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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.
Dutch national railways (NS) will cut the number of trains in operation by 10% starting tomorrow. In the communique the primary reason given for the cutback is too few personnel.
A second reason is given (which always proves the primary reason is not imperative by itself): the number of passengers and thereby the revenue is still below pre-pandemic levels (2019)
Meanwhile the spotmarket-price for electricity rose above 600 euro/MWh. And nearly all trains in the Netherlands are powered by electricity.
The operating costs for the Dutch railwaynetwork (probably the best in the world) are rising by the day. The energy is not mentioned….
People who are expecting public transportation to save us will discover that it will be difficult to keep it in good repair. It be difficult to pay the staff an adequate amount for them to want to keep the job. I know that a local bus public transit project here is way behind schedule and over budget. That is another issue place will be running into, besides possible difficulty finding fuel.
Both the Vineyard Transit Authority and the Berkshire (County) Transit outfit are understaffed and cannot find personnel to drive buses.
Because they require the jabs?
A German postcard from 1904 showing the Augustus Bridge over Elbe in Dresden at the highest water level (March 1845) and the lowest (August 1904):
https://ansichtskarten-lexikon.de/ak-213502.html (click to zoom)
Remember the catastrophic Elbe floods of some years back? Maybe 8 years or so?
Inside Clean Energy: The Idea of 100 Percent Renewable Energy Is Once Again Having a Moment
Wind, solar and other renewable sources could supply all of the world’s energy, according to a growing body of research.
By Dan Gearino
August 25, 2022
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25082022/inside-clean-energy-renewables/
Breyer is the lead author of a new paper published by IEEE Access tracing the development and growth of this idea, and the pushback. The concept of 100 percent renewable energy hasn’t quite reached the mainstream in most large economies, but it’s getting close, he said.
I should specify that Breyer is not a neutral party in this discussion. He and the roughly two dozen co-authors of the paper include some of the best-known researchers who focus on, and advocate for, 100 percent renewable energy. This includes Mark Jacobson of Stanford and Auke Hoekstra of Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands.
The paper is a valuable primer for understanding what 100 percent renewable energy means, where these ideas have found the most support in government and what others say are the major flaws.
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But there remains plenty of skepticism, including from prominent and well-regarded energy researchers. One example is a 2018 paper co-authored by Jesse Jenkins, which said a shift to 100 percent renewable energy may be possible, but the costs and technical challenges are high when moving from a mostly renewable system to an all-renewable system. The challenges have to do with building many interstate power lines and accounting for the variable nature of wind and solar, among other issues.
Of course, there is much cherry picking here in regard to converting to clean energy..
Unfortunately, practically, all forms of energy are “dirty”, as one Oil Executive put it.
IEEE is in favor of anything that would provide young people (engineers, in particular) jobs.
“The challenges have to do with building many interstate power lines and accounting for the variable nature of wind and solar, among other issues.”
I thought the main problem was storage.
The easiest way to model the variable nature of wind and solar is to leave the variability out. Effectively, this is what researchers seem to have done. Researchers assumed that transmission lines and other variable resources would dampen variability so much that there would be little need for storage. There, problem solved!
Scientists from the University of Cambridge have created model embryos from mouse stem cells that form a brain, a beating heart, and the foundations of all the other organs of the body. It represents a new avenue for recreating the first stages of life.
The team of researchers, led by Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, developed the embryo model without eggs or sperm. Instead, they used stem cells – the body’s master cells, which can develop into almost any cell type in the body.
“It’s just unbelievable that we’ve got this far. This has been the dream of our community for years, and major focus of our work for a decade and finally we’ve done it.” — Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz
By guiding the three types of stem cells found in early mammalian development to the point where they start interacting, the researchers mimicked natural processes in the lab. The scientists were able to get the stem cells to ‘talk’ to each other by inducing the expression of a particular set of genes and establishing a unique environment for their interactions.
The stem cells self-organized into structures that progressed through the successive developmental stages until they had beating hearts and the foundations of the brain They also had the yolk sac where the embryo develops and gets nutrients from in its first weeks. Unlike other synthetic embryos, the Cambridge-developed models reached the point where the entire brain, including the anterior portion, began to develop. This is a further point in development than has been achieved in any other stem cell-derived model.
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-grow-synthetic-embryo-with-brain-and-beating-heart-without-eggs-or-sperm/amp/
Yes, we are godlike due to the abundance of “free” available accessible energy/resources…and a little bit crazy too..per Randy Udall
“They” are also proposing headless embryos for organ harvesting.
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/human-embryos-without-heads-to-be
This is fake news… meant to further unhinge society — like pregnant men — tranny ho-okers in the classroom — and putting the mental MOREON Biden in the hot seat — and previous to that putting the blow hard Trump in play
The world is ending. Nobody will be harvesting headless humans
Norman Page:“as far as human survival is concerned (with the exception of your good self of course) the planet would appear to be doing what it was forecast to do with C02 excess–ie extreme weather patterns, drastically reducing ice fields leading to rivers drying up (check Hoover dam/Lake mead)—not going to ramble into excess about that.”
I have done a little checking to see if we are quite as doomed as you seem to think we are, and the first piece of data analysis I looked at indicates that your own particular ramblings are badly off track.
As I suggested earlier, inflow into the Colorado River system shows no long term trend over the past 90 years, although there are decadal time scale variations in river flow, which are related to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO).
Moreover, since about 2000, human use and consumption of Lake Mead water due mainly to growth in population has risen to the point where it exceeds river inflow, causing water levels in the lake to drop. The negative phase of the PDO since that time has exacerbated the problem.
But please, be my guest, don’t let the facts keep you from wallowing in the murky ooze of Warm-mania and Climato-catastophism.
A discussion and some clear graphs are available here:
https://www.drroyspencer.com/2022/08/lake-mead-low-water-levels-part-2-colorado-river-inflow-variations-and-trend/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g59vxAbof2s
HOPIUM DEALER: Someone who ignores (or is blind to) our real predicament — ecological overshoot — and who proposes “fixes” or “solutions” to the climate crisis that rely on the very things causing / driving collapse and ecocide.
MAIN CAUSES/DRIVERS of COLLAPSE and ECOCIDE
1. Anthropocentrism — human-centered religious values, worldview
2. Civilization — extractive/exploitative (city-based) totalitarian narcissism
3. Technology — science/tech: “Man: conqueror of nature” / electricity
4. Progress — how we measure “wealth”, “wellbeing”, and “success”
5. Economics — trade/money systems that incentivize evil and ecocide
Six Odious Truths Few People Know (and almost no one can accept)
1. We are decades into abrupt climate change, unstoppable collapse, and a mass
extinction that will likely include most plants, animals, and humans…by 2040
2. The more human GHG emissions decline, the faster Earth overheats due to
less particulate pollution: aerosol masking / global dimming / “McPherson paradox”.
3. All human-centered civilizations destroy their habitat, then self-destruct.
4. Technology and the market can’t save us from the ecocide they always create.
5. Climate change is not our worst predicament — ecological overshoot is.
6. Denying #1-5 betrays ignorance of the main causes/drivers of collapse & ecocide
and increases the likelihood of scores of nuclear meltdowns in near future
This fella did a little checking too..
Great, you are trying to use Guy McPherson to debunk Roy Spencer.
Shall I use Jim Renwick to debunk Guy McPherson? Why not? since ad holmium is your preferred tactic, let’s point out that your authoritative source lacks credibility as an authority.
http://hot-topic.co.nz/guy-mcpherson-and-the-end-of-humanity-not/
I’m not interested in attacking anyone’s credibility. Just the data. I’ve given you the data. It is accurate enough to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the shortage of water in Lake Mead is caused primarily by people taking out more water from that lake than they used to. If you can’t accept that or show through evidence that it is incorrect, then you are arguing in bad faith, just like Norman regularly does.
When the data supports your preconceived views, you accept the data. When the data doesn’t support your views, you attack the reputation of the people publishing the data. That seems to be what you are doing. Isn’t it?
One last thing, Herbie. And I’ve asked this several times in the past to various people on this site. What can I do personally to save the earth from this ecocide of which you speak? I bought a book in the early 1990s called 100 Ways to Save the Earth, and it told me I should recycle my cardboard cartons and compost my kitchen waste. What more can I do?
They don’t reply. Silence
Are you going to ask me to eat insects? I ask them.
Crickets….
Yes herbie – what have you done — personally — to save the day?
Tim I dont have a dog in this fight but I would mention anecdotal observations. I have spent a lot of time in the woods. I enjoy it. When i was younger I worked in the woods. I really appreciate the wooded areas in the USA.
So five decades of spending time in the woods. They are not what they were. I can only imagine how wild they were in the 50s and 60s. You see the old jeep trails where people were able to just blaze off into the forests and it was theirs all theirs.
Its hard to validate the perceptions of your youth. I think its accurate. The woods of the USA were much wilder much more vital 30 years ago. 30 years ago new guinia had barely been touched. 30 years ago the amazon had barely been touched. Those places are harvested now. We saw them as untouchable but when man put his technology and will to bear they were gone.
In the USA the pine beetle has changed the landscape across the american west. It totally devastates lodgepole pine. Ponderossa does better but still high casualty. 40% killed at the low end 80% at the top end. Then sooner or later there is a lightning strike. All that fuel potential sooner or later finds a ignition source.
This leaves massive meadows filled with wildflowers where the forest and its inhabitants was. Large areas of what was forest is this now.
The massive fires of the west pretty much followed the beetles path. After a couple they create a fire break. Fire follows physical laws so what it consumes does a decent job of a fire break. The next fire wants to walk the same terrain but it cant because the fuel was consumed.
You can call it a natural cycle. The woods of the continent are not the woods of my youth. Maybe its not climate change but one thing is clear IMO. Humans do not coexist with other eco systems.
I am human. Ive done my share of consuming. I understand there are no villains here. I do mourn the death of the old forests. All species increase population and range until they hit limits. The climate change or not is really a non issue. Humans will increase population and range until we hit limits. Other eco sytems and species will decline until that happens. Thats natural physical law. Natural physical law is at play was always at play. Our Ideas of our control were and are false. If climate change is true we are toast. If its not true we are toast.
Maybe I am a big *ussy. I remember the first time fishing as a child that I realized the fish had to die if we were to eat. I remember that to this day. I feel profound sadness about that truth. Early in my life I tried to make it go away by hunting- killing creatures on purpose for food in a attempt to integrate with reality. How could I have these feelings of sadness? Not allowed. I became competent if not proficient hunter. After several decades I gave it up. It didnt work. Suppressing the sadness did not work. Suppressing it made me ill. The sadness was more profound not less. Like I said. A big *ussy.
This is a deep human need IMO. Thats why people get so upset when you say there is no circular economy. Its a terrible realization. Like me as a child seeing the fish gasp for oxygen with their gills.
The MSM is filled with GW stories… how we have to stop burning stuff… (which would lead to extinction)…
Yet they don’t say much about stopping population growth.
And when GDP numbers and stock markets are surging they celebrate.
Then of course there are the MOREONS who list a company that is successfully pillaging the planet… the f789ing id iots ringy ding a bell and smiles are all around – they can’t wait to take their winnings and buy private jets
Hahahahhahha… played… played like a banjo.
Humans are So Stooopid.
Herbie, let me start again. Norman specifically asked me personally to “check Hoover dam/Lake mead”, so I did that for him. The data—prepared by people who are a lot more meticulous and dispassionate and committed to accuracy than Norman is—doesn’t show what he thinks it shows.
Are you suggesting this data is flawed or inaccurate or misleadingly presented. If so, please explain clearly what you objections are. If not, please acknowledge that as far as you know this data is indeed accurate and honestly presented.
All this HOPIUM DEALER stuff is beside the point. The point at issue is the Hoover Dam/Lake Mead/Colorado River Data. Stick to the point please. For the sake of comradeship, civility, and most of all for you own peace of mind, don’t go down to Norman’s level. It is a truly miserable place in which to be.
Just basic Science..like you wrote of Physics, Chemistry and Paleontology evidence of CC..
Simple stuff that you’ve study…
norm saves his lunch $$$ all week for a drunken session with SSS Out Back the Dumpster (TM) — that’s all he to look forward to – other than the announcement of the next booster
eddy
Ive had Sir David onto me, because I hadn’t reported any sightings of the lesser spotted eddywit.
I was busy yesterday so missed it rising from its BS nest site.
He knows the eddywit is an endangered species–he doesnt want it to go extinct before he arrives to make to documentary on it
He agrees with my theory that it cannot fly higher than female genitalia, because above that height the air isnt dense enough to support it wing flaps
norm moves seamlessly from one delusion to another
Now, tell me, Edwin, the latest about the Moon Landings?
Aren’t they up to doing it again?
Bush Outlines Plan for 2015 Moon Landing
US President George W. Bush, envisioning “new journeys to the worlds beyond our own,” unveiled a plan Wednesday to send astronauts to the moon, Mars and beyond on missions sure to cost hundreds of billions of dollars and stretch the bounds of technology. He called for a manned lunar landing as early as 2015.
