Yep, we would all die if power went off and stayed off for weeks or months. With everything automated and digitally controlled now, no power means nothing works anymore, and we all starve to death because no more food is delivered to any stores anymore, and the frozen foods all thaw and rot! Most people on the street haven’t a clue how power and energy work in the modern world and how absolutely dependent we are on it for our very survival!
I’m not sure about his conclusion that trillions more will be spent on unreliable intermittent energy production- well the world is broke and can’t afford to continue subsidizing these wasteful projects but more importantly the world is waking up to this scam
If you include the so-called "environmental" NGOs and look at the past 50 years, the death toll is far higher.
Without the "greens" the USA would have produced something like 85% of its electricity with nuclear by the year 2000.
The lung disease and complications caused by the air pollution from burning coal and PM10 from natural gas can be laid directly at the feet of the so-called environmental NGOs.
Sierra Club, WWF, RMI, UCS, FOE, NRDC are all murderers. The results were easily seen, so the actions were pre-meditated.
Trying to evaluate energy decisions of the Left through rational glasses is like using a screwdriver to measure a football field.
Your comment, "These wasted trillions of dollars could be used to save millions of lives ..." should tip you off as to the motives behind those who are pushing ideas that will end up killing hundreds of millions, if not billions, of lives.
Bill Gates is the poster child for the One Worlders who are of the opinion that the world needs massive depopulation, to the tune of getting it down to 500,000 million.
So if you view their actions through their depop glasses, everything they are lying about (man-caused Climate Change), and pushing (Wind, Solar, EVs, Smart Cities) makes absolutely perfect sense.
I have been making this point for 25 years and yet people like the UN and IEA completely miss this point. An absurd example is Ethiopia, where they have smog in Addis Ababa (the capital city) due to cooking fires using charcoal and dung, which are the primary sources of energy for cooking there. Yet Ethiopia recently banned the import of internal combustion vehicles and ruled that only EVs could be imported. With the cheapest Chinese EV's costing about $11,000, the average pay for a teacher in Ethiopia is $84 a month. So a car would be about 10-12 times the annual income. Yet they are even banning the import of ICE trucks now, with a total of 11 public charging stations in the whole country. Average income in Ethiopia is less than $1000 per year. Meanwhile, everyone burns cow dung to make breakfast and dinner, and smog is still there. It is insane, but this is how disconnected the governing class in much of Africa is from the populace.
Living without electricity for a week or so is something I experience almost every year, living in hurricane country. What I find most absurd is that people forget that gas pumps, credit cards, ATM's, and traffic lights all require electricity, so the people who depend on credit cards for all their purchases soon find they can't buy anything at all, especially not bottled water and gasoline. This is one reason I have a 75 gallon gas tank on my truck. The only reason their cell phones keep working is because the cell phone providers use propane and natural gas powered generators to power the towers when the electricity supply is lost. EV's are usually stranded, if not flooded and destroyed. Electricity is not a primary energy source, it is a delivery method. The electrify everything crowd misses this point.
Strong piece on the disconnect betwen climate policy rhetoric and energy access realities. The subsidiy critique here captures something critical: when wealthy countries funnel resources toward intermittent renewables while 3 billion people still lack reliable electricity, we're optimizing for political narratives instead of human outcomes. I worked on rural electrification projects in West Africa and the biggest barrier wasnt technology but the mismatch between what donors wanted to fund (solar microgrids that look good in reports) versus what communities actually needed (baseload power that could run refrigeration, mills, and medical equipment). The energy poverty trap is real and policy frameworks that ignore it end up reinforcing it.
Yep, we would all die if power went off and stayed off for weeks or months. With everything automated and digitally controlled now, no power means nothing works anymore, and we all starve to death because no more food is delivered to any stores anymore, and the frozen foods all thaw and rot! Most people on the street haven’t a clue how power and energy work in the modern world and how absolutely dependent we are on it for our very survival!
