As I just found you -- I thought that I would offer the following facts concerning the present day "profit's first / the electric bill payer will pick up the tab" way of electric power "business".
A Nikola Tesla based / US invented / US developed and successful professional laboratory tested / US Patented / solid-state electric power supply - that can be installed:
--- "at" any "stationary" site or "movable" vehicle;
--- continuously / "electronically developing" all of the clean electricity required "for" that site or vehicle:
--- for as long as is required "by" that site or vehicle:
is available -- but it's going to Europe first - as the US has boycotted it.
It is named the "POD MOD" - standing for "P"ower "O"n "D"emand "MOD"ule.
Before you yell -"that's impossible" - let me let you in on an "inconvenient fact": We, the World, have been using that very same electric circuitry; the very same way as found in this power supply:
--- as the radio station to radio station tuning circuitry" found in every AM or FM radio manufactured since Tesla invented the radio and applied for his US Patent:
--- on Mar. 20th. 1900
--- over 124 years ago.
I just figured out "how to put that circuitry "on steroids" - so that it could continuously develop commercial sized electric power.
How does it work?
First - two facts:
1.) the Science of Classic Physics, based on centuries of previous test results - and way before Tesla started his seminal work on AC power - stated it's position that:
--- "...no power supply can produce more output power than input power... ...inferring that "over-unity power production" was impossible.
It got the "substance" of the position correct - but the verbiage chosen was totally incorrect.
Had it been stated that:
--- "...no power supply can develop more power than it is physically and electrically capable of producing..." - both the statement and the position would have been correct.
But they didn't (and still haven't) and the result was that:
--- we, the world - just didn't look for an alternative power source.
--- with the result that we are not working to try and correct the Global Warming / Climate Change disaster we have created by continuously burning fossil-based fuels to produce electricity and power vehicles.
Back to the circuitry.
It's called a "tank circuit" - and when, in a radio's tuning circuitry, or in the POD MOD - when the radio is tuned to a specific radio station - which is - the circuitry creates two operating conditions:
1.) the power level "connected to the resonating tank circuit" - ALWAYS "electrically reduces that input power level - to it's:
--- "... absolute minimum power level..."
2.) simultaneously - the resonating tank circuit - ALWAYS develops, in the tank circuit itself; it's:
--- "...absolute maximum power level...".
3.) the "developed power" to "input power" ratio -- is ALWAYS "more than '1' " - with "1" signifying "unity".
So simply stated - a resonant tank circuit - always operates "over-unity" - not getting even close to any Laws of Physics / 2nd Law of Thermodynamics / Conservation of Energy Theory / "Perpetual Motion / or Sustained Action.
I can supply all of the validating documentation if you would like -- just email me an email address to scotsman7@comcast.net and I'll get it to you -- because there is a lot more where this came from.
I had an epiphany last month when I discovered Doomberg. I'm happy I found you too. The world needs more cool heads that don't deny climate change, but just ask for a calculated approach.
First, I'd like to thank evironMENTAL for subscribing to my own collection of Substack essays. I've been on the platform since December 26, 2022 and the collection of writers (Doomberg, Roberty Bryce, environMENTAL, etc.) dealing with topics at the intersection of energy, environment, and economics is first rate. My goal for 2024 is to continue to contribute to this effort, and to entertain along the way.
Just discovered this wonderful stack. Great to see, as Roger Scruton observed, that environmental matters are not the sole preserve of the political Left - and never have solely been.
New subscriber but love y’all’s content. I would love to see y’all do a Bitcoin and energy article. I know the Bitcoin culture can be a bit toxic but beyond the trolls there are many engineers, financial gurus, entrepreneurs, etc. who have made strong cases for its continued growth and development. Ironically, these groups of people brought me to Substack through Doomberg.
Such great work you’re doing, keep shining the disinfectant of light on the dark visions the ecology movement has descended into. I’m a retired physician and depressed at the harm DEI (Discrimination, Exclusion, and Indoctrination ) is doing to corrupt the compassionate delivery of medical care. I have cut off all giving to my undergraduate and medical school and told the schools the reason ....they could care less. But I have to stand up for what I believe is right. However I am heartened at efforts people like you are making for a science-based, economically-sound, human- flourishing approach to energy policy. Substack is an oasis of sanity in sea of depraved dying legacy media outlets. Where else could I find such luminaries as yourself, Robert Bryce, Robert Pielke, Alex Epstein, The Free Press, Doomberg, Michael Schellenberg? Let us hope you can persuade many more minds in 2024!