Bush’s election-year initiative represents the boldest space goals since John F. Kennedy laid the groundwork for the Apollo program that landed Americans on the moon in 1969.
http://english.china.org.cn/english/international/84745.htm
Macron the fool looking for African men for a piss orgi… https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/38977
Excellent – she needs more security https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/38982
hahaha norm you will need to get tickets https://mysonhunter.com/
Its all training , they are educating us. What we thought was bad wasn’t and what we thought was good isnt. Social credit score is a learning process. Joe and hunter have great social credit scores. Look at Trump. See what a bad social credit score gets you! People get the communication and learn believe me. People who value wealth wouldn’t jeopardize it one bit by engaging in viewpoints that are controversial. That would be stupid. Thats success 101. Thats the part they give you for free. Just pose and read the script thats the start. If Norm was a bit younger he would probably be a millionaire.
This is why Trump ran for president and won! Obama humiliating him. Damn its funny! Obama was a rock star. A NWO warmonger but a rock star. Of course Biden has even more charisma and delivers humor and sarcasm with even better timing and presence thats why he got so many more votes than Obama. Bonus points for making fun of Trump for moon landing hoax believer!
Man that was a better time! Innocent by comparison.
Good chance to mention how sad it is to die from these evil vaxxes
https://obits.mlive.com/us/obituaries/jackson/name/col-hall-obituary?id=36197678
“He was a curious academic…”
Not curious enough.
You might remember seeing on the news and on the TV screens over the last few years how they kept a daily count of the number of covid deaths. At times it seemed like it was the only thing they ever talked about.
I remember it. It was everywhere, all the major news outlets and TV channels were keeping track of how many people were reported as dying with covid each day, and they used this as reasons for pushing lockdowns and restrictions. We had to save grandma.
But now something weird is happening and it is nowhere to be found on the news!
Many more people are now dying than normal for some strange reason and it goes largely ignored. Where are the trackers on TV keeping track of the daily excess deaths? No?
https://petersweden.substack.com/p/excess-mortality-rate
Interestingly, in Japan the Covid count goes on as before—testing, testing, testing— and as a result the official statistics show this country is now accounting for about half of all new cases and a fifth of all new deaths worldwide.
And yet, at the same time, not many people are taking the pandemic seriously anymore. The rules in many places are just for show, and lots of people ignore them. Last week I went to the hospital and the usual temperature check was no longer being carried out at the door. I could have walked in there with a raging fever and nobody would have known.
The new consensus seems to be to treat Covid illness as if it was the flu, rather than the plague. The panic, the freaking out, the visceral fear of everyone being mown down by a tsunami of disease has vanished.
The thing is …
Covid is the flu… unless you have VAIDS
hahahahahahahaha
Just between you and me…..
https://tenor.com/search/hes-right-you-know-gifs
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=norm+gif&ia=web
This is what I noticed (in another comment) when I looked at the European death data:
“If we take a look at the excess deaths among children aged 0-14 across Europe, there has been a HORRIFYING 1101% increase in excess deaths so far this year compared with the same time period in 2021. Why?”
Rep. Thomas Massie reacts to the price of electricity going up 24x in France
“It would cost about $100 to completely charge a Tesla (Model s/model x) if electricity reached this price in America”
https://twitter.com/repthomasmassie/status/1563704006123438080
Super bugs https://t.me/PeterMcCullough/1899
https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-news/birmingham-airport-flight-makes-emergency-24864909
CoventryLive (https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-news/birmingham-airport-flight-makes-emergency-24864909)
Brum Airport flight makes emergency landing as Jet2 pilot ‘faints’
8-year-old Dies Suddenly of Cardiac Arrest
Eight-year-old Jasper woke up at home with shortness of breath and was found to be in cardiac arrest when ambulance paramedics arrived.
He was then rushed to Bradford Royal Infirmary but could not be saved, leaving his family and friends devastated.
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1659823/Tribute-son-death-Bradford-Yorkshire-Covid
Toyah – It’s a Mystery – TOTP 1981 [HD]
Yeh, I do remember that Brit thing.
“A shot in the dark
The big question mark
A bee
On the settee
It’s a mystery”
But hey, the bees are going extinct now! A mystery for sure.
Maybe norm knows why?
Excess Deaths in Ireland, make headlines in The Belfast Telegraph 🇮🇪:
“We have a situation where people are dying in significant numbers, well above the average rate, for months on end. And nobody can explain why this is happening.”
“People are dying. So why aren’t we hearing more about it? During the pandemic, it was impossible to escape the daily death count, charting the number of people who had passed away within 28 days of a positive Covid test. It was relentless.
Now, once again, deaths are on the rise. Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) indicates that during the past 10 weeks the number of recorded deaths has been 12% higher than would be expected, based on the average for previous years.”
https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/columnists/fionola-meredith/what-are-nis-excess-non-covid-death-figures-telling-us-41937983.html?FM
Gail’s post:>>>>> 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.<<<>>>amazing that norm ignores this and prepares for Shot Five<<<<
Help me eddy—i can't find the link between the above comments
There has to be one. I need someone with a professed 4 figure IQ to point it out
(Thats 4 figures as in '1500', not just '4 ')
The energy “issue” is analogous with the vax issue. Nobody wants to face the Ugly Truth.
I’ve noticed people starting to look increasingly haggard and behave aggressive and frustrated. Do you reckon it could have something to do with a wrecked immune system, inflation and disintegrating egotistical fantasies belonging to a collapsing civilization?
Let’s ponder upon this quote:
“No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.”
― Plato
the energy issue is certainly going to collapse our current BAU system, no question about that.
and covid has been caused by humankind crowding animals too close together in order to harvest their energy
but
>>>>I’ve noticed people starting to look increasingly haggard and behave aggressive and frustrated. Do you reckon it could have something to do with a wrecked immune system, inflation and disintegrating egotistical fantasies belonging to a collapsing civilization?<<<<<
no–that is pure fantasy, created to fit a percieved situation
no connection at all
Kowalainen made an observation based on a personal experience. He has noticed people. And he posed a question. Got it?
Norman, to be able to fairly describe it as pure fantasy, you would need to be inside Kowalainen’s mind perceiving what he perceives and recognizing it as a delusion. Since you can’t do that, you are on very dodgy ground.
I too have noticed people starting to look increasingly haggard and behave aggressive and frustrated. Here in the Japanese countryside where most people are retired, life goes on as before, but in the cities were younger and middle-aged people are struggling with the economic, social and psychological fallout of over two years of Covidmania, I have noticed a lot of people getting close to the edge.
Fortunately, the Japanese have had a comparatively easy time. The biggest issue for many has been staying afloat as economic activity was restricted. But compared to the British, the Europeans, the North Americans and also the Antipodeans who live behind the South Wind on the underside of the globe, and compared to the Chinese who have been hooked up to a smarphone-mediated panopticon, we’ve had it blissfully easy. And yet still I’ve witnessed a lot of haggard and frustrated people—not so much aggressive, as aggressive is frowned upon in this ultra-polite shame-oriented bowing and apologizing society in which they have 27 different words of saying “I’m terribly sorry.”
And I have spoken to a long list of people who tell me they have not felt well since their third jab but are going to go for their fourth one regardless.
i answered his question… got it?
we perceive situations, and plant suppositions on them to create explanations.
we all do it.
a different set of emotion is loose inside everyone’s head.
you should perhaps allow yourself to be aware of that tim—inside of looking for ‘affront’ when someones perceptions of life differ from your own.
this is why–if you care to notice, i do not go off on an aggrieved rant about opinion which is contrary to my own.
10x extra death rate in the children norm… why?
We won’t be out-done here in ever-so-polite Blighty, Tim.
We have at least 35 tones in saying just one word ‘Sorry’!
It’s all in the delivery……
I made an observation on quite a few “samples”, mused upon it before I googled:
“Causes of premature aging”
And indeed, a borked immune defense from vax injury and other poor lifestyle choices make people age like milk instead of wine, women in particular.
norm – can you upload Before and After photos… ideally the After will be after each injection … then we can make a time lapse video https://postimages.org/
Dunc… if you are still with us … a photo of you slithering across the floor drooling would be most welcome…
anna – perhaps you could snap some shots of the other inmates in the asylum… the ultra crazy ones with the Charles Mason eyes …
If they look like that on the outside… imagine what their innards must look like… their organs would be trashed by the spike protein … rotting them from the inside out…
And the MOREONS then shouted — More Injections … More Safe and Effective Injections.. We Demand More!
I am definitely entertained now.
The news is filled with videos of collapsing athletes… SADS is the number one killer hahaha… loads of reports on kids dropping dead (doctors can’t figure out why)….
And nobody can work it out — they just keep on jammin…
Then we have norm… we bombard norm with vax damage data day after day after day… and do you think norm might wake up and one day say — I f789ed up?
Nope… no way… norm is On the List for Shot 5 — the Ultimate Booster — the Power Booster….. norm’s about to inject Saturn V into his body …
Good grief!!!
I know it is possible to pay a priest to dedicate a mass to someone — (I bet you could also pay a priest to give you M Pox in the confession booth… they’ll do anything for $$$)… is there an online option to dedicate some prayers for norm…
Oh jeez… I remember when I was a kid in Catholic school .. the confessional booth had a hole in it … and one time when I confessed putting my younger brother into an old dryer machine and spinning him round and round …
The priest said his hocus pocus BS — then he told me to say Our Father — then he poked his dongle through the hole and said if you really want forgiveness…
I was not what you’d every consider a ‘compliant’ person … and I was already having doubts about this ‘god’ person …. And I said Wot the F789 — you pedo wanker… I smashing through the barrier and threw hay makers at the dirty old f789er… the nuns finally came and saved him… I don’t have any photos of that cuz it was like Ukey back then and m phones did not exist….
I was excommunicated (by the pope) for that but that’s ok — the pope should swing from the end of a rope… that was the end of my church-going…
The drooping faces of vax injury dropping dead.
🤔
That comment needs to go in the Hall of Shame Time Capsule along with Mike’s infamous comment … so that the aliens can see just how stoooopid this species was – and then they will understand why we are extinct
Probly a combo meal of never ending covid stuff + going bankrupt paying the bills… then there’s the nagging spouse… the screeching children… the traffic … the weather… you name it… it weighs on the MOREONS.
They are all pretty much mentally ill now – when the time comes for the Candied F — they will say — what the hell took so long!
But Eddy, isn’t life suffering? After all, JBP and Nietzsche says so. No? A great trial and tribulations of those “worthy” of spreading their eminence to future generations.
Tragicomedy perhaps?
Oh, right. Basically none of the ordeals are necessary for that. If it wasn’t for the Hyper MOARons projecting the collective (sub)conscious putting themselves smack in the middle of the rat race going fast nowhere.
Good thing about these suicidal and mentally ill Hyper is that there’s a cure with each and every turbo cancerous clot shot and candied F administered.
It’s not that obvious from https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps
To me, the two lowest age groups (0-14) and (15 – 44) are doing very badly in 2022 for deaths. I would imagine that these might be vaccine related deaths. The youngest are especially affected.
The next two age groups, (45 – 54) and (55 – 64) are doing pretty much OK.
The oldest age groups are again not doing too well, not nearly as badly as the very young people.
Perhaps the vaccines are killing a lot of young people.
Australia’s excess death toll just keeps getting worse
The Australian Bureau of Statistics just released its latest all-cause mortality statistics which are about 3 months behind real time. It paints a horrific picture of the effects of public health policy with around 15,000 excess deaths since October 2021 (the red shaded area represents excess deaths over the prior upper limits). In July 2021 – when there were no excess deaths of any significance there was a coordinated effort from health ministers to “get vaccinated” and the “Warsaw ghetto” treatment of anybody that didn’t.
https://arkmedic.substack.com/p/australias-excess-death-toll-just
Good stuff
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fba65fc0d-c94b-428f-a993-ffb0ca357cef_799x536.png
As per a recent Japanese bio distribution study done by Pfizer we can now sadly confirm that billions of babies born to those parents that have been exposed to the slow kill bioweapon injections have inherited the spike protein genes.
The Pfizer study showed that the Modified mRNa tends to concentrate in the ovaries and spleen. Reverse transriptase is found in these organs. This means that billions of the new generation will die extremely cruel deaths.
https://2ndsmartestguyintheworld.substack.com/p/the-newborn-are-not-alright-billions
hahaha https://t.me/robinmg/22716
Go to 10min 30sec & watch to the end.
I think he’s finally twigged. He’s not happy about where his deductions have taken him.
He’ll be worth watching now, because now he’s made the link between the 1400 weekly excess deaths without a cause attached to them, and at last realised that Yellow Card deaths may be 10x underreported, he’s got a serious problem.
Only 20months of wet kipper across the face type obvious late, but welcome anyway, Dr Campbell. Congratulations. You’ve helped millions get stabbed with this toxic mess.
