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No politician wants to tell us the real story of fossil fuel depletion. The real story is that we are already running short of oil, coal and natural gas because the direct and indirect costs of extraction are reaching a point where the selling price of food and other basic necessities needs to be unacceptably high to make the overall economic system work. At the same time, wind and solar and other “clean energy” sources are nowhere nearly able to substitute for the quantity of fossil fuels being lost.
This unfortunate energy story is essentially a physics problem. Energy per capita and, in fact, resources per capita, must stay high enough for an economy’s growing population. When this does not happen, history shows that civilizations tend to collapse.
Politicians cannot possibly admit that today’s world economy is headed for collapse, in a way similar to that of prior civilizations. Instead, they need to provide the illusion that they are in charge. The self-organizing system somehow leads politicians to put forward reasons why the changes ahead might be desirable (to avert climate change), or at least temporary (because of sanctions against Russia).
In this post, I will try to try to explain at least a few of the issues involved.
[1] Citizens around the world can sense that something is very wrong. It looks like the economy may be headed for a serious recession in the near term.
Consumer sentiment is at an extraordinarily low level, worse than during the 2008-2009 great recession according to a chart (Figure 2) shown on the University of Michigan Survey of Consumers website. According to the same website, nearly 48% of consumers blame inflation for eroding their standard of living. Food prices have risen significantly. Over the past year, the cost of car ownership has escalated, as has the cost of buying or renting a home.
The situation in Europe is at least as bad, or worse. Citizens are worried about possibly “freezing in the dark” this winter if electricity generation cannot be maintained at an adequate level. Natural gas supplies, mostly purchased from Russia by pipeline, are less available and high-priced. Coal is also high-priced. Because of the fall of the Euro relative to the US dollar, the price of oil in euros is as high as it was in 2008 and 2012.
Many other countries, besides those in the Eurozone, are experiencing low currencies relative to the dollar. Some examples include Argentina, India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Turkey, Japan, and South Korea.
China has problems with developers of condominium homes for its citizen. Many of these homes cannot be delivered to purchasers as promised. As a protest, buyers are withholding payments on their unfinished homes. To make matters worse, the prices of condominium homes have started to fall, leading to a loss of value of these would-be investments. All of this could lead to serious problems for the Chinese banking industry.
Even with these major problems, central banks in the US, the UK and the Eurozone are raising target interest rates. The US is also implementing Quantitative Tightening, which also tends to raise interest rates. Thus, central banks are intentionally raising the cost of borrowing. It doesn’t take much insight to see that the combination of price inflation and higher borrowing costs is likely to force consumers to cut back on spending, leading to recession.
[2] Politicians will avoid talking about possible future economic problems related to inadequate energy supply.
Politicians want to get re-elected. They want citizens to think that everything is OK. If there are energy supply problems, they need to be framed as being temporary, perhaps related to the war in Ukraine. Alternatively, any issue that arises will be discussed as if it can easily be fixed with new legislation and perhaps a little more debt.
Businesses also want to minimize problems. They want citizens to place orders for their goods and services, without the fear of being laid off. They would like the news media to publish stories saying that any economic dip is likely to be very mild and temporary.
Universities don’t mind problems, but they want the problems to be framed as solvable ones that will offer their students opportunities for jobs that will pay well. A near-term, unsolvable predicament is not helpful at all.
[3] What is wrong is a physics problem. The operation of our economy requires energy of the correct type and the right quantity.
The economy is something that grows through the “dissipation” of energy. Examples of dissipation of energy include the digestion of food to give energy to humans, the burning of fossil fuels, and the use of electricity to power a light bulb. A rise in world energy consumption is highly correlated with growth in the world economy. Falling energy consumption is associated with economic contraction.
In physics terms, the world economy is a dissipative structure, just as all plants, animals and ecosystems are. All dissipative structures have finite lifespans, including the world economy.
This finding is not well known because academic researchers seem to operate in ivory towers. Researchers in economic departments aren’t expected to understand physics and how it applies to the economy. In fairness to academia, the discovery that the economy is a dissipative structure did not occur until 1996. It takes a long time for findings to filter through from one department to another. Even now, I am one of a very small number of people in the world writing about this issue.
Also, economic researchers are not expected to study the history of the many smaller, more-localized civilizations that have collapsed in the past. Typically, the population of these smaller civilizations increased at the same time as the resources used by the population started to degrade. The use of technology, such as dams to redirect water flows, may have helped for a while, but eventually this was not enough. The combination of declining availability of high quality resources and increasing population tended to leave these civilizations with little margin for dealing with the bad times that can be expected to occur by chance. In many cases, such civilizations collapsed after disease epidemics, a military invasion, or a climate fluctuation that led to a series of crop failures.
[4] Many people have been confused by common misunderstandings regarding how an economy really works.
[a] Standard economics models foster the belief that the economy can continue to grow without a corresponding increase in energy supply.
When economic models are designed with labor and capital being the important inputs, energy supply doesn’t seem to be needed, at all.
[b] People seem to understand that legislation capping apartment rents will stop the building of new apartments, but they do not make the same connection with steps taken to hold down fossil fuel prices.
If efforts are made to bring down the prices of fossil fuels (such as raising interest rates and adding oil from the US petroleum reserves to increase total oil supply), we need to expect that extraction will be adversely affected. One article reports that Saudi Arabia does not seem to be using recent record profits to quickly raise reinvestment to the level that seemed to be required a few years ago. This suggests that Saudi Arabia needs prices that are quite a bit higher than $100 per barrel in order to take significant steps toward extracting the country’s remaining resources. This would seem to contradict published reserves that, in theory, take current prices into consideration.
Reuters reports that Venezuela has reneged on its promise to send more oil to Europe, under an oil for debt deal. It wants oil product swaps instead, since it is lacking in its ability to make finished products from its oil itself. It would take a long run of prices much higher than today’s level for Venezuela to be able to sufficiently invest in infrastructure to do such refining. Venezuela reports the highest oil reserves in the world (303.8 thousand million barrels), even higher than Saudi Arabia’s reported 297.5 thousand million barrels, but neither country can be counted on to take major steps to raise supply.
Similarly, there have been reports that US shale drillers are not investing to keep production growing, despite what seem to be sufficiently high prices. There are simply too many issues. The cost of new investment is very high, outside of the already drilled sweet spots. Also, there is no guarantee the price will stay high. There are also supply line issues, such as whether appropriate steel drilling pipes and fracking sand will be available, when needed.
[c] Published information suggests that there is a huge amount of fossil fuels remaining to be extracted, given today’s level of technology. If we assume that technology will get better and better, it is easy to believe that any fossil fuel limit is hundreds of years in the future.
The way the economy works, the extraction limit is really an affordability issue. If the cost of extraction rises too high, relative to what people around the world have for spendable income, production will stop because demand (in terms of what people can afford) will drop too low. People will tend to cut back on discretionary spending, such as vacation travel and meals in restaurants, cutting back on demand for fossil fuels.
[d] How “demand” works is poorly understood. Very often, researchers and the general public assume that demand for energy products will automatically remain high.
A surprisingly large share of demand is tied to the need for food, water, and basic services such as schools, roads, and bus service. Poor people require these basics just as much as rich people do. There are literally billions of poor people in the world. If the wages of poor people fall too low relative to the wages of rich people, the system cannot work. Poor people find that they must spend nearly all their income on food, water and housing. As a result, they have little left to pay taxes to support basic governmental services. Without adequate demand from poor people, the prices of commodities tend to fall too low to encourage reinvestment.
The majority of fossil fuel use is by commercial and industrial users. For example, natural gas is often used in making nitrogen fertilizer. If the price of natural gas is high, the price of fertilizer will rise higher than farmers are willing to pay for the fertilizer. Farmers will cut back on fertilizer use, reducing yields for their crops. The farmers’ own costs will be lower, but there will be less of the desired crops grown, perhaps indirectly raising overall food prices. This is not a connection that economic modelers build into their models.
The lockdowns of 2020 show that governments can indeed ramp up demand (and thus prices) for energy products by sending out checks to citizens. We are now seeing that the approach seems to produce inflation rather than more energy production. Also, countries without energy resources of their own may see their currencies fall with respect to the US dollar.
[e] It is not true that energy types can easily be substituted for one another.
In energy modeling, such as in calculating “Energy Return on Energy Invested,” a popular assumption is that all energy is substitutable for other energy. This isn’t true, unless a person accounts for all of the details of the transition, and the energy needed to make such a transition possible.
For example, intermittent electricity, such as that generated by wind turbines or solar panels, is not substitutable for load-following electricity. Such intermittent electricity is not always available when people need it. Some of this intermittency is very long-term. For example, wind-generated electricity may be low for more than a month at a time. In the case of solar energy, the problem tends to be storing up enough electricity during summer months for use in winter. A naive person might assume that adding a few hours of battery backup would fix intermittency problems, but such a fix turns out to be very inadequate.
If people are not to freeze in the dark in winter, longer-term solutions are needed. One standard approach is to use a fossil fuel system to fill in the gaps when wind and solar are not available. The catch, then, is that the fossil fuel system really needs to be a year-around system, with trained staffing, pipelines and adequate fuel storage. A modeler needs to consider the need to build a whole double system instead of a single system.
Because of intermittency issues, electricity from wind and solar only substitute for fuels (coal, natural gas, uranium) that operate our current system. Publications often talk about the cost of intermittent electricity being at “grid parity” when its temporary cost seems to match the cost of grid electricity, but this is matching “apples and oranges.” The cost comparison needs to be in comparison to the average cost of fuel for plants producing electricity, rather than to electricity prices.
Another popular assumption is that electricity can be substituted for liquid fuels. For example, in theory, every piece of farm equipment could be redesigned and rebuilt to be based on electricity, rather than diesel, which is typically used today. The catch is that there would need to be an enormous number of batteries built and eventually disposed of for this transition to work. There would need also need to be factories to build all this new equipment. We would need an international trade system operating extraordinarily well, to find all the raw materials. Likely, there would still not be enough raw materials to make the system work.
[f] There is a great deal of confusion about expected oil and other energy prices, as an economy reaches energy limits.
This issue is closely related to [4][d], with respect to the confusion about how energy demand works. A common assumption among analysts is that “of course” oil prices will rise, as limits are approached. This assumption is based on the standard supply and demand curve used by economists.
The issue is that the availability of inexpensive energy products very much affects demand as well as supply. Jobs that pay well are only available if inexpensive energy products can leverage human labor. For example, surgeons today perform robotic surgery, requiring, at a minimum, a stable source of electricity for each operation. Furthermore, the equipment used in the surgery is created using fossil fuels. Surgeons also use anesthetic products that require fossil fuels. Without today’s fancy equipment, surgeons would not be able to charge nearly as much they do for their services.
Thus, it is not immediately obvious whether demand or supply would tend to fall faster, if energy supply should hit limits. We know that Revelation 18:11-13 in the Bible provides a list of a number of commodities, including humans sold as slaves, for which prices dropped very low at the time of the collapse of ancient Babylon. This suggests that at least sometimes during prior collapses, the problem was too low demand (and too low prices), rather than too low supply of energy products.
[5] The International Energy Agency and politicians around the world have recommended a transition to the use of wind and solar to try to prevent climate change for quite a few years. This approach seemed to have the approval of both those concerned about too much burning of fossil fuels causing climate change and those concerned about too little fossil fuel energy causing economic collapse.
A rough estimate of what the decline in energy supply might look like under the rapid shift to renewables proposed by politicians is shown in Figure 6.
If a person understands the connection between energy consumption and the economy, such a rapid drop in energy supply looks like something that would likely be associated with economic collapse. The goal of politicians seems to be to keep citizens from understanding how awful the situation really is by reframing the story of the decline in energy supply as something politicians and economists have chosen to do, to try to prevent climate change for the sake of future generations.
The rich and powerful can see this change as a good thing if they themselves can profit from it. When there is not enough energy, the physics of the situation tends to lead to increasing wage and wealth disparities. Wealthy individuals see this outcome as a good thing: They can perhaps personally profit. For example, Bill Gates has amassed about 270,000 acres of farmland in the United States, including newly purchased farmland in North Dakota.
Furthermore, politicians see that they can have more control over populations if they can direct citizens in a way that will use less energy. For example, bank accounts can be linked to some type of social credit score. Politicians will explain that this is for people’s own good–to prevent the spread of disease or to prevent undesirables from using too much of the available resources.
One way of dramatically reducing energy consumption is by mandating shutdowns in an area, purportedly to prevent the spread of Covid-19, as China has been doing recently. Such shutdowns can be explained as being needed to stop the spread of disease. These shutdowns can also help hide other problems, such as not having enough fuels to prevent rolling blackouts of electricity.