Congratulations on your first year of publications. Like you, Doomberg has been a favourite read and others like Kuppy (KEDM) and Roger Pielke Jr. and lately Robert Bryce have been enlightening. I enjoy your perspective and try to share it with my friends -- some of whom actually appreciate a new view on what, here in Canada, would seem to be heresy. Keep up the good work!
Love your country. Not so much Montreal, Toronto/Ottawa, and Vancouver.
"Our people" lie in the prairie region from Delta Marsh Manitoba through central SK up into the northern Peace River country of AB. Salt of the earth. Mom's mom was from Winnipeg.
I was wondering just the other day if anyone like yourself has done an analysis of Tesla's Master Plan Part 3? I most certainly could have missed it, so it may exist. It basically starts out with "The Plan to Eliminate Fossil Fuels" and goes on from there. I saw no mention of nuclear. Would love to hear counter arguments to what they published:
"We quickly found that as mediocre as we are at writing, we’re even worse at marketing and social media."
Au contraire! It was one year ago yesterday that I posted my first comment to your writing, and you have only gotten better. You have done a splendid job fleshing out some of the most important things affecting our environment. Please, keep up the good work, and Happy New Year!
Looking back on that comment, we have more work to do. But the closing of Our Message to COP28 noting the "Green Elephant in the room" was driving at it.
More to come on..... Thanks for being along for the ride from the start!
Keep up the good work, environMENTAL! The best way to expose the Marxist ideology you mention is to shine a light where it hides in the dark. I have covered "The Ideology that Captured Our Culture" in my "2026" Substack at https://2026.substack.com/p/the-ideology-that-captured-our-culture
A U.S. presidential election. Watching the experiment in Argentina. China using the advantage the west handed to it with wind, solar and rare earth metals. Europeans starting to awaken to the green absurdity. A UN FCCC COP conference at which 20 nations committed to tripling nuclear power by 2050 (they won't, but the direction is positive). Greta Thunberg, Gore, Kerry and other Priests becoming increasingly irrelevant. SE Asia, having learned from EU's self-inflicted debacle in summer 2022, prioritizing energy security (fool me once, shame on you, there will be no fooling me twice. Send the coal barges).
Thank you environMENTAL team. Thank you for your clarity, wisdom and courageous hearts. Thanks for looking after the disempowered and for bringing back into focus the real environmental movement that has been shoved under the rug almost completely. Happy New Year 🎊. I look forward to your notes in 2024.
Thank your for your important additions to this discussion, and for providing a source of information that is not tainted by the poor understanding of science that is prevalent in the mainstream media (have any mainstream media "environmental" reporters even taken a science class after high school?) As someone who has spent a long career in the energy industry (with an advanced degree in geoscience), I have grown frustrated by the poor level of understanding coming out of the universities, and have grown weary of trying to educate new hires on this subject, As an example, they seem horrified by methane emissions, and even CO2. I have grown weary of explaining that natural methane emissions likely far exceed industry emissions, and that these are unmeasured. I have grown weary of explaining the half-life of methane in the atmosphere. I have grown weary of trying to explain why I don't believe Net Zero is either economically worthwhile or achievable (and why I believe CO2 sequestration will not change the climate), and grow tired of trying to convince them that the oil industry is not in a sunset phase. It will likely become more technical, more profitable, and continue to exist long after these new hires retire. Yet I see many of them discouraged and leaving the industry after a few years, likely for lower paying jobs that have even less influence on the things they are concerned about. We need voices like yours to provide a balance, indeed to provide a sane look at the false crisis that is actually responsible for a huge increase in quality of life for much of the world.
