Administrative Statism™ - using regulation to ban disfavored technologies under false pretenses at the expense of the electorate - is dishonest and will come back to bite Democrats.
Never ending madness. The next Republican Administration needs to slash Leviathan back to the roots. I mean go from 2,200,000 employees to 400,000 maximum. Decentralize what is left by moving entire Departments to other cities. No more public sector unions. Higher qualifications (and pay) for those who are chosen to work in the government. This crap has to end.
They are driven by the desire to control every single tiny last thing in our lives. Try buying an incandescent lightbulb today. They have completely disappeared from the stores in my town and even on Amazon, they are getting harder to find. Remember when failed Pornographer Bernie Sanders was complaining that there were "too many choices of toothpaste" at Wal-Mart?
It's all about power, control, and money and it won't stop until the Administrative Act is repealed and the Administrative State is dismantled, along with all the Administrative Law, Administrative Courts, and the ability of Agencies to make law via "policy" is completely shut down. These people have taken off the gloves because their whole unconstitutional, punitive covid response has demonstrated to them that they can do what they want with absolute impunity. The only solution is to shut down their agencies and return it's denizens to the ranks of the unemployed
As said above, listen for the claim, ‘there are too many people on the planet.’ Think that nothing impoverishes people faster than denying them access to low cost energy and nothing kills people faster than being poor. The climate catastrophe crusaders see energy controls as their window of opportunity for filling graves.
We won't accuse any or all of them of seeking an opportunity to fill graves.
We wouldn't argue against the idea that controlling energy is the means by which many believe they can throttle the four preconditions we noted in our reply to James below. And industrialization, population growth, conspicuous consumption, high energy consumption living standards, etc.
It's a dogs breakfast of ignorance, good intentions, malevolence, political power, other.
You're right, my statement reads like a blanket accusation. I'll say it would more accurately reflect my view as a question, 'How many of the climate crusaders...."and end with the phrase, " as so many of their eugenic compatriots have endorsed?
The bottom line is we have a Progressive Administration that doesn't believe in the free market system or the Constitution and they will not change. I pray that change will come by voting them out.
Thanks. We're glad you found us. Welcome. Saw your profile. Note the world's poor suffering the worst consequences of all this - domestically and in the developing world - is a serious matter for us and we note it regularly.
Excellent column and I applaud the authors for their sober approach to these issues. I'd like to turn the attention to a study published by the Geological Survey of Finland titled "Assessment of the Extra Capacity Required of Alternative Energy Electrical Power Systems to Completely Replace Fossil Fuels" in 2021. It is very detailed and looks at this issue from the bottom up, rather than unicorn edicts from high above. In every scenario, the researchers show the impossibility of the "green" goals as set out by the current admins in the U.S., EU, UN, and WEF. Their final conclusion given in the executive summary is very worrisome and reminds me of the warning President Eisenhower gave to us in his farewell address regarding the grave concern regarding the potential for a "scientific-technological elite" that would hijack public policy:
"In conclusion, this report suggests that replacing the existing fossil fuel powered system (oil, gas, and coal), using renewable technologies, such as solar panels or wind turbines, will not be possible for the entire global human population. There is simply just not enough time, nor resources to do this by the current target set by the World’s most influential nations. 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. Inevitably, this leads to the conclusion that the existing renewable energy sectors and the EV technology systems are merely steppingstones to something else, rather than the final solution. It is recommended that some thought be given to this and what that something else might be."
I wish I could bold the warning: "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."
While we'd love to write an entire piece on Michaux's work (we may some day), we noted it in this post, in a manner we hoped would convey the message succinctly (see "Heavy Metal" near end...)> https://envmental.substack.com/p/sustainabilchemy
We first discovered Simon in summer 2022. If you're interested, this YouTube video is superb>
(if you type 2400 before the "s" at end of URL above, it takes you to the money shot, in our opinion. That's where the table in our piece above comes from...)
The rabbit holes in his work and what they shed light on are sobering. Of the 8 billion people on earth, ~7.9 billion don't have the foggiest clue about these matters.