[6] We are living in a truly unusual time, with a major energy problem being hidden from view.
Politicians cannot tell the world how bad the energy situation really is. The problem with near-term energy limits has been known since at least 1956 (M. King Hubbert) and 1957 (Hyman Rickover). The problem was confirmed in the modeling performed for the 1972 book, The Limits to Growth by Donella Meadows and others.
Most high-level politicians are aware of the energy supply issue, but they cannot possibly talk about it. Instead, they choose to talk about what would happen if the economy were allowed to speed ahead without limits, and how bad the consequences of that might be.
Militaries around the world are no doubt well aware of the fact that there will not be enough energy supplies to go around. This means that the world will be in a contest for who gets how much. In a war-like setting, we should not be surprised if communications are carefully controlled. The views we can expect to hear loudly and repeatedly are the ones governments and influential individuals want ordinary citizens to hear.
Thanks Gail…. We have many new people here. Hope they stick around and provide good, logical and sensible comments
They seem to be renewable energy trolls … they’ll depart once they drop their sacks of rotting cancerous meat
The name of the game, and it has been going on for ever, is demand destruction.
The more countries you “bomb back to the stone age” and never get around to rebuilding them, the more countries you “sanction to death”, the less people to consume. When we run out of other countries we started in on “domestic demand destruction (DDD).
Eventually it will be around maybe 1 billion maybe only a half billion who get to consume while everyone else scrambles for the rotting scraps.
Plenty of room for more demand destruction before everyone catches on and and says NO!
The way things are going it could be more like a few million being extremely wealthy and the rest of us either dead or dirt poor
“Furthermore, politicians see that they can have more control over populations if they can direct citizens in a way that will use less energy. For example, bank accounts can be linked to some type of social credit score. Politicians will explain that this is for people’s own good–to prevent the spread of disease or to prevent undesirables from using too much of the available resources.”
And they’ll tell us to eat bugs, selling it as a superfood, high in protein, and is sustainably earth friendly. I think the transition to bug eating will go pretty quick. But take note, if you’re allergic to shellfish, you might also be allergic to crickets too because they are not so distant cousins.
I hope my fellow Americans realize it’s US against Them. The corruption stinks to high heaven. My only peace is in the Garden. I’ve gardened the entire summer here in N. Central Florida. I consider it a type of conditioning. We just shelled almost 2 quarts of speckled butter beans and a quart of mung beans, all from under 20 and 11 plants respectively. I figure the next best thing to growing grains is growing hard beans.
Although I will be planting some cool loving grains this year….. I started planting fruit trees years ago and now have a pretty mature orchard. Impatiently waiting on the persimmons to ripen up. We have a super garden friendly neighborhood and I have access to drinking water with a deep well hand pump. Our neighbors love the 2A.
I may not survive what is to come, but the infrastructure we’ve developed here will help others survive. I just still need that underground shelter for when it gets blazing hot and humid!
It’s never too late to build in some resilience. I’m convinced Americans are moving towards more independence and self imposed austerity; everybody knows something is wrong.
Good luck with what you are doing!
Beans aren’t acidic, so it is difficult to can them perfectly. You also need an ongoing supply of canning goods, including lids. I presume you are drying them instead. This is an approach that works.
Persimmons don’t need to be sprayed (as far as I know) and are quite sustainable. I have two peach trees that need to be sprayed. Production is also very dependent on freeze dates compared to the dates they bloom each year. They take way too much care to be sustainable.
Thanks Gail for the good will, but hard work always trumps luck. I’m growing the hard beans that are storable dry, no canning necessary. There are re-usable canning lids, but have not purchased them yet.
We have lots of different kinds of trees: peaches, persimmons, apples, pomegranites, bananas, figs, pears, grapes, and some citrus. The idea was to have fruit every season or even year round since we live in north central Florida.
Funny thing about the peaches. I have never sprayed any of my trees or gardens, and for several years we were not getting peaches, as they got rust maybe? and rotted on the tree but we got bananas and papayas/volunteers. This year we got wonderful peaches again – no rot/rust! – but our papayas and bananas took a freeze hit. Also this year we did not get a single apple (first time) but the pears were productive! We got more than 200 pears just from one tree. From what I’ve experienced, when one crop fails another comes in like gang busters.
I started experimenting with powdering food from watching a youtube channel and am powdering up some pumpkins. Powdering food makes it very lightweight, long lasting and basically you just add water.
Oh man, I could talk about gardening all day……
Let’s move on from fruit trees to security….
How many people live within a half a tank of petrol from you? What will you do when the hungry mob shows up demanding to be fed?
What about your family — you know – the ones who mock you as a doomsday prepper… what happens when they pack the kids into the SUV and show up at the door pretending that they never ridiculed you — and expecting nourishment?
Did I mention I know someone in Sri Lanka — he’d be considered elite for that country… he informed his security men to not resist when the mob comes a pillaging…
Why? Because he is aware that any ‘rich’ person who resisted them previously was beaten to death. He told his security people to open the gates on his properties and let them go to it.
Will you resist the hungry angry mob? Cuz they’ll be coming and they won’t be politely knocking.
And then there is the coup de grace … the ponds… how far are you from the nearest one?
There are 4000 Spent Fuel Ponds Around the Globe…
If you don’t cool the spent fuel, the temperature will rise and there may be a swift chain reaction that leads to spontaneous combustion–an explosion and fire of the spent fuel assemblies. Such a scenario would emit radioactive particles into the atmosphere. Pick your poison. Fresh fuel is hotter and more radioactive, but is only one fuel assembly. A pool of spent fuel will have dozens of assemblies.
One report from Sankei News said that there are over 700 fuel assemblies stored in one pool at Fukushima. If they all caught fire, radioactive particles—including those lasting for as long as a decade—would be released into the air and eventually contaminate the land or, worse, be inhaled by people. “To me, the spent fuel is scarier. All those spent fuel assemblies are still extremely radioactive,” Dalnoki-Veress says.
It has been known for more than two decades that, in case of a loss of water in the pool, convective air cooling would be relatively ineffective in such a “dense-packed” pool. Spent fuel recently discharged from a reactor could heat up relatively rapidly to temperatures at which the zircaloy fuel cladding could catch fire and the fuel’s volatile fission product, including 30-year half-life Cs, would be released. The fire could well spread to older spent fuel. The long-term land-contamination consequences of such an event could be significantly worse than those from Chernobyl.
http://science.time.com/2011/03/15/a-new-threat-in-japan-radioactive-spent-fuel/
The Chernobyl accident was relatively minor, involved no spent fuel ponds, and was controlled by pouring cement onto the reactor. This was breaking down so a few years back they re-entombed.
Estimates of the cancer burden in Europe from radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16628547/
Well Fast Eddy, I could spend my free time bashing people like Norm who took the gene therapy, but I’d rather spend my time doing something productive, like growing food.
If more people grew food, then there will be more food security, right? Gonna get on it or just wait to die? Even a little bit of food can make the difference between life and death.
As for the radiation scare, I don’t stress too much about things I have no control over.
As for the “hordes” by the time there is no food, there won’t be fuel either. Most modern people are not accustomed to walking at all, what to speak of long distances. Living in a rural area is safer than living in an urban area and I live in a rural area.
If climate change were a real thing to these peddlers, they’d criticize the current food distribution infrastructure (raspberries all winter long from California and oranges from South America) and encourage buying local produce and everyone starting “victory gardens.” But then that would get Cargill and ADM angry, the same who get SWAT teams to arrest raw milk farmers.
Rural DelusiSTAN… is it nice?
I imagine sticking one’s head in the sand and ignoring the spent fuel ponds will make them go away – that always works.
Growing food – when nobody has food — I’m sure nobody will find you. You are ‘rural’ right?
The mob is stooopid — but then so are rats… ya think they won’t realize – when there is no food — that ‘rural’ is where the food is grown— and go there?
Bashing norm is one of the few joys in life … along with Hoolio the Magnificent. He has a very shiny coat… very shiny indeed.. like satin
Fortunately the men who are in control of the situation are not mired in delusional thinking and they are doing the right thing by exterminating us…
Again we see why democracy is dangerous… if we let people vote on the outcome they’d overwhelming choose ROF over UEP…
And OMG … that would be a really dreadful way to finish up our time on the planet.
There is something calming about gardening… growing food
However we should not ignore the fact that the first hunter gatherers who adopted farming … are why we are on the brink of extinction
Our twin tragedy is that we are (1) energy blind and (2) trapped by economics theories that not only completely ignore energy but also (despite so many economists incorrect forecasts and pronouncements) completely ignore money, and thus understanding of our monetary system is stuck in “Thatcher mode” where politicians try to manage their countries as if they were running her father’s shop.
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/15/16/5908/htm
Pre-exposure to mRNA-LNP inhibits adaptive immune responses and alters innate immune fitness in an inheritable fashion
Hundreds of millions of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA-LNP vaccine doses have already been administered to humans. However, we lack a comprehensive understanding of the immune effects of this platform. The mRNA-LNP-based SARS-CoV-2 vaccine is highly inflammatory, and its synthetic ionizable lipid component responsible for the induction of inflammation has a long in vivo half-life. Since chronic inflammation can lead to immune exhaustion and non-responsiveness, we sought to determine the effects of pre-exposure to the mRNA-LNP on adaptive immune responses and innate immune fitness. We found that pre-exposure to mRNA-LNPs or LNP alone led to long-term inhibition of the adaptive immune responses, which could be overcome using standard adjuvants. On the other hand, we report that after pre-exposure to mRNA-LNPs, the resistance of mice to heterologous infections with influenza virus increased while Candida albicans decreased. The diminished resistance to Candida albicans correlated with a general decrease in blood neutrophil percentages. Interestingly, mice pre-exposed to the mRNA-LNP platform can pass down the acquired immune traits to their offspring, providing better protection against influenza. In summary, the mRNA-LNP vaccine platform induces long-term unexpected immunological changes affecting both adaptive immune responses and heterologous protection against infections. Thus, our studies highlight the need for more research to determine this platform’s true impact on human health.
Authors Summary We bring experimental evidence that pre-exposure to mRNA-LNPs or its LNP component affects innate and adaptive immune responses. Pre-exposure to mRNA-LNPs led to long-term inhibition of the adaptive immune responses, which the use of adjuvants could overcome. On the other hand, we report that after pre-exposure to mRNA-LNPs, the resistance of mice to heterologous infections with influenza virus increased while Candida albicans decreased. We also detected a general neutropenia in the mRNA-LNP exposed mice. Interestingly, mice pre-exposed to mRNA-LNPs can pass down the acquired immune traits to their offspring. In summary, the mRNA-LNP vaccine platform induces long-term immunological changes that can affect both adaptive immune responses and heterologous protection against infections, some of which can be inherited by the offspring. More studies are needed to understand the mechanisms responsible for these effects and determine this platform’s impact on human health.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.03.16.484616v2
This is a quote from a pre-print, not a published study, I see.
In mice, “pre-exposure to mRNA-LNPs, the resistance of mice to heterologous infections with influenza virus increased while Candida albicans decreased.”
So there is some benefit as well as a negative impact. There is resistance to flu infection, but candida infections become more of a problem.
According to the CDC, https://www.cdc.gov/fungal/diseases/candidiasis/index.html
“Candidiasis is a fungal infection caused by a yeast (a type of fungus) called Candida. Some species of Candida can cause infection in people; the most common is Candida albicans. Candida normally lives on skin and inside the body, such as the mouth, throat, gut, and vagina, without causing problems. Candida can cause infections if it grows out of control or if it enters deep into the body. For example, it can cause infections in the bloodstream or internal organs like the kidney, heart, or brain.”
The effects are passed on from generation to generation, of mice, at least.
Thus, vaccinations could have long-term impacts on susceptibility to certain types of illnesses, if vaccinations are given to young people, before they become parents.
What I want is for everyone who has been injected to start experiencing serious and very serious side-effects…. I want it to get to the point where they can no longer be in denial because everyone they know (except the pure bloods) is f789ed up.
“China has problems with developers of condominium homes for its citizen. Many of these homes cannot be delivered to purchasers as promised. As a protest, buyers are withholding payments on their unfinished homes.”
Unfinished? I think alot of these homes haven’t even been started yet…Chinese citizen thinks that real estate is a win-win investment and finds a bank to give them a mortgage to pre-purchase a home that “will” be built, but construction company used the money to buy more land instead of building the house and so house doesn’t get built. Guy says, well, I am not paying for a mortgage on a home that doesn’t, and may never, exist..Bank is left looking at collateral that hasn’t been built yet…crazy..I wouldn’t pay on the mortgage either…
I saw somewhere that people were going to follow the Chinese example and not pay their utility bills…morons..don’t pay your utility bill, power gets turned off..Chinese person doesn’t pay on their mortgage for a house that doesn’t exist, the bank’s recourse is to foreclose a house that doesn’t exist..completely different isn’t it?
