Posted on 10/21/2023 5:17:57 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Unicorns and treadmills...that’s the ticket.
These technologies can work to supplement the current natural gas, coal, and nuclear power generation capabilities, but that’s all they are: a supplement. Our current power generation capabilities are the lowest cost per watt, esp nuclear, and we should be looking to bring online more. Solar and wind are good for personal power generation, not supplying an entire metro.
Yep.
Green Technology looked a lot more “promising” when interest rates were super low and government money could flow freely. That time has passed and money will be tighter in the future. Money for Green Technology will dry up and then people will better see how unaffordable it is. It’s not a real solution. Hydrocarbons are plentiful and they are the solution.
Adam Smith's metaphor of the "invisible hand" applies. The general market, without being skewed by "handouts," will decide as a market decides. Too much? Too expensive? Too little? Too cheap?
Read most of the various articles about "Price signal," and what is seen is that, in the framework of liberty, pricing takes care of itself. By itself. That invisible hand.
My conclusion is that what this world currently suffers from is too much government and too much government debt and too much government interference in and against "liberty."
Given this, I fully expect the "invisible hand," and any other metaphor one might choose as a lens through which to see this world, will calibrate all. Again. As it has in the past.
Government is the problem. The least governance is the least problem, and the most governance is the greatest problem.
Cloward-Piven.
Maybe the ham sandwich can be wrapped in hemp.
But, the narcissist cannot control their impulses.
As I keep hammering, you cannot power modern civilization with wind and solar. Until the “Green Energy” fools bring forth a successful demonstration project of the sort Francis Menton demands, this is all Soviet-style central planning that will fail miserably, combined with Solyndra-style grift.
But the left forced us to use plastic bags. They made us stop using paper bags years ago. Paper bags were destroying the planet.
Storing massive quantities of hydrogen. Please keep it in blue states.
Especially Nuclear.
Not too long ago there was great excitement over a nuclear fusion test which produced more energy than it consumed (for a few femtoseconds). I would have expected the govt to pump a few billion to develop that clean, safe and carbon free energy source. Instead, nothing but crickets. When am I getting my Mr. Fusion?
Pie in the sky, asinine thinking. Pissed away tax dollars to enrich their friends. It’s the democrat and government way.
No matter how you cut it, the market will provide a better solution than some panel of bureaucrats in DC. Other that the provision of social overhead capital and the policing of property rights, name one endeavor where the got’t does a better job than private business.
But in the meantime, a whole lot of our money will be transferred to the subsidy scammers.
It is well-known that 97% of scientists agree with those who are funding them.
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