I haven't really analyzed Michaux's work on Renewables, which sounds like it may be accurate, but his work on Nuclear is utter nonsense and obviously dishonest and contrived. This grifter claims Nuclear EROI is 5:1, that so ridiculous that you have to question everything the man says.
Here is an analysis by Cal Abel, putting EROI for Advanced Nuclear (reprocessing) with a Closed Fuel Cycle at up to 9000:1. He's putting CANDU's at over 300:1 in spite of their low uranium utilization efficiency of 0.85%. But they don't need to enrich.
India is switching to a closed fuel cycle using Fast Breeder Reactors and CANDU type PHWRs. Ultimately ran off of thorium.
Weissbach puts the EROI of a GenII PWR @ 70:1 for a 60yr lifespan. 61% of the input energy is spent on the fuel cycle. Going closed cycle could eliminate almost all of that.
And then Michaux claims: "...We already discussed the uranium question and found that it was not possible to transition the world to 100% nuclear power without exhausting literally every possible source of uranium by year 2095 with Gen. II reactors, by year 2101 with Gen. III+ reactors, or by year 2194 with unproven and conceptual Gen. IV reactors..."
He doesn't have a clue. Just the land resources of thorium & uranium in a closed fuel cycle would easily last us a 100Myrs at current rates of World energy consumption.
"...IFR-type reactors extract 99.99% of the energy immanent in mined uranium but today's reactors extract only 0.6%. The price of uranium would contribute the same amount to the delivered electricity price from IFR-type reactors if it were to increase 167 fold. Uranium could be economically extracted from lower quality ores, or from seawater, where there is estimated to be at least a thousand times more than could be extracted from land. Another low-quality ore is coal-fired power plant waste, which contains nineteen times more energy in the form of uranium and thorium than was extracted by burning the coal. Thorium, four times more common than uranium, can be converted to fissile fuel by neutron transmutation in a fast-spectrum reactor...Nuclear fission is an effectively inexhaustible source of energy..."
And as for his "...unproven and conceptual Gen. IV reactors...", they are already running. He doesn't know what he is talking about.
Russia has been running their BN-800 sodium fast reactor since 2016 and their BN-600 since 1981 and is planning on building 3 BN-1200's and China is currently building 2 CFR-600 Sodium Fast reactors. Russia is planning on closing the fuel cycle with BN-1200's on their PWR's and expect the BN-1200's to be lower cost than their LWR's. India is just about finished their first Sodium Fast reactor and is also planning on closing their fuel cycle with their 500MWe fast reactors and PHWR-700 reactors eventually running on natural thorium.
It also requires a significant reduction in the Earths population. They hate people. China has already claimed they will eliminate all Christians. It is not likely they will stop with the Christians, they will likely move mon to other religions.
Haber-Bosch, the industrial process that renders ammonia-based fertilizers from natural gas, is responsible for a) about 1-2% of global CO2 emissions and b) feeding about 50% of humanity (or, as some say, about 50% of the nitrogen molecules in the 8 billion people on earth, from a mass balance perspective).
Kill Haber-Bosch and you reduce a large stationary source of CO2 emissions, nitrogen......(and, people....).
If they really cared about CO2 & Nitrogen emissions from agriculture they wouldn't be promoting, mandating and heavily subsidizing absolutely nutty agrofuels, worst of which are soybean biodiesel & corn ethanol. 40% of the USA corn crop by 2015. They take more fossil inputs than they replace in fuel. Overall every gallon of agrofuels used INCREASES emissions over using the replaced gasoline or diesel fuel. And they are just doubling down on that insanity. It tells you what their REAL motives are.
Just another study, showing us the truth about agrofuels:
America Was Wrong About Ethanol - Study Shows, Engineering Explained:
They do not care about CO2 emissions. The US has reduced ours by using natural gas while China has increased theirs by building coal plants. Our economy will be destroyed while China's will prosper by selling us useless solar panels.
They care about destroying the US economy and promoting the interests of China. In as much as China is a self declared enemy of the US, does not that make them traitors?