I am guessing that at least part of the developers problems are resource related. China’s coal supply rose rapidly until about 2012; then it flattened out, the supposedly rose in 2021, after great effort.
China’s coal is used to make concrete. It is also used to smelt iron, and it is burned for electricity. With the coal shortage, I expect that it is difficult to get the materials needed to build the condominium homes, especially at the low price expected at one time. Developers may have oversold, not realizing that the market was changing.
We’ve seen the video recommended by Ed Dowd… and you are correct – they have not even started building and probably won’t.
This is the end of the line for BAU… it’s hanging on by the finger nails time … as we await UEP to finish up this winter.
BTW – I had a chat with my old mate and business partner who ran things up in Shanghai for nearly 10 yrs… he’s been back in Canada for a few years but his wife’s family is still in Shanghai… (Chinese)
He said yes what we are seeing is real – the entire city has been locked down at times.
He also said if your compound has lots of Covids — you get less and poorer quality food delivered… He also said that if you have had Covid then it is very difficult to get a job cuz that’s a strike against you on the app…
I suspect this has more to do with the fact that there are no jobs to be had
“I saw somewhere that people were going to follow the Chinese example and not pay their utility bills”
There is such a campaign going on in the UK. Last I saw 2-3 weeks ago a few thousand had signed up. But the campaign is pointless. The most recent forecasts over the last week are for UK average utility bills go from about £1,300 last year, whatever it is now, to £4000 in October, and as high as £6,000 next year.
This past few days there have been multiple MSM headlines (available every morning on the BBC website) that most households will not be able to afford the increased bills. No need for this campaign, households in the millions quite simply won’t have the money to pay.
The energy providers will simply install pre-pay meters in the homes of everyone who refuses to pay their bill. They can legally do this by forced entry if necessary.
Then the protesters will pay every penny they owe or have no power, their choice.
Which of course drives up operating costs for the suppliers… which need to be passed on to the consumers… driving them into deeper despair.
I highly recommend Energy Riots. Lots of burning of tyres and window smashing etc…. to the tune of We’re Not Gonna Take It – No We’re Not Gonna Take It – We’re Not Gonna Take It… Anymore!
Then go after the elites (a la Shriek Lanka) and beat them to death? Hang them from lamp posts?
I dunnae care what they do — so long as they upload videos of the carnage..
Cuz.
I like to watch.
our economic roulette wheel is entirely dependent on ‘we the people’ buying and selling energy, in one form or another.
dress it up how you like, but that’s all there is.
Our power bills are just one slot on that roulette wheel.
I might just as easily say—I refuse to pay the escalating price of petrol, in which case i have to walk—or–i refuse to pay the rising price of bread–in which case i starve.
If i refuse to pay my power bills, my lights go out. A benevolent government might subsidise my power bills, but my taxes subsidise the government in the first place.
So same end result, just slightly delayed.
The premise of Gail’s current article is that energy itself is rising beyond the point of general affordability. Until now it has been unrealistically cheap. Those times are over.
Being in denial doesn’t alter reality. But I’ve warned about denial for years now, and that denial will bring about violent conflict.
That is our real crisis, mithering on about covid really is a side issue.
The unthinkers are ‘demanding’ that energy be sold cheaply again, not knowing how energy is derived, and unwilling to accept the reason why energy can’t be cheap again.
Ever.
Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia is another symptom of energy crisis. Putin can create a catastrophe that would discourage Nuclear power in Western Europe, this making them more dependent on Russian gas.
When Gail’s methodical writing starts bringing in a Biblical reference and a bit of “conspiracy theory”, now I’m more worried than usual!
Conspiracy theories?
heaven forfend eddy—not conspiracy theories?
Greta Thunberg’s guilt-trip climate shame tour appears to have hit the wall, as green pipe dreams with zero practical solutions meet the realities of, well, reality.
Or, as Sky News Australia’s Andrew Bolt puts it; “A mere child, full of rage, obsessed with doom, totally devoid of any practical solutions – but here she was lecturing the world on how to fuel their 21st century economies.”
Over the past year, Thunberg’s movement – described by Bolt as a “cult” – has fizzled out.
“Thunberg is now a victim of her own success in scaring people into doing very, very stupid things that we’re now paying for.”
Watch:
https://youtu.be/aHZym4QG7UQ
I reckon Geeta needs to make a statement — perhaps she could douse herself in petrol and go out in a blaze of glory… metaphorically it would be a powerful message…
Right up there with being nailed to a cross!
Now this is hilarious but then again the idea comes from a low IQ government worker who has probably never worked a day in the private sector.
“The Biden Administration Urges Struggling Families to Buy Solar Panels”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/markets-by-sector/energy/the-biden-administration-urges-struggling-families-to-buy-solar-panels/
Great post, Gail! The continuing energy collapse is strongly encouraging the growing international chorus towards Space Solar Power(SSP). E.g., the European Space Agency has just proposed a major investment in Space Solar Power, which China has already taken the lead in. Our Space Solar Power Institute here in Georgia has been one of the many US voices “crying out in the desert” as it were to get legislation and funding for the US to charge into this important, very challenging and growing parade. My paper, “Collapsing_Power_Grid_Reliability_and_Economics” from the new IEEE RFID journal’s special issue on SSP has posted at https://www.linkedin.com/in/darel-preble-24a80515/
my linkedin post for public access.
The first “SUNSAT” will not be quick, simple or cheap – however, as the cost of launch to orbit is dropping thanks to Elon Musk’s (and friends) Reusable Launch Vehicle(RLV) tremendous progress lowering the cost of launch to orbit. It will drop much faster when SSP construction increases the launch rate a hundred fold.It will also provide a vital rationale justifying a Moon base(s).
The hope is that electricity from Space Solar power will be at a fixed constant level like that from nuclear power plants, rather than being intermittent the way ground solar is. Space Solar power is still many years in the future, however.
Maybe Darel is Keith?
No, Darel is Darel. He is a retired employee from the Southern Company. He worked with Southern Company’s nuclear production of electricity, I understand.
Well then … Darel — we need to hook you up with Keith.
It could be a match made in heaven!
I reckon the way it works… is if one becomes prominent in the peak cheap oil sphere (as Gail has)… the PR Team in charge of convincing the MOREONS that we are transitioning off of oil…
Sends emissaries to sites like OFW each time and article gets dropped…
Who spew their usual propaganda/bullshit stories in an attempt to confuse the readers who may suspect we are headed for the Meat Grinder.
I do like how you’ve married space solar with the messiah elon musk but I cannot give you an A+ unless you somehow work in Greta and Al Gore…
Back to the drawing board ‘Darel’ this is simply Not Good Enough (NGE)
It is necessary that we support alternative, impossible and even crazy ideas because it is the only way to find new solutions. But we should not overestimate them. I am sure mankind had survived without computer. I am not sure mankind would be as large without the Haber-Bosch-method.
Imagine there would be an incredible new technology like fusion or free energy and it would be ripe for the market. How long would it take to deploy it worldwide, so that it could substitute fossiles? 10 years? Do we have that time?
We need jobs for young people, so we are always exploring ideas that don’t work, yet. I read about a plan for extracting minerals from the bottom of oceans in an article, today, for example.
The big issue is timing. It is increasing looking like we don’t have much time.
Imagine what will happen when the power goes off – permanently.
Quite likely this winter
The cost of launch to orbit is not significantly dropping. That’s just a lie created with an apples to oranges comparison (the human crew rated space shuttle compared to Space X non human rated rockets).
It’s a physics problem.
They need larger and more more powerful elastic bands!
When can we actually go to the moon? Land… and come back?
BTW – Hubble is BS… the pics are artist renderings… no way that equipment survives the Belts of Hell that lock us into our prison.
Think about that one — it’s kinda like that series LOST… we are trapped here on this planet — because there just happens to be some deadly rings around the planet that serve as bars that cannot be breached…
hey eddy
moonloonery is yesterday’s news
stick with covid
Massive Miscarriage Rates Among Vaccinated Pregnant Women Found Buried In The Pfizer Documents
The pharmaceutical industry has committed crimes for decades, paying $30 billion in civil and criminal fines since 2000. The Pfizer documents reveal their latest criminal assault on our health.
https://pierrekory.substack.com/p/massive-miscarriage-rates-among-vaccinated
The article says that there were 274 pregnancies in the sample. They did not know anything about 238 of them. Presumably, they were normal.
What they do know about is 32 pregnancies. In those pregnancies, the outcome was
23 spontaneous abortions
2 spontaneous abortions with intra-uterine death
The report notes: “miscarriage normally occurs in only 12-15% of pregnancies”
It depends on what the miscarriage rate is compared to. A total of 25 spontaneous abortions out of 274 pregnancies is 9%. This wouldn’t necessarily be way out of line. It is very high compared to 32.
The report also includes
2 premature births with neonatal death
1 spontaneous abortion with neonatal death
1 normal outcome
This is in the group of 32, but I still think it is more comparable to the base of 274 than to the base of 32.
As I said in the response to a previous comment,I really don’t believe a death rate as high as seemed to be implied, comparing to a base of 32. We would have heard if the impact on pregnancies was this terrible. I think that those doing the analysis should have been following up on all 274 pregnancies.
Added this to https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=220
They don’t know want to know the truth. I’ve tried for decades to get their attention to little avail. They’re way too busy with politics these days. Also, recall that many argued “peak oil” in the 2000-2010 period. “The boy is crying wolf again.”
And if they knew the truth how would that change anything?
It is a good thing that the MOREONS believe we are transitioning to EVs and solar.
It’s also good that the MOREONS inject the kill shots… they take the risk of injury and suffering prior to the extermination …
they really are taking one for the global community — if too many people refused the injection we’d not be exterminated and instead we’d get ROF – ripping of faces.
Good points! Politicians don’t want to know the truth.
Welcome, Bob Hirsch. Thank you for commenting.
I think that this is the Robert L. Hirsch of the “Hirsch Report” published in 2005.
https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/692
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirsch_report
A lot of people were interested in Peak Oil, for a while. I have argued that the situation leads to much more of a financial problem than most people expected. Now, we seem to be hitting something closer to Peak Fossil Fuels. All demand is indirectly tied together, and it is demand that cannot rise high enough to get the fossil fuels out.
I think Jevons paradox is omitted.
And it is readily observable with energy leaving Gas Guzzling Europe into Econobox/Moped Asia.
Why blow finite resources on self entitled Rapacious Primates living the egotistical fantasy with little to nothing to show for?
I want to observe them cranking the oats and chucking the squirms and twitches – in glee. Oh noes, just have Hyper MOARon oats and Tryhard a better sleeping bag.
I have great respect for the Hirsch report, Bob. It was one of the very convincing papers that made me change thinking – in Germany. Of course I had known the Meadows as a boy and my mum used to have a book of John Seymour. Then I read Jared Diamond. That made me research for more.
Of course it doesn’t make a change, I am an unimportant person, thanks God. But, hey, here we are!
Thank you.
Firstly Bob thanks for your reports all those years ago, they woke some people up but unfortunately nowhere near enough.
I’ve always wondered if people that really knew and understood the physics of the problem put things like this from your report in 2005, into reports just to give politicians some ‘hope’, instead of telling them like it really is….
“Technologies exist to mitigate the problem. Timely, aggressive risk management will be essential.”
Given the effect of entropy and dissipation, the low grades of ore we currently mine will just get lower in the future and more remote. Given the need for liquid fuels to gather resources to produce an ‘electric’ future, isn’t even the palatable answer for politicians, like you mentioned in your report, just a one off occurrence anyway buying a few decades until the real coll.apse of civilization??
>>Also, recall that many argued “peak oil” in the 2000-2010 period. “
For conventional oil production, I think that is correct, or close enough. Since about 2000, the proportion of oil products coming from crappy oil sources has increased significantly (tar sands, heavy oil, tight oil, corn/maize, smaller/deeper oil fields etc), and so has global debt to pay for it.
The political system covers up the truth because it would reveal wrong decisions were made in the past, like exporting LNG from unconventional coal seam gas while conventional gas production is peaking. In Australia:
30/7/2022
Conventional gas peak in Victoria (part 1) AEMO intervention July 2022
http://crudeoilpeak.info/conventional-gas-peak-in-victoria-part-1-aemo-intervention-july-2022
Sometimes, these efforts lead to bizarre results:
17 Aug 2022
Australia’s gas fired recovery but not in the Prime Minister’s election back yard
http://crudeoilpeak.info/australias-gas-fired-recovery-but-not-in-the-prime-ministers-election-back-yard
Now, an investigation is made into why the former Prime Minister took away powers from the Resource Minister…..