Best wishes
Mike
https://www.bitchute.com/embed/nluYnAcVbzBF/
The tragedy of an inadvertent narrative peddler having the Ugly Truth dawning upon his Hyper Tryhard.
Yes, that’s it exactly: and his greatest fault was implicitly trusting the authorities – the Chief Medical Officer, the regulators, etc.
The mentality of a well-trained medic: but he went too far and sought to advise the world.
Prof Tim Spector of ZOE who also pushed the narrative is another thing entirely: in my opinion he knowingly purveyed falsehoods about ivermectin, actually calling it ‘horse-medicine’, dismissed side-effects, etc.
WHY THE INCREASINGLY LETHAL DAMAGE IS SO DIFFICULT TO FIND AND WHY IT CAN TAKE SO LONG TO MANIFEST: THE SPIKE PROTEIN, ENDOTHELIAL ASSAULT, VASCULITIS, AND THE TRASH COMPACTOR SCENE FROM STAR WARS
https://wmcresearch.substack.com/p/why-the-increasingly-lethal-damage/
https://youtu.be/D9h6-LPySPI
Thx Gail!
“Reread Powell’s speech. One item stood out. He feels confident he can lower demand to offset supply side and energy price driven inflation. These inflation drivers are running close to 7% today. So to offset would require a 7% decline in demand. Severe recession incoming”
Artificial demand (QE and ZIRP) didn’t lead to a rise in energy supply. The Fed will now destroy demand through QT and higher interest rates to bring down energy prices.
That sounds frightening. I am afraid the QT will destroy energy supply at the same time that it destroys demand. A big problem results.
superb https://drtrozzi.org/2022/08/27/toronto-stop-the-shot-vigil-1st-report-dr-chris-shoemaker/
HI GAIL, I CAME HERE TO READ ENERGY RELATED COMMENTS, NOT VACCINE COMMENTS NOR PRO RUSSIAN/ ANTI UKRAINE COMMENTS. CAN YOU EXERCISE SOME EDITORIAL CONTROL TO KEEP THE COMMENTS RELEVANT TO YOUR POST PLEASE ?
Marg
you will be burned as a heretic
90% of the most prolific commenters (as opposed to silent readers) in here are conspiraholics, too blind drunk on covidmania to notice what climate change and energy collapse is going to do in the next few years.
next year it will be another hoax, or plot, or something, whatever it is, it will have CGI imaging associated with it.
Every world event is someone else’s plot against the rest of us.
But a PS: Though very valid, caps do your comment no good at all.
It is not a plot; it is the way a self-organizing system works.
For example, it is not a plot of trees to have squirrels spread the nuts for them. It is the way the system works.
The military has for a very long time used hidden tactics to try to make what is happen look different from what it really is. US football tries to hide the real plan from its opponent as well. This is not conspiracy. It is the fact that groups coming from many different interest groups work together to further their own plans. This looks like conspiracy, but it is simply the way the system works.
Nothing happens for a single reason; the system as a whole works for many combined reason. Those in charge choose to tell us the reason that would be most acceptable to citizens in general.
Gail
I know there’s no conspiracy
You know theres no conspiracy
Try telling it to the OFW conspiraholics
https://youtu.be/GGHXjO8wHsA
https://youtu.be/Q6UnpFYWnzU
Hi Gail,
Can you exert some editorial control over the use of CAPITALS?
I am an anti-CAPITAL ist and can’t bear to see, hear, or know about them, unless they are kept in their RiGhTFOOL place.
remember lastcall
people who use caps online, use them all the time in RL too
And those who exhibit senility… and illogical thought … on OFW… do the same in RL…. causing them to be mocked/shunned there as well
I can mostly avoid them with my largely hermit lifestyle.
But OFW is MY safespace.
We CANT have randumb people coming in HERE and disturbing MY mental wellbeing!
Choice is an illusion — UEP was always going to happen.
norm … that’s really sweet of you … but I’m gonna tell Super Snatch… she’s gonna beat your ass next time you go Out Back the Dumpster for the hook up.
DO you know who I AM?
I am the medium chosen by the Great Fast Eddy (you may refer to him as Your Highness) to communicate to The World.
I have not yet alerted The Great One to your insane request (he is resting with the equally great Hoolio)… This will give you some time to reconsider.
Surely you did not mean to ask for Fast Eddy to be censored? There must be some confusion – on your part. Plead temporary insanity – that’s an easy way out.
For your sins… 12 Our Fathers… 27,987 Hail Mary’s.
And btw – Covid is all about energy – have a look https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=220
Toldya Marg
You get an answer from somebody who doesn’t know who he is.
(DO you know who I AM?)
bit over-enthusiastic with the caps there–but you get my drift.
Eddy will see to it that you become breakfast for Tasmanian devils.
(he likes to watch)
No energy crisis, no ‘pandemic’, no lock-downs and no pseudo-vaccines.
First intelligence test is being able to discern the connection.
Everything inter-locks, dear boy……..
Xavier.
Also somewhat humorous that the poster also lacks the self awareness that the caps shouting ‘request’ to not read pro-Russian, anti-Ukranian is a performance confirmation of their own bias, not of the blog editor.
Moreover, my binary thinking compadres, why cannot BOTH attempts at covert deceitful human agency (conspiracy) AND self organising system dynamics be interacting at the same time? Makes your head meat hurty to even consider the possibility? Ohhhh Baby Boy, is your Abductive reasoning allergy flaring up again??Baby, let Mummy Gail censor those nasty uncomfortable comments for you.
While it is natural to desire the simplest meta-narrative or hermeneutics to navigate through life and assign evaluations, we are dealing with adult, complex topics here. There are lot of bad faith agents on the geopolitical front, so one needs to open ones mind and analyse the many inputs on our entropic descent.
The comment adds nothing to the exploration of peak oil or the collapse of IC, but does unintentionally reveal a little bit about the intellectual maturity of the poster.
See! There is always something to be learned, even from the mundane
Hey Marg,
I’m from OZ too. Look forward to reading your blog so i can tell you how to run it. Let’s save time. If you can’t work out how it is all linked then you really need to take a deeper dive.
Stick around you may learn something but that seems unlikely by you attitude.
NB
Marg might end up with anna.
Marge, I initially thought your icon was a baby Russian bear. After reading this comment, I’ve had second thoughts.
As Niko says, it’s all connected. But if you have any specific energy-related questions, this is a good place to get answers, and some of them may even be useful.
Anyway, to get you started, let me comment on a well-known anecdote about the scientist Michael Faraday, who was the discoverer of electromagnetic induction. When asked by William Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time, about the practical worth of electricity, Faraday is reported to have replied: “I know not Sir, but I’ll warrant one day you’ll tax it.”
And tax it governments did and have, to the tune of billions of pounds, dollars, euros, yen and many other currencies.
“That’s all very well,” I hear some people saying, “but what does that have to do with energy issues today?” Well, there is one very interesting contrast between the sort of electrical generation methods pioneered by Faraday and his contemporaries, which ran initially on steam and later also on hydropower, and the more modern methods being touted today meeting our electricity generating needs, which operate by converting the power of the wind or or the sun into electricity.
The contrast is as follows. While the earlier forms of electric power generation can be and have been taxed and yielded substantial sums to governments the world over, there seems little prospect of wind turbines or solar arrays being taxed any time soon. Indeed, quite the opposite. These generation sources are subsidy guzzlers, and Gail has often told us, they benefit from the biggest subsidy of all—the subsidy of being allowed to “”go first”.
Very good.
“These generation sources are subsidy guzzlers, and Gail has often told us, they benefit from the biggest subsidy of all—the subsidy of being allowed to “”go first”.”
Easy come; easy go…
I love the commenters on this blog. And Yes, I’m mainly interested in energy too. Don’t change a thing. ( No need for all caps ).
Just ring up Gail and scream over the phone ….
https://youtu.be/KhRuama5Nag
Hi Marg. Fellow Taswegian here.
I can understand your frustrations, but suggest you accept it as you would a prospector.
There is an awful lot of ‘gravel’ in the comments here but some gems too.
It’s one of the very few places you can go now and see what other people think (or what makes them foam at the mouth).
Gails articles are very well researched and informative even though you may not agree with conclusions.
The comments will at least provide education on how events and rumours affect a cross section of real people.
That could be useful when you have to deal with them after BAU is shut down.
Meanwhile, you soon get to know commenters who, You believe are going overboard with their opinions and can use the scroll button to bypass them.
Asking Gail to censor comments is not fair to Gail who has already put the hard work in giving you excellent articles to consider.
Censorship always involves the censors ( or their masters) promoting a particular opinion on a subject, and we are better off without that however genuine and well considered that opinion may be.
So please look for the gems here and maybe tell us what You think too.
Very good advice. This comment is one of those gems.
Hear, hear!
yes– Fast Eddy drops about 100 gems per day…. he drops so many gems that the gem cartel may collapse soon … I keep telling him to make a few random banal comments … the constant greatness dilutes HIS contributions
HI MARG, I COME HERE TO COMMENT THAT THE EUROTARDS IN BRUSSELS HAVE SHOT THEMSELVES IN THE FEET BY BOWING DOWN TO THE ANTI-RUSSIAN USA WOKETARDS.
THEY HAVE WILLINGLY SIDED AGAINST THEIR MAIN energy SUPPLIER.
YES THERE IS THE SIDE ISSUE THAT THERE ARE MANY NEONATZEES IN CORRUPT UKRAINE, AND USA/NATZO ARE VERY CORRUPT AS WELL.
IT’S ALL RELATED TO energy.
Gail,
please censor this buffoon. I can not tolerate his use of no all caps for the word energy. Surely we all agree it is our most important word.
I appeal to Caesar.
or else…
Parlay!
Yes, those Eurotards have flushed themselves down their own dunny, as the Tasmanians say. The’ve hung themselves from their own coolabah, drowned themselves in their own billabong, boiled themselves in their own billy, grilled themselves on their own barbie ….
Noice!!!
The Greatest Decline In Human Health Ever Recorded
Del Bigtree: Back in the 1980s when we were only giving ten vaccines, we had about a 12.4% chronic illness (neurological disorders and autoimmune disease) rate amongst our children
When that vaccine program increased to 72 vaccines (54 shots) we watched this incredible increase [in chronic illness] from 12.8% in 1988 to 54% in 2011
Let’s be clear; whether it’s the vaccines or those other things (eg pesticides, fluoride, hormones and antibiotics in meat, aluminium in the air), it’s still the same CDC, FDA, Health & Human Services and the NIH that have approved all those things that are making you toxic
WATCH HERE (https://rumble.com/v1hbi3i-episode-282-food-fight.html)
Australia – WOW just WOW https://t.me/TheHealthForumNZch/1767
ONS Data Suggest a Vaccine Fatality Rate in the Over-75s of Up to One Every 275 Doses
▪️Between late March to late August the UK all over-75s were offered a second ‘booster’ vaccination (fourth jab)
▪️To date around 80% have taken up the offer
▪️From week ending March 25th to week ending August 12th approximately 4.4 million spring booster doses have been administered
▪️There’s been a non-Covid excess mortality of 16,200 deaths in the over-75s during that period, equating to one excess death per 275 doses (This may be indicative of an increased vulnerability to each successive jab administered)
▪️Looking at the under 75s in the same time period, there were 3,300 excess non-Covid deaths. Approximately 7.8 million vaccine doses (first, second or third doses) were administered to this group, equating to one death per 2,350 doses administered, a factor 8.5 times lower than for the over-75s
READ HERE (https://dailysceptic.org/2022/08/26/ons-data-suggest-a-vaccine-fatality-rate-in-the-over-75s-of-up-to-one-every-275-doses/)
norm…. risk business you are involved in
https://youtu.be/rDX_trN0jIs
Maybe he just needs to take a nap?
https://odysee.com/@MaajidNawaz:d/Radical-Episode-17:d
This interview between Stuart Wilkie & Maajid Nawaz is the hardest thing to watch so far. At least, it was for me.
I appreciate its long, but if you watch it, you’ll likely regard the Covid era quite differently than before.
If you’ve only a short time to spare, try the section from minute 24 on.
In brief, Stuart Wilkie provides evidence including “receipts” that medical mass murder has occurred in U.K. care homes & hospitals, most notably in spring 2020, when vulnerable people were administered completely inappropriate drugs to their purported medical condition, which caused them to become sedated & eventually to stop breathing.
Useful in late stage palliative care for those dying in pain & distress, and used with consent, and at appropriate doses, they can be a mercy.
Administered to people without consent, at way too high doses, in people who weren’t dying, and ESPECIALLY those with respiratory illnesses, is massively problematic from several perspectives.
This is mass murder. Pre-planned & executed mostly by drones, on our relatives, out of sight of those who loved them.
The numbers dying in this way are astonishing, greatly exceeding the numbers that government claims died even “with COVID”.
