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Posted on 02/21/2021 4:22:29 AM PST by MtnClimber
Energy issues are the kind of thing that causes significant numbers of people escape into fantasy worlds rather than consider reality.
Energy issues are boring to many people, full of the sort of things the current wizards of academia and the press consider “white privilege” and “patriarchal” thinking -- you know, the kind of thing in which correct answers matter more than subjective feelings. Significant numbers of people escape into fantasy worlds rather than consider reality, which is not only boring, but often harsh enough that it requires us to make hard choices. Escapism seems preferable.
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On the other hand, the complexity of the issue induces others to seek less banal reality in fantasies in which free energy is there for the taking with no downsides. Both fantasies operate in tandem: We’re going to die any minute from the greenhouse effect caused by eating meat from animals that fart; by using electricity, pumping water and heating and cooling our homes and offices with energy generated by conventional means and driving our own gasoline-powered autos instead of using mass transit and electric cars. The fantasy continues that we can only avoid it by blanketing the countryside with windmills and solar arrays and using hydro power.
Reality does not comport with our imaginations. To take one example of such thinking -- there’s the claim that “just 0.1% of the heat content of Earth could supply humanity’s total energy needs for 2 million years.” -- My online friend “The Great Iggy” does know how to count and he responds:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
These leftists want control of energy use because that gives them control of the means of production, the goal of communists since day one (or year zero).
“The Great Iggy” does know how to count and he responds:
This may or may not be a useful, profitable technology but "eye catching" is not the term for a pointless hyperbolic statement like the above. That's like the claims for how much energy the sun deposits on earth's surface each day.
We cannot tap .1% of the earth's heat content or even a meaningful fraction of .1% of it any more than we can or should want to coat the surface of the earth with solar panels.
If we had any damned brains or weren't under the spell of prog imbeciles we would build whatever is the cheapest energy source and enjoy the benefits of it, including a greening, wetter planet if one of the cheap source's side effects was increased CO2.
Hydro power is wonderful. I would like to see lots more Pelton wheels. Long live hydro power.
Everyone knows hydropower is not a viable energy source. It kills the fishes. We must tear down all the dams. Just a little /s
Of course, the leftist have destroyed our ability to use nuclear power.
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FABULOUS article by Clarice Feldman. Thanks for the ping; post. ^^
Your welcome.
Yes they want control of energy BUT, more important they want control of OUR LIVES!!
Don’t let them.
Get rid of democrats!!
Fantastical too : )
Great read
Thanks for posting
Rd later.
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