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/23/australia/australia-inquiry-morrison-ministerial-roles-intl-hnk/index.html
….but not the gas depletion problem which required contentious drilling along popular beaches.
The local media is also shy to analyse the energy situation.
I used to like your graphs of composite world oil production — now, I’ve just got such as my own, at http://davecoop.net/seneca.htm
Not steep enough. Needs a straight line to 0
if they don’t export then what happens to the importing countries?
Don’t they collapse — and being a globalized world — they take down everyone else?
It seems like Australia has been trying to solve its electricity problem with renewables with little success. The peaking of conventional natural gas in Victoria will make it harder to balance the renewables adequately.
Australia has been in the news recently for talking about cutting back LNG exports, so as to have more natural gas for local markets.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/07/potential-curb-on-australian-lng-exports-is-another-blow-to-asia-pacific-gas-markets-.html
Also,
This change will only affect LNG which is not tied up in long-term contracts. But it will make the spot market tighter. I expect the problem will be worse in a year, also.
If a butterfly flapping its wings can impact the other side of the world…imagine what shutting down exports of gas does!
See the responses below Dr K’s pin…
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/computerized-thermographic-imaging/comment/8572525
He says he gets nothing for writing a scrip… oh but he does… as FE points out.. if he writes enough he gets a free trip to a ‘conference’ in a posh resort hahahah
Dr K will not respond to FE… that I can guarantee.
Cuz he is a lying sunofabitch.
One of the ways this predicament manifests in the US: Across the political spectrum, virtually everyone (except GT’s readers!) are quite happy when gasoline and food prices drop. No politician stands a chance if s/he advocates for any policy that dares make raw or refined energy products more expensive (presumably to make solar, wind, battery storage more competitive and widely used). Yet we will never see more than a very modest, slow attempted transition away from fossil fuels to more sustainable, less concentrated, and more difficult to store/transmit fuels & energy sources as long as existing fossil fuel prices stay low.
What this means is that the US simply cannot rationally plan for any kind of transition away from fossil fuels, so we are indeed, as GT writes, headed for at least a major contraction and perhaps eventually a civilizational collapse. The situation in other “modern” industrial nations is similar (though EU nations may be better prepared, with their smaller homes and much better mass transit).
Unfortunately, the road to economic contraction is leading the US straight into 21st century fascism, where one extremely conservation faction of citizens (mostly rural, less educated, middle aged & up, mostly male whites) demands that their leader (Trump now, maybe DeSantis in 2024) be put in charge of the country. Should they succeed in gaining complete national power (perhaps as soon as 2025), they will use it to at least partially dispossess every citizen not totally loyal to the party and its Führer. Resource wars, civil wars, additional pandemics will be inevitable. Look out Canada: the US will be coming for your “surplus” water, food, oil and gas, and many US citizens will be seeking refuge there.
I apologize for dropping all these nukes on DelusiSTAN but think of all the soldiers that we’d loose if we went house to house killing DelusiSTANIS…
Replacement of oil by alternative sources
While oil has many other important uses (lubrication, plastics, roadways, roofing) this section considers only its use as an energy source. The CMO is a powerful means of understanding the difficulty of replacing oil energy by other sources. SRI International chemist Ripudaman Malhotra, working with Crane and colleague Ed Kinderman, used it to describe the looming energy crisis in sobering terms.[13] Malhotra illustrates the problem of producing one CMO energy that we currently derive from oil each year from five different alternative sources. Installing capacity to produce 1 CMO per year requires long and significant development.
Allowing fifty years to develop the requisite capacity, 1 CMO of energy per year could be produced by any one of these developments:
4 Three Gorges Dams,[14] developed each year for 50 years, or
52 nuclear power plants,[15] developed each year for 50 years, or
104 coal-fired power plants,[16] developed each year for 50 years, or
32,850 wind turbines,[17][18] developed each year for 50 years, or
91,250,000 rooftop solar photovoltaic panels[19] developed each year for 50 years
The world consumes approximately 3 CMO annually from all sources. The table [10] shows the small contribution from alternative energies in 2006.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic_mile_of_oil
“To provide most of our power through renewables would take hundreds of times the amount of rare earth metals that we are mining today,” according to Thomas Graedel at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. So renewable energy resources like windmills and solar PV can not ever replace fossil fuels, there’s not enough of many essential minerals to scale this technology up. http://energyskeptic.com/2014/high-tech-cannot-last-rare-earth-metals/
Renewable Penetration https://gailtheactuary.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/iea-primary-energy-suppy-1973-and-2015.png
Renewable Energy’s $2.5 Trillion Problem https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611683/the-25-trillion-reason-we-cant-rely-on-batteries-to-clean-up-the-grid/
Renewable energy ‘simply won’t work’: Top Google engineers
Two highly qualified Google engineers who have spent years studying and trying to improve renewable energy technology have stated quite bluntly that whatever the future holds, it is not a renewables-powered civilisation: such a thing is impossible.
Both men are Stanford PhDs, Ross Koningstein having trained in aerospace engineering and David Fork in applied physics. These aren’t guys who fiddle about with websites or data analytics or “technology” of that sort: they are real engineers who understand difficult maths and physics, and top-bracket even among that distinguished company.
Even if one were to electrify all of transport, industry, heating and so on, so much renewable generation and balancing/storage equipment would be needed to power it that astronomical new requirements for steel, concrete, copper, glass, carbon fibre, neodymium, shipping and haulage etc etc would appear.
All these things are made using mammoth amounts of energy: far from achieving massive energy savings, which most plans for a renewables future rely on implicitly, we would wind up needing far more energy, which would mean even more vast renewables farms – and even more materials and energy to make and maintain them and so on. The scale of the building would be like nothing ever attempted by the human race.
In reality, well before any such stage was reached, energy would become horrifyingly expensive – which means that everything would become horrifyingly expensive (even the present well-under-one-per-cent renewables level in the UK has pushed up utility bills very considerably).
http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/23/google-gives-up-on-green-tech-investment-initiative-rec/
http://dailycaller.com/2015/12/25/top-11-problems-plaguing-solar-and-wind-power/
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/high-costs-and-errors-of-german-transition-to-renewable-energy-a-920288.html
The $2.5 trillion reason we can’t rely on batteries to store energy
Fluctuating solar and wind power require lots of energy storage, and lithium-ion batteries seem like the obvious choice—but they are far too expensive to play a major role.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611683/the-25-trillion-reason-we-cant-rely-on-batteries-to-clean-up-the-grid/
Why Germany’s nuclear phaseout is leading to more coal burning
Between 2011 and 2015 Germany will open 10.7 GW of new coal fired power stations. This is more new coal coal capacity than was constructed in the entire two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The expected annual electricity production of these power stations will far exceed that of existing solar panels and will be approximately the same as that of Germany’s existing solar panels and wind turbines combined. Solar panels and wind turbines however have expected life spans of no more than 25 years. Coal power plants typically last 50 years or longer. At best you could call the recent developments in Germany’s electricity sector contradictory. https://carboncounter.wordpress.com/2015/06/06/why-germanys-nuclear-phaseout-is-leading-to-more-coal-burning/
Germany Runs Up Against the Limits of Renewables
Even as Germany adds lots of wind and solar power to the electric grid, the country’s carbon emissions are rising. Will the rest of the world learn from its lesson? After years of declines, Germany’s carbon emissions rose slightly in 2015, largely because the country produces much more electricity than it needs. That’s happening because even if there are times when renewables can supply nearly all of the electricity on the grid, the variability of those sources forces Germany to keep other power plants running. And in Germany, which is phasing out its nuclear plants, those other plants primarily burn dirty coal. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601514/germany-runs-up-against-the-limits-of-renewables/
Bravo Fast Eddy. You are just rocking on relentlessly.
Ric, uhhhh, yeah, no. I had a good friend with TDS; I think there’s a script for that. If you think Trump is the big bad guy here, then you must link Pelosi and Biden are our saviors. If that’s you, here’s some unsolicited advice.
Get off the donkey/elephant see-saw and start relying on yourself to ride out our near future. The way we make it thru what’s coming? Our own supplies, skills, families, friends, neighbors and good will sown.
There is clearly going to be a lot of conflict going on because there won’t be enough energy products to go around. I would not be surprised to see the United States split into more than one grouping of states (or perhaps broken differently than states, so NYC could be separate from upstate New York, for example). Funding of Social Security would go to the new groupings, to the extent they can afford it. Political leadership will vary by area.
Grouping by “watershed” is said to work better than grouping by state.
https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/watershed-map-north-america
I’d be surprised to see it split .. when the supply chains rupture – if anyone is still alive… we go Global Holodomor immediately. And all hell will break lose.
That will be the time to reach for the Candied Fentanyl…. keep the bottle close
This guy is just too funny.
Like the techno-fascists in control now are just a fun Sunday picnic. Censorship is the new ‘Ship of State’, and isn’t yet obvious to the idiots who think they have the ‘educational skillset’ to know the correct-think.
Greer often says it best; you might recognise these people Dick;
‘My regular readers will not be surprised to hear that there are historical parallels for the situation we’re in, in which a complex society is managed by a caste of privileged intellectuals convinced that their mastery of abstract notions makes them uniquely qualified to run the world. That’s a common state of affairs at a certain point in the history of civilizations. My regular readers won’t be surprised, either, to learn that quite often the point in question is roughly where the first half of the time-honored phrase “decline and fall” gives way to the second half.
Something of the sort happens tolerably often when a clerisy ends up in control of a society. A clerisy? Why, yes. For those of my readers who aren’t familiar with the further shores of English vocabulary, a clerisy is a group of people whose claim to privilege is that they’re better educated and therefore, at least in theory, smarter than the rest of us.’
Bring it on.
https://www.ecosophia.net/the-great-rehash-part-three-unsafe-and-ineffective/
I am no fan of Trump, but odd that you are suggesting he might be a Hit–ler in the making, but the current rascals are ok?
Trump could never be a Hit ler
but there are those around him who are clever enough to create an American Reich, and use him as the next fuhrer.
I’d choose Hunter Biden before Trump
Hi Gail
If the energy in a barrel of oil is equivalent to four/five years of a humans labour and the market cannot sustain $100 a barrel, do you think wages will come down to $25/$20 per year. Are we heading for a global Cuba?
Cuba’s the likely best case scenario for the majority of us in the ‘free’ West.
The remaining Non Aligned Nations will fare better.
Hopefully they’ll treat us better than we’ve treated them.
Not possible. Supply chains would collapse.. Everyone starves
WRT the example of farmers and equipment conversions:
“ The catch is that there would need to be an enormous number of batteries built and eventually disposed of for this transition to work.”
Lithium batteries are fully recyclable, and industrial grade recycling efforts are ramping up.
I found this article on lithium recycling. https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04/lithium-costs-a-lot-of-money-so-why-arent-we-recycling-lithium-batteries/
There seem to be a lot of issues:
“less than 1 percent of Lithium-ion batteries get recycled in the US and EU compared to 99 percent of lead-acid batteries”
“recycling challenges range from the constantly evolving battery technology to costly shipping of dangerous materials to inadequate government regulation.”
“Direct recycling is an alternative that basically deconstructs the battery and retains the cathode and anode materials to be reconditioned. This method is in its early days, but it has the potential to be cheaper, safer, and more efficient. The process is made difficult by the need to manually break down a huge range of battery formats. A lithium battery pack contains modules that contain cells, and these cells are where the valuable metals are found. Manually getting to these cells is doable but tedious, and automation is needed to process high volumes.”
It is my understanding that there are 7,000 individual batteries in a Tesla; imagine the complexity.
They had some poster child plastic recycling centres set up (lots of hype) back in the day, when people became concerned with pollution. They all quietly closed. NPR has report on it buried somewhere.
dreamers, schemers….
The Tesla Model 3 battery pack represents a bottom-up redesign of the battery pack, starting first and foremost with the battery cells used in the pack. With the design of its early vehicles, Tesla was not a big enough player in the battery market to be able to design the ideal battery cell and instead used the next best thing — standard 18650 lithium-ion batteries.
https://cleantechnica.com/2019/01/28/tesla-model-3-battery-pack-cell-teardown-highlights-performance-improvements/
The battery cells in the Tesla Model 3 battery pack are sealed together with a unique epoxy that makes removing, replacing, or reusing individual cells much more difficult. Jack opines that the plastic between the cells is there to pad the cells, as a structural support which also serves to keep them from rattling around in the pack.
