Chris Mossison – Daily Sceptic Oct 22, 2022
Influential elites are either in denial about the horrifying costs and consequences of Net Zero – witness last Wednesday’s substantial vote against fracking British gas in the House of Commons – or busy scooping up the almost unlimited amounts of money currently on offer for promoting pseudoscience climate scares and investing in impracticable green technologies. Until the lights start to go out and heating fails, they are unlikely to pay much attention to a recent 1,000 page alternative energy investigation undertaken for a Finnish Government agency by Associate Professor Simon Michaux. Referring to the U.K.’s 2050 Net Zero target, Michaux states there is “simply not enough time, nor resources to do this by the current target”.
To cite just one example of how un-costed Net Zero is, Michaux notes that “in theory” there are enough global reserves of nickel and lithium if they are exclusively used to produce batteries for electric vehicles. But there is not enough cobalt, and more will need to be discovered. It gets much worse. All the new batteries have a useful working life of only 8-10 years, so replacements will need to be regularly produced. “This is unlikely to be practical, which suggests the whole EV battery solution may need to be re-thought and a new solution is developed that is not so mineral intensive,” he says.
All of these problems occur in finding a mass of lithium for ion batteries weighting 286.6 million tonnes. But a “power buffer” of another 2.5 billion tonnes of batteries is also required to provide a four-week back-up for intermittent wind and solar electricity power. Of course, this is simply not available from global mineral reserves, but, states Michaux, it is not clear how the buffer could be delivered with an alternative system.
Michaux sounds a clear warning message. Current expectations are that global industrial businesses will replace a complex industrial energy ecosystem that took more than a century to build. It was built with the support of the highest calorifically dense source of energy the world has ever known (oil), in cheap abundant quantities, with easily available credit and seemingly unlimited mineral resources. The replacement, he notes, needs to be done when there is comparatively very expensive energy, a fragile finance system saturated in debt and not enough minerals. Most challenging of all, it has to be done within a few decades. Based on his copious calculations, the author is of the opinion that it will not go fully “as planned”.
Last Sunday, Sir David Attenborough concluded six episodes of pseudoscientific green agitprop Frozen Planet II by demanding that the world embrace Net Zero, “no matter how challenging it may be”. Net Zero is a political command-and-control project, the full horror of which is yet to be inflicted on the general population. Michaux is quite clear what it entails: “What may be required, therefore, is a significant reduction of societal demand for all resources, of all kinds. This implies a very different social contract and a radically different system of governance to what is in place today.”
Of course, a radically different system of government is available in the People’s Republic of China, but here the position on Net Zero is a tad more nuanced. Having lifted about a billion people out of starving poverty in the last 40 years and become the workshop for an increasingly complacent western world – all powered by fossil fuel – the cause does not seem so pressing. Speaking to the Communist Party Congress earlier this week, President Xi Jinping sounded a note of caution and said “prudence” would govern China’s efforts to peak and eventually zero-out carbon emissions. All of this would be in line with the principle of “getting the new before discarding the old”.
Meanwhile, China’s coal production is reported to have reached record levels, while the Congress was told that oil and gas exploration will be expanded as part of measures to ensure “energy security”.
Michaux points out that nearly 85% of world energy comes from fossil fuel. By his calculations, the annual global capacity of non-fossil electrical power will need to quadruple to 37,670.6 TWh. In a recent report for the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), Professor Michael Kelly estimates that the U.K. electricity grid would have to expand by 2.7 times. This will involve adding capacity at eight times the rate it has been added over the last 30 years. If calculations are made for the need to rewire homes, streets, local substations and powerlines to carry the new capacity, the extra cost will be nearly £1 trillion.
In another recent GWPF paper, the energy writer John Constable warned that the European Green Deal seems all but certain to break Europe’s economic and socio-political power, “rendering it a trivial and incapable backwater, reliant on – and subservient to – superior powers”.
History provides us with many examples of weak, or weakened, tribes being overrun by stronger tribes. In the animal kingdom it is known as natural evolution. A 96-year old ‘national treasure’ preaches we have to pay any price to satisfy the new cult of the green god. Better costed and more rational views are available.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
I don’t think the idea ever was to get everybody driving cars. It was to get everybody thinking they need to switch to electric cars, Then when enough have switched so they can shut down filling stations and make internal combustion engine vehicles almost impossible to use, they’ll restrict electric car charging and for many the inconveniences and demands will make them impractical too. Then we’ll be back to the days of yore, where without horse and cart (which produce carbon too I guess) you’ll not travel far from where you were born, and few will ever travel to see their capital cities.
