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15/02/2024

For those touting the virtues of "clean energy"(it's not that clean) and EV:

It's not working out well, already, as it is totally overloading the grid, causing utilities to ask people to NOT get full charges for their vehicles.

With the grid expecting to double within the next 40 years and relying more and more on an unreliable grid of wind/solar, and with a far more complex grid dispersion to boot, one can only shudder.
A more complex grid also means fixes are also more complex. Simple logic.

My local utility is already experiencing more very costly transformer burnout due to the above variability of load, now with the additional complex variability of the generative process.

The days of keeping a generator spun up to handle that variability are going away, with the cost of storage of potential energy being far more costly, than a pile of coal outside the plant.

Expect a LOT more brownouts, requests for less usage, and rationing. We will be living in a real dark ages.

07/02/2024

One of the major principles/fundamentals, when discussing scientific phenomenon, is that of NOT making an overstatement. Sadly, overstatement/over assumption/hyperbole is very much a part of the AGW world, and it destroys their credibility.
While I am called a "denier" I do not deny climate change.
I do not deny we may be currently experiencing a warmer period.
I have no problem with finding other VIABLE sources of energy outside that of carbon based fuels, with wind/solar having very limited viability and extreme cost to boot.
Point is, you just don't chop off the hand to spite a finger, which is metaphorically being done in the climate change world. As we say in the medical community, "you don't use a garden hose to put out a single match and you don't use a garden hose on a forest fire"
However, I am questioning just how severe warming really is and if its not just transient in nature. Then, when I look at past CO2 levels, like 2000 ppm during the Triassic/Jurrasic, even more so, as life thrived during that time.
It's not uncommon and correlation/observation is not causality.
Point is, there is a LOT of really bad science behind the CO2 climate change mantra and its really easy to prove.

07/02/2024

Oh, the memories and life's lessons.
Some 50 years ago, while visiting my girlfriends parents., I took up a pickup basketball game with their next door neighbor kid, just a high school freshman.
I repeatedly kicked his butt. He simply did not hustle. And then his dad intervened. He said to his son, I will give your $20 dollars if you beat Bill. That was his cue and also my cue.
Well, the kid actually picked up the pace and worked hard. I slowed down my pace and worked less hard, basically throwing the game, guaranteeing him a win, but not by too much, as he would have figured that out.
His dad looked at me with a huge smile on his face while shaking his head. He knew and I think was thankful. I was not going to beat that kid down.
But his son, was none the wiser and learned the lesson of winning, hustle and hard work that day. A good life's lesson.

28/12/2023

Carbon credits is a scam. The ONLY people who benefit from that program are the wealthy elites like King Charles, as the cost of energy skyrockets for the rest. The elites benefit both financially and gain more power at the same time, as the middle classes become poor and the poor become desperate.
More importantly, desperation can go two ways:
1. The not elites can become the beggars of history.
or
2. The non elites can fight back and actually eliminate the wealthy elites.
And as more of our law enforcement, namely the military, sees their families evolve into great hardships, guess what side they will be on?
Only problem, this evolution takes time and in the meantime, many human lives will be lost to poverty for something that could have been prevented, had it not been for the greed and power sought by the elites.
Point is. The humanity is on a very slippery slope with such a program.

