for maintaining modern civilization?”
A feature … not a bug at all.
‘They’ do not want US – the plebs, deplorables, ordinary folk – to have a modern civilisation.
Think 18th Century AD at best … horse & cart; labouring in the fields for six days a week; lots of kids, as no guarantee there won’t be a famine to remove four in seven, and you’ll need a couple to look after you when, aged 50, you are broken down by childbirth of agricultural labour.
Leisure – read the Bible, if there is light – you will have a better life in the hereafter.
And you comely daughters and granddaughters will be concubines [and comely grandsons, briefly!].
Think 18th Century BC at worst – dragging stones for Stonehenge all over the landscape, for no apparent reason.
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Hmmmm . . . we have the above article’s embedded video clip as well as numerous articles citing both Britain’s and Germany’s abysmal failures as they head down the road to “Net Zero”.
Just wondering if ANY US politician is paying attention to these developments, especially Rep. AOC, Sen. Ed Markey and Vice-President Kamala Harris who are big advocates of the “Green
NewRaw Deal” being proposed for the USA.Why should they when they are getting filthy rich with that program?
“Jacob Rees-Mogg was Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy from 6 September 2022 to 25 October 2022.”
…And accomplished exactly nothing, then and after. When the actual bureaucratic governing apparat replaced the Truss regime (“They might actually do what they say — they have to go!”) with soppy Sunak et al, what did he do?
49 days, during the Truss Administration.
Well, I don’t think anything [good] was achieved then, as the Blob didn’t much care for having its competence questioned.
And they’re now in the ascendency – the Blind leading the Bland.
Or v/v …
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The lazy ass voters of the nation over the last decade or two created this mess.
The stupidity, incompetence and amazing pettiness of leaders will eventually wake up the voters, but they will be poor and weak by then.
You get no sympathy from me.
You’re not on the scrapheap you’re simply being transitioned-
SNP and Labour ministers ‘have failed’ Grangemouth (msn.com)