Plastic is very inexpensive to make. Recycling tends to take a lot of hand labor, besides fossil fuels. Gathering materials to bring them to a recycling place tends to take a lot of oil products. It is really hard to make plastic recycling economic.
Recycling an EV battery is harder than trying to put toothpaste back into the tube
i sometimes watch my recycling truck, and think that they are just carting away fresh air
Given most plastic cannot be recycled… this comes as no surprise
R&D resources are being directed to the lithium recycling task:
https://www.mdpi.com/2313-4321/6/2/31/htm
And a former Tesla engineer has founded Redwood Materials, sole goal of addressing lithium recycling at industrial scale:
https://www.redwoodmaterials.com/solutions
Sometimes (often) no matter how much money … and how many capable people are involved… ya just can’t make it happen.
We can’t even recycle most plastic — and plastic is a much simpler combination of stuff… than a lithium battery.
Ever wondered why we dispose of shaving blades? yes of course it’s cheaper to make new ones rather than collect and sharpen the used ones
All the research projects and companies now supposedly devoting their effort at recycling lithium batteries are completely dependent on government funding, and completey unprofitable….both now and in the future.
Except that they are not.
Well maybe they are in DelusiSTAN… but in RealitySTAN… nope
Hey let’s just chuck them into the ocean – with all the recycled plastic hahaha
Lithium batteries are not reyclable. It takes more energy to recycle them than it does to mine lithium and manufacture new ones.
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Steve, I am a hematologist and have published extensively on why red cells do what they do. The pictures are poor, but the second picture shows mostly what is commonly called RBC Rouleaux — stacks of red cells that occur (with or without covid or spikeshots) usually when there is hyperglobulinemia of any cause in the blood. The usual causes are immunogobulins (created in response to any inflammation) or hematologic malignancies that secrete immunoglobulins (like multiple myeloma). Fibrinogen (a key component of blood clotting) is also elevated in inflammation and can cause rouleaux formation. Rouleaux are not an unusual finding although they are not “normal” for most people. (They are relatively common in horse blood, incidentally, because the protein mix in the blood is different.)
There may also be some agglutination in that picture — hard to tell because bunches of rouleaux can also look like agglutinates. Agglutinates are just clumps of red cells (rather than rolls) due to antibodies that stick to red cells — because the red cell is nothing but a unit membrane filled with hemoglobin solution, these are not common. Agglutinates are often artifacts of collection (EDTA, an anticoagulant, can cause this) or may indicate immune mediated hemolytic anemia — but I have not seen that as a covid complication of significance.
I am not selling anyone a machine (as opposed to the picture supplier — nothing wrong with selling something, but disclosure matters) but have looked at tens of thousands of blood smears and have seen many, many with rouleaux that look just like this for decades. Having said that, I have maintained since 2020 that covid is in large part a hematologic, not respiratory, disease for a host of reasons. And if this hematologic damage is spike-related, than it will be impacted by spikeshots as well. But this picture/explanation does not contribute to thinking about that in my opinion.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/computerized-thermographic-imaging
Ana Maria Mihalcea, MD, PHD, Author of Light Medicine: A New Paradigm – The Science of Light, Spirit, and Longevity (www.ammedicalmd.com, https://anamihalceamdphd.substack.com) interviews Felipe Reitz, Biologist, Inventor, Medical Researcher in Brazil (freitz72@gmail.com) regarding his findings in C19 injected people on Computerized Thermographic Imaging revealing extensive asymptomatic blood clotting in the entire vascular system and live blood images showing Graphene oxide nanoparticles and other blood abnormalities. Join us for this shocking exploration. Stop the Shots!
https://rumble.com/v1gzhzh-computerized-thermographic-imaging-and-live-blood-analysis-post-c19-injecti.html
Excellent!
F789 the Vaxxed!
Make the injectors pay!!!
Fast Eddy, thanks for the link. The thermographic imaging of the injected is absolutely frightening. Imagine all that blockage and NO SYMPTOMS???!!!!
I’m speculating the blockages are the same fibrous castings being pulled out of people’s circulatory systems both dead and alive. I shared the link on ZH although that’s preaching to the choir, but maybe somebody who needs to see it will get the information.
I am so, so fortunate that my kids, grandkids, brother, husband and more than half of my close friends are NOT injected and I have a large family – 19 of us.
Simon has horns sprouting.
Pt5)as Gail says. Sobering presentation on support infrastructure to
Build renewables:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBVmnKuBocc
The greenies can’t deal with his staggering facts.
Hes devil of details.
Yes an excellent summation. I love the fact that what he presents is dire and he goes onto explain that it is a best case scenario because there is so much that he left out of the calculations due to difficult to obtain data such as the resources required to make the plinths for each wind turbine.
Sand is definitely in the gears now and the machine is groaning. Will it grind slowly to a halt or explode spectacularly. Place your bets, place your bets.
Speaking of EVs…. I recently read that the maintenance costs are not what people expect with an EV…. the reason being is that when something goes wrong … it’s generally electrical in nature… and it can take a long … long … long time … to identify the problem …. the mechanics bill by… the hour….
I am finding this out in real time … a brake light went on the Bat Mobile…. after 3 hours of trying to find where the issue originated – without any success — the mechanic said we recommend you just run a new wire….
I expect the bill for that to be well over $1000….
With an EV if there are issues with the battery and they cannot easily be identified replacing the lot is not an option … the mechanic will need to dig… and dig … and dig… and you get a whopping repair bill
My Model Y is nearly one year old, 13k miles, local and interstate. Maintenance thus far: reseat a passenger window switch (placed the service call on line, the tech came next day, fixed it in my driveway. Also, refilled windshield washer fluid. Will keep you posted.
I would hope that a one year old car would not encounter any issues.
Otherwise you would be the proud owner of a lemon.
According to We Predict’s research, an EV can actually cost more to own compared to a gasoline-powered car. We Predict looked at two time frames to paint its picture. This essentially boils down to service costs (when you take a vehicle in for repairs) and maintenance costs (wear and tear, fluid replacements). The firm found that in a three-month time frame, EV service costs were 2.3 times higher than a gasoline-powered car. At 12 months, EV service costs were still 1.6 times higher. We Predict found service-related costs averaged $306 per electric vehicle, while a gas-powered car averaged $189.
But why? Well, EVs are still new to the automotive landscape, and We Predict found that service centers and mechanics logged longer hours when working with EVs. That’s because it takes longer to diagnose a problem, let alone fix it, compared to traditional engines because the technology is so new. Specifically, EVs require 1.5x the labor hours and labor rates are, on average, 1.3 times higher. The additional certifications required to service and work on electric vehicles may contribute to these higher rates.
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/evs-are-cheaper-to-maintain-but-can-cost-more-to-repair-research-says/
Then there’s the more frequent tyre changes due to the weight….
Can someone remind me why anyone would buy an EV? They cost more + they are charged using fossil fuels – usually coal.
Is it cuz it has no range in cold weather?
Could it be because every year you own it the battery loses capacity?
Or maybe cuz it’s more expensive than a comparable ice vehicle?
I know – it’s cuz some people are delusional and they believe they are saving the planet hahahahahaha
Good news!
WARNING: Wuhan, China AGAIN! killing us! RAINBOW Fentanyl: a warning again! Rainbow fentanyl: the new variety of drug stopped on the border between Mexico and the US; ORIGINATES in Wuhan with COVID
“Its appearance is similar to that of a candy,” said Michael Humphries, CBP manager in Nogales, Arizona, after an operation on August 17. That time more than 250,000 pills were seized
https://palexander.substack.com/p/warning-wuhan-china-again-killing
It looks like we’ll be getting an Exist Option from the Global Holodomor … candied Fentanyl!
Computerized Thermographic Imaging and Live Blood Analysis Post C19 Injection
In this interview with Brazilian biologist and medical researcher Felipe Reitz we discuss his findings of live blood analysis and thermographic Imaging of C19 injected individuals. A thermogram is a regional temperature map of the surface of a part of the body, which is obtained by an infrared sensing device. This measures radiant heat and subcutaneous blood flow. Thermography has been proposed as a noninvasive way to detect deep vein thrombosis, which are blood clots in the venous system.
https://2ndsmartestguyintheworld.substack.com/p/computerized-thermographic-imaging
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Thank you Gail!
Most politicians have a curious skill for adopting beliefs. It seems to be a prerequisite for success.
My local observations are the real estate market has tanked big time. You need to take 20% off the price of last years valuations to reasonably expect a sale and that doesn’t guarantee anything. This has a lot of implications. People who are used to moving for employment may no longer have that flexibility. Anyone who bought in the past two years is under water BUT they have a mortgage at 3%. A 400k house at 3% and a 280k house at 6% monthly payment are the same. Effectivly that just took 30% of the value of homes. That 3% mortgage will not be duplicated if they sell so if they are selling to move they will be downgrading big time on the next house. That 3% mortgage is a valuable commodity and one that is not available and not returning IMO. This may limit the amount of people walking away from their mortgages. One thing we know from 2008 is if it goes to the bank it will not get shortsaled except for certain federal mortgages where it is required upon default. The houses will go into grey books being worth more to the bank as collateral than the sale and with mark to market long long gone as are minimum bank equity balances. It was what two years after 2008 when they got the bubble inflating again. I think its different this time but Im often wrong. At some point those foreclosed houses will be taken off the banks books and become “low income” hud houses. That goes against blackrock buying up all these residential homes but blackrock will find a way to sweeten the deal. Now cash is king. Just like 2008.
musical chairs over. the chair your in is it at least for a while.
Fawci walks in December…
Mission Accomplished?
Do we even make it to December?
I am really looking forward to the Extra Strength Injections … I am urging people to get that shot as soon as it’s available.
I wanna see how the MOREONS react to even higher levels of vax injuries and deaths. Will they connect the dots? hahahahaha
I live for the moment when they have that epiphany .. what have I done…. and then they realize they’ve also done it to their children…
Like I said… hahahahahaha…. I actually don’t mind being exterminated a week after that happens… it will complete my journey … hahaha
Rats leaving sinking ship.
The real question is will Trump come clean?
I screwed up. The injections are unsafe and ineffective.
The man doesnt exactly have a small ego.
Without coming clean he is not to be trusted.
Not that any red clown or blue clown is to be trusted.
I just dont know. Four more years of divisiveness. I might join a monastery in Tibet. The blue clowns lovest the trumpster the mostest. They dont have to be accountable just hate on trump.
Why cant my girl Tulsi be supreme leader! With Mike Tyson as VP of course.
At this point you got to ask…What sane person would want to be president? Wanting to be president should disqualify you for the position.
“if it goes to the bank it will not get shortsaled”
The largest mortgage lender in Britain (Lloyds Bank) announced last week that they plan to become the largest private landlord.
So, they’ll take ownership of your home and rent it back to you.
I think I now know how “you’ll own nothing and be happy” will work.
https://t.me/childcovidvaccineinjuriesuk/2018?single
The Sepsis death rate in the 21,926 double vaccinated group of the Pfizer Phase III Clinical trial was 21 X higher than normal, and the Cardiovascular death rate was 2 X higher than normal
▪️This strongly indicates that the Pfizer Covid-19 injection does in fact cause a new form of ‘acquired immunodeficiency syndrome’, because sepsis is caused by failure of the immune system
▪️ Sepsis/Septicemia results from immune system failure to defeat a microbial (viral yeast or bacterial) infection
▪️ Double jabbed cardiovascular and sepsis rates; 52.9% and 23.5% death rates respectively. Compared to the general population and the unvaccinated who suffer only 26.3% and 1.1% or 25.3% and 0% respectively
Pfizer vaccination weakens the immune system where people succumb to microbial infections and die at 21 X the normal rate in the first 6 months after vaccination
Figures now reveal that 1 in 30, or 3.49%, of children ages 3 to 17 were diagnosed with autism in 2020. What is behind this sudden surge?
▪️US National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) revealed that out of 12,554 children surveyed in 2019 and 2020, 410 were diagnosed with autism
▪️The overall prevalence of autism in 2019 was 2.79%, increasing to 3.49% in 2020, which represents a 53% increase since 2017
▪️The rate of autism in lower-income families is higher than in higher-income families
▪️Lower-income families tend to have higher vaccination rates than higher-income families
▪️In 2010 the federal vaccine court conceded that Hannah Poling’s autism was the result of vaccinations, which “significantly aggravated an underlying mitochondrial disorder, which predisposed her to deficits in cellular energy metabolism, and manifested as a regressive encephalopathy with features of autism spectrum disorder”
READ HERE (https://expose-news.com/2022/08/19/are-vaccines-to-blame-for-rise-in-autism/)
I know a 4x vaxxed person who has sepsis — which has morphed into a super bug — IV drip of antibiotics has failed…
What if the UEP was not relying on some roll-of-the-dice ‘variant’ of some potentially non-existent virus, but put their money down on bringing out the true killer. They say it’s latent in 30% of the world’s population.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=sepsis+and+tuberculosis&size=200
Let’s not rule that out … as we know — the injections destroy the immune system
They key is we need lots and lots of people dying from something … because the goal is to convince the herd to lockdown and starve to death.