19/12/2023

Since this is the season for peace and love, I have a solution that can be applied to all here.
Several here want to eliminate the use of fossil fuels and they are adamant about it, regardless of the data presented. Net zero.
Here's what they need to personally do to satisfy their interests and fears. I will enumerate a few.
1. The first thing they can do is to rid themselves of their computers and the internet. Why? ALL parts of a computer and the internet are very much dependent on fossil fuels with little exception. If EV energy was even used to mine the minerals necessary the cost of computers and the internet would be so incredibly high they could no longer afford them.
Of course, the side benefit would be those of us with a lick of common sense would not have to listen to their continuous hysteria about the climate.
2. Housing. They need to build mud homes or stone homes using no mortar or nails as that also requires masses of energy to produce, especially mortar. Guess they could pound out their nails on a coal fired forge. LOL.
3. They could become hunter/gatherers once again, as no refrigeration would also decrease the load on the grid. Of course, individual wind or solar would also not be able to sustain household refrigeration. All they would have to do, in the colder climates, would be to chop and store ice. Screw those in warmer climates. And to quote Kamala Harris..."it's the science." Actually its the math.
4. They need to forsake all modern medicine as it is very much dependent on fossil fuels for both the product and the dispensation of modern medicine. And if you had taken any organic chemistry, you would already know that.
5. Food. They should grow ALL their own food or only purchase foods grown, or produced locally, eliminating farm equipment and transportation. And, of course, a LOT of jobs would also be eliminated in the process. Gonna really suck for the city people. Free ranging dog are not all that bad tasting. Cooking hint: Dog meatloaf is delicious. I actually mean that. If they can't screw them, too. Most don't produce much, anyway. But hey, we can depend on the kindness of the anti fossil fuel people to care for these people now out of a job or living in the cities. Right?
6. Transportation. Walking or getting a horse, maybe? Maybe in population dense areas we could have public transportation also powered by horses, as wind/solar are simply not enough to provide the transportation in our massively overpopulated cities. Again, per Harris, "it's the science."
The above solutions with make a major step in the goal of attaining net zero.
However, as individuals? Do your duty. Get rid of your tech products, build your own sod houses or stone house without mortar(the Inca's did it), no modern medicine and just live out your lives naturally, walk or horseback but no bikes as they require manufacturing using steel and a lot of heat, grow all your own food or become hunter/gatherers, make you own clothes out of natural fiber.
You can do it! I know you don't want to be hypocrites. If you considered it your personal adventure, you would not be such a pain in the ass to the rest of us.

13/12/2023

From my brilliant friend, Richard Cronin:

Below are examples of really good scientists who dare to challenge the CO2 climate change narrative.

John Clauser (Nobel Prize in Physics) has much to relate regarding the bullying and intimidation leveled at “deniers.”
A few years ago on the evening of Earth Day, Dr. John Christie, Univ. of Alabama, had his office shot up in a drive-by.
Judith Curry quit her position at Georgie Tech due to death threats.
Peter Ridd was let go from James Cook University for disputing the b.s. about the Great Barrier Reef “dying”. He appealed his termination all the way to the Australian Supreme Court and lost because it was deemed to have impugned the work of others.
Susan Crockford did not have her contract renewed at the Univ. of Victoria (Canada). The University did not say why. Of course, she disputes claims about the imminent extinction of the polar bears.
Caleb Rossiter worked at a think tank to foster development of nations in Africa. He wrote an editorial to the Wall Street Journal promoting the use of carbonaceous fuels would be one of the best ways to improve conditions. He was informed of his dismissal by a curt e-mail …. clean-up your office a clear out.
I belong to the American Geophysical Union and they are bewailing the fact that students aren’t getting into climatology studies ….. good say I.

06/12/2023

There are some extremely false narratives being spread by DC insiders and the press today. Of course, it's Trump's fault, ad nauseam.
It's discussed how Trump put our "farmers on welfare." That is NOT true about our farmers and is only a part of the antiTrump propaganda machine looking for use fools.
Why do I know that? I am a farmer, as well, hiring people to do my work. It's part of my daily life. Farmers wholeheartedly supported and still support Trump and his economic policy, as they knew what was good for our nation. It's not even close.
Trumps policy was to make America SELF RELIANT. He did that as he saw American technology escape to China, to a point it was making us rather subservient to China. Not a good thing. Example: About all antibiotics are manufactured in China! And it pi**ed off China, as they saw their lucrative markets declining.
And making America more self reliant included building Keystone. When that was cancelled by Biden it really harmed the economy of Fairbury, Nebraska, a small town relying on that pipeline, as it was to be a major hub. Jobs just went away.
Trump was doing a good job of creating a more austere budget, namely attacking wasteful spending by the Pentagon. Angered them, as well. He got our stealth technology at a lower cost. as well as with the production of AF-1.
Trump was succeeding until Pelosi came in and held the federal government hostage if they did not pass her spending bills, including some incredible wasteful spending when Covid hit, also remembering funds for the uber endowed and wealthy National Symphony. Hence Trump signed off on frivolous spending just to stay in business.
I don't know where you are getting your info on gas prices, but I do know its bogus. Trump not only brought to us less costly gas prices compared to Obama, he was able to do that while he rebuilt our strategic reserve! That's very important.
The ONLY reason gas prices have lowered now is because Biden has depleted our strategic reserve to some rather dangerous levels. It's a national security issue, at this point.
You wanna see how our nation was betrayed by politicians. Treason, if you will.
Go no farther than VP Joe Biden's deal with China, selling the US high tech company by the name of Henniges to Chinese bankers, who, in turn, provided lucrative investment opportunities for Hunter's several shell companies, amounting to millions.

