Posted on 04/18/2020 5:27:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
Affordable and reliable energy and electricity are essential for the world to alleviate the coronavirus pandemic. Without reliable electricity, hospitals can’t save lives, and without crude oil powering our modern world, the virus would overwhelm civilized nations. A movie released earlier this year titled “Juice: How Electricity Explains the World,” underscores how “economic development (and medicine) depends on reliable and affordable power.”
Those holding degrees from elite universities now seem useless compared to farmworkers, truckdrivers, and warehouse stock clerks. These same university-educated folk believe renewable energy (sun and wind) can deliver “critical medical equipment, ultrasound systems, ventilators, CT systems, X-ray machines, personal protection equipment, masks, (and) gloves.”
Each of these medical commodities are examples of the over 6,000 products that start from a barrel of crude oil. The plastic in plastic gloves is overwhelmingly made from crude oil.
Under current technology, and a world turned upside down by this virus, the United States (U.S.), European Union (EU), and remaining United Nations signatories are not replacing or banishing fossil fuels and the medical products derived from them with renewables.
Zero-carbon societies will ravage lives, leading to death, and wholeheartedly believing in global warming/climate change without thorough questioning of this ideology renders the global, green-aligned environmental movement impotent and feckless in the face of global pandemics.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The two greatest innovations in the history of mankind are the electrical power generation/grid and the internal combustion engine.
Oh, and maybe gunpowder. ;o)
Most hand sanitizer is petroleum based. N95s are a polypropylene, I think.
This was the most thought provoking article I read today.
To whet yor collective whistles
“Scotland’s descent into using wind power over fossil fuels caused Scottish taxpayers to pay over 650 million euros to electricity companies to not produce power from wind turbine farms. This compensation takes place when electricity companies are forced to turn off wind turbines on short notice when too much wind “overloads the UK’s National Grid.”
“Intermittent electricity from the wind and sun also irreparably damages grids when the sun and wind fluctuate chaotically. Additionally, renewables destroy pristine wilderness and wildlife habitats.”
“Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) are normally greeted with fanfare as the most effective method of storing energy to electricity in the world. But grid-scale BESS’ are fire hazards, and ineffective for load-sharing, according to IHS Markit. One example is Shell Oil’s new 100 megawatt grid storage battery in western England financed by Chinese investment fund CNIC and state-run utility Huaneng Group that “will hold enough juice to power 10,000 homes for a single day.”
“In actuality, the battery will “only be able to replace wind (energy) for less than one minute if the wind stopped blowing,” based on average U.K. wind output producing 60 TWh a year.”
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