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A common belief is that if the world does not have adequate energy, the result will be high prices. These high prices will allow more fossil fuels to be extracted or will allow renewables to substitute for fossil fuels.
In my view, the real issue is quite different: Inadequate energy supply of the types the economy requires can be expected to affect the economy in a way that causes it to become “unglued.” The economy will gradually fall apart as infighting becomes more of a problem. Goods won’t necessarily be high-priced; many simply won’t be available at any price. Political parties will fragment. Conflict within countries, such as the recent Wagner conflict with the military leadership in Russia, will become more common.
It has become fashionable to use models to predict the future, but simple models do not consider real-world dynamics. They don’t consider the importance of already existing infrastructure and the types of energy products this infrastructure requires. They don’t consider the importance of continuing food production. They don’t consider the dynamics of “not enough goods and services to go around.”
In this post, I will look at some pieces of evidence that suggest we should expect the world economy to become unglued as limits are hit. A corollary is that we cannot expect a transition to a world powered by renewables to work.
[1] It is easy to show that the energy supplies of a finite world will eventually fall short.
Anyone can model the energy supplies of a finite world as a bucket of sand and a scooper. If the scooper is used to remove the sand from the bucket, it will eventually become empty. If we start with a larger bucket of sand, perhaps the process can be delayed. Or, if we use a smaller scooper, the process will be delayed. But the result will be the same.
Back in 1957, Rear Admiral Hyman Rickover of the US Navy gave a speech in which he said,
For it is an unpleasant fact that according to our best estimates, total fossil fuel reserves recoverable at not over twice today’s unit cost, are likely to run out at some time between the years 2000 and 2050, if present standards of living and population growth rates are taken into account.
In this speech, Rickover pointed out the importance of fossil fuels to maintain our standard of living and to win wars. It was clear to the military that fossil fuel energy supplies were tremendously important in preventing future problems for the economy.
[2] History shows that economies tend to grow and eventually collapse.
Economies tend to operate in cycles, as illustrated in Figure 1.
The eight economies analyzed by Turchin and Nefedov moved into a new area or acquired a new energy resource. These economies tended to grow for a long periods, well over 100 years, until the populations hit the carrying capacity of the available resources. These economies were able to work around these resource limits during a period of Stagflation, which typically lasted about 50 to 60 years. Eventually, the problems became too great to be overcome. A Crisis Period of falling population and GDP, lasting 20 to 50 years, typically ensued.
[3] The world economy today seems to be following a similar cycle based on its use of fossil fuels. In fact, we seem to be in the Crisis Period of such a cycle.
Today’s fossil fuel-based world economy started growing at varying times, in various places around the world, becoming well established by the early 1800s. It seems to have hit a Stagflation Period between 1970 and 1980. Recent patterns in oil supply per capita, interest rates, and debt levels suggest to me that the world economy has entered the Crisis Period of the current cycle.
To me, oil supply, particularly crude oil supply, is exceptionally important in keeping the economy growing because it is heavily used in producing the food supply and transporting it to market. In fact, it is heavily used in transportation of all kinds. We can see what is going wrong by looking at the trend in crude oil per capita (blue line on Figure 2).
On Figure 2, a line is drawn at 2005, when many people believe that peak “conventional” oil was reached. The line at 2009 points out the long-term slide in oil consumption per capita between 2005 and 2009, related at least in part to the Great Recession of 2008-2009. There was another steep drop in crude oil per capita in 2020, and this drop has not been made up. Cutbacks in drilling and low oil prices suggest that per capita consumption may never recover to the 2018 level.
US interest rates over time indicate a clear up and down pattern, with increases to 1981, and mostly decreases since then (Figure 3). Raising interest rates is like putting brakes on the economy because it makes monthly payments on loans higher. Lowering interest rates is like pressing on the accelerator.
The US was in a Stagflation Period after 1980. Lower interest rates helped push the economy along, at least until they could go no lower. The first place falling interest rates stalled was in 2008, when they hit zero for the shortest-term debt. About the beginning of 2021, interest rates started to rise, to try to stop inflation.
At the same time, the US’s ability to add to debt, except US government debt, seems to have stalled about 2008 and again in 2021.