It’s a plan so bold I don’t think they’ll achieve it. Too many places like parliaments and banks to burn down or flood to make such administration impossible. Too many bankers and politicians to lynch to make them want to continue for long. They’re bringing us too close to 1776 America and 1789 France to want to continue on this path. Contrary to doom-mongers’ predictions we won’t bear that forever.
Significant reduction of societal demand for all resources, of all kind..
If there is no infrastructure anymore after 2022 you better cancel all orders and cease production. Enter bartersystem.
People need to understand that ‘the green agenda’ and ‘zero carbon’ is just a depopulation scam..they have no intention of allowing you to have cars or your own home or a wife and children..because they intend to murder you all and pulp you into fertilizer..using the ‘green new deal’ and ‘zero carbon’…. that is…once you have paid for and built the new ‘system’…(which unsurprisingly will look like the ‘Hunger Games’)…
they are well aware that.. for example..that to power France at current metrics with ‘renewables’ …it would actually involve covering around 90% of available land with solar panels…
So most of you have to go.. they have written the white paper to ‘prove’ it..yes yes they have..
The ‘green new deal’ or ‘sustainable living’ (for them) is merely a repackaging of the ‘communist manifest’..
Which itself is merely a blueprint for technocratic control of the Planet.. which has been dreamed about since Plato…a new Atlantis ..
Of course ‘they’ don’t intend to limit ‘their’ own consumption’s or living spaces and intend to continue flying ‘their’ jets and driving limousines and floating ‘their’ boats..
and of course breeding like the rats they are..
NB: l actually quite like ‘rats’ who are a noble.. efficient.. industrious and adaptable race of critters and by no means meant offense to our rodent brethren…
they do however have lots of ‘pups’… just like Elon MuskRat…and his ilk….
If the goyim haven’t yet figured out that net zero was never meant to work, then all the Jewish cattle prods nudging you and your transgender children into the slaughterhouse will continue. Full steam ahead!
Different storage capabilities used commercially seems inevitable,at least capacitors, crystals, etc., and then there’s hydrogen power, or, ‘other means’.
(Tesla the company ain’t Tesla the great mind) Tech is poised to provide
(((more power))).
At this rate, the fortunate among us will be relegated to getting around on horses, and taxed for any flatulence, of the horse AND rider, by the parasitic degenerates in the pseudo-government criminal cartels. Welcome to Dark Ages part II, courtesy of Shlomo and the agents of degradation and destruction in the satanic Jew tribe of homicidal maniacs and their deranged lackeys.
F*ck David Attenborough and f*ck “Net Zero”. I am for sensible usage and growth but the out-of-control climate cult has gone waaaayyyy too far. Of course, it’s not really about “saving the planet” or any of that absurd tripe. It’s about full-spectrum dominance of us by the predator class then the extermination of most people. Just following the script of Goys Must Go, the psychopathic romp courtesy of Shlomo and the Maniacal Murdering Minstrels.
That pig-f*cker Attenborough should be stripped naked, dragged through the streets by his ankles, beaten woth tire irons and cricket bats, then forced to eat a battery for an electric vehicle.
These elite idiots think reducing carbon will save the earth. Wrong. We are carbon…..all animals are carbon…..all plants are carbon and without carbon plants cannot grow and thrive. This is just another SCAM and HOAX they are perpetrating on the world like the Covid scam. You cannot have a world free of carbon period. They have the sheeple conditioned to think of this Global Warming scam and how the elites will ‘save’ them….they won’t save anyone with zero carbon unless the people are changed into robots…. Everyone stay home and work from home and eat the lawn grass is what they want. Placid slaves…..eat bugs……and be happy while they dine on steak dinners and jet around in their planes. Granted there are too many humans now but how to get rid of the excess population is their major agenda. Stopping oil production is asinine as well seeing as how many things are made with oil….lots and lots of things are oil based from our clothes, shoes, cars, all plastics….. Some folks can be bought for a few million dollars resulting in everyone else suffering their consequences…, i.e. presidents, congresscritters, etc…. Energy should be FREE….all energy free that is to everyone….not just the rich jerks.
The earth creates 790 million tons of co2 a year humans create 6.9 million tons of that less than 1percent of the co2 which is 3.8percent of greenhouse gases which are itself on
ly a part of climate variation umm..? 2+2=5
Because of the Holocaust (non-existent) and Climate Change (non-existent) and over-population (Whites already diminish fast), gov. needs to dismantle the “developed” world, meaning Whites, the only clever ones
Klaus Schwab should eventually be buried under the pile of busted stones called the Jawjuh Guidestones. Just wait and see, the fashion industry will soon be making suits that look exactly like the threads ol’ Darth currently wears. Slick is obviously handsome, as you all can see.