I currently know two vaxxed suffering of severe sepsis. They used to have that before vaxx though.
I think I may have mentioned but let’s repeat — a Pro Vaxxer I know had sepsis — starting in January … it’s now morphed into a super bug … and he’s getting IV antibiotics — and that’s failing. 4x jabbed. Does not connect dots — he is paying the price
The thing is…
You know all those fools who deny that governments and powerful people conspire?
The ones who scoff if you demonstrate to them it is impossible to land on the moon … that the US govt orchestrated 911…. and so on..
You know them… we have some of them on OFW.
These same people – who trust the government — believed and continue to believe the injections are Safe and Effective!
So they injected them. And they’ll inject the Extra Strength version shortly.
And now they get to pay a very severe price … for not accepting the obvious – that governments and powerful people conspire… to the detriment of MOREONS.
They planned to kill MOREONS with Operation Northwoods… they bombed MOREONS with Operation Gladio … they murdered 3000 when they took down the towers…
And now… And Now…. hundreds of millions if not billions will be maimed and murdered by these injections.
Does anyone else find this amusing?
eye rolling time again
it used to be only millions dead and maimed
now i see we’re into billions.
Gets wackier with each retelling
It’s actually going to be nearly 8B … but the injected get to go first…
It’s already happening norm… you’ve f789ed yourself with the Safe and Effective hahahaha
I ask again — how can someone be so stooopid to inject something that has not been tested for side effects?
And then when one realizes one can still get covid and die from it – even though one was told that was not possible — one injects even more.
This is not re tard ed behavious… it’s someone far more profound.
the title of Gail’s current article:
>>>>Why No Politician Is Willing to Tell Us the Real Energy Story<<<<
on day one—eight eddyisms in a row, all about covid.
Does it never occur to you eddy, that covid is a sideshow compared to the collapse in our energy-support system, which is imminent.
But of course, your talkrate begins and ends with covid, so you never stop going on about it. And have done for the past 2 years.
I forecast all this 10 years ago—but keep ranting
yes norm you are the new malthus…
Covid is the response… not a side show
And the goal is to inject and poison — and exterminate
No Fast Eddy, I don’t find it amusing. The horror of it and the wonder of it reminds me of a tiny slice of the Universal Form as described in A.C. Bhaktivedanta’s Bhagavad Gita As It Is, circa 1972.
The Universal Form was revealed to Arjuna by Krsna on the battle field of Kurukshetra. The short description: Unlimited Blazing Mouths where unlimited living entities are entering into the unlimited Blazing Mouths.
Massive deaths will significantly disrupt society, in fact, it already has in the airline industry and the health care industry. It will get worse.
Sounds like you’re just waiting around to die?
I’ve know I was a dead man walking since shortly after GFC… that’s why I spend the years after GFC on a massive bucket list.
I even told many of my friends who were deep in the gold mine shovelling away that they were wasting their time… and was scoffed at.
Guess what – he who scoffs last scoffs best.
Hahahaha… who gives a f789… we all die soon. Zero regrets. Zero. 10+ years of pure joy hahaha…
It’s good knowing I was right. Really .. really … good.
Here’s how the rest of it will play out:
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=220
In the meantime .. we watch the MOREONS inject the Super Strength Shot … and fall dead … Mark Crispin Miller won’t be able to keep up
This is a fitting end… for the MOREONS. Death by Stooopidity!
‘That Should Have Gone Down’: Life Insurance Companies Across the Board See Staggering Increase in Death Benefit Payouts
Rumble (https://rumble.com/v1ggoe2-that-should-have-went-down.html)
norm… mike? mike? Where are yee mike?
I don’t believe most politicians and economists understand the energy situation unfortunately. I wouldn’t frame it as if they are the adults in the room but just don’t want to tell us the unfortunate reality of the situation. There have been an increasing number of Marie Antoinette type comments coming from our aristocracy lately. If gas is too expensive, let them drive EVs is a common one. Solar panels are 30% off said another official lately in response to the plight of poor folks trying to pay their bills.
Complainers are Putin lovers. Your not a Putin lover are you comrade?
The most important aspect of any job, is keeping it.
Politicians suffer more than most from this problem.
Politicians need votes, and will do literally anything to get those votes, and sit in office for another time period, pretending to exercise control of contemporary events.
But in many nations, there is worse afoot than the thinking of mere politicians:
To quote James Inhofe (R. Okla, secretary of state for the environment at the time): “My point is, God’s still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to influence what he is doing in the climate is to me outrageous’. (My quote ref. from 2012)
Inhofe is just typical. And he has been voted into public office since 1976. Millions believe him, others like him.
In other words, humankind is not subject to the laws of physics at all. And that is at the centre of our problem. The certainty that we can have have infinite growth on a finite planet. Energy is just supposed to ‘appear’ on demand.
Millions vote for just that.
MAGA means just that—dress it up how you will. MAGA is just the latest version of it.
So disbelief in the inevitable is embedded in the minds of ‘believers’; millions vote for prosperity, without regard for the impossibility of such a concept.
In other words, the problem we face is not an energy shortage, but a ‘belief shortage’. Jesus will return to ‘fix things’ if only we pray hard enough.
It’s not just a problem in the USA, but it is exacerbated there by the fact of being the most powerful nation on earth.
And when Jesus does not ‘deliver’, there will be wars of denial. (We’re not praying hard enough)
We still have those to look forward to.
You ain’t seen nothing yet.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1547259907275075584
They are comming!
Norman was right!
Yes, that’s all very well, Norman. But prey tell us, who should we be voting for at the next election? Physicists, chemists, biologists, astronomers? People who know their science like the back of their hands? How about virologists? Shall we vote for them? Or Climatologists?
And is it enough that they know their science—or pretend to know it? Shall we limit our votes to atheist scientists who are prepared to assert that there are no deities except for the ones that haunt the poor tortured minds of believers?
If we narrow our candidates down that much, perhaps we can vote ourselves a good government—no?
Or is it actually the case that civilized humanity has been domesticated to the point where we are as physically, mentally and emotionally dependent on our rulers, owners and managers as farm animals are on the farmer?
And could this be the reason why so much of our political speech these days sounds like baah, baah, baah, moo, moo, moo, oink, oink, oink!
Governments, good, bad or mediocre, are entirely subject to the forces of surplus energy available to them. Dismiss that if you wish, but in doing so you are dismissing the laws of physics.
Gods have nothing to do with it.
i can only suggest that you don’t vote for anyone who promises growth. But your gullibility might override that.
if you are still in the voting camp where our problem is seen as a political one, then you have a bigger problem than i can advise on.
And if you still see voting for prosperity as a good idea, i can only suggest you vote for astrologers.
Norman, thank you for attempting to put together a coherent answer.
If you read my comment carefully, or get a responsible adult to read it for you and explain the details, you should be able to comprehend that I was not dismissing that. I was simply asking a string of questions based on your own comments in an attempt to gain clarification of what your opinion is on the issue of who to vote for.
For what it’s worth, I have never voted—not even once. The only national election I was qualified to vote in was the 1979 one in the UK that brought Margaret Thatcher to power. But we had a lot of overtime to do back then and I never made it to the voting booth. And since the early eighties I’ve been an expatriate and consequently lacking the franchise.
Now you are telling me not to vote for anyone who promises growth. Well, if I ever do get to exercise the franchise, I will certainly bear that in mind. It narrows the field nicely, doesn’t it?
What do the rest of you think? Is Norman correct? Given that we are all subject to the laws of physics, is there no difference between voting for Party A, B, or C, and for candidate X, Y or Z?
Or has Norman overlooked that there is more to human life than the laws of physics? Is he unaware that, regardless of the maximum size of the available pie, there is more than one way to cook it and more than one way of dividing it up?
if you are a godbotherer Tim, then yes–you are free to believe that there is more to life than the laws of physics.
If you are not, then the laws of physics govern you from birth to death.
I took the previous comments re voting as an attempt at (pointless) rhetoric, and dismissed it as such.
It should be obvious that governments cannot influence long term events because that is in turn subject to energy availability.
given that you consider Alex Jones a folk hero (as per a comment made a while back, plus a few other whack job comments on other matters), I would despair at ever finding a responsible adult to explain anything you write. I make a ‘best guess’ at it, for the benefit of other OFW inmates.
You are a serial logic chopper, Norman. Keep it up, because it’s obviously what you’re best at.
logic chopper (plural logic choppers): A person who makes confusing or specious arguments, especially arguments involving equivocation.
It’s pointless trying to teach you anything, but I still persevere from time to time, because at least some other readers will get it.
If I were you, I would despair at ever finding a responsible adult to take you seriously. God knows I’ve tried, multiple times, but you seem incapable of treating other people, or facts, or logic, with respect.
I’m sorry, I have tested positive for being totally p-i-ss-ed off with your cantankerous piffle and I will be self- isolating until I’m feeling better again.
ask Alex Jones to clarify your problems Tim.
anyone seeing him as other than a charlatan is beyond my scope of reason. And that’s before we get to moonloonery, WTC and all the rest.
And it’s me who’s beyond redemption?
I’d borrow a few aitches and a’s from eddy, but his need is greater than mine.
You know when you try to explain a somewhat complicated issue to a person who is just not quite up to it….
You speak to them like you would a child in say grade 3….
If they still don’t get it fortunately you have all this practise trying to explain something to norm… of course he never gets it … but most other people will not matter how obtuse they are …
No disrespect intended norm … we know you have that Blood Brain Barrier Breach and the spike is embedded in all parts of your brain … prions are folding left right and centre… we are amazed that you can still function at all
Booster 5 is it? That’s gonna be the Super Strength one…
5 shots in not much more than a year … hmmmm… this is what some might refer to as… insanity.
Voting is irrelevant and democracy is a sham. I don’t waste my time voting or listening to politicians.
That is anathema to norm … norm dreams of being an American so he could vote for Biden.
Voting legitimizes fraud.
But that’s a good thing because we don’t actually want democracy.
https://theviraler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/funny-weird-people-01-2.jpg
Personally I have been “voting with my feet” and preparing for the next stage of austerity down the cliff since the pandemic began. This political cycle had me observing conservative candidates who promised to protect me and my livelihood from arbitrary shutdowns and progressive candidates who had no problem telling me I should be ashamed by the color of my skin, spouting social justice while marching with rioters and calling lockdown protestors traitors and telling me that I can be segregated from society for my informed medical decisions.
I’ve had numerous encounters with liberal clients and committee members involved in state-level community service who gave me sermons about my vaccination status completely oblivious or willfully ignorant about the actual updated science regarding Sars-Cov2 transmission and the mRNA vaccines. As far as divining the trajectory of the US by distinguishing between R- or D- there is no exception because both are “entirely subject to the forces of surplus energy available to them.” I can do without the shallow rhetoric and gaslighting from their followers. This could go either way at this point as far as I am concerned.. fascism or global capitalism. I will fight both. Thanks!
I don’t understand why anti-vaxxers get offended when one states that one enjoys hearing about vax injured and dead.
This is exponentially better than rubber necking a car crash — the people in the crash never offended you
thanks for that link el mar (don’t know if you were being serious or sarcastic.) Doesn’t matter either way.
As energy availability goes into serious depletion and collapse, fascism is inevitable, And people will vote for it.
as I’ve been pointing out for years, when the USA becomes a fascist state (not if), there will be no problem in finding people to run the concentration camps. That video shows that all too clearly.
God is telling them what to do. What could possibly go wrong?
Particularly enjoyed the bit where they declare ”that the USA is energy independent”—correlates precisely with my first comment above, and confirms my thinking that vast swathes of people are certain of their immunity from the laws of physics.
Great stuff, thanks again.
You are welcome!
I like your comments and your twitter-blog!
thanks el mar
norm … you’ve been suckered again …
el mar is playing you … you know how when Fauci said 95% effective … and you believed that … then he said it would stop people from dying … and you believed that… and now the super strength Booster 5 is meant to be 100% effective— and you believe that…
It’s kinda like that…. ever heard of a stitch up? Ever watch Candid Camera?