At one time I believed that the shale revolution could bring about an economic revolution for the third word, undeveloped countries, and I worked toward that aim. If many of these second and third world countries could now access cheap natural gas, they could in turn electrify and industrialize their economies. The people I met that lived in grass huts and herded goats to subsist, might actually be able to have a better way of life (and likely double the lifespan they have now). People in Eastern European countries that subsist on jobs paying $100 a week, despite having college degrees, might actually become well-paid engineers instead of jobs like gardeners and security guards. Farmers in those countries might actually be able to double or triple their crop yields by using fertilizer made from natural gas. But fear of frac'ing created by false narratives, and even paid protestors, convinced many leaders that they should never allow the resources they control to ever be utilized (e.g. Colombia has resources comparable to the Eagle Ford Shale that they refuse to let be drilled and now the national Colombian oil company is forced to drill in the United States). Argentina may finally become the next example of what shale can provide, but most of Africa, even India, have still been bypassed for political, not resource, reasons. I found myself concentrating on US shale where at least it is still considered a useful resource. But the same shift of the paradigm that has again made the United States the largest producer of oil and gas in the world (after many told us we had reached Peak Oil and would never find either new natural gas sources or oil sources), has failed to materialize in most of the world where it would have made the most change and been most beneficial.
We understand that weariness. We've also have direct knowledge that our work has reached a few of those new hires and had some effect. We have to start somewhere.
We're optimistic about shale gas in the developing world still over the long haul. As Doomberg says so eloquently, "in the battle between physics and platitudes, physics is undefeated".
As I just found you -- I thought that I would offer the following facts concerning the present day "profit's first / the electric bill payer will pick up the tab" way of electric power "business".
A Nikola Tesla based / US invented / US developed and successful professional laboratory tested / US Patented / solid-state electric power supply - that can be installed:
--- "at" any "stationary" site or "movable" vehicle;
--- continuously / "electronically developing" all of the clean electricity required "for" that site or vehicle:
--- for as long as is required "by" that site or vehicle:
is available -- but it's going to Europe first - as the US has boycotted it.
It is named the "POD MOD" - standing for "P"ower "O"n "D"emand "MOD"ule.
Before you yell -"that's impossible" - let me let you in on an "inconvenient fact": We, the World, have been using that very same electric circuitry; the very same way as found in this power supply:
--- as the radio station to radio station tuning circuitry" found in every AM or FM radio manufactured since Tesla invented the radio and applied for his US Patent:
--- on Mar. 20th. 1900
--- over 124 years ago.
I just figured out "how to put that circuitry "on steroids" - so that it could continuously develop commercial sized electric power.
How does it work?
First - two facts:
1.) the Science of Classic Physics, based on centuries of previous test results - and way before Tesla started his seminal work on AC power - stated it's position that:
--- "...no power supply can produce more output power than input power... ...inferring that "over-unity power production" was impossible.
It got the "substance" of the position correct - but the verbiage chosen was totally incorrect.
Had it been stated that:
--- "...no power supply can develop more power than it is physically and electrically capable of producing..." - both the statement and the position would have been correct.
But they didn't (and still haven't) and the result was that:
--- we, the world - just didn't look for an alternative power source.
--- with the result that we are not working to try and correct the Global Warming / Climate Change disaster we have created by continuously burning fossil-based fuels to produce electricity and power vehicles.
Back to the circuitry.
It's called a "tank circuit" - and when, in a radio's tuning circuitry, or in the POD MOD - when the radio is tuned to a specific radio station - which is - the circuitry creates two operating conditions:
1.) the power level "connected to the resonating tank circuit" - ALWAYS "electrically reduces that input power level - to it's:
--- "... absolute minimum power level..."
2.) simultaneously - the resonating tank circuit - ALWAYS develops, in the tank circuit itself; it's:
--- "...absolute maximum power level...".
3.) the "developed power" to "input power" ratio -- is ALWAYS "more than '1' " - with "1" signifying "unity".
So simply stated - a resonant tank circuit - always operates "over-unity" - not getting even close to any Laws of Physics / 2nd Law of Thermodynamics / Conservation of Energy Theory / "Perpetual Motion / or Sustained Action.
I can supply all of the validating documentation if you would like -- just email me an email address to scotsman7@comcast.net and I'll get it to you -- because there is a lot more where this came from.
Scott McKie / The POD MOD Project
I had an epiphany last month when I discovered Doomberg. I'm happy I found you too. The world needs more cool heads that don't deny climate change, but just ask for a calculated approach.