This is part of the blocks of evidence that changed my opinions about the entire global event.
The other big one is the work of Denis Rancourt & colleagues, who looked for & failed to find the age/deaths signature of a classical respiratory illness event (generally attributed to viral infection) in the entire US all causes mortality database.
Best wishes
Mike
Dr Mike Yeadon
What else would you expect from Majid Nawaz? Having recently had an elderly relative die in a nursing home after experiencing great pain, which they managed to relive by morphine, my view is that this and similar drugs are a real blessing. Yes, they may constitute slow euthanasia, but after all, nursing homes have been described as “God’s waiting room” for a reason. And respiratory distress and inability to gain sufficient oxygen is another horrible way to die. Morphine suppresses the gasping distress and hastens death. We do this for our beloved pets after all. We are all going to die, and we should make the process as less traumatic as we can. Perhaps people like Nawaz (as well as the people opposed to voluntary euthanasia) might have cause to think on these things later on…..
They are … except when you had Covid and you would not have died… drugs that inhibit your ability to breath… are not ideal… when you have the flu
hahahahaha…
But then what do I know — I think that every person over 75 should be fed into the meat grinder and turned into dog food. Let’s not stop there — anyone who is morbidly obese should be boiled down into lamp oil.
theyll never render you down into lamp oil eddy
get on people’s wicks too too much
now—lampshades, that would be different–but not using ant hary parts of course
I am sorry you have been bereaved, but you miss the point totally: as Dr Yeadon says, they do of course have legitimate uses, but were used illegitimately in the UK and probably elsewhere.
This illegitimate use enabled the authorities to get the higher death-count they needed to make everyone want to ‘protect granny’, etc.
Most cunning, and cruel ….
And of course, the authorities couldn’t have gotten away with this democide without the help of millions of good people—people who are ready to turn a blind eye, provide endless justifications, clap for carers, and most of all attack the reputations, the motivations and even the sanity of anybody who sees through the lies and duplicity.
So, a big thanks to all you good people from the Covid control team. They couldn’t have done it without you and people like you. I’m naming no names. You all know exactly who you are.
doctors have always ‘helped people on their way’–hope one will do it for me, but hopefully not before i’ve been paid my winter heating allowance.
it’s a common medical procedure
but now it’s become part of the covidrama—somebody gets run over by a bus—ah–he’d just had his 27th booster so couldn’t jump out of the way fast enough.
This Latvian man says his country has gone full retarddd!
Those who demolish all memory of the past are condemned to reconstruct it.
https://rumble.com/v1hipzm-latvian-guy-says-his-country-has-become-a-fascist-state.html
Maybe he should move to Estonia. Or to Ukraine, where the forces of democracy are engaged in a titanic struggle of good versus evil. Of all the third hand myths generated by plentiful energy, the myth of democracy is possibly the worst. The one that creates the most delusion. To this day I am shocked that so many Eastern Europeans cling to that, despite all the evidence to the contrary they must have accumulated.
This is what happens when you elect a f789ing Donkey lead govt hahaha…
The stooopid Bit Ch… gave the Wiggles visas to come to NZ during lockdowns … and all the sports teams could go in and out with no problems .. but NZ relies on foreign workers big time — do ya think she might have allowed them to continue to enter the country? Nope… and now .. it’s a f789ing disaster…
J’ASSinda is a f789tard. hahahahaha. Formerly DJ J’ASSinda of course – highly qualified to lead this backwards corrupt dumpster of a cu-ntry.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/hospitality-at-boiling-point-in-queenstown/D7LXR7PF6QJYQ5OK26IZMISF3I/
This is one of our favourites – it’s closed on both Sat and Sunday indefinitely due to staff shortages… can you imagine closing a cafe on weekends https://www.facebook.com/thechopshopfoodmerchants/
“Jason Jenkins, Dolphins executive and ‘an icon’ in South Florida community, dies at 47“
https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/nfl/miami-dolphins/article264997549.html#storylink=mainstage_card
Yup, was definitely vaxxed as required by the NFL as an executive and cause of death unknown, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
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This author neglects to tell the reader that the energy issue, at its root cause, is due to the accelerated and artificial growth of society to its present state as built on debt and usury. She admits that there are still energy reserves yet to be extract, but that it is getting too expensive to do so. It’s gotten expensive because of the inflation that is required to service the interest on the expanding debt (that is required as the only way to increase the money supply). Interest paid to whom, ultimately, but to the banking class WHO PRODUCE NOTHING. They have no right to charge interest on governments, which once used to be the people. Usury is the greatest evil of this world and the state of the world is about to revert back to the mean. A mean we have long departed from due to the betrayals of 1913, 1933 and 1971.
Usury, like language, is a technology that arose in order to break down more energy gradients faster than would’ve otherwise occurred.
Excellent observation Lidia17
Chad Haag calls the use of language in this way “Linguistification”
Thanks for the tip.. will look into him.
They both have the (apparently uniquely human) capacity for abstraction, which helps direct potential future capacity into the present. Religion (imo) is another technology along these lines.
Neil Oliver at GBN doing a splendid job of joining the dots…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTA90R9FMoQ
But to what avail?
“Neil Oliver reacts to Rishi Sunak saying experts had too much power over Covid lockdowns.”
This is why UK ministers gave so much weight to ‘the data’ and ‘the experts’ during the lock-downs and masking: it was their alibi, prepared most astutely in advance.
‘The experts told us to do it’ is however a feeble stance for a minister to attempt to take, in fact for a whole cabinet of ministers, with whom, constitutionally, the buck stops.
Ministerial responsibility cannot be allowed to be a fiction.
Amusing though to watch them attempt to pin the blame on Sage and the Chief Medical Officer, Whitty, of ‘behave as if you have it’ fame.
The latter has been knighted as his reward, and now stabbed in the back (richly merited, of course, as he is an ardent kiddy-jabber).
Observations on the EU and Germany in particular:
“Wherever the stench and dirty remnants of communism haven’t worn off from the last century the people are righteously suspicious of centralized powers, of bloated bureaucratic administrative states. Brussels and the German-controlled EU are no different, even from the perspective of a “far right” German in Leipzig.
In fact, every government that isn’t a wholly owned subsidiary of the Liberal World Order in the former communist bloc are all smeared as “Far Right”, or “dangerous anti-democratic populists” or “fascists” by the western corporate state press. This includes Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Czechia, Romania, and Bulgaria. However, people in these countries are capable of laughing off the absurd accusations, while the accusation of “fascist” in Germany tends to reflexively result in compliance and self-censorship.
This coming winter will bring challenges the bloc has never weathered, and like much of the past few years, it may all be completely by design. Until June of this year Russian natural gas supplied a third of Germany’s energy. Having opted out of clean and efficient nuclear energy for the green agenda, Germany had planned on replacing those lost kilowatt hours with more cheap Russian natural gas via a second Nord Stream pipeline. But virtue signaling support for Nazis in Ukraine requires abandoning a national energy policy that was decades in the making.
Poland is also eager to jump on the EU energy suicide train. As with Swedes, Poles have been reared from birth to accept anything if they think they’re getting the better of Russians (or Germans). The new national energy plan in Poland is to burn more poor-quality Polish coal instead of buying cheap and less sulfur-rich Russian coal but they will never make up the difference in the three months between now and winter, so the government is shopping for coal on the international market.
Even if it did secure coal on the international market in time, there would be no way to distribute it to the three million households that still burn coal in winter. Presently its baltic ports and national railways are clogged with military and humanitarian supplies flooding toward Ukraine.
Poland will also wean itself off Russian gas in a manner that plays hide the ball with geopolitical reality. The Polish and Slovak governments just completed a natural gas pipeline near their shared border with Ukraine, which is still getting plenty of Russian gas via the old soviet energy mainstay, the Brotherhood pipeline. Poland’s PiS party (Law and Justice) is happy to take Russian natural gas because, like the coronavirus that as soon as it hits German territory becomes dangerous, as soon as the gas passes through Ukraine into Poland, it’s no longer Russian and therefore no longer evil. It magically becomes virtuous Ukrainian gas instead.
Viktor Orbán and Hungary are not playing the suicidal energy games and have pre-negotiated a steady supply of Russian gas via the southern TurkStream pipeline that now flows through Bulgaria and Serbia. The cost of that gas was negotiated last September when Orbán saw the writing on the wall.
Hungary has been subsidizing (capping) natural gas costs since 2013, which is a big reason for Orbán’s domestic popularity. This year that ends, to a point. While Germans freeze or go broke, the Hungarian government will still help cover winter energy bills up to the middle-class average home’s consumption. Beyond that, wealthier Hungarians will have to pay the difference. This is causing other economic problems, as larger business owners like non-corporate hotels consider closing for the winter.
Hungary is looking toward a future of continued energy problems for the bloc and planning ahead by disregarding the beau gest virtue signaling energy policy agenda of its myopic union neighbors while partnering with their evil foe. Russia recently agreed to build two nuclear reactors in Hungary to the anger and dismay of the Liberal World Order’s corporate media machine.”
https://thegoodcitizen.substack.com/p/europes-virtuous-suicide?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
that’s a good read.
“It was never about making enemies with Russia or viewing Russia as a threat but rather always about bringing Europe to heel, and reminding her that her masters are not in Moscow, but in the District of Corruption.
The EU is a foundation for European cohesion and the EU may be controlled by Germany, but Europe belongs to the United States which will keep her in its stable…”
lots of bloggers seem to make the same point, that Europe is the poodle on USA’s leash.
I would be a totally disgusted European, if I knew that the Eurotards in Brussels were bending over to the whims of the bully USA, while millions of common citizens were being pushed into conditions that likely will devolve this winter into “hungry and freezing in the dark.”
I Stand With Orban.
Why would the United States want Europe, with its lack of energy? Squeezing Europe out would leave more for the rest of the world.
Perhaps, Gail.
A kind of geo-political musical chairs.
Oh dear, Europe left standing out in the cold…….
In effect we are running off fumes now, here in Europe.
“To be an enemy of the United States can be dangerous. To be its ally is absolutely fatal.”
— Henry Kissinger
Standing with Orban is a double-edged sword. He seems to be standing up for the Hungarians and trying his best to go the middle ground that will ensure gas supplies from Russia without getting kicked out of the EU (I am not sure that is possible). But he is an extreme right wing Politian, that reminds me of the early days of the N*zi party.
funny how the Demoncrats (and their near total fascsist control of mass media) remind me of that same party.
According to figures from the “Mortality Surveillance” portal of the Portuguese General Directorate of Health, the number of deaths in July was 30% higher than the average recorded between the years 2016 and 2019.
In June, Portugal’s excess mortality rate was already the highest in Europe, with 23.9% more deaths compared to the average for the same month over the period 2016-2019. These worrying figures should be compared to the European Union average of 6.2%.
https://2ndsmartestguyintheworld.substack.com/p/just-in-vaids-rising-the-most-deathvaxxed
Portugal was doing pretty well, in terms of excess deaths, but recently seems to be back up again.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-raw-death-count-single-series?country=~PRT
VAIDS is progressive
that graph shows perhaps 1,000 per month excess deaths for the past 3 months.
the jabs are horrrible, but the raw numbers of deaths are peanuts compared to 8 billion of us.
(1,000 deaths probably equals many thousands disabled… the jabs are horrrible.)
Yes my popcorn has gone stale on this….🙁
Wait till Devil Covid pile drives into the VAIDsies. You want deaths… you’ll get cart loads of bodies in the hospital parking lots
This is when Fast Eddy will spring into action – he’ll be down there as the QT hospital taking photos of the dying MOREONS… and posting them along with Hoolio photos
What a coincidence! Greta Thunberg is related to the Rothschild Clan
The house of the Rothschild bankers reluctantly confirms the undeniable. Greta Thunberg is a blood relative of the notorious Rothschild chain of nation-buyers. It explains much about the precocious adolescent’s celebrity status drooled over by presidents and prime ministers – and, of course, the slobbering ‘on-message’ media barons of the Western swamps.
Swedish eco-activist Greta Thunberg (20) is a great-granddaughter of the notorious banker Lionel Walter Rothschild, son of the first Baron Rothschild. Previously, this fact has drawn the attention of journalists who researched the genealogical tree of the famous family.
By the way, the net worth of Greta’s parents is estimated at $3 million – that we know about. Not bad for a modestly successful opera musician and her stage actor husband.
The media became interested in the alleged kinship after a source at the large Swedish bank Handelsbanken stated that the Thunberg family had received transfers from the Rothschild Foundation to their accounts.
Despite this information appearing in the tabloid press, the bank was so zealous to find the source of the leak that it raised suspicions.
After two weeks of research, it turned out that the pubescent activist’s great-grandfather Joachim Thunberg was the son of Lionel Rothschild, who was illegitimate but was recognised in 1928.
https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=257853
Now you come to mention it, I thought she looked a tiny bit inbred.
Although some have put her looks down to fetal alcohol syndrome.
