Thread by @homemadeguitars

SSDD
Same shit, different day.
The infrastructure plan.
They are fond of saying that the plan is "the biggest in 100 years," but it's actually the Interstate Highway Act of 1956 version 2.0.
1956 is the very left-hand edge of this chart, which is actual science (bow down.)

The building of the Interstate Highway system was decreed to be complete on October 14, 1992.
This carbon accumulation.

3. Although the system was declared complete in '92, it has never been completed quite 100%.
There is no perfect.
It has also never, not for one day, been an entire system devoid of major road construction. We've been building it non-stop since the day we started.

4. The reason it is worn out, having been begun in my personal 10th year of life and not outlasted me, is because of the incredible, undescribable, incomprehensible amount of energy that had been pounded into it by tires and stray steel and plastic over the years.

5. The fact is, if we reduced the energy we demand it withstand, by slowing down significantly, it would last forever.
For God's sake, it's made out of concrete and steel.
We are quite literally at a decision point.

6. Here is the undisputable outcome of forty years of public lies and prevarication on climate change. Right here.
Look at it. Real hard. Then look at this one.

One fifth of our GHGs are from manufacturing. (Industry.)
We are going to launch two, huge, multi trillion dollar, manufacturing projects at the same time (infrastructure and so-called "climate".
This isn't about the 21%.
The whole fucking pie will double in size.

8. All science and technology professionals, PhDs and industry leaders.
Here's your chance.
Prove me wrong.
Publish the number of tons of steel, the number of tons of concrete. Publish the diesel fuel projected consumption. Show where the energy comes from. Show the total chart.

9. Show me how you build it, in BTUs, in Calories, in Joules, in Kilowatt-hours, in Horsepower. Show my readers where you get the energy.
You all piss on me every day.
Here's your chance.
Real numbers. Joules is the international standard unit.
Translate into barrels of crude.

10. Anybody who answers with salesman horseshit about next year we'll... No. Blocked.
How many Joules? Where do you get them? Energy can be neither created nor destroyed.
Your turn.
I don't care if you burn hydrogen, or bubblegum, or North Sea Crude. Where do the BTUs come from

11. I need a shower. Later.

PS:
The Interstate Highway Act of 1956 started at the far left edge of this chart.
The Infrastructure Climate Death Plan of 2021 starts at the far right edge of this chart.
It matters.