The combination of Figures 2, 3, and 4 suggests that the world economy has been on shaky ground since 2008. The US economy has been operating with incredibly low interest rates. If the world loses the ability to hide energy problems behind ever-lower interest and ever-higher debt, (particularly government debt), many parts of the economy could start coming apart.
[4] The world’s total energy supply must increase at least as fast as population to keep the economy growing and away from collapse.
A couple of years ago, I did an analysis of the growth in energy consumption compared to the growth of population over the period 1820 to 2020. I found that when energy consumption was rising faster than population, there tended to be a rise in standards of living. When energy consumption grew only as fast as population, problematic things (such as wars and governmental collapses) tended to happen (Figure 5).
On Figure 5, the sum of red and blue areas represents world energy consumption growth by 10-year periods. The blue areas represent population growth percentages during these 10-year periods. The red area is determined by subtraction. It represents the amount of energy consumption growth that is “left over” for growth in standards of living. When growth in energy consumption was inadequate, wars tended to take place, and the collapse of the central government of the Soviet Union took place.
We are now at a point where energy consumption may decrease dramatically in future years, especially if we attempt to convert to a system based on intermittent wind and solar. The drop in energy consumption, relative to population, would likely be far worse than any situation we have experienced in the past. Besides being inadequate in quantity, wind and solar are not adapted to handling our most basic need, which is for providing the inputs farmers require to provide us with food.
[5] A key to understanding the role of fuels of the right kinds is understanding the physics-based way that the economy operates.
The economy is very much like the human body. The operation of both is governed by the laws of physics. The human body needs to consume a variety of food products. Alternative foods can be substituted, but the overall quantity of food needs to be sufficient for the population and their level of activity.
Likewise, the world economy requires a variety of energy products to operate. Substitutions can sometimes be made, but the overall quantity must be sufficient to support the activities of the economy, including providing adequate food and water for the population and ways to transport these items to the population that needs them.
There are other similarities, as well. Humans start out as small babies. Eventually, humans grow old. In the years leading up to death, they often become frail. The cycle downward at the end of an economy’s life is somewhat similar. Economies, even the world economy, cannot last forever.
[6] To build and maintain cities, it is necessary for energy to be easily storable.
In his book, Against the Grain, the American political scientist James C. Scott points out that in order for governments to grow and to provide infrastructure for cities, it is necessary to tax farmers. Grain is ideal for this; taxing a root crop such as sweet potatoes does not work well. Root crops are hard to see when they are growing. They also are harder to transport and store.
Clearly, farmers must have a surplus of storable energy to make cities and good roads work. They must be able to produce this surplus energy in a sufficiently profitable way that governments can tax it and use the proceeds for the benefit of the overall population.
I think that excess storable energy is the true “net energy” that some authors write about. A city cannot operate only when the wind happens to be blowing or the sun happens to be shining. Everyone would clog the roads at the same time, trying to get to a job that might last only a few minutes. Even today, if a city is to have electricity when it is needed, even in winter, there needs to be a storable supply of fuel to provide this electricity. Batteries cannot provide this level of storage; we would run out of materials.
Cities are essential for the sharing of ideas and for the operation of major industries.
We can have an economy of hunter-gatherers running on intermittent energy alone. We might even be able to have cities based on stored grain, as civilizations did in the past. But the population would need to be far less than today’s 8 billion.
[7] Both energy density and storability are needed if the world’s population is to be fed.
A farmer needs machines that are not so heavy that they will sink into the soil. Soil compaction is also an issue with heavy machines. If soil is compacted, water cannot make its way through the pores properly. Rain will tend to run off, causing erosion, instead of sinking in, to provide longer-term benefit. Soil compaction is already a problem with today’s large machinery. Less dense fuels, or the use of heavy battery packs, will make the problem even worse.
Energy dense fuel is also needed for the transportation of food. In fact, energy dense fuel, such as diesel or jet fuel, is used in nearly all of today’s very large vehicles. Heavy vehicles operated in situations that require very large bursts of power especially need energy dense fuel. Examples include semi-trailer trucks, buses that drive up steep hills, airplanes that need bursts of power to take off, agricultural vehicles that might get stuck in mud, and vehicles used in construction and road making.