I shudder to ask this question on a family-friendly blog, but how do they know she’s pubescent?
Good point. In Bred + mother was an Ultra Low Dumpster H-ooker (probably inbred too from the looks of SSS)…
The kid never had a chance.
Very interesting piece of information and i will go on a stretch here if greta is a rothschild then the illuminati is involved which means their would be a plan b and plan c and plan d if things don’t turn out the way the illuminati want it to turn out one thing we can be certain of is that there would be a lot of bought people on board with the plan and fulfilling their end of their bargains .
Super Snatch SINdy is also part of that clan … old Lionel was out by the dumpster all drunked up and SSS’s granny was plying her wares… and Lionel couldn’t resist…
Long story short… SSS is Greta’s biological mother — she plopped her out and chucker in a dumpster — the Salvation Army recovered her… was planning to raise her to be a stripper… but some Swedes came by and offered a case of beer and some bourbon .. so the Sally Ann’s said — hey a bird in the hand is a bird in the hand (and Geeta was looking a bit… re tard ed… and not likely to be pole dancer material)…
So they got all drunked up. The Swedes took Geeta back home with them .. indoctrinating her into their Green Cult..
And here we are
Hey norm
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F45d03272-6b7a-4958-a4a4-19d77b533c78_1388x1031.png
you are playing with matches around dynamite…
It looks to me as if 80+ is doing very well!
Exhaustive study of German mortality data finds excess deaths tightly correlated with mass vaccination
Excess mortality in Germany 2020–2022 is a preprint by Christof Kuhbandner (a psychologist at Regensburg) and Matthias Reitzner (a statistician at Osnabrück) that applies sophisticated actuarial analysis to the publicly available all-cause mortality data provided by the German government. It turns out that when you account for historical mortality trends, the virus no longer looks so dangerous, and the vaccines no longer look so great.
From the abstract:
In 2020, the observed number of deaths was close to the expected number with respect to the empirical standard deviation. By contrast, in 2021, the observed number of deaths was two empirical standard deviations above the expected number. The high excess mortality in 2021 was almost entirely due to an increase in deaths in the age groups between 15 and 79 and started to accumulate only from April 2021 onwards. A similar mortality pattern was observed for stillbirths with an increase of about 11 percent in the second quarter of the year 2021.
Something must have happened in April 2021 that led to a sudden and sustained increase in mortality in the age groups below 80 years, although no such effects on mortality had been observed during the COVID-19 pandemic so far.
What happened in April 2021 was the beginning of mass vaccination across Germany.
Here’s an overview of mortality deficit or excess by age bracket:
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/exhaustive-study-of-german-mortality
‘Not interested. Can’t wait for Booster 5’ said norm
One quote:
“The vaccines obviously do most of their harm by inducing adverse immune reactions, and thus they’re relatively safe in the very elderly, who have weaker immune systems. This makes the oldest Germans a useful control, as they are the most sensitive to virus-associated mortality, and the least sensitive to vaccine-associated mortality. Thus, to anyone who objects that it’s really the April case spike that’s making the vaccines look bad here, or that it’s Delta causing those problems in the Fall, the objection is simple: The olds aren’t dying in April or September 2021, just the youngs. What kills mainly the youngs and spares mainly the olds? The answer is not SARS-2.”
So, the oldest group can take the vaccines, without being harmed. Norm is OK taking boosters. It is younger folks who can’t take them.
Of course, the risk of dying from the vaccinations is slightly lower for the very old. On the other hand, nursing staff in Germany is talking about “the emptying of nursing homes”. The harmful effects are very similar to age-specific diseases.
We have proof, that the vaccines do not protect against transmission and not against infection. Not even gradually. Not even the producers claim that, but for example the Austrian government, based on very shaky statistics. Usually they are assumed to prevent a severe cause. But where is the proof besides shaky statistics, where not even “the unvaccinated” are precisely defined?
The only proof I know about is that the vaccines lead to the production of antibodies for a few weeks – lower levels than needed. I doubt the tests are all searching for a specific antibody, though. And the term more antibodies equals mild cause is still an assumption. What is more, looking to British data it seems that the more vaccinated a person is the less antibodies can be produced – also not naturally by infection. There is a discussion going on, if the body gets desensitized by multiple injections, because IgG4 seems to increase. A person that cannot develop antibodies during an infection might become seriously ill. It might be a good idea also for the elderly to wait for the results.
I don’t wanna loose Norm!
self eddy—self
just as you always do
People norm’s age may as well eat pizza and KFC for every meal and drink buckets of cola… snort coke… sniff meth… mainline heroin… sky dive with parachutes full of holes… drive a Tesla around a corner at 100mph then try to brake… play chicken with 18 wheelers… and last but not least… go to a war zone .. be driven to the front … and dropped off in a mobility scooter with some popcorn .. and get an adrenaline rush before getting blasted to bits
UK inflation to top 18% in early 2023, Citi warns
Reuters August 21, 2022
LONDON (Reuters) -British consumer price inflation is set to peak at 18.6% in January, more than nine times the Bank of England’s target, an economist at U.S. bank Citi said on Monday, raising his forecast once again in light of the latest jump in energy prices.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/uk-inflation-to-top-18-25-in-early-2023-citi-warns
oooohhh.. Crack… Boom?
Sounds a bit over the top for a forecast.
Set to peak? I have serious problrm with all the words MSM use
As we often find when hiking in the mountains, beyond that peak there lies another, and another, and yet another.
In Poland’s late summer heat, dozens of cars and trucks line up at the Lubelski Wegiel Bogdanka coal mine, as householders fearful of winter shortages wait for days and nights to stock up on heating fuel in queues reminiscent of communist times.
Artur, 57, a pensioner, drove up from Swidnik, some 30 km (18 miles) from the mine in eastern Poland on Tuesday, hoping to buy several tonnes of coal for himself and his family.
“Toilets were put up today, but there’s no running water,” he said, after three nights of sleeping in his small red hatchback in a crawling queue of trucks, tractors towing trailers and private cars.
“This is beyond imagination, people are sleeping in their cars. I remember the communist times but it didn’t cross my mind that we could return to something even worse.”
Artur’s household is one of the 3.8 million in Poland that rely on coal for heating and now face shortages and price hikes, after Poland and the European Union imposed an embargo on Russian coal following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/in-poland-where-coal-is-king-homeowners-queue-for-days-to-buy-fuel/ar-AA11abLQ
The MOREONS are on the verge of despair — but hope is not yet crushed… if only the Ukey war would finish up… things would return to normal … right?
That darn war… but Z is worth is … everything and anything for Z!
Government officials career path. Oversee institutions for a period and then go on the payroll of those same institutions. Scott Gottlieb. Ex FDA boss. Current Pfizer board member. Perfectly normal.
Bought and paid for. Starting when?
Military officers dont oversee weapon systems contractors per se. They do decide who gets contracts. Often they have positions with those same contractors after leaving the military before retirement. Perfectly normal.
Bought and paid for. Starting when?
Which is not to say there are not incredibly courageous competent, dedicated, talented and patriotic service people. There are. A lot. Like Col. Theresa Long
Beltway BAU.
Pretend government. Pretend media. Every single aspect bought and paid for. Of course theres no accountability. Of course. They dont work for you. They dont work for me. Why would there be accountability to someone they dont work for?
https://www.bitchute.com/video/LdlgbY9TGLBR/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/RE4sHvUWGBbt/
The pattern of back and forth from industry to government works in pretty much all industries. I know it works in insurance. It also works in the oil industry. The problem is that there is such a steep learning curve that the regulators pretty much need to come from industry.
There is also an issue of not enough funding for government programs. If industry can pay part of the cost, it means that the government will do what industry wants it to. Universities are now funded to a significant extent by business donations. Certainly, new buildings are often funded by outside groups. Or a laboratory in a building is funded by a company.
All of these things tie government and industry together. Regulation will tend to be what the regulated want.
I have no problem with government agencies cooperating with the entities they work with. There should always be a common goal. Take the DOT for instance. Its in everyone benefit that trucks move safely and efficiently. The DOT and truckers should not be adversaries in that goal. Both should buy in to the charter.
I do think dysfunction arises when cultures arise that forget about common goals. Large profits see strange cultures manifest. When entities hold the power of unique technologies it tends to get real profitable. The focus becomes the power of the unique technology and of course the rewards of that technology and where those rewards are placed. The whole supposed reason for entities public and private is they serve the public good in the whole. The assumption is there are fundamental qualities that serve the public but I disagree with that assumption. It appears to me that many entities have become totally detached from that becoming self organizing organisms with no interest in the public interest as a whole and cultures to match. They pretend that the public interests are their motive but every one of their financial interests, their actions, and the culture that they operate in tells a different story. Whether public or private if the interests of the self organizing organism that creates and distributes profits are not put first by a individual than that individual does not succeed in the organisms culture. To discuss this, that the fundamental goals of the entities are different than the public good is taboo yet we have example after example that this is what is the reality is. What is demanded is loyalty to the culture and the assumption is that public benefit will be demonstrated in the big picture. That assumption is demonstrably false and this is one of the things that is creating cognitive dissonance.
I know I am repetitious on this score, but “the fundamental goals of the entities” are to break down energy gradients in the service of physical laws.We can’t not do this.
Everything apparently illogical or counter-productive becomes increasingly coherent (I find) when viewed through this lens, although I do, myself, often fall back into instinctive politically-based “normie” thinking (which way lies madness).
Typical fent od. Body trys to vomit as defense mechanism but muscles are being shut down so it doesnt get far. Death is from diaphragm muscles stopping breathing but vomit in airway and sometimes lungs often contribute. A good samaritan administers NARCAN and meets with a assault by the recipient once conscious. This is also typical and paramedics are ready for it when they save someones life with NARCAN, this man was not. Now that inhaled NARCAN is widely distributed to the public it has taken a lot of the burden off paramedics to administer it where it has constituted a large percentage of their calls. Sometimes to the same individual multiple times. A citizen doesnt have to stick around after administering NARCAN- placing the addict in the position of finding another fix forthwith or experiencing withdrawals- but a paramedic does. Narcotic addiction is hell on earth. Just another day in philly. Administer NARCAN if you choose but walk while the addict is still unconscious. Best he not even know who you are. A opiate addicts life constitutes hell and periods of non hell. Place him back into hell at your own peril.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/RE4sHvUWGBbt/
The best narcotic was the $.
NARCAN should be banned, except for when it needs to be administered to the first responders who sometimes come in contact with the fentanyl.
this will greatly reduce the suffering of addicts.
why not?
Well the trouble is every opiate addict is someones daughter or son or mother or father so the death causes suffering also. As far as addictions go opiate addiction is quite treatable with many good techniques and therapy with a better success rate than other addictions tobacco for instance. I happen to know some lovely individuals who were heroin addicts including some really attractive women who are way out of my league beautiful inside and out. They are IMO a much better addition to the planet than a old man like me. Not that I deny my birthright. Its kind of a matter of degree. My experience is if someone has only been a addict for a year or three if they love themselves and get treatment they can quit. Acupuncture is particularly useful in opiod addiction treatment and is a real blessing it doesnt work in many addictions such as tobacco or alcohol. .
Anyone can become a addict. Ingest narcotics for long enough time and you or me is a addict.
There are people who never quit. Some even function and work. They try to quit and fail. Then they give up to living in hell.
I used to know 30 somethings that were very productive and talented who would chip heroin. Chip means you think you can use it and not get addicted. Told me it was good for their body I would just shake my head. You cant tell a 30 somthing nothing. But guess what. None of them became addicts. But thats how people become addicted. Once a year becomes once a month. Once a month becomes hell.
Fent doesnt have the sexy bad boy aura of heroin thank god. In a way I think it represents a change in opiate addiction culture. A lot of people have just lost hope. I think most people who start using fent kind of dont care if they die. Thats just a guess I have never actually known anyone who chose to use fent. A couple of the local hipsters got sold some coca that was fent and ended up in the hospital a couple years back. They swore off all of it and so did a lot of their hipster friends so in that case the prevalence of fent in virtually all street drugs was a deterrent to use. Coca is easily as bad as fent just different. The monkey will continue to push the button and humans are no diferent.
Peoples brain chemistry is different. One person uses narcotics and they are hooked very first time. Most people can withstand a fair amount of exposure after a injury for pain and not become addicts. There is always risk with exposure and that risk is determined by brain chemistry, length of exposure and dosage. IMO the “high” is certainly not worth the risk of hell.
Good treatment largely being a function of income those with better incomes have a better but certainly not guaranteed chance of beating opioid addiction. More money means you can buy more dope too. Intelligence level too but once again no guarantees.
I neither agree or disagree with your NARCAN should be banned statement. NARCAN administered to a addict puts them in a very bad situation indeed. A addict counts on the period of time the fix gives them to get more money to get the next fix. They are only incapacitated for a hour or so then its time to do whatever they do to get the money for the next fix while the narcotic is still preventing withdrawal frequently panhandle. Its not hard to panhandle $10. NARCAN means they need to score and administer a new dose immediately or suffer withdrawal and they have no means to do so. I can only assume you would feel differently if it was someone you loved. Its always hard losing someone to addiction and realizing there is a point when they are gone even if still alive.