20/06/2023

My response to a person who was denigrating those who challenge the narrative of CO2 climate change:

So, you're sure that human produced CO2 is causing the current climate change.
Here's a few inconvenient facts.
1. CO2 makes up but .0004 of the total atmospheric gaseous profile. NOT much.
2. Humans safely produce 12% of that, although some will say most of it. And they are grossly wrong. I actually looked at the stoichiometry used to measure the tonnage of human produced CO2. Its GROSSLY over-exaggerated. Why? They assume ALL carbon atoms from carbon fuels eventually becomes the carbon atoms of CO2 molecules. That has NEVER happened and never will happen.
I used as a basis for my conclusion actual physical research of which I was a part. We once studied the properties of particulate carbon using Raman spectroscopy.

22/05/2023

OH...that is good.

30/08/2022

Pretty good analogy, as analogies go.

25/08/2022

24/08/2022

I had yet to read Huxley, yet I communicated much the same thing in a paper I wrote in 1987, titled, "Wanting to Believe."
The difference is that I took what Huxley wrote, referring to most not being very bright, only seeking their personal comfort, and applied it to those with great learning skills, referring to intelligence.
I know too many people with great learning skills who are also intellectually lazy. They "want to believe." And I made references to a very well educated population in Germany prior to WWII.
The bottom line is that TRUE intelligence requires one not only being able to easily assimilate information, but to also think critically and to honestly question what they are told.
Read Huxley's quote:

The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled. ~Aldous Huxley

(Book: Complete Essays https://amzn.to/3dRyUec)

03/08/2022

I don’t know about you but I’ve had enough insanity. Please share other absurdities. I find it’s therapeutic.
A recession is not a recession
An open border is not an open border. There are no negative impacts from an open border.
Killing a baby seconds before it is born is a choice not an abortion
Parents confronting school boards about their kids education are domestic terrorists
A woman can’t be defined, a man can have a baby
A vaccine and masks that don’t prevent the transmission of a virus are required to prevent transmission.
A riot where neighborhoods and police stations are burned to the ground, police and citizens are assaulted and murdered are mostly peaceful.
Pain at the pump is a good thing because it helps people realize we need alternative green energy
Challenging electoral college votes and establishing alternate electors using the legal statutory processes is a coup and criminal scheme.
A riot break in at the Capital is deemed an armed insurrection, with no arms and no planned insurrection.
Roads are racist
Trump directed the “insurrection” even though there is no evidence of his doing so.
Shutting down pipelines, restricting drilling, closing Anwar, banning fracking, declaring you are going to shut down fossil fuels, restricting investment in drilling and refining, threatening to sue energy companies for global warming has no impact on gas prices.
Antifa and BLM are just ideas not domestic terrorists Marxist street thugs
Anyone whole loves USA is a racist white nationalist who supports the K*K just like Trump and his supporters, they probably fly flags and use the word “patriotically” and support Qnon.
Inflation is transitory, caused by Putin just like high gas prices
A green new deal that cuts our emissions to net zero will stop global warming. Even though that does literally nothing unless China and India do the same, they won’t.
The Afghan military is strong
Joe Biden has no cognitive issues, he just has a speech impediment. Repeat the line.
Critical Race Theory that trashes USA as inherently racist and irredeemable demanded by Dems in schools and military, is actually a right wing dog whistle, made up by Republicans.
Returning abortion decisions to the states is a “power grab” by the radicals controlling the Supreme Court.
Taking fi****ms from law abiding citizens will stop criminals from shooting people.
Pelosi never shared any information with her husband who then used it to make millions in the stock market.
That the state legislatures determine voting, not governors or judges is just a theory. Even though the Constitution couldn’t be more clear it’s the legislature.
Defunding and reimagining police, ending no cash bail and mass incarceration will have a positive impact, especially in low income high crime areas.
An EV vehicle that uses electricity generated by fossil fuel power plants and destroys the environment to make batteries from materials outside the USA is good for the planet and America.
Hunter Bidens laptop, Bobolinsky and all that stuff about the “big guy” are Russian disinformation used by Fox News. Joe never talked to Hunter about his business stuff. C’mon man.
The CCP is a “competitor” not our enemy and we need to understand white rage.
It’s not a felony to protest at Supreme Court judges houses even though the statutes say otherwise. Feel free to harass and intimidate them, their families and their neighbors anywhere because they are obviously extreme right winger fascists.
Spending 10 Trillion dollars that doesn’t exist won’t cause inflation.
The speaker of the house set up a committee to determine what happened on J6 but we won’t question the person responsible for security at the Capital, Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the house