It's pretty obvious by now that is the agenda of the Ruling Overlords. Severe restriction on human freedom and consumption by making basic things like a single family dwelling (i.e. suburban) heat & appliances, personal transportation and air travel too expensive for the poor & middle class. Those items strictly for the Ruling Class & their minions. And to add misery to madness hyper-inflation in food prices (esp "luxury" items like meat, fish or dairy), electricity prices (so even if you can afford a heat pump or BEV you won't be able to afford to operate them much) and fuel prices. The Malthusian Agenda of the Feudal Overlords.
According to the USDA and other sources, it's already begun... some due to war, some due to weather, much in our opinion due to ignorant and/or malevolent environmental and energy policy. If "malevolent" is too strong for some, we direct them to Sri Lanka.
I'm not sure they really care. These Psycho Creeps living on their giant mansions in Europe & America are far removed from that chaos. They seem to enjoy it. They sure like starting terrible, destructive wars. They have been deliberately provoking social breakdown in Western nations. Sounds like they are creating a setup for an in-your-face military style Police State Tyranny coup. "It will only be temporary to alleviate the violence & chaos though".
Thank you for this article. Well researched and well written. I wish I knew how to get this kind of factual reminder of the importance of energy and free markets to the masses. I will post this as a reference on my Blog as a start. Keep up the great work!
Never ending madness. The next Republican Administration needs to slash Leviathan back to the roots. I mean go from 2,200,000 employees to 400,000 maximum. Decentralize what is left by moving entire Departments to other cities. No more public sector unions. Higher qualifications (and pay) for those who are chosen to work in the government. This crap has to end.
They are driven by the desire to control every single tiny last thing in our lives. Try buying an incandescent lightbulb today. They have completely disappeared from the stores in my town and even on Amazon, they are getting harder to find. Remember when failed Pornographer Bernie Sanders was complaining that there were "too many choices of toothpaste" at Wal-Mart?
It's all about power, control, and money and it won't stop until the Administrative Act is repealed and the Administrative State is dismantled, along with all the Administrative Law, Administrative Courts, and the ability of Agencies to make law via "policy" is completely shut down. These people have taken off the gloves because their whole unconstitutional, punitive covid response has demonstrated to them that they can do what they want with absolute impunity. The only solution is to shut down their agencies and return it's denizens to the ranks of the unemployed
Yes
By bringing attention to these issues, you are doing a good thing. In the future, I hope we can influence some of the problems.
As said above, listen for the claim, ‘there are too many people on the planet.’ Think that nothing impoverishes people faster than denying them access to low cost energy and nothing kills people faster than being poor. The climate catastrophe crusaders see energy controls as their window of opportunity for filling graves.
We won't accuse any or all of them of seeking an opportunity to fill graves.
We wouldn't argue against the idea that controlling energy is the means by which many believe they can throttle the four preconditions we noted in our reply to James below. And industrialization, population growth, conspicuous consumption, high energy consumption living standards, etc.
It's a dogs breakfast of ignorance, good intentions, malevolence, political power, other.
You're right, my statement reads like a blanket accusation. I'll say it would more accurately reflect my view as a question, 'How many of the climate crusaders...."and end with the phrase, " as so many of their eugenic compatriots have endorsed?
Poor Jill Biden will have to give up that gas stove. Excuse me, DOCTOR Biden.
Grandfathered.....
The bottom line is we have a Progressive Administration that doesn't believe in the free market system or the Constitution and they will not change. I pray that change will come by voting them out.
We believe that the preconditions for human prosperity include, at bare minimum:
The rule of law
Property rights
Free markets (which is not to say "no regulation whatsoever".)
Keeping corruption in check
Affordable, reliable, high-quality, abundant, on-demand electricity and transport fuels
How are we doing on all these fronts in the developed world?
Every one you listed is under assault. Blatantly.
Yes, and those who agree have to remain silent or risk being canceled.
Breathtaking essay. It will be a heavy lift to get the Pavlovian citizenship to read this!
Grateful for the compliment. We're trying to constantly improve.
Good stuff! New subscriber here and glad I found you.
Thanks. We're glad you found us. Welcome. Saw your profile. Note the world's poor suffering the worst consequences of all this - domestically and in the developing world - is a serious matter for us and we note it regularly.
Thank you. It is a significant issue.