The fent phenomena is a complex problem and IMO is only one part of a series of rapid changes we are seeing in our society. That the precursors for fent are coming from China and there seems little attention to asking China to stop exporting them to countries south of the USA is yet another amazing data point.
I would feel much more confident in our ability to find reasonable solutions to the fent crisis if we were not witnessing other major breakdowns in IC. I do not think the fent phenomena is unconnected. It is quite clear how to address the problem. Decriminalize and treat. One could argue that the open air drug market with no enforcement is the worst form of legalization. Legalization doesnt mean you can buy it at walgreens on a whim. It means addicts will be provided pharmaceutical opioids along with treatment options. This historically has reduced addict populations by half. If we genuinely want to reduce the suffering of addiction that is the proven way to do it.
One could make some guesses about why that is not happening. The question arises as to whether the quality of life emotionally spiritually and financially is a major contributor in this crisis. With acupuncture so effective in treatment of opioids another question is would big pharma allow this effective treatment with their intolerance for non profit motivated solutions. As it stands if someone utilizes acupuncture for opioid addiction and insurance finds out about it it is considered a non approved treatment and insurance is cancelled even if it is required to include addiction treatment in employers insurance as it is in many states. Even discussing acupuncture is a firing offense for a counselor in a opioid treatment center. IMO this removes one of the great advantages a opioid addict has in fighting the disease and yes I believe the disease model is the most accurate way of defining addiction.
Addiction treatment in the USA often focuses on western psychological and pharmaceutical models and while these disciplines and methods are sometimes not without benefit to my mind they greatly lacking. Once again this is a for profit system with big pharma making the rules. There is a lot of money in treatment and just like normal those who are harvesting it dont want it any other way. What is the message to the addict if you communicate its not taking a substance thats a problem but your choice of a unapproved substance thats a problem? What is the message to the addict if you say the emotions and feelings you are experiencing that coincided with seeking escape is because you are not sane? Yes anyone will become a addict with enough exposure but without addressing the spiritual and social basis of the crisis treatment is not effective IMO.
Addiction must be to some extent tied in with feelings of despair.
It is also tied to some extent to access to drugs. I know that physicians, with their easy access to prescription drugs, often seem to become addicted to “uppers” and “downers,” it they need to be away or asleep at times different from when their body wants to sleep.
I need to hang out with a doctor who gets high on his own supply – and share.
Why would they want to be cured of their habit? So long as it’s not killing them… it can be a lot of fun. That must be why they are addicted in the first place?
they only need to learn to control their addiction
“they only need to learn to control their addiction”
Observed in stone on the gateway to hell.
He was trying to exit before ROF… no wonder he was pissed off!!!
When someone takes the Fen… don’t try to revive them. For what?
I had surgery with general anesthesia a number of years ago, and the worst part of it was the 2-3 days in hospital recovering, with an IV painkiller (I think it was dilaudid, possibly other stuff, too). I spent that whole time in a sleepless nightmare of feeling as though I were drowning, being periodically waterboarded. I don’t know whether the drugs were affecting my diaphragm or my central nervous system (just ‘forgetting’ to breathe), or both.
I wanted more than anything to drop off to sleep, but the minute I did, I had the sensation of not breathing and alarms would go off and such: three days of feeling as though I were dying every couple of hours (there was no ‘tunnel’ or ‘light’, just a sense of panic). My roommates were pissed that they couldn’t get any sleep, either. I kept appealing to every nurse and random doc who breezed through (it was a “teaching hospital”), but I never got a serious acknowledgment of my concerns nor did anything change before I was finally released.
Harry’s excellent economics round-up.
27th August 2022 Today’s Round-Up of Economic News
https://climateandeconomy.com/2022/08/27/27th-august-2022-todays-round-up-of-economic-news/
Most of the items are about coming or existing energy shortages in Europe, consequences thereof, e.g.:
A Corner of Europe Starts Living With Blackouts Again.
“Every six hours the power goes off in Kosovo. It’s the first country on the continent to suffer rolling outages as the energy crisis escalates… the start of the continent’s first rolling blackouts this month could turn out to be a prelude for richer parts of Europe.”
The problems tend to start in the poorest countries. Kosovo is down near the bottom in Europe.
Dear Gail, after all we have discussed, you come up with a foot fetish?
Joke of course. Madness increases as the timeline of infinite growth shows its teeth to the sheep that depends on its inability to deliver.
‘Excess mortality, from Germany an in-depth study of the data: excess deaths are closely related to ‘mass inoculation’
https://www.eventiavversinews.it/mortalita-in-eccesso-dalla-germania-uno-studio-approfondito-dei-dati-le-morti-in-eccesso-sono-strettamente-correlate-all-inoculazione-di-massa/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362777743_Excess_mortality_in_Germany_2020-2022
yes the evidence against jabs is solid.
the pre-jab mortality rates for 1 to 59 years old were very low.
so even doubling those rates, a 100% increase, still leaves those rates very low.
the Big Action in death death death is just not here.
yet.
perhaps winter 2022/2023.
time will tell.
“In children aged 0-14 there has been a horrifying 542% INCREASE in excess death this year compared with last year in Europe. ”
https://twitter.com/PeterSweden7/status/1563519897950306306?s=20&t=0aDxxdHRipaCP5lNhSPzRQ
yes I do not doubt that data and the needless horrrifying excess deaths of children.
toxic mRNA vaxxing of children is criminal.
but their natural death rate is so low, that even the 5X increase in deaths does not amount to millions of deaths.
maybe thousands?
there is not much excess death action.
where’s even 1%?
just a mere 80 million.
is that too much to hope for?
I agree! TPTB are not slapping high fives saying “Yes….we killed ten kids today…good work everyone!”
Wait for the cumulative effect in five years’ time. Softee softee catchee monkey!
5 years, really?
you actually might be spot on, the deaths may be delayed, it sure helps with the plausible deniability.
but you fortify my point, that the big action in death is not here yet, but down the road.
Agree with both you and David. These alternative websites are very dishonest. And FE is their mouthpiece.
No doubt they were all vaccinated hahaha…
the parents should be proud of themselves… they aborted their progeny … cuz.
id iots.
This study looks like it is still a non-peer reviewed preprint, but it looks pretty good.
The high mortality corresponds to when the vaccines are given, and it affects the younger age groups.
Other than norm… everyone on OFW realizes that the vaccines are death shots.
Shenzhen. Another day.
August 24th.
A COVID test site.
More than 100 000 people competing to take their routine COVID test to keep their QR code vaccine passport valid.
https://twitter.com/songpinganq/status/1562794431698178048
This sounds like a big waste of people’s time. It does keep the need for more tests continuing.
I cannot tell how real is real now. All the videos from China. Are they real?
These ones look real—as in not staged. The people sho seem to be waving their phones around to try to get access to buildings, buy a hamburger or avoid being sent off to Covid camp seem to be going about their everyday business in a “natural” manner rather than being computer-generated fakes or actors performing in a production.
Although, I admit that the lines between theater and “real life” are blurred, and that in a sense, all the world’s a stage.
When I look at these videos from China, I feel even more depressed that when I look at those from Germany, Ukraine, or the more hopeless parts of the Middle East, Africa and the Americas.
I need cheering up with a good movie….
As (probably) most readers of this site, I don’t depress that easily. This video is a powerful downer!
Let’s check what Hoolio is up to:
https://i.postimg.cc/L5c9vBWB/foooolio.png
And more hoolio … at rest
https://i.postimg.cc/8cZW5CZr/baldhoolio.png
This cheers me up no end. Please tell Hoolio from me that he’s a good boy!
Hoolio!
Hoolio!
Hoolio!
Shy boys are better than fly boys!
Rabbit murderer!
https://i.postimg.cc/kgMSQWWQ/hooliowarming.png
Hoolio is both a shyboy and a flyboy! What a rock star.
Everyone loves Hoolio.
I thought they were rats at first.. or cockroaches
Energy Crisis Squeezes Smaller Firms That Power Europe’s Economy
Companies take drastic steps to deal with soaring gas prices: ‘We’re not giving you a cheaper product, we’re giving you less product’
https://www.wsj.com/articles/energy-crisis-squeezes-smaller-firms-that-power-europes-economy-11661419788?st=91aellisz1fvxd1&reflink=share_mobilewebshare
Great – problem solved!
This can’t end well! Less fertilizer doesn’t produce as much food, for example.
Yara implements further production curtailments in Europe
Oslo, 25 August 2022: As a result of record high gas prices in Europe, Yara is implementing further curtailments which will take its total European ammonia capacity utilization to around 35%. With this, Yara will have curtailed an annual capacity equivalent of 3.1 million tonnes ammonia and 4.0 million tonnes finished products (1.8 million tonnes urea, 1.9 million tonnes nitrates and 0.3 million tonnes NPK) across its production system in Europe.
Yara will where possible use its global sourcing and production system to optimize operations and meet customer demand, including continued nitrate production using imported ammonia when feasible. Yara will continue to monitor the situation and adapt to market conditions going forward.
https://www.yara.com/corporate-releases/yara-implements-further-production-curtailments-in-europe/
Global copper inventories :
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FbLAwz7VsAI-4V5?format=jpg&name=small
copper price has been rising slightly recently.
inventory down to 800 kilotons.
how low can it go?
I notice the CERA people (with Dan Yergin) are highlighting two video talks:
Oil Investment: Is the peak behind or ahead of us – Panel discussion
and
The Future of Copper in the Energy Transition – Daniel Yergin
I haven’t listened to this video, but I imagine that Dan Yergin is highlighting the fact that there is likely not nearly enough copper to make a transition to an all-electric world.
Putting these two videos together, I wonder if CERA is coming to the same conclusion that we are on OurFiniteWorld.com. We are reaching the end on fossil fuels, and renewables cannot replace the fossil fuels.
Religion declares us the pinnacle of an omnipotent agent’s creative acts, whereas science has reduced us to physicochemical ephemera on a rocky planet. How do we reconcile these two ‘images’ of humankind?
Where is the dichotomy?
humans are emergent phenomena.
the human level of reality is just as real as the reductionist level where we are all merely a collection of quarks.
3,000 or so major gods are also emergent phenomena, emerging from human imagination.
the odds of One of them being a close representation of actual Reality is what?
just about zero.
imagination is a real emergent phenomenon, and so is science.
it’s all good.
What if we are the only sentient species in the universe? Does that mean we are the best the universe has yet been able to produce? If one damns a creation(humans) of the universe to this point, might that well be a poor, personal choice? The universe is patient, try, try again. Dinosaurs didn’t have a future, if evidence is correct, the universe made them into birds.
Dennis L.
what if there are dinosaurs on other planets?
(boof!)
I still have difficulty in reconciling that dinosaurs walked the earth for tens of millions of years, whereas H. sapiens has been around for only 100,000 years. But for the one asteroid, comet, super volcanic eruption, abrupt climate change or other catastrophic one-off event, the dinosaurs would still be here, and we would not. Mammalian rodent ancestries would still be stuck hiding out under rocks or in burrows. Dinosaurs were hugely successful.
I remember one paper in my genetics class in college titled “The evolutionary advantages of being stupid.” It seems that seals with smaller brain size had a survival advantage. Their smaller brain would require less oxygen which would allow them to dive deeper and stay underwater for longer periods of time to evade predators like the leopard seal in Antarctica or the polar bear in the Arctic.
The jury may be still out on this, but probably, it took a good deal more than one asteroid to finish the Dinosaurs.
This is a very interesting animation of the last 540 million years of plate tectonics. Nice music too.
And why did it take so long for dinosaur fossils to be found (1830s)? You would think that native Americans would have had some of these formations to show the colonizers. Or that Franklin would’ve commented about such science as he was known for. Or that Europeans would have commented on these fossils with all the plowing and mining in Europe and around the world prior to the early 19th. I smell bullshit.
I have just started reading this fascinating website book.
“After several years of working as a college physics instructor, I decided to put forth a serious effort to solve the paradox of how the dinosaurs grew so large. What I soon discovered was that there was not one but several major scientific paradoxes associated with the Mesozoic era: how did pterosaurs fly, the unique shape of the dinosaurs, the uniform global climate of the Mesozoic era, the paradox of how birds evolve the ability to fly, how dolomite formed, and so on. And then I realized that one solution solves them all: during the Mesozoic era the Earth had an extremely thick atmosphere. It is a solution that most people could not even imagine, and that is precisely why the scientists who first worked on these scientific paradoxes fail to consider the possibility.