Like that. kinda
Everyone but you is in on the joke… we’re all giggling and pissing our pants at the moment … I was nominated to break the bad news to you… el mar feels kinda bad… but we gave him another pint and he’s joining in the laughter… we are trying to convince him to post that he’s keen on subscribing to your Only Fans page … Xabier – can you get el mar another pint … put it on my tab…
still ‘pedalling” your nonsense eddy? Right on ‘queue’ as usual.
i look on it as my duty to keep you on rant alert on OFW 24/7, so the girls on reception at the medical centre can get on with giving help to people who genuinely need it.
ya the moreons who are 4x vaxxed and have wrecked bodies should have priority… best nobody wastes the doctors time showing them stuff like this https://pdfhost.io/v/nvrgA~sEJ_VAERS_Heart_Damage_V8 as they are busy cleaning up the carnage they caused.
right norm?
moreon is spelled moron
in case you ever need to pass an exam in basic English
MORE ON. MOREON…. plural
he is/was a moron
they are/were morons
his/their views are/were moronic
definitions:
Idiots. —Those so defective that the mental development never exceeds that of a normal child of about two years.
Imbeciles. —Those whose development is higher than that of an idiot, but whose intelligence does not exceed that of a normal child of about seven years.
Morons. —Those whose mental development is above that of an imbecile, but does not exceed that of a normal child of about twelve years.
— Edmund Burke Huey, Backward and Feeble-Minded Children, 1912
now eddy, should we examine the linguistic capabilities of a 12 yr old? When I was 10, I could differentiate between queue and cue, and pedal and peddle. Had it come up, I would have known the plural of moron.
I think I had grown out of chalking on skoolyard walls.
but keep on telling me about yourself–eternally fascinating.
Entertainers like to make up stories about themselves. The stories don’t need to be true.
i know that Gail
the problems start when the entertainer actually believes it to be true.
and same story is told so many times it becomes true—hence the ranting rage when someone in the audience stands up and says:
”Excuse me, but why haven’t you got any clothes on?”
“i look on it as my duty”
Duty?
I’m with GBS when it comes to those that claim duty as their motivation.
“When a stupid man is doing something that he ashamed of, he always declares it is his duty.”
Admit it, you enjoy your time with Eddy 😉
well i prefer saving fallen women
but during covid they fell before i could get to them
so i pass the time recycling eddys garbage.
“but during covid they fell before i could get to them”
Covid the great deadly pandemic?
Logically speaking, that must have been piles of bodies, deadly pandemic and all that 😁
i was having to step over the dead ones in the hope of finding a live one
I did see a job offer, they wanted someone to push the ‘bring out yer dead’ cart, but I declined, not having the time to spare from OFW
norm … are you a knight? a knight is soggy diapers…. come to rescue the fair maidens!
https://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/2306736/83714424.jpg
knight is soggy diapers?
i think you might have meant in soggy diapers
i charge extra for English lessons
norm has an Only Fans site as well… featuring SS SINdy… pay to play though…
3.55 uk time
duly noted, Another eddiywit rises from its pile of BS
Attenborough is getting really excited about his trip to NZ to film it.
Keep it alive and nourished eddy—he doesn’t want to get there and find it’s gone extinct.
https://onlyfans.com/normnakeddiaperman+SSS
can’t risk opening the link eddy
but the context suggests another eddywit sighting—so i’ll book that down for Sir David’s reference,
thanks
no need to open it – you already know what’s behind it
“there will be no problem in finding people to run the concentration camps”
Very true Norman. As the last 2½ years have clearly shown, certain people will follow any orders that come from the high priests of the cult known as ‘the science’.
The big big issue from here on out is going to boil down to “who will do the concentrating and who will do the camping?”
lets hope you are not co-opted into either side of that enterprise
Just assume he’s mocking you… and that everyone one OFW snickers behind your back..
Then the paranoia will no longer be paranoia … you know what I mean
https://t.me/VigilantFox/5665 Hahaha – actual gas bills from Italy – BOOM! Wait till winter….
Death shots for sure https://t.me/robinmg/22461
Baby Deaths! https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/ottawa-police-detective-faces-charges
She is dead on – we’ve pumped norm so full of facts and logic and still he let’s the BBC think for him – it is impossible to change norm https://t.me/robinmg/22442
This is definitely some sort of Alien Lizard… what a f789ing FREAK https://t.me/chiefnerd/4602
i wont open the links
just take their nonsense value as read
I wouldn’t expect you to open the links norm.
glad we can agree on something
These are links norm opens
https://www.bbc.com/news
https://edition.cnn.com/
not once eddys fingerprints are on it
news about elevated death rates is leaking out
and we’re running out of excuses to deflect blame
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/news-about-elevated-death-rates-is
Why People in Germany Get Vaccinated
https://harald-walach.info/2022/08/16/why-people-in-germany-get-vaccinated/
My Thoughts On The Decision To Take A Novavax Injection
The idea of accepting an injection of spike protein hoping it is safe or effective is absurd. Yet, many are again forced to make a decision threatening their health and ability to support their family
https://pierrekory.substack.com/p/my-thoughts-on-the-decision-to-take
norm? https://t.me/childcovidvaccineinjuriesuk/2029
WOW – it’s picking up huge steam now – VAIDS everywhere
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/tv-star-rushed-to-hospital-canadian And they haven’t a clue hahaha
Horowitz: “German insurance claims hint at millions of unreported COVID vaccine injuries”; Putting aside confounding factors, just to provide a rough estimate to open your mind to scope of problem,
…a 4.3% clinical level injury rate, if extrapolated for the 223 million vaccinated in the United Sates, would equal approximately 9.6 million injured Americans; data matches Israeli harms evidence
https://palexander.substack.com/p/horowitz-german-insurance-claims
Oh Look – it’s VAIDS – aka the Grim Reaper (just wait till the Extra Strength Vaccines Drop hahaha!!!)
my husband David Miranda was at a campaign event for his re-election to the Brazilian Congress. He began experiencing intense pain, went to the Emergency Room later that day, and was quickly diagnosed with a severe gastro-intestinal disorder that required him to be immediately admitted to the ICU.
He has remained there ever since, in critical condition, and several complications caused by his original condition have made his situation quite dire. https://greenwald.substack.com/p/note-to-readers-468
Gastrointestinal Complications of COVID-19 Vaccines https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35573556/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=gastrointestinal+and+tuberculosis&size=200
The thing with VAIDS is you don’t die from it … (that’s the good news norm)…. but it makes you susceptible to every horrifying disease that has plagued humans since the beginning of time.
It’s kinda like opening the gates of hell and inviting the demons to have an orgi inside your body hahaha
Imagine the scientists who came up with this twisted shit… Fawchee – who tortures dogs – would be the perfect guy for this — he’d revel at the idea of coming up with a shot that kills and maims in so many ways.
The most fraudulent event they’ve ever seen;
Why did Pfizer hide the safety data?
They knew how many people including children were severely injured and died.
Dr. Russell Blaylock; Many people in the safety trial were absolutely devastated by these ‘vaccines’
Many children, including a 14 year old girl was left with mental retardation, paralysed and unable to feed without a tube. Pfizer reported she had a stomach ache
WATCH HERE (https://rumble.com/v1g3s9n-advocacy-lifeline-episode-39-follow-up-interview-with-dr.-russell-blaylock.html)
I’d really enjoy reading about a doctor getting sorted out – that would be extremely schadenfreuding https://t.me/robinmg/22502
USA! https://t.me/arkmedic/4825
https://twitter.com/aapsonline/status/1560763402091626496?s=21&t
AssocAmerPhys&Surg
“Our results support a modest and transient [re]activation of HIV expression following SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination … [T]here is no reason to think that this effect is clinically…
Why did the court order them to drip feed the docs? Why not order the whole lot? There is some sort of PR spin going on here… taunting.. mocking… good guy bad guy… it’s the same think with Florida Desantis… good guy bad guy See the comments from Dr Thorp… https://pierrekory.substack.com/p/massive-miscarriage-rates-among-vaccinated
Nz Die – Off https://bestnewshere.com/deaths-spiking-16-to-26-in-new-zealand-in-recent-months-in-excess-of-baseline-avg
Japan hahaha https://twitter.com/julia_s48503986/status/1560350498124881921
Germany woo woo https://twitter.com/julia_s48503986/status/1559969752470196224
norm – is this you? https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/38714
eddy
applaud the vigilante ideology of Robinson if you must
but remember- if you live in a vigilante society, one day the vigilantes will come for YOU.
just pointing it out
unless of course you are always he who casts the first stone?
After the episode yesterday … FE is thinking why crash into a rock cut…. when there is so much grief that can be caused by ramming into other targets – at 200mph of course
well at least theres no danger of causing any damage to anything between your ears
Western University in Canada is requiring all students and staff to get a covid booster by October 1st. They made the announcement AFTER tuition was due. https://gettr.com/post/p1nrrp2fa92
norm – do you agree? Dan Bongino, says ‘getting the vaccine was the biggest mistake…and greatest regret of my life.’ https://rumble.com/v1gxrwv-the-worst-healthcare-mistake-ive-ever-made.html
thanks for this… before reading some house cleaning to take care of:
“Rather than birds flying beautifully in unison, as Desmet analogizes to explain mass formation, during COVID-19, many people have become more like a flock of goldfinches huddled silently together in the bushes hiding from the hawk circling above. When the hawk is gone, they come alive again and go about their cheery business.
In other words, there is no “mass hypnosis”. There is no “madness of crowds”. There is no psychosis. People were – and are – simply acting out of fear and self preservation. In other words, standard human (herd) behaviour that is thousands of years old.
A fantastic discussion https://jermwarfare.com/tnt/peter-breggin-mass-formation
WOW – US gas prices smash record https://t.me/chiefnerd/4630
Another medically baffling coincidence, an outbreak of childhood dementia. https://newspunch.com/hundreds-of-children-diagnosed-with-childhood-dementia-doctors-baffled/
If you are feeling blue about being exterminated watch this https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/38753
sheesh
eight in a row from eddy
you must be worn out
and all about covid
lol
Time for Eddy to start his own blog.
Nobody would read an Eddy blog. That’s why he comes here.
The thing is …
Eddy needs DelusiSTANIS to inspire him (e.g. norm) … which leads to much entertainment for Fast Eddy acolytes … who come to OFW for the bread and circuses…
And we all recall what happened when FE decided to go into hibernation … OFW was a graveyard … week after week … when FE did not reappear — the despair was a shot heard round the world… it was nearly time for purple koo-aid for the OFWers…
Meanwhile — Harry – we’ve had enough of your whatever it is you are doing and not updating us with doom… Fast Eddy is hauling his water + yours and it’s becoming a burden
eddy
i was under the impression that everyone except you lived in delusistan
You can tell who’s in DelusiSTAN by the level of mockery FE targets you with.
That’s cuz DelusiSTANIS are not worth wasting time arguing with if one disagrees with them. Facts and logic are not relevant — as you demonstrate
5th jab norm? What’s the freebie with 5 — surely you must get a free trip or a new car as a sweetener – it’s a big commit! With huge risk (for nothing hahaha)
Gail writes the articles.
FE writes the follow up.
All … is as … it should be.
Ed your not serious?
As geeky engineer I can only put things in my terms.
What Gail builds is like a classic conventional house. Painstakingly perfect but extremely well designed. A classic. Beautiful well maintained lawn and trees. Everything in its place. You know all is well in the world.
What Eddy builds is like a combo earthship and straw bale. You go WTF. Then you check it out. Heck structurally its bomber. Then theres the chicken coop in the front yard and the tractor engine being rebuilt in the living room. The goats climb on your car if you park wrong.
Not that eddys contribution is equal to Gails. Its not. (sorry FE) . When eddy was gone this place just wasnt the same. I still came of course the meal was just as good but desert was gone!
If there is one thing I worry about its that Gail will be held responsible for others comments. Over the past year there have been comments that the “moderator is responsible”. I consider Gails contribution very important. I wouldnt blame her if she ended the comments altogether. Unfortunately I perceive risk in “unaceptable” views. I am not sure Gail perceives risk the same way. Her blog. Her choice. Her risk.
well he would certainly get no one disagreeing with him
17 Eddy posts.
How long has OFW been hibernating … 5 … days? That’s only 3+ posts per day in the piggy bank…. all curated and packaged up — FE had to go through hundreds of Telegram and SSs to get that for ya’ll.
He’ll be sending ya’ll his bill
Are you trying to say that Eddie has a monomaniacal mental condition that only worsens the more that Gail indulges it?