22/06/2022

While technology has greatly improved it has NOT improved to a point where EV is a viable solution for anything other than short commutes.
And that will be good for air polluted cities. When I was on a book signing tour in NYC, we would walk from our hotel down to the Javitts Center and back. The smell of car exhausts, air pollution, and rotting garbage was appalling.

MOST IMPORTANTLY, we can NEVER get past the fact that wind/solar simply does not have the "energy density" of coal/oil/gas, which does NOT have the energy density of nuclear power. It's not even close. Its basic physics. Werner Heisenberg is "laughing in his grave"

While EV would be beneficial for urban areas, it is certainly not for rural, food production or industrial. I once computed the distance a farm tractor could run using the most efficient EV. It was but hundreds of yards before needing to be recharged! To put it into perspective, if a combine does not burn 200 gallons of diesel fuel in a day's harvest, they had a bad day. And that's just a single combine. EV there is a disaster waiting.

More importantly, fools who consider wind/solar as good solutions for electrical generation, with the closure of coal/gas as forms of electric generation also do not recognize that electricity usage is expected to DOUBLE in the next 50 years, beyond the introduction of generation for EV, which is making it worse! That is significant. We will live in a real dark ages, if this green agenda continues as it has.

The thought of an entire electrical grid depending on the very unreliable wind/solar is quite frightening, in spite of the promises of a super grid which also brings super and incredibly costly maintenance problems.

When the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine, no electricity, while coal, gas, nuclear, the energy is 24/7. And storage of such energy in wind/solar is a serious environmental problem unto itself. We have to see how well the LFTR development is going.

An engineer friend working for a local power company says we are already experiencing significant transformer blowouts because of the rapidly varying generation capacity now combing with a varying load. And its gonna get worse.

As importantly, the environmental impact of attaining the minerals, copper(lots more of it, aluminum. lithium, and rare earths for EV is at least as bad as coal/gas, if not worse.

We will be facing an "excused genocide," as people can no longer afford the energy or the products produced by energy. But maybe that's what is wanted by the "green elite." They won't have to feel guilty as they will be "saving the planet."

17/06/2022

Ponder this:
I wanted to purchase concert tickets for my favorite musical group. Their hallmark is they do the music of Chicago, and they are really really good. The theater where they are playing tonight is obviously "very proud" of their tickets. Expensive tickets.
However, instead of purchasing those tickets, I am now taking that same money and am purchasing some groceries for a struggling WORKING family. Struggling due to the idiotic inflation, an inflation that did not have to happen, caused by the Biden adm.
I certainly will NOT willingly help out the growing number of deadbeats being paid to not work. I will certainly not help out illegal aliens coming here primarily to enjoy social services. If these illegals work and do not use social services, they have my blessings.
With that said, I have a proposition for ALL of my friends. Why not seek out these struggling families, now faced with the new poverty being thrust on good hard working AMERICAN families?
How can that be done? Start with your entertainment. Stop going to movies or even cancel cable tv to stop supporting the Hollywood elites. Don't buy designer clothes, so popular with our spoiled youth. Buy at second hand stores. Limit unnecessary consumer items. You don't need the latest cell phone or computer.
As importantly, charity is tax deductible, if one does it correctly. That will create less money for the federal government to waste.
It's time we stand up and help our fellow hard working American citizens, instead of deadbeats and government bureaucrats.

14/06/2022

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero