The global supply chain could not operate without plastic.
Before plastic containers were invented, the global supply chain as we know it did not exist.
I remember when plastic containers were invented.
The global supply chain is younger than I.
It now exists as a failure point.
The global supply chain could not exist without speed. You couldn't run this deal on sailing ships. You couldn't even run it on steamships. Diesels.
Only jet flight. Extremely high speed.
Imagine the killowatt-hours of petroleum in that fruit. The embedded energy.
100% waste.
I post this graphic often. It is extremely informative.
Alert people look at it and say MY GOD OVER ⅔ OF ALL THE ENERGY IS REJECTED! Less than ⅓ gives us desired results!
SOMEBODY FIX THAT!
(It's not fixable, it's physics.)
But this is not a process in which 2/3 of the energy was wasted.
This is a process in which 100% of the energy was wasted.
Except:
Some very wealthy person or persons became slightly more wealthy.
That is the sole benefit for humankind from this energy use.
This is why we have such severe climate change.
We'd have it and have it like poison ivy without this, but anybody who asks you what caused Hurricane Ida to wash away the Gulf Coast, New York, and New Jersey in the same week, send them this. Building a bunch of things won't fix.
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A lot of evenings my thread is about something that really matters, at least to me, about climate and available actions, and I know that one will get the smallest number of likes and RTs of any of my work.
Sometimes I do hard science at about a 10th grade level, applying to 🌍🌎
2. Tonight, though, I'm just going to muse about energy.
I've been tweeting this image a lot lately. I find it endlessly fascinating.
3. As I often mention, what we call climate change - just that specific portion of the greater ecosystem collapse event - climate change is the accumulation of energy in the atmosphere and everywhere else.
Carbon catches the energy and stores it, which is why we think of carbon.
I'm going to try this one more time.
This graphic.
All the lines are energy. All the boxes are sources or destinations.
If you increase any thing on the destination side, you have to increase something on the source side.
All the current destinations consume all the current src's
Manufacturing and installing renewable energy devices would be new activities or increased activities in the bottom to pink boxes, manufacturing and transportation.
The pink boxes would get larger. It would require more source energy to fill them.
Source energy is mostly emitting
For instance, burning one gallon of diesel fuel produces roughly 22.38 pounds of CO2.
I wonder if this process consumed any diesel fuel. 🤔
About half of the people who thought up and wrote down the structure of this nation though slavery was morally justified. Ethical.
They had convinced themselves this was true.
Without slaves they would not be able to take, hold, and reduce for profit, great swaths of this, then,
2. wildly grand, undescribably productive, continent, whose owners did not have firearms.
This is called "Human nature" today, except the believers believe it is high energy machinery which makes this objective ethical.
Back then it was slaves.
Same purpose. Same *exact* purpose.
3. Without slaves, having the natural power of food grown on Earth for ourselves and animals, one family could take ownership of and control about 5 to 10 acres.
Anti-slavery Founder John Adams grew up on a prosperous 10 acre farm in New England.
If the President actually gave a fying fluck about climate change, ver 927.
If the President wanted to reduce emissions today, he would explain to the people the necessity of doing the following:
Intentionally induce a global recession or depression.
2. That the President does not want to reduce emissions today is demonstrably true.
The President has told us, among other things, that by 2030, half of all new cars will be electric.
Leaving aside the energy sources of electric generation, 2030 and Now are different.
Much.
3. The President has also said that by 2050, we will get 50% of our electricity from solar panels.
Leaving aside the energy budget for building and installing those solar panels, 2050 is, again, significantly different than Now.
He has exactly zero interest in reducing emissions.
I say the time we need to reduce our emissions is now.
I invite anyone to refute.
I say that it is inexcusable to plan a huge high emissions project to add to our already high emissions society.
I do not believe we have room to drastically increase our emissions now.
Refute.
The infrastructure project is ill-defined, but it is known that a significant portion of it is to build new highways.
Every increase in highway capacity has been immediately followed by an increase in traffic and traffic energy throughput.
Refute.
G is way too busy with all the work she does for the Humane Society of Ray County, MO. She works *way* more than 40 hours in the average week at it. She's responsible for the books, the money, and the records of animals in and out, costs, income, disposition - some always die.
She also takes the pictures that go in the animals' record that we keep, and in the folder that goes to the adopter.
She makes up the folders. Assembles them from materials from various sources. Plastic folder, care information, animal's history to the extent we know it, chip #
So the gardens had gotten away from her. Grown up in annual grasses and forbs. I don't do much close-in work, my care area is the outer lands. She does the house yard. Flowers and food. It doesn't look like a row garden. It's pretty. (I can't find the picture.)