Trains operating on smooth tracks, with limited gradients, don’t need the same bursts of power, so they are sometimes electric. Boats don’t generally need large bursts of power, but boats generally use an energy-dense liquid fuel to propel them on long journeys. Storing enough electricity in batteries to power such long journeys would be impractical.
The recently published 2023 Statistical Review of World Energy (now produced by the Energy Institute, instead of BP) shows that the heavier, more energy-dense types of burnable oil have been falling as a share of the world’s oil supply.
These heavier grades are the ones best suited to essential future energy needs, and they seem to be depleting the most quickly.
[8] Added complexity is deceptive. It looks like it can save energy, but it tends to increase wage disparities and makes the overall system more fragile.
Added complexity for an economy includes changes such as more built infrastructure (roads, dams, bridges), larger businesses, more specialization of workers, more international trade, and longer supply chains. It is easy for modelers to assume that these changes have no energy cost, but in reality, they do.
Changes enabling growing complexity go hand in hand with more debt and more financialization of the economy. With greater complexity, owners and managers of businesses, as well as highly trained workers, tend to receive a disproportionate share of the wealth. This means that little is left over for non-elite workers. These wage and wealth disparities lead to the unhappiness of the lower-paid workers. This is especially the case during economic downturns.
With added complexity, the system becomes more fragile. Supply lines become longer, so missing parts are more likely to be a problem. Repair parts for wind turbines may become unavailable, for example. The US grid would need massive improvements to handle the proposed increase in wind and solar power, and the demands of EVs. All of the simultaneous commodity demands may become too much for suppliers to meet.
Even changes in financial systems could be a serious problem. With the conflict over the SWIFT money processing system, will one group of countries start using a different financial exchange program, such as Iran’s financial messaging system SEPAM? Will Western nations find themselves cut off from purchasing inputs they depend upon?
[9] Modeling underlying the analysis for the 1972 book The Limits to Growth shows that (total materials required for reinvestment each year) as a percentage of (total economic output) is an important limit.
Somehow, the economy must provide enough goods and services both for the needs of the current members of the economy and for the investment needed to keep the system operating in the future.
The economy is squeezed in three different ways:
- The population keeps growing, and each person needs food, clothing, and a variety of services.
- Resources of all kinds (not just fossil fuels) become more difficult to extract due to depletion. More of the output of the economy needs to go into investment, just to get the same quantity of copper, lithium, nickel, and minerals of all kinds, including fossil fuels.
- With the rising population and increasing resource use, pollution becomes a bigger problem. Mitigation efforts lead to a need to use more resources to keep pollution away from humans.
To keep the system operating, we cannot spend very much on the combination of resource extraction and pollution control, or there will not be enough resources left to meet the needs of the growing population.
This combination limit tells me is that a rapid transition of any kind toward any new energy type, even toward the use of “green energy,” is not likely to work well. There is a reason why past transitions to new energy types have been very slow. The economy cannot invest enough without starving other parts of the economy.
Some people have interpreted this combination limit as an Energy Return on Energy Investment limit of perhaps 10:1, but it seems to me to be a far more serious limit than this. At a minimum, all types of resources, including those for backup batteries and additional long distance transmission lines, must be included in any calculation for renewables.
Also, to keep the system operating, any shift from fossil fuels to renewables cannot have a delayed payback period, relative to fossil fuels, or the huge up-front investment will become a problem. The up-front investment in renewables will be higher, but there will not be enough output to support the economy. The “real” economy does not operate on an accrual basis; people need to eat every day, and aluminum smelters expect to operate every day.
As I mentioned previously, renewables aren’t really helpful for growing food. Nor are reliable enough to power aluminum smelters, so there is a real issue as to whether they should even be considered as possible substitutes for fossil fuels. They are simply add-ons to the fossil fuel system to avoid having to talk about our fossil fuel supply problems. Reframing the issue as “wanting to move away from fossil fuels to prevent climate change” saves having to talk about the inadequate fossil fuel supply problem, and the fact that fossil fuels are what make today’s lifestyle possible.