Excellent column and I applaud the authors for their sober approach to these issues. I'd like to turn the attention to a study published by the Geological Survey of Finland titled "Assessment of the Extra Capacity Required of Alternative Energy Electrical Power Systems to Completely Replace Fossil Fuels" in 2021. It is very detailed and looks at this issue from the bottom up, rather than unicorn edicts from high above. In every scenario, the researchers show the impossibility of the "green" goals as set out by the current admins in the U.S., EU, UN, and WEF. Their final conclusion given in the executive summary is very worrisome and reminds me of the warning President Eisenhower gave to us in his farewell address regarding the grave concern regarding the potential for a "scientific-technological elite" that would hijack public policy:
"In conclusion, this report suggests that replacing the existing fossil fuel powered system (oil, gas, and coal), using renewable technologies, such as solar panels or wind turbines, will not be possible for the entire global human population. There is simply just not enough time, nor resources to do this by the current target set by the World’s most influential nations. 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. Inevitably, this leads to the conclusion that the existing renewable energy sectors and the EV technology systems are merely steppingstones to something else, rather than the final solution. It is recommended that some thought be given to this and what that something else might be."
https://tupa.gtk.fi/raportti/arkisto/42_2021.pdf
I wish I could bold the warning: "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."
While we'd love to write an entire piece on Michaux's work (we may some day), we noted it in this post, in a manner we hoped would convey the message succinctly (see "Heavy Metal" near end...)> https://envmental.substack.com/p/sustainabilchemy
We first discovered Simon in summer 2022. If you're interested, this YouTube video is superb>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBVmnKuBocc&t=1s
(if you type 2400 before the "s" at end of URL above, it takes you to the money shot, in our opinion. That's where the table in our piece above comes from...)
The rabbit holes in his work and what they shed light on are sobering. Of the 8 billion people on earth, ~7.9 billion don't have the foggiest clue about these matters.
I haven't really analyzed Michaux's work on Renewables, which sounds like it may be accurate, but his work on Nuclear is utter nonsense and obviously dishonest and contrived. This grifter claims Nuclear EROI is 5:1, that so ridiculous that you have to question everything the man says.
Here is an analysis by Cal Abel, putting EROI for Advanced Nuclear (reprocessing) with a Closed Fuel Cycle at up to 9000:1. He's putting CANDU's at over 300:1 in spite of their low uranium utilization efficiency of 0.85%. But they don't need to enrich.
India is switching to a closed fuel cycle using Fast Breeder Reactors and CANDU type PHWRs. Ultimately ran off of thorium.
Dr. Abel Explains the Energy - Life Connection:
https://bfrandall.substack.com/p/dr-abel-explains-the-energy-life
Weissbach puts the EROI of a GenII PWR @ 70:1 for a 60yr lifespan. 61% of the input energy is spent on the fuel cycle. Going closed cycle could eliminate almost all of that.
https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/energy-and-the-environment/energy-return-on-investment.aspx
And then Michaux claims: "...We already discussed the uranium question and found that it was not possible to transition the world to 100% nuclear power without exhausting literally every possible source of uranium by year 2095 with Gen. II reactors, by year 2101 with Gen. III+ reactors, or by year 2194 with unproven and conceptual Gen. IV reactors..."
He doesn't have a clue. Just the land resources of thorium & uranium in a closed fuel cycle would easily last us a 100Myrs at current rates of World energy consumption.
See:
https://vsnyder.substack.com/p/five-myths-about-nuclear-power
"...IFR-type reactors extract 99.99% of the energy immanent in mined uranium but today's reactors extract only 0.6%. The price of uranium would contribute the same amount to the delivered electricity price from IFR-type reactors if it were to increase 167 fold. Uranium could be economically extracted from lower quality ores, or from seawater, where there is estimated to be at least a thousand times more than could be extracted from land. Another low-quality ore is coal-fired power plant waste, which contains nineteen times more energy in the form of uranium and thorium than was extracted by burning the coal. Thorium, four times more common than uranium, can be converted to fissile fuel by neutron transmutation in a fast-spectrum reactor...Nuclear fission is an effectively inexhaustible source of energy..."
And as for his "...unproven and conceptual Gen. IV reactors...", they are already running. He doesn't know what he is talking about.
Russia has been running their BN-800 sodium fast reactor since 2016 and their BN-600 since 1981 and is planning on building 3 BN-1200's and China is currently building 2 CFR-600 Sodium Fast reactors. Russia is planning on closing the fuel cycle with BN-1200's on their PWR's and expect the BN-1200's to be lower cost than their LWR's. India is just about finished their first Sodium Fast reactor and is also planning on closing their fuel cycle with their 500MWe fast reactors and PHWR-700 reactors eventually running on natural thorium.
Excellent! Thank you!
It also requires a significant reduction in the Earths population. They hate people. China has already claimed they will eliminate all Christians. It is not likely they will stop with the Christians, they will likely move mon to other religions.
Haber-Bosch, the industrial process that renders ammonia-based fertilizers from natural gas, is responsible for a) about 1-2% of global CO2 emissions and b) feeding about 50% of humanity (or, as some say, about 50% of the nitrogen molecules in the 8 billion people on earth, from a mass balance perspective).
Kill Haber-Bosch and you reduce a large stationary source of CO2 emissions, nitrogen......(and, people....).
Tell the people advocating for this "YOU FIRST".
If they really cared about CO2 & Nitrogen emissions from agriculture they wouldn't be promoting, mandating and heavily subsidizing absolutely nutty agrofuels, worst of which are soybean biodiesel & corn ethanol. 40% of the USA corn crop by 2015. They take more fossil inputs than they replace in fuel. Overall every gallon of agrofuels used INCREASES emissions over using the replaced gasoline or diesel fuel. And they are just doubling down on that insanity. It tells you what their REAL motives are.
Just another study, showing us the truth about agrofuels:
America Was Wrong About Ethanol - Study Shows, Engineering Explained:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-yDKeya4SU&t=21s
They do not care about CO2 emissions. The US has reduced ours by using natural gas while China has increased theirs by building coal plants. Our economy will be destroyed while China's will prosper by selling us useless solar panels.
Affirmative on gas booze and food in engines not stomachs.
(We have a story coming soon about a new genius carbon sequestration scheme you won't believe. )
They care about destroying the US economy and promoting the interests of China. In as much as China is a self declared enemy of the US, does not that make them traitors?
It's pretty obvious by now that is the agenda of the Ruling Overlords. Severe restriction on human freedom and consumption by making basic things like a single family dwelling (i.e. suburban) heat & appliances, personal transportation and air travel too expensive for the poor & middle class. Those items strictly for the Ruling Class & their minions. And to add misery to madness hyper-inflation in food prices (esp "luxury" items like meat, fish or dairy), electricity prices (so even if you can afford a heat pump or BEV you won't be able to afford to operate them much) and fuel prices. The Malthusian Agenda of the Feudal Overlords.
The MAFO. Kinda catchy.
Hunger Games, here we come.
According to the USDA and other sources, it's already begun... some due to war, some due to weather, much in our opinion due to ignorant and/or malevolent environmental and energy policy. If "malevolent" is too strong for some, we direct them to Sri Lanka.
https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2022/november/global-food-insecurity-grows-in-2022-amid-backdrop-of-higher-prices-black-sea-conflict/#:~:text=Overall%2C%20the%20number%20of%20food,%2C%20from%20ERS'%202021%20estimate.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/10/1129522
https://www.fao.org/3/cc0639en/online/sofi-2022/food-security-nutrition-indicators.html
Sri Lanka is a real-time, real-life example of what can go wrong with poorly conceived public policies.
Indeed. And a highly organic one at that.....
Heh.
I'm not sure they really care. These Psycho Creeps living on their giant mansions in Europe & America are far removed from that chaos. They seem to enjoy it. They sure like starting terrible, destructive wars. They have been deliberately provoking social breakdown in Western nations. Sounds like they are creating a setup for an in-your-face military style Police State Tyranny coup. "It will only be temporary to alleviate the violence & chaos though".
Thank you for this article. Well researched and well written. I wish I knew how to get this kind of factual reminder of the importance of energy and free markets to the masses. I will post this as a reference on my Blog as a start. Keep up the great work!
You're welcome. Thanks for the compliment!