DinosaurTheory is a remarkable scientific breakthrough. Beyond solving these scientific paradoxes that have stumped paleontologists for decades and even centuries there is actually much more. Once we realize that the Earth’s atmosphere was thicker than what it is today we are able to understand the evolution of life on this planet. From DinosaurTheory we learn what heats the Earth’s interior, how the Earth evolved, and in fact we learn how all the planets and moons of our solar system evolved. Recognizing that the Earth previously had a much thicker atmosphere is comparable to when mankind realized that the Earth is round: for both events the supporting evidence is overwhelming and yet the recognition of the truth was delayed because most people lack the necessary imagination.”
https://www.dinosaurtheory.com/index.html
What would a thick atmosphere be like?
It seems like cockroaches and some other insects have been around for a long time. (Perhaps not that long, however.) Could they tolerate a different kind of atmosphere?
Good question, Gail. A thick atmosphere would still be gaseous, but living in it would be a bit closer to living in a liquid.
For instance, the wind would have more oomph and blow you a lot further if its mass was greater. Also, the thicker atmosphere would be able to support larger flying creatures. You would get more lift out of it.
A thicker atmosphere would be warmer, raising the temperature close to the surface by a significant amount. With our present atmosphere, the temperature at a given location on the surface falls by 0.65ºC for every 100 meter rise in elevation/altitude until we reach the top of the troposphere. This fall in temperature corresponds to a fall in air pressure, so logically, if air pressure became higher, we should expect temperature to be higher too.
And a thicker atmosphere would be able to move heat from the tropics to the poles much more effectively, and so the temperature difference between tropics and poles would be minimalized. The entire surface would be tropical or sub-tropical and there would be not icecaps or glaciers anywhere.
Long long ago, way way back, well before there were any mammals or reptiles, our remote ancestors—somewhere between fish and amphibians—came out of the ocean and began spending part of their lives on the land, probably in tidal pools. If the atmosphere was substantially thicker back then, it would have been easier for organisms to make the jump from sea to land.
And if the atmosphere has become progressively thinner down the ages, then providing that the changes were not too abrupt, land based organisms would presumably have evolved to be able to cope with the atmospheric conditions as they changed.
So, it’s an interesting theory and it makes certain predictions, such as that flying creatures could have been larger than the largest modern birds, insects such as dragonflies that require oxygen but don’t have lungs to help them breathe could have been much larger, etc. But it remains speculative.
“What if we are the only sentient species in the universe? ”
Not according to ‘this’?
Disclosure project
“Secret Knowledge: Probably one of the most important videos of our time; On Wednesday, May 9th, 2001, over twenty military, intelligence, government, corporate and scientific witnesses came forward at the National Press Club in Washington, DC to establish the reality of UFOs or extraterrestrial vehicles, extraterrestrial life forms, and resulting advanced energy and propulsion technologies. The weight of this first-hand testimony, along with supporting government documentation and other evidence, will establish without any doubt the reality of these phenomena.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb8-FGdPQzc
Or not?
https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/topic/78477-debunking-the-disclosure-project/
One of them is wrong.
So far, the batting average of science has not been great. It is good at producing “models” based on some assumptions. But the models all too often have nothing to do with what really happens.
Science is not at all good at predicting how self-organizing system will behave.
That seems obvious, because . . . self-organizing.
models of self-organizing is an oxymoron
If creatures from outer space can come to us, then God is dead. We are no longer the crown of creation and not we, but those who can do what we cannot do, subdue the earth.
Don’t you see the symbolism everywhere?
The vaccines allow cells to express the properties of viruses, so we partly become chimeras between humans and viruses. Possibly integrated into the germline.
God had promised Noah to protect his descendants and all the descendants of those who were on the ark from a second flood. Chimeras, one can imagine, are also part of it. However, I don’t assume that an artificial modRNA created by Dr. Fauci and Mr Gayes was on the ark.
Do we have to await a second cataclythm?
Prerequisite of the second covenant are the Noachidic laws. The Noachidic laws are being broken everywhere, excess mortality is increasing and human rights are suspended and nearly no court can remedy it.
How can it be that the atheist in the round is brooding over such things?
My conviction, mind you, is that we are seeing a great staging: a ritual.
The ritual changes the reality of the participants. But not the reality of physics. The flood was physics. The virus is Dr. Faustus risky game. Omicron is not a pandemic. Peakoil is physics. Germany has reserves of lignite, brown coal, for 100 years of electricity generation. Not to use it is the conviction that behaving well will prevent rising sea levels. Not a cataclysm.
In most plays, you can anticipate the end much earlier. That’s part of suspence generation and no determination. But those who are dead are dead.
And this staging allows interaction!
Excellent observations.
Staging indeed is occurring on a grand scale.
Remember that global cataclysms are the norm and there have been so many of them.
I intuit ( well, read widely and trust the subconscious to absorb the simacrulum’s direction) that we shall now see truly outrageous claims….. Alien contact with all the trappings, increasing disclosure regards impending large CME events, alarm at “ geological instabilities” on planetary basis, and most important,…… the “ discovery” of a very large planetary body approaching our inner solar system from many degrees off the ecliptic.
While all will be “ real”,….. some will be more real than others.
How many understand when the Mayan long calendar ends? There are multiple ancient calendars that schedule “ the end of time” rather shortly.
The Angel of Death is a flaming sword which is a large cometary body trailing a tail of fire
I wonder if little Greta has a nice little apartment picked out in the deeper levels of a modern catacomb in the bowels of the Swiss Alps. Not that it will save her anymore than the myriad others of her clan.
The protocols will be completed.
Survival depends on moral integrity ( because in the end, that is all that matters), geographic locale, preparation and on the blessing conferred by awareness of the splendor and travail of the holosphere ( Gaia edition).
Glory to the Old Gods.
The world with the ageing human populations will look like this elderly’s house:
https://youtu.be/fHRPrKN9304
as long as there are 4 billion gallons of oil flowing through the economy daily…
then the “before” can be cleaned up…
and the “after” can be a common house.
I am resolved to die alone, so as to not waste resources that my daughter will need, but I think one device could be marketed. It would be a push button locator beacon ( hikers have these) with subscription service so that you have to electronically “sign in” as “present” to indicate you are still alive at your residence. This is the reverse of the typical emergency call button: “Help! I’ve fallen and can’t get up.” If you can’t push a simple button on a key fob then you are likely unconscious. If no “sign in” signal after 3 days, by which time even a healthy person would die from lack of water, it could be assumed you had died and the cleaners would be timely dispatched to your residence before the rodents, roaches, flies and stench set in. I wonder why Dr Kervorkian hadn’t thought of this.
a friend of mine has a perfectly nice but reclusive neighbour
he has a rollout clothesline, on which he rolls out a white towel each morning, and rolls it back in at night
its an arrangement by which they know he isnt dead
I have heard about older people raising and lowering a particular pull down shade to show that they are OK>
i must try that
i wonder if there’s an OFW flag i case raise and lower so that eddy can check up on my state of health
I remember reading about these services in the past. They do exist.
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15829840.elderly-residents-in-glasgow-told-push-button-to-say-you-are-ok-as-wardens-phased-out/
Here’s a free one for you!
https://www.snugsafe.com/
This incredible battery tech will END America’s dependence on China
https://youtu.be/rRIrfUmPnaI
Who will be able to afford it, if other prices, like food, are going up?
I watched the video. Seemed like a promo and was light on technicals.
However this battery is made, it will require an international trading system and minerals from around the world, I expect. We will still depend on business and usual continuing.
He fails to recognise that there is a theoretical limit on how much energy can be stored in an electrochemical battery. Dependent upon the ionisation energies of the chemical components. I think the presenter says Li, Mn, P in this case, in an aqueous medium.
Batteries with the greatest storage are in general non-aqueous, and non-rechargeable. Such as Na, liquid S, or Al, O.
These can carry energy approaching that of petrol, weight for weight, but have to be swapped out when discharged.
Not much use for transport.
There is no battery that comes close to storing as much energy by weight as diesel fuel.
The batteries you mention (Na, liquid S, or Al, O) don’t exist.
We need to be careful not to watch youtube videos and assume they are talking about things that are real and usable today.
thanks for that Withnail
I had my doubts about that ‘battery’ too–thought it must be youtubers BS again
thanks for confirming it.
Actually, they do:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium-air_battery
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-sulfur_battery
Not that they’re any good for transport!
hey are not widely used because of problems with high anode cost and byproduct removal
They apparently are not much good for anything…
They don’t exist.
Renewable Energy is Absolutely Crushing Fossil Fuels in 2022
There’s simply no stopping the energy transition and these companies are poised to benefit from this once-in-a-generation shift.
BY MAXX CHATSKO
https://www.thestreet.com/.amp/investing/renewables-are-absolutely-crushing-fossil-fuels-in-2022
In an astonishing trend, the United States added 462% more electricity from renewables than fossil fuels in the first half of 2022 compared to 2021, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Renewable energy accounted for 25.3% of the nation’s electricity generation in the first six months of this year, a full three percentage points above where things stood at the halfway mark of last year.
Simply put, the energy transition is an unstoppable force. Investors may want to hop on board if they haven’t already.
Investors can think of the energy transition in the power sector, meaning the electric grid, occurring over three phases.
The first phase of the energy transition was powered by the rise of onshore wind farms, the decline of coal-fired power plants, and the rapid buildout of natural gas-fired facilities to plug in the gaps.
From 2007 to 2021, the United States experienced virtually no change in total electricity generation, but the nation’s energy mix underwent historic changes.
Here’s another way to look at it: The United States lost 1,117 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity generation from coal between 2007 and 2021. That was replaced by 678 TWh of new gas-fired generation and 505 TWh of wind and solar generation.
The second phase of the energy transition – now underway – is being powered by similar trends, although the rise of utility-scale solar farms and peaking reliance on natural gas are becoming more important factors in the energy mix.
In the last three years or so, utilities and power generators raced to build onshore wind farms and utility-scale solar farms before tax credits expired or became less valuable. That led to a surge in new production capacity in 2021 and 2022.
Consider the historic changes from June 2020 to June 2022.
The United States grew installed capacity of utility-scale solar from 38.8 gigawatts (GW) to 63.3 GW, an increase of 63%.
The United States grew installed capacity of onshore wind from 107 GW to 137 GW, an increase of 28%.
The United States added 22.3 TWh of electricity from solar (including small-scale installations) and 47.7 TWh from wind.
By comparison, the nation added only 39.7 TWh from natural gas and saw coal-fired power generation decline by 27 TWh.
In total, the United States added 82 TWh from all renewables and only 14.6 TWh from all fossil fuel sources.
This is a remarkable shift compared to the first phase of the energy transition when natural gas-fired power plants were responsible for most new generation.
Here’s another way to look at it: The United States could add over 90 TWh of electricity from wind power and 35 TWh from solar in 2022 compared to 2021. That nation only added 345 TWh and 160 TWh from wind and solar, respectively, in the 14 years spanning 2007 to 2021.
The trend will accelerate in the next few years. The EIA estimates 13 GW of solar was added to the grid in 2021, but expects another 44 GW to come online by 2023. Why is that important?
Whereas wind power production peaks in early spring and early fall, solar production peaks in summer. That sounds obvious, but national energy consumption also peaks in summer due largely to air conditioning. That makes solar uniquely positioned to help renewables continue dominating the energy mix and put the final nail in the coffin of coal-fired power plants.
The third phase of the energy transmission beginning near 2030 will be powered by all the same trends, although offshore wind power will begin to nudge natural gas-fired power plants off the grid.
Nearly 30 GW of offshore wind capacity is expected to come online by 2030, up from virtually nothing today. That may not sound like much, but these next-generation power plants can produce two- and three-times as much electricity per GW than onshore wind and utility-scale solar, respectively. They will also generate electricity for the country’s major coastal population centers, helping cities rapidly reduce their reliance on coal and natural gas facilities.
Best to read the entire article…the above are just a part of what was written
Looks like it’s full speed ahead…if it makes any sense to do so is another matter
Too bad the renewables don’t work. Also, the fossil fuel system needs to continue to exist (and prosper) in parallel, or it is not possible to make and service the renewables and the transmission network they require.
I am starting to think it may work on a farm, no transmission issues and most energy is used in the summer. Winter is a time of rest(yes, I know that is not totally true, it was largely true in my grandfather’s time.)
Dennis L.
The manipulation of figures is a wonder to behold: ‘350% up’ from not very much to start with; ‘Producing two to three times ‘, again of next-to-nothing, and so on.
Reminds one of some forecasts, modeling and extrapolations in quite another field some 2 1/2 years ago…..
yes, fun with numbers.
“Renewable energy accounted for 25.3% of the nation’s electricity generation in the first six months of this year, a full three percentage points above where things stood at the halfway mark of last year.”
yet electricity generation is only what, about 20% of all energy use?
also, 3% higher means coal is being saved, which is good because coal will become more valuable when natural gas declines.
it’s all good.
People don’t realize how small a part of total energy consumption that electricity consumption is.
