Thread by @AlexEpstein

Bitcoin stands for honest money.

Thus it is sad to see many advocates of Bitcoin, in the name of deflecting "green" criticism, buy into the massive dishonesty that the parasitical solar/wind/offset "industry" has been perpetrating for years.

Some correctives...🧵

Q: Aren't solar and wind cheap?
A: Solar and wind are "unreliables" that depend on reliable fossil fuel, nuclear, and hydro infrastructure. They don't replace the cost of fossil fuels, they add to the cost of fossil fuels. More solar+wind = higher prices.

energytalkingpoints.com/energy-q-a/

Here's how the "100% renewable" fraud works.

forbes.com/sites/alexepst…

Here's an expose of the solar+batteries fantasy in response to @elonmusk.

https://twitter.com/AlexEpstein/status/1390319587523108874

Here's why the "green energy transition" is a regressive political phenomenon, not economic progress. energytalkingpoints.com/energy-transit…

Here's how green energy policies raise prices and cause massive "energy poverty" problems.
energytalkingpoints.com/energy-poverty/

Here's how green energy policies cause massive reliability problems, as exemplified by this February's Texas debacle.
energytalkingpoints.com/texas-electric…

Here's why offsets cannot meaningfully reduce CO2 emissions.

https://twitter.com/AlexEpstein/status/1379606433663094785

Here's why nuclear is the only scalable way to reduce CO2 emissions--and yet the "green energy" movement opposes it.
energytalkingpoints.com/clean-future-a…

Here's the actual nature of CO2 emissions and their likely effect on human flourishing, stripped of the primitive religious view that they're intrinsically immoral and inevitably self-destructive.
energytalkingpoints.com/climate-crisis/

Here's the best presentation and Q&A I've done on the moral case for fossil fuels.

Soon I will write a full thread on Bitcoin and energy, but the high-level fact is that machines with high CapEx need low-cost, reliable energy--which requires a lot of fossil fuel one way or another. (Until nuclear is decriminalized--a cause that I, unlike @elonmusk, champion.)