[10] Energy prices must be both high enough for producers to make a profit and low enough for consumers to afford goods made with these energy products.
It is the conflict between the needs of consumers and producers that tends to bring fossil fuel energy production down. Consumers say, “We can’t stand oil (or natural gas or electricity) prices this high, and demand that politicians hold prices down.” In fact, this just recently happened in Australia with natural gas prices. Without an adequate profit motive, drillers cut back on drilling and production falls.
Renewables have gotten mandates and subsidies, especially the subsidy of going first on the electric grid. It is these subsidies and mandates that have made investments in wind turbines and solar panels attractive. Once governments have more financial problems and these subsidies disappear, owners are likely to stop making repairs to these systems. They will not last longer than fossil fuel-based systems, in my opinion.
[11] Conclusion: We are in uncharted territory.
I mentioned that the Great Recession of 2008-2009 seemed to mark the beginning of the downturn. More financial problems are no doubt ahead, but other kinds of strange events may also occur.
It seems possible that Covid, its vaccines, and the restrictions in 2020 may even have been part of the “ungluing.” Self-organizing physics-based systems act strangely. World oil supply started declining in 2019. Militaries around the world have been concerned about fossil fuel limits for many years. Militaries have also been deeply involved with germ warfare. Economies around the world were experiencing financial problems. The shutdowns conveniently reduced demand and prices for oil, while giving economies around the world an excuse for more debt. The problems were kicked down the road until 2022 and 2023, when they reappeared as inflation.
We can’t know what lies ahead, but it may be very strange, indeed.
Here’s the BIS telling us about the future monetary system in its 2022 annual report. It’s riddled with “if’s” and many other conditional/vague words, like most of their White Papers over the years, but it does give a pretty good sense of their overview.
https://www.bis.org/publ/arpdf/ar2022e3.htm
Thanks! They certainly have optimistic goals.
They don’t think about a world operating on intermittent electricity, or a world dealing with overshoot and collapse, clearly.
Do they mention any of this
https://youtu.be/4Rz6UfU3dQc
Dr. Mike Yeadon has a July 45 message:
I decline most interview requests these days. I’ve nothing new to say.
I am inclined to accept interviews in non-English speaking countries, because many of them have heard from non of the few most plain-speaking people from our side.
Here’s my message of decline I sent to someone keen to interview me.
Sorry XXXX. I don’t trust you. It’s probably not even your fault. But that’s my final decision.
You’ll know, if you’ve followed my Telegram channel, that I continue to give interviews from time to time.
However, it’s been unequivocally clear where this is going for a long time. I dearly wish I was wrong, but I’m not wrong.
I was a very good scientist and leader in R&D precisely because of the skills I’ve been applying to the covid fraud.
I’ve tested my observations and conclusions with a dozen, independent scientists and legal experts. Unfortunately, we’re converging on the same conclusions.
Totalitarian tyranny via mandatory digital ID (which will serve as permissioning system, provided you meet all the requirements for validity) & cashless CBDC.
This is a watertight control system. If the perpetrators wish to deny you right to travel outside your 15min zone, your digital ID won’t operate doors and gates. Your “money” won’t be accepted for purchases, period.
If they require you to get “vaccinated” to maintain validity of your digital ID, you’ll get jabbed or you’ll suffer mounting restrictions & sanctions. Ultimately, you’ll have no right to access anything or buy anything.
Those “vaccines” they’re still lying about? Of the mRNA type, they’re designed to injure, maim and kill. That’s why they’re erecting factories to make billions more doses all over the world.
This is a global coup which has already happened. It’s converging on totalitarian tyranny and depopulation.
I believe the answer to the “Why are they doing this?” is complex. However, it involves imo a real satanic component. Those who’ve planned this have done so over decades and more than one generation of perpetrators. There’s unequivocal legal evidence in abundance.
I am not interested in debating this. There’s a good line in a recent song: “Some see, some see when shown; some will never see or ever know”.
Life’s too short for me to invest effort in the third category of people.
It all turns on “What are you going to do about it?”