First, I'd like to thank evironMENTAL for subscribing to my own collection of Substack essays. I've been on the platform since December 26, 2022 and the collection of writers (Doomberg, Roberty Bryce, environMENTAL, etc.) dealing with topics at the intersection of energy, environment, and economics is first rate. My goal for 2024 is to continue to contribute to this effort, and to entertain along the way.
You're welcome, and we're not sure what took us so long to find you, Trevor!
Very kind of you but overly generous to compare our fermenting little grape with the world class vintages with which you listed us..... ;)
Just discovered this wonderful stack. Great to see, as Roger Scruton observed, that environmental matters are not the sole preserve of the political Left - and never have solely been.
Thank you and welcome!
New subscriber but love y’all’s content. I would love to see y’all do a Bitcoin and energy article. I know the Bitcoin culture can be a bit toxic but beyond the trolls there are many engineers, financial gurus, entrepreneurs, etc. who have made strong cases for its continued growth and development. Ironically, these groups of people brought me to Substack through Doomberg.
Thanks! Not much interested in the subject thus far, but have an eye on it.
Please keep posting. Yours is one of the few substacks I read and I look forward to more articles.
Thanks for the kind compliment. Don't worry, we're not going anywhere!
Such great work you’re doing, keep shining the disinfectant of light on the dark visions the ecology movement has descended into. I’m a retired physician and depressed at the harm DEI (Discrimination, Exclusion, and Indoctrination ) is doing to corrupt the compassionate delivery of medical care. I have cut off all giving to my undergraduate and medical school and told the schools the reason ....they could care less. But I have to stand up for what I believe is right. However I am heartened at efforts people like you are making for a science-based, economically-sound, human- flourishing approach to energy policy. Substack is an oasis of sanity in sea of depraved dying legacy media outlets. Where else could I find such luminaries as yourself, Robert Bryce, Robert Pielke, Alex Epstein, The Free Press, Doomberg, Michael Schellenberg? Let us hope you can persuade many more minds in 2024!
Thanks for the kind words and for putting us in some fine company for a new kid on the block!
We have the same list, you and I :)
Love them all. Might add David Blackmon to your group. 🙂
Thanks! Need to check out that site.
Congratulations on your first year of publications. Like you, Doomberg has been a favourite read and others like Kuppy (KEDM) and Roger Pielke Jr. and lately Robert Bryce have been enlightening. I enjoy your perspective and try to share it with my friends -- some of whom actually appreciate a new view on what, here in Canada, would seem to be heresy. Keep up the good work!
Thanks!
Love your country. Not so much Montreal, Toronto/Ottawa, and Vancouver.
"Our people" lie in the prairie region from Delta Marsh Manitoba through central SK up into the northern Peace River country of AB. Salt of the earth. Mom's mom was from Winnipeg.
I was wondering just the other day if anyone like yourself has done an analysis of Tesla's Master Plan Part 3? I most certainly could have missed it, so it may exist. It basically starts out with "The Plan to Eliminate Fossil Fuels" and goes on from there. I saw no mention of nuclear. Would love to hear counter arguments to what they published:
https://www.tesla.com/ns_videos/Tesla-Master-Plan-Part-3.pdf
Full disclosure.....I'm admittedly not a fan of the company's bizarre cult members who populate X and YouTube. I'll leave it at that.
When we glanced at the deck upon its release we don't recall seeing enough detail to bother to analyze it. Maybe we'll double back.
"We quickly found that as mediocre as we are at writing, we’re even worse at marketing and social media."
Au contraire! It was one year ago yesterday that I posted my first comment to your writing, and you have only gotten better. You have done a splendid job fleshing out some of the most important things affecting our environment. Please, keep up the good work, and Happy New Year!
Awfully kind. Thank you.
Looking back on that comment, we have more work to do. But the closing of Our Message to COP28 noting the "Green Elephant in the room" was driving at it.
More to come on..... Thanks for being along for the ride from the start!
Keep up the good work, environMENTAL! The best way to expose the Marxist ideology you mention is to shine a light where it hides in the dark. I have covered "The Ideology that Captured Our Culture" in my "2026" Substack at https://2026.substack.com/p/the-ideology-that-captured-our-culture
It's getting harder and harder for them to blend in to, and commandeer, the environmental movement.