Part of the confusion comes from the issue of how to count electricity. Do you count electricity, for its heat-generating ability? Or do you use the heat-generating ability only for fossil fuels, and count other electricity on a sort of “grossed up” basis, based on the heat-generating ability of the fossil fuels that are replaced. In current calculations, an efficiency factor of a little over 40% is assumed. This is equivalent to multiplying the heat generating capacity of the electricity from renewables and nuclear by 2.5.
I am increasingly coming to the conclusion that the “grossing up” is misleading. The IEA does not use this grossing up. Neither does Vaclav Smil. The US EIA uses a grossing up procedure, as does BP. How much wind and solar are, as a percentage of total energy consumption depend very much on whether this grossing up procedure is used.
I am seeing some really large solar farms near me. Laugh if you will, mining shovels(e.g. Big Muskie) ran on long electric cables. They moved a lot of dirt as did many other drag lines and shovels for that matter in Il, Ind coal mines.
Locally I see some very long manure lines dragged behind tractors to distribute liquid manure, an electric cable would work just as well. Think, hmmmmmmmmmmm, not a growling diesel? Probably just a “pipe” dream.
Electric would be a heck of a lot easier to maintain than current Tier 4 diesels.
I know, intermittency, something about making hay while the sun shines. Oh no, that can’t work, everything must fail.
Think of us as the best current effort of God, He is patient, one advance at a time, rinse and repeat.
Dennis L.
Okay, more on electricity.
A coal mine is mined with electricity which is made from coal some of the infrastructure of which is made from iron smelted into steel in an electric furnace.
Close enough for me.
Dennis L.
Xabier,
The old rice on a chess board problem, when board is half covered, how long to cover entire board?
Heck, on this board the world was supposed to end in 2016, yup, still making notes on this site, world still working.
God does have a sense of humor and sometimes may only be bored for a bit.
Dennis L.
I too like to think I might give my Creator a few laughs Dennis!
To be precise renewables do work on a small scale, maybe provide a house with power but not on an industrial scale and certainly won’t power a country .
electricity of itself is useless
it only becomes useful when it is used to convert ‘stuff’ into something marketable.
our marketing system is about to collapse.
all suggestions welcome.
There is a lot of energy inefficient stuff that needs to be replaced. But the populations can not afford it.
All the new technology must be like you come to the shop, buy it, bring home and that is all you need to do.
No things like a lot of installation and maintenance personnel, as with the ageing populations, there is less and less people available for such works.
all boils down to the lastt 200 years or so being fuelled by cheap surplus energy
now we imagine the few few hundred years being powered by scarce expensive energy—-can’t be done
4 billion gallons of oil per day.
sellers want to sell it, and buyers want to buy it.
every buyer can still afford it NOW.
this wouldn’t be happening NOW if it wasn’t “cheap” enough.
10 to 1 oil (100 to 10) is 90 surplus.
not much lower than 100 to 1 which is 99 surplus.
do the math.
4 billion gallons a day of cheap enough energy.
bAU today, baby, or is it all poverty where you live?
“every buyer can still afford it NOW.” – this is not true. That is why the money distribution by the states to the populations must be in place. Not lending.
money distribution must eventually fail
money is tokenised energy
so distributing money is in effect distributing energy which is already too expensive to buy in the first place
I agree that something must go wrong. Money represents a promise of future goods and services made with energy products, except that such products are increasingly unavailable. Money can no longer be a store of value.
How the breakdown occurs is not entirely clear. Perhaps several major governments collapse, and with their collapse, their financial systems collapse. Perhaps many things we are used to purchasing simply become unavailable for purchase at any price because of international trade problems. Perhaps the electrical system becomes increasingly intermittent, then goes out completely. No one knows how much money a person supposedly had in the bank. The amount of debt becomes unknowable at the same time.
that is the problem
complete breakdowns are only ever visible in hindsight, and even then they never appear in the way they are expected
every barrel sold has a buyer of that barrel.
whether it’s “affordable” with or without debt, or with “free” money, it is what it is.
Common Norman, that assumes we know everything which is has always been a bad bet.
Dennis L.
no need to ‘know’ everything Dennis. Even I dont know everything.
But, in order to sustain ‘civilisation’ in any context, it is necessary to convert one compound into another, and in doing so, make some kind of profit on the ‘excess’ of such activity.
That is where we differ from all other animals. They dont make a profit, we do. What we do or don’t do in the future must still be based on that. I think that is why we are headed into a dead end. The profit motive.
If some new ‘energy form’ was discovered, (unlikely as we already know the periodic table but lets go with that for the moment), then that ‘energy form’ would have to be put to use, converting one form of material into another.
Stasis doesn’t work.
Grain is converted into human muscle, oil is converted into–whatever.
They are both forms of the same thing. One is current energy–the other is fossilised energy. The laws of thermodynamics dissipates that energy. They do not allow stasis.
Whatever the future, dissipation will be the most critical part of it. And we will have no control over it.
Essentially dissipation will exceed creation, until we reach energy balance.
we may or not be part of that balance. I’m guessing not.
“They dont make a profit, we do. ”
I think beavers make a profit.
i think that concept is a bit obscure
i never heard of beavers building lodges and renting them out to other beavers
“That is where we differ from all other animals. They dont make a profit, we do. ”
Is that so?
They don’t?
We do?
stop pretending to be quite so dim Tim, or are you pretending? i do wonder sometimes.
look around you. look at the kb and screen in front of you.
what you see is our ‘profit’ from natural resources
My guess is that beavers don’t go in very much for concepts such as “profit”. Humans do.
Squirrels have been known to make a good profit on the nut collecting business though—and to squirrel it away.
This is the shy forest creatures’ version of saving up for a pension from the Prudential.
getting desperate now Tim?
squirrels are merely the sperm distribution system for trees
trees have sex once a year–they spread their seed once a year, and pay the squirrels in nuts to do it for them
cunning or what?
“squirrels are merely the sperm distribution system for trees”
For the reductionist, the whole is always somehow less than the sum of its parts.
trees have an excess of nuts, they must spread their seed.
Trees do not move, squirrels do, it is a mutually beneficial arrangement.
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The Earth accumulated an excess of fossilised carbon, 100 million years ago
The earth had no means of getting rid of it
Humankind evolved, and burned off all the carbon
When it has all gone, humankind will be surplus to requirements.
Nature has a way of making things work.
“For the reductionist, the whole is always somehow less than the sum of its parts.”
Nothing wrong with reductionism if it considers the system as a whole. But then again, that is holism.
Not all trees carry their “seeds” as nuts. For example pines open their cones and spread in the wind. To a spine the squirrel is merely a parasite munching on its seed.
And squirrels are cute so they serve meaning for hoomans enjoying their shenanigans in nature.
Only simpleton Tryhard attaboys would “reductionist” squirrels. 🐿
fear not Kow
your prime minister (or whatever she’s called), is still eminently desirable, and gives me thoughts of seed spreading
I doubt she’s Pay to Play like SSS… maybe you could try out your Rayburn lines on her?
eddy
writing instruction books taught me one thing
there’s no room for BS
Yeah, “Maggan”, as she is called in Sweden, isn’t in bad shape considering her age. She’s got some wit too, however, to maneuver in the Swedish political “landscape” isn’t exactly BAU anymore.
But compared with President Tsai Ing Wen she’s got nothing. 🇹🇼
MG, almost everything today is cheaper and better than yesterday. Cars, they were a pain in the sixties, tune up was good for 1500 miles, oil leaked, non disc brakes need an open drivers door and foot dragging on the pavement to stop. AM radios were deluxe, nothing like the AM sound, air conditioning was an open window, love the sound or air rushing by. And, no seatbelts, no air bags, nothing like banging your head against a nice hard, metal dash. Steering wheels were designed to impale the driver, no collapse or air bag for sissy’s. A sixties car got 10 mpg on a good day, tires lasted twenty thousand miles if lucky, exhaust systems were a constant issue.
Cataract surgery? Not sure when that started, seeing is nice.
It isn’t all bad and what does not work is sooner or later abandoned.
Dennis L.
all perfectly true Dennis
But one could easily backdate that to the horse and cart.
Progress has been due the colossal energy input on a world scale–now we have car production failing because of a small component holdup 10000 miles away.
Or the prospect of Lithium being in the hands of a few producers instead of ditto with oil
I agree with your point about the technology progress, but you must live in a different world, because the human populations are ageing and there is a growing shortage of workforce and cheap energy to sustain the growth.
The stalling of the system is inevitable. Then the forces of the nature prevail, because we use huge amounts of cheap energy to counterfight the natural forces.
Nature will adjust all things, it will be as it is supposed to be, worrying does little good.
Dennis L.
Divorce, homelessness, porn, life destroying drugs, loneliness, the collapse of marriage, chronic auto immune diseases, all cheaper and better than ever before.
And they must be working, bcs they aren’t being abandoned.
“Stuff” itself is useless. It only becomes useful when it is converted into something marketable.
Something marketable is useless. It only becomes useful when it is actually marketed.
Marketed stuff is useless. It only becomes useful when it is actually sold.
Sold stuff is useless. It only becomes useful when you get it home and take it out of the wrapping paper.
Yes, the logic is infallible, invaluable, indisputable. It’s right up there with “people with a capacity for pregnancy.” I trust we all learned something here from the Professor of the Bleeding Obvious.
” the United States added 462% more electricity from renewables than fossil fuels in the first half of 2022 compared to 2021″
Mathematics and syntax both obscure.
Rejecting nuclear power, Germany lost its energy security, making the energy poor EU even more vulnerable.
Now Japan is returning to nuclear.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/24/japan-signals-return-to-nuclear-power-to-stabilise-energy-supply
Japan at least has a little sense.
Germany never had energy security. Nuclear is neither here nor there, it’s a drop in the ocean of energy use.
I hadn’t committed to memory how small a role nuclear plays until you mentioned that.
My favorite chart (2019 is the most recent comprehensive analysis, to my knowledge, unfortunately):
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-energy-substitution
But the extraction of the fossil fuels can continue thanks to the nuclear. Without the nuclear power e.g. Russia is not able to continute producing oil or natural gas.
Like Gail has point out…we need it NOW.
Washington Post
Nuclear fusion power inches closer to reality
Pranshu Verma, (c) 2022, The Washington Post
Fri, August 26, 2022 at 7:09 AM
We’re at a very exciting place,” said Dennis G. Whyte, director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center. “But we also have to be realistic in the sense that it’s still very hard.”
Whyte said, and figured out fundamental principles of how to heat and keep plasma at temperatures broaching 150 million degrees Celsius (300 million degrees Fahrenheit) to sustain fusion reactions. But over the past two decades, the pace of progress on these international projects has slowed, he added, noting that they are complex, multinational endeavors.
the company is building a facility in Devens, Mass., to build and house a full-scale model of the machine, called SPARC, which is slated to be operational by 2025. If that model can achieve net energy, the company plans to build a fusion power plant by the early 2030s, which could plug into the energy grid and begin providing power to homes.
Once the technology is shown to work,” Mumgaard said, “it’s less risky, and the next buyer of that technology could get a commercial loan.”
Doing it cheaply is most important, he said. “What I worry about is that we’ll get to a system where we can’t actually make it economically attractive fast enough,” he added.
Moreover, to create an electricity grid through which fusion technology provides large amounts of power, many things need to happen. Universities need to churn out scientists more capable of working on fusion technology. Fusion power companies need to build devices that create more energy than they consume. Scientific and manufacturing materials must be constructed in difficult ways if power plants want to scale.
“Can we get there?” Whyte asked. “I think we can if we get our act together in the right way. But there’s no guarantee of that.”
Yes, Gail is correct..the youngsters need these hopiem stories to keep going…
We all wish for a happy ending….
Nuclear fusion is now 29.99 years away. Or 30.01, or any number in between.
okay just more deja vu.
“We’re at a very exciting place,” said Dennis G. Whyte, director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center. “But we also have to be realistic in the sense that it’s still very hard.”
“a very exciting place” because surely he’s hauling in more than $100k yearly, plus top benefits.
plus it’s hard, so he needs many more years of high pay, which is only appropriate given how hard the work is.
whatever, he’s a true believer.
Solutions, Gabe may not be right, but he is a good salesman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB-j2WFK5qU
Basically looks at regenerative agriculture, this is a summary(< 4 minutes); there are other lectures. It is done on a large scale.
Part of this idea is fewer trips through the fields, less diesel, electric? Part is getting much of the plant structure from air, C,N,O. I need to look at that one, what weight of the plant is made of P and K ? How much of what is applied goes into the plant?
Agri business has a host of hangers on, I have been to various meetings, solutions for a buck from people who do not own land. They are selling their job, not solutions.
The erosion issues are real, my tenant will be moving on at the end of this year; JD at its best, it does not work on my land. All education has a price tag.
Change is a challenge for all, for a traditional farmer with huge capital investments in equipment, obsoleting that equipment is catastrophic both economically and emotionally.
It is a time of change, I go with the flow. Some will make it, all it not lost.
Dennis L.