I’m not sure about his conclusion that trillions more will be spent on unreliable intermittent energy production- well the world is broke and can’t afford to continue subsidizing these wasteful projects but more importantly the world is waking up to this scam
When you have a reliable source of electricity, it is easy
to forget or ignore those that don't. But purveyors of "green" energy
never, I repeat, never consider the real cost of their services on the poor.
Heck, even wealthy nations are waking up to the horrific cost to benefit scam.
All policy making should factor in the impact to those less fortunate among us.
The grift from the climate cabal has killed millions
If you include the so-called "environmental" NGOs and look at the past 50 years, the death toll is far higher.
Without the "greens" the USA would have produced something like 85% of its electricity with nuclear by the year 2000.
The lung disease and complications caused by the air pollution from burning coal and PM10 from natural gas can be laid directly at the feet of the so-called environmental NGOs.
Sierra Club, WWF, RMI, UCS, FOE, NRDC are all murderers. The results were easily seen, so the actions were pre-meditated.
Ronald,
Trying to evaluate energy decisions of the Left through rational glasses is like using a screwdriver to measure a football field.
Your comment, "These wasted trillions of dollars could be used to save millions of lives ..." should tip you off as to the motives behind those who are pushing ideas that will end up killing hundreds of millions, if not billions, of lives.
Bill Gates is the poster child for the One Worlders who are of the opinion that the world needs massive depopulation, to the tune of getting it down to 500,000 million.
So if you view their actions through their depop glasses, everything they are lying about (man-caused Climate Change), and pushing (Wind, Solar, EVs, Smart Cities) makes absolutely perfect sense.
And for those unwilling to believe in "conspiracies"...
How would the world look if these anti-human actions were caused by idiocy and foolishness? Shouldn't the results be kind of randomly distributed?
But every single action from (most of) the world's wealthy elites is designed to destroy civilization, make life worse, and kill people.
When all the action is directed against a target, that's not random foolishness, that's enemy action.
I have been making this point for 25 years and yet people like the UN and IEA completely miss this point. An absurd example is Ethiopia, where they have smog in Addis Ababa (the capital city) due to cooking fires using charcoal and dung, which are the primary sources of energy for cooking there. Yet Ethiopia recently banned the import of internal combustion vehicles and ruled that only EVs could be imported. With the cheapest Chinese EV's costing about $11,000, the average pay for a teacher in Ethiopia is $84 a month. So a car would be about 10-12 times the annual income. Yet they are even banning the import of ICE trucks now, with a total of 11 public charging stations in the whole country. Average income in Ethiopia is less than $1000 per year. Meanwhile, everyone burns cow dung to make breakfast and dinner, and smog is still there. It is insane, but this is how disconnected the governing class in much of Africa is from the populace.
Living without electricity for a week or so is something I experience almost every year, living in hurricane country. What I find most absurd is that people forget that gas pumps, credit cards, ATM's, and traffic lights all require electricity, so the people who depend on credit cards for all their purchases soon find they can't buy anything at all, especially not bottled water and gasoline. This is one reason I have a 75 gallon gas tank on my truck. The only reason their cell phones keep working is because the cell phone providers use propane and natural gas powered generators to power the towers when the electricity supply is lost. EV's are usually stranded, if not flooded and destroyed. Electricity is not a primary energy source, it is a delivery method. The electrify everything crowd misses this point.
Strong piece on the disconnect betwen climate policy rhetoric and energy access realities. The subsidiy critique here captures something critical: when wealthy countries funnel resources toward intermittent renewables while 3 billion people still lack reliable electricity, we're optimizing for political narratives instead of human outcomes. I worked on rural electrification projects in West Africa and the biggest barrier wasnt technology but the mismatch between what donors wanted to fund (solar microgrids that look good in reports) versus what communities actually needed (baseload power that could run refrigeration, mills, and medical equipment). The energy poverty trap is real and policy frameworks that ignore it end up reinforcing it.