DELINGPOLE: Why Renewables Are Doomed and Fossil Fuels Are the Future

breitbart.com ^ | 2/8/2017 | James Delingpole

[rktman]

We’re on the verge of a new energy revolution. Except it’s the exact opposite of the one the “experts” at places like BP, the International Energy Agency and – ahem – the Guardian are predicting.

For years we’ve been assured by politicians, energy industry specialists and green advocates that renewables such as wind and solar are getting more and more cost-competitive while dirty fossil fuels are so discredited and wrong and evil we’ll soon have to leave them in the ground.

But to believe this you’d have to believe in a world where Donald Trump and Brexit hadn’t happened; where taxpayers were still prepared to bankroll, ad infinitum, the expensive, inefficient, environmentally-damaging produce of favoured crony-capitalists; where no one had access on the internet to articles showing how the whole climate change industry is such a scam.

That world doesn’t exist.

[SVTCobra03]

The abiotic oil hypothesis is an attempt to explain the source and formation of petroleum. As the name suggests, the hypothesis proposes that oil originates from non-biological origins. The hypothesis is mostly Soviet, mostly archaic, and mostly debunked. In the Anglophone world, abiotic oil proponents tend to cite the work of the late astrophysicist (read: not geologist) Thomas Gold http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Abiotic_oil

[TigersEye]

“The people who make money out of them should retire to their studies with a bottle of whisky and their service pistol and do the decent thing (except they won’t because they’re not decent people).”

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

It has already been used architecturally. The technology is happening all over the place, with new developments monthly.

Various ideas already available:

http://www.thermablok.com/

http://www.cabotcorp.com/solutions/products-plus/aerogel

http://www.aerogeltechnologies.com/

http://www.proctorgroup.com/products/spacetherm

http://www.aerogel.com/products-and-solutions/all-insulation-products/

[Company Man]

Search term “Abiotic Oil”

[ETL]

Thanks, but I did the search hours ago. :)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3523014/posts?page=49#49

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3523014/posts?page=53#53

[Ozark Tom]

Subduction of carbonate rock plus water, depth to avail sufficient pressure, and intense mantle heat set up chemical reactions. Liberated methane and other light hydrocarbons then rise toward the Earth’s more shallow rocky layers.

[Ozark Tom]

You may be interested that Masimo (derived from the acquired Spire Semiconductor PV) is building a photo-voltaic bucky-sphere array, based upon existing concentrator conversion cells, to capture a 2000 sun flux from a 3000 K artificial light source. The first prototype will only use relatively inexpensive single layer cells of 11% efficiency for a thermal regimen.

Nearly commercial units are slated for field testing within 2nd half 2017, if the PV cooling system testing returns satisfactory results, and no surprises pop up. Upgrade to multi-layer PV at ~40% Eff. for a commercial product is the near term goal.

[Vince Ferrer]

You thinkin’ sodium?

Yes, as one design, but there are several out there.

Terrestrial Energy notifies nuclear regulator of planned 2019 molten salt reactor licensing application

I don't know if I would like them funded by the government, as they seem to have enough funding. but I would like to review the regulations regarding nuclear power, and stick to the science. We seems to have a lot of fear based regulations rather than science based regulations.

[rktman]

“They blinded me with science”. To “them” science don’t matter. Only control matters. But yeah, the molten salt (sodium) is, as you say, just one of many designs being considered. But, I won’t be filing an application anytime soon. ;-)

[Morpheus2009]

Not to mention algae and plankton, under pressure for who knows how long? Plus natural gas is out there too, and that is even cleaner and safer than gasoline is.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks rktmann. Prior to the 2016 US election and the Brexit vote...

...taxpayers were still prepared to bankroll, ad infinitum, the expensive, inefficient, environmentally-damaging produce of favoured crony-capitalists; where no one had access on the internet to articles showing how the whole climate change industry is such a scam.