Something in this article caught my eye.
This quote:
3. Donald Trump in his most outrageous moment has never told a lie to equal this quote.
Never.
4. In an ideal world, highly paid thought leaders operate on the assumption that the laws of thermodynamics apply equally everywhere at all times.
We know where we get our energy, and we know where it goes.
If "the economy rebounds" more work is done on more materials using
5. more energy.
I got referred to, I believe, as a "country bumpkin". I have no formal education.
If there is a means by which work can be done without transferring energy into matter somebody let me know. I'm listening.
If we have energy sources that Lawrence Livermore Labs
6. Doesn't know about let them and me know. We're all listening.
If our economy is going to rebound in transportation, commerce, industry, or residential, it will require more energy.
Here's where it comes from.
Why do we let these educated people talk nonsense to us?
7. There has come to be this disconnect in all parts of the public conversation where we separate the things we want to do from the things we have to power them with.
We use words like "transition" to "renewables."
The proper term is "build and install."
We can't "transition."
8. They don't exist. Nobody ever made them. They're not out there.
That's why all the good parts don't start for 30 years.
During that 30 years we're building all that crap.
Using mostly fossil fuels because THEY'RE ALL WE HAVE.
Our economy is powered by fossil fuel.
In order to increase this economy based on this model we have to increase emissions.
I cannot express the extent of intellectual dishonesty inherent in that original quote. There is no known universe in which her "ideal world" could exist.
10. Every single new job "created" by the Biden Administration is fossil fuel powered.
One more job is one more emissions.
Two more jobs are two more emissions.
One new factory order is one more emissions.
When do we quit lying to ourselves?
Ever?
Energy is absolutely zero sum.
11. Energy can be neither created nor destroyed.
Energy cannot be created in an advertising agency.
In an ideal world the people of developed societies would not be blathered meaningless happy talk about energy free economies by highly paid certified experts.
I'm sick of liars.
Just as a PS -
We could create jobs that weren't fossil fuel powered. It would be easy.
We don't want to.

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