They're still 0 for ___ defeating physics. Remember, they made this POS > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No1-4GsQa-g
excited to see what 2024 brings
A U.S. presidential election. Watching the experiment in Argentina. China using the advantage the west handed to it with wind, solar and rare earth metals. Europeans starting to awaken to the green absurdity. A UN FCCC COP conference at which 20 nations committed to tripling nuclear power by 2050 (they won't, but the direction is positive). Greta Thunberg, Gore, Kerry and other Priests becoming increasingly irrelevant. SE Asia, having learned from EU's self-inflicted debacle in summer 2022, prioritizing energy security (fool me once, shame on you, there will be no fooling me twice. Send the coal barges).
What's not to like?
Cheers! ;)
Keep it up!
Here’s to another year!
Thanks! Keep chopping, the Green Bean Stalk is wobbly.....
Typo
We will authentically stive for continual improvement. We are not publishing for quantity to feed rankings or algorithms.
Strive
Yikes! Authentic error! Corrected. Thank you!
Thank you environMENTAL team. Thank you for your clarity, wisdom and courageous hearts. Thanks for looking after the disempowered and for bringing back into focus the real environmental movement that has been shoved under the rug almost completely. Happy New Year 🎊. I look forward to your notes in 2024.
Thanks!
Thank your for your important additions to this discussion, and for providing a source of information that is not tainted by the poor understanding of science that is prevalent in the mainstream media (have any mainstream media "environmental" reporters even taken a science class after high school?) As someone who has spent a long career in the energy industry (with an advanced degree in geoscience), I have grown frustrated by the poor level of understanding coming out of the universities, and have grown weary of trying to educate new hires on this subject, As an example, they seem horrified by methane emissions, and even CO2. I have grown weary of explaining that natural methane emissions likely far exceed industry emissions, and that these are unmeasured. I have grown weary of explaining the half-life of methane in the atmosphere. I have grown weary of trying to explain why I don't believe Net Zero is either economically worthwhile or achievable (and why I believe CO2 sequestration will not change the climate), and grow tired of trying to convince them that the oil industry is not in a sunset phase. It will likely become more technical, more profitable, and continue to exist long after these new hires retire. Yet I see many of them discouraged and leaving the industry after a few years, likely for lower paying jobs that have even less influence on the things they are concerned about. We need voices like yours to provide a balance, indeed to provide a sane look at the false crisis that is actually responsible for a huge increase in quality of life for much of the world.
At one time I believed that the shale revolution could bring about an economic revolution for the third word, undeveloped countries, and I worked toward that aim. If many of these second and third world countries could now access cheap natural gas, they could in turn electrify and industrialize their economies. The people I met that lived in grass huts and herded goats to subsist, might actually be able to have a better way of life (and likely double the lifespan they have now). People in Eastern European countries that subsist on jobs paying $100 a week, despite having college degrees, might actually become well-paid engineers instead of jobs like gardeners and security guards. Farmers in those countries might actually be able to double or triple their crop yields by using fertilizer made from natural gas. But fear of frac'ing created by false narratives, and even paid protestors, convinced many leaders that they should never allow the resources they control to ever be utilized (e.g. Colombia has resources comparable to the Eagle Ford Shale that they refuse to let be drilled and now the national Colombian oil company is forced to drill in the United States). Argentina may finally become the next example of what shale can provide, but most of Africa, even India, have still been bypassed for political, not resource, reasons. I found myself concentrating on US shale where at least it is still considered a useful resource. But the same shift of the paradigm that has again made the United States the largest producer of oil and gas in the world (after many told us we had reached Peak Oil and would never find either new natural gas sources or oil sources), has failed to materialize in most of the world where it would have made the most change and been most beneficial.
Superb and thoughtful comment.
We understand that weariness. We've also have direct knowledge that our work has reached a few of those new hires and had some effect. We have to start somewhere.
We're optimistic about shale gas in the developing world still over the long haul. As Doomberg says so eloquently, "in the battle between physics and platitudes, physics is undefeated".
Thanks for being here. (We love your handle)
The absence of freedom is the true death sentence.
Rule of law
Property rights
Abundant, affordable, on-demand, reliable energy (electricity, process heat, transport)
Contained corruption (getting harder globally)
Freedom
Foundational to human prosperity, advancement and happiness.
Easy to understand, difficult to achieve. Even harder to maintain. Part of neo-environmentalism we're fighting is at war with every...single....one.