The thing is…
If all of you (there are of course exceptions involving The Core contributors) had something useful to say … that would dilute Fast Eddy and at the same time instead of having to power the comments with Great Finds from SS and Telegram… + all the original thoughts that FE is under pressure to create 24/7…. FE might be entertained spending time reading stuff other than the drivel (that he mostly deletes)….
And there might be more balance on OFW.
It’s kinda like the Titanic … most of the passengers are on the stern … and there are a few of us Intellectual Giants on the bow trying to keep the ship afloat.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=miscarriage+and+tuberculosis&sort=date&size=200
Whitefish Point Lighthouse is still looking for a king Eddy and just think, you’d literally be on the bow of Michigan, jutting out into Lake Superior and all that fresh water. Easy ‘out’ too if ROF happens in the winter. Cut a hole in the ice and step-in. Voila, no Feds hounding you for Fentanyl Candy in your pockets.
Ya but TruDUNCE is too close…
I would not dare to venture such an opinion
I value my peace of mind too much to have it disturbed by images of eddy breaking down my door with an axe.
Fellow inmates of OFW are of course free to judge such matters for themselves. Any input from me would be superfluous.
oh i don’t know eddy
even Macron has plagiarised my book title :
”The End of Abundance”—the cheek of it.
at least he doesn’t keep banging on about covid
There are two consequential articles by Harrison Koehli about a collctive death wish, also showing up as “I wish that all moarons die”:
https://ponerology.substack.com/p/anti-religion-and-the-cult-of-death
https://ponerology.substack.com/p/the-parable-of-johnny-and-petey-and
I am pretty sure that Fast’s death wish is completely different from the ones his friends the elites have.
Since the last article, several finite world issues have been hitting Sweden.
New record prices for electricity.
The Baltic sea is getting short on herring. This is devastating for the production of sour (fermented) herring. People have to fight for them in the grocery store.
From wikipedia:
“During the production of surströmming, just enough salt is used to prevent the raw herring from rotting while allowing it to ferment. A fermentation process of at least six months gives the fish a characteristic strong smell and somewhat acidic taste.[2] A newly opened can of surströmming has one of the most putrid food smells in the world, even stronger than similarly fermented fish dishes such as the Korean hongeohoe or Japanese kusaya.”
Sadly, it may be to late to taste this delicacy…
Yeah, what’s Sweden got — no fossil fuels, & a very cold climate.
Experience, as far as I know, continues to show that no AC power grid chronically gets even nearly half its energy from IRE (intermittent renewable energy — wind, solar, etc.), partly because of the difficulty of “buffering the intermittency”.
To preach a bit about storage batteries: I have, for several years, been powering such as this tablet from “deep cycle” batteries, charged from a solar panel. I buy the deep-cycle batteries from Costco, & I’m about to exchange my present one after 11 months use, because the unloaded voltage I can charge it to has declined quite a bit (Costco warranties these “marine deep-cycle” batteries for only one year, whereas they warranty their regular car-starting batteries for three years).
Using batteries for “deep-cycle” power storage, in which they’re often drained deeply & then recharged, is much harder on them than the typtcal usage of car-starting batteries (where they’re usually kept at or near full charge).
Hi Gail, thanks for your post. It’s been my view for a while now that the whole Agenda 2030, WEF’s Great Reset and the UK’s drive for net zero are all smoke and mirrors to disguise the approaching net energy cliff. These agenda’s aren’t for our benefit though and I believe the real battle ahead is what a post-growth civilisation is going to look like.
‘Instead, they need to provide the illusion that they are in charge.’
A small city in NZ (Auckland) has local body elections running. They happen every 3 years.
The campaign budget allowed is about 650k per candidate.. I believe.
The salary is 300k.
Vested interests / lobby groups are backing ‘their’ candidate. Bought and sold.
Those really in charge use the ‘elected’ individual to achieve their ends, and to be the scapegoat when it all goes south.
Again Gail thank you very much!!!
I should relate in my job at a natural gas compressor manufacturer recent hires of electricians complained bitterly about gas prices and desire above all to stop commuting. One guy said his gas cost was running 250 a week and four hours in rush hour traffic. He has moved from the construction industry to oil and gas and is happy beyond belief. 5 minutes from work. Others have followed in his footsteps.. Jorge his gas went from 600 a month down to 150. lol? One foremen i know his pickup truck, the fuel is slowly killing him financially and he lives only 10 minutes away. Trucks? Reminds me of a doctor I once saw drive to a care home in a 3/4 ton dully lol Watching him park that beast in a small corner of the lot was hilarious. inch in, inch out, back and forth for what seemed liked 20 minutes? Look at me Mr. Macho I said to a co-worker and then laughed roared actually when I learned he was a doctor come to see a patient? I wonder if hes still driving that beast of a diesel and trying to park in a spot reserved for a mini?
THANKS much again some more for all your goods works, Gail. Always look forward to your articles.
The climate change issue is a monster HOAX created by Al Gore with his movie and now has been grabbed onto and run hard for ONE reason Only.
Raise taxes for governments, and now the big time push by the U.N. for the world to give them lots of money to do the impossible. CHANGE THE WEATHER!
Sweet Greta, the bitter snarling teenager was / is the U.N.s created mouthpiece. She is of course pals with the head of Greenpeace, another money hustler for the gullible.
The first rule for any major scam is to follow the money, and the “Global Warming” label for the hustle had to be relabeled to “Climate Change” as global warming could not be substantiated, so it fell apart.
I was in the oil business, living in Denver, many many decades ago and owned some production in Wyoming. One of the all time favorite books on the business when it first came out in hardback in those days was Dan Yergins book, “The Prize”, which I highly recommend to all interested in the business.
The USA has a MAJOR problem. The POTUS, the Demented One, apparently believes the B.S. put forth n the “Green New Deal”. He is on camera rushing up to a small crowd at a political rally and screeching, “Look in my eyes. I am going to eliminate hydrocarbons!”. Then shuts down the pipeline from Canada bringing in 800,000 bbls a day and curtails federal land leasing. Gasoline price spikes by about 100% more or less, so he then does the symbolic media event to go beg the Saudis to pump more to bring gas prices down. Insanity writ large.
The oil business is much to complex for simple any simple fix to now drop the price.
Five dollar gas and diesel with the supply demand issues look to be here for a while and folks wonder if and whether the Inflation genie can be put back in the bottle.
Friends and neighbors are responding with running their cars on the bottom quarter of the gas tank, so there is some demand destruction, but the choice is to have gas to go buy groceries at very high prices, or reduce grocery buys?
Gail, Thanks for your patience in explaining the reality of the end of the Age of Limits over and over. The big difference between the collapse of previous civilizations and today is the advent of globalization. This time the collapse will be global & meaningful recovery problematic at best.
I agree. Globalization since World War II is what has made a huge share of manufacturing possible. We could not have the technology we have today without the supply chains from around the world.
Global trade is already starting to shrink back. Without global trade we lose replacement parts for a whole lot of things we depend upon, including vehicles and refrigerators. Making new things is even a bigger problem.
Perhaps mfg’s can start designing their products that last much longer and are easier to repair instead of throwing out the product when it breaks. We seem to have hit a trend decades ago where the economy benefited by reselling durable goods instead of repairing them. Back in the 70’s we used to repair TV’s, radio’s, toasters etc. Now everything has been designed to break much faster and was designed to be thrown away.
With just a few weeks to cold weather, it might better to sit back and enjoy the show with popcorn. There is no need for “should do”, “should have”, solar, space, wind, moving back MFG, etc.. just too late..
Maybe the circular economy will work
smaller weaker countries are now trying the Circle The Drain economy.
with poor results so far.
Sri Lanka is trying it … not working out so well for them.
Simon Michaux loses credibility by promoting a circular economy…
https://media.tenor.com/images/0d4e1da31434521897e855bc9da683d5/tenor.gif
Gail, where does nuclear fit into this? Is it because it is cheap and abundant (if they so choose) it is shunned so universally?
The fact that the effect of radiation is a big unknown is one issue. Several people have told me that they believe that this issue is overstated. People in certain parts of the world routinely get high levels of radiation. Radiation used in medical treatment is higher than the radiation that would come from a nuclear accident. I really don’t know.
Because of the fear of an accident and radiation problems, the way nuclear power plants are built today takes a very long time and is expensive (especially in rich countries that feel the need to build plants to the best possible specifications). The plants more or less need to be paid for, in advance, with monthly payments from future electricity buyers. I know that our family has been helping pay for the new Votle nuclear power plants in Georgia for several years.
In areas where electricity is priced based on supply and demand at a particular time of day (a horrible approach, by the way, but necessary to give extra funding to wind and solar), nuclear cannot be profitable. This is what is driving nuclear out of business in places where wind and solar are widely used. I think that this is a major issue in the decline of nuclear. Also, pre-funding nuclear is not feasible, if rates are not set in a way that allow such pre-funding to occur.
I should also point out the nuclear requires international trade and very long supply lines. Kazakistan is the world’s largest supplier of uranium; Russia does the majority of the world’s processing of uranium. We need to stay on good terms with all of the countries involved. Otherwise, our ability to get replacement fuel may disappear.
Also, if fossil fuel supply drops, our ability to maintain electricity transmission lines will fall. There is, in theory, a way of recycling used uranium, but this tends to be quite expensive and is not really done much, in practice.
Someone told me that they thought that it was the oil industry (or perhaps the Rockefeller family and others who made their money from oil) has historically worked to provide negative public relations for nuclear, as a way of keeping fossil fuel prices up. I don’t know whether this is true.
The places that are building new nuclear power plants tend to be poor countries. https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/plans-for-new-reactors-worldwide.aspx
According to the above website:
Hi and thanks for another good post.
Two comments:
1) “Military intelligence is to intelligence as military music is to music.”
Some very few people in the MIC might realize that their line of business is a prime target for savings when spendings are to be decided. Most are just stupid.
2) This about “politicians” and their motivations is fully described by Hanlons Razor
“as military music is to music”
Perhaps your own concepts of intelligence and music are preclusively limited.
“As military music is to music” – ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
Oddys made an enormously witty and perceptive comment, but you didn’t get it because you are too focused on dissipative systems and speaking will to power. I, on the other hand, did get it and laughed so hard that I almost pulled a rib muscle.
Or as military haircuts are to haircuts – or shall we just shave it all off?
Or as military ethics are to ethics – am I justified in bombing this city?
Stole it from some of John LeCarres later novels and he attribute it to competition between different branches of the UK government.
(That old teacher is really p*ssed off with me – several months after calling him “old teacher”…)
Military music, the 1812?
When I listen to it, I hear the story of a people’s struggle(6:58-9:00 is surely more about the struggle and hope of a people, even when they accept the uncertainty of the situation).
So much more going on than the glorification of military might, although not denying that there’s a fair bit in there.
It’s a beautiful piece of music, because it encompasses the whole spectrum, rather than just the power.
The German one though, does fulfill the boring glorification that i associate with military music(not all of it admittedly).
Gail?
Raubtier: “Raptor”:
https://youtu.be/UPd05ESntC8
🤘😑🤘
Good summary but I am not too sure that most top-level politicians have a clue about energy supplies. They are mostly self-serving crooks doing as they are told, from what I can tell. One top politician who does understand energy issues, although how much I am not so sure, is Putin.
You may be correct. It is the military around the world who are certainly aware of the problem. They know that they cannot count on ramping up their traditional military armaments the way they did before. They need to rely on “tools” such as viruses to cause diseases and vaccines, if they can make them work. They don’t worry about offending ordinary citizens.
Also, the real powers behind the thrones understand what the problem is. The Rockefeller family, the people in the BlackRock organization, and other very influential people. Joe Biden was chosen because he would do what he was told to do, not because he is particularly knowledgeable.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250171761_The_Putin_Thesis_and_Russian_Energy_Policy
CAN’T BELIEVE I’M FIRST AT ANYTHING and I’m probably not. 😉
it looks official right now!
this is the best of all possible worlds. 😉
norm … is it ok if we award Art a session with SS SINdy for being first (he’ll be SSS’ 10,000th so that will balance things out)
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/2d/43/1a/2d431a536fe434c1f34580c8edaa5f68.jpg
thanks for that Eddy
I’ve had Attenborough chasing me, because I haven’t relayed any eddywit sightings for the past few days, and he’s concerned about travelling all the way to NZ to make a documentary on it, only to find that the last surviving specimen has died.
He will be relieved to know that it is still rising (on ‘cue’) from its customary BS nesting site.
If you can let me have your address eddy, I’ll pass it on to Sir David, and he’ll contact you direct.
There’ll be a nice guide fee btw, and a mention in the credits.
I think you’ve told that joke a few thousand times now norm.
Your Fizer addled brain is set on permanent regurgitation of drivel…