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/dr-michael-yeadon-i-decline-most
Dr. Michael Yeadon links to this earlier article of his titled, Every Single Thing We Were Told Is a LIE.
oh well, it could be even worse.
FE, with no grandrats you have no connection to the fabric of the universe, when you are gone it is over.
We and other biology are self replicating, to date, inorganic objects are not self replicating. Embryology is very poorly understood, for some reason amino acids connect, make proteins and the whole thing works, most of the time.
There is no self will, resistance is futile.
Dennis L.
Ya well I beat Mr DNA to death cuz he was trying to force me to breed… that put an end to that nonsense
Behold a Pale Horse!
This is a “controversial” documentary from circa 2015 about the ongoing Islamization/Islamification/Caliphization of Europe. It’s been banned on YouTube, for your own good, you understand. So watch it on Rumble at your own risk. Or if you’d rather not bother, perhaps a David Attenborough or Jack Cousteau nature documentary would be more your idea of infotainment?
I would take this a Rorschach test; what you feel from watching the video says a lot about your psychological makeup. Do you welcome the diversity the hordes are bringing with them, or do you recoil with horror at the medieval fall-of-Byzantium and siege-of-Vienna aspects of the Great Replacement?
https://rumble.com/v2xxnma-behold-a-pale-horse-the-islamic-overthrow-of-europe.html
The blurb says:
The video is only 20 minutes long.
if I’m not mistaken, the ultimate goal of this horde is to create a monoreligious world.
imposing their fictional system everywhere, and creating a singular massformationpsychosis worldwide.
so while they may add diversity temporarily in the regions where they were almost totally absent, in the long run they want to obliterate all of the diversity of the world.
irony upon irony.
Looks to me like a staging of the revelation! With whatever purpose. Difficult to know, what someone hides!
tommy exposes this >>> he goes to jail.
norm supports unlimited immigration … right norm?
I enjoy watching race vs race battles to the death — so I also support this
Let the Games Begin
A total police state, akin to the Shognunate or North Korea, will maintain civilization with low energy.
Otherwise anarchy will reign.
so anarchy in the 2040s it will be.
may you live that long.
That’s too much like the traditional ‘Irish Curse’, David: ‘May you love to see…….’
Agreed. With one exception, the ‘will’. I have difficulties with the teleology of historic and sociologic models. It is a cheap hope, Marx used excessively. I prefer cause and relation.
Between Hunter Gatherers and Middle Age there is a long time in Europe, where people settled within the forests for 30 years in groups of 100 people and then relocated the village. This waa still the case during the Völkerwanderung. One might call that anarchy.
There are some hard facts about it if you accept to set ideas about superiority and development apart: the soil was not depleted or oversalted like in the Middle East, but cattle grazing in the forests had made a selection towards a heathland vegetation, that could not be worked with stone tools. Only the development of iron tools allowed that and led to more permanent settlements. Iron, though, needed trade and this was protected by the upcoming nobility. They helped to create a surplus of which they consumed a part, a classical win-win-win solution. They overused though the forest, not the soil, and destroyed the resource they were living on. The result was, the black death met on an already weakened population.
As long as people interpret the bible as: make as many children as possible and overuse all resources this problem will go on. There is a bit the tragedy of the commons behind it. People from Tirolean valleys told me from their family knowledge, that in the beginning of the 20st century people knew very well, that the valley couldnt support too many people and if there are too many births, the kids will become poor and had to run to Vienna. Of course there is also the possibility to make as many kids as possible and then ask globalist to reduce them! As you like it!
From this point of view our perception of reality could be overimpressed by idiotic models and rules. Look to Matthew 25, the parable of the talents. I doubt it’s usual teachings, because the rich man knew to whom he had given his money. And to dig it is an honorful way to preserve it, the fool did not spend it, he was an honest man, while the economist used risky investments to multiply it.
Either people can understand the biological conditions and limits of their existance or they have to learn the hard way.
Anarchy was different than discussed today. Without the infrastucture of trade it was difficult to relocate an army of 50.000. And what for? The grains and roots and berries of a village of 100 or their valuable wood carvings? The girls would eventually come from alone.
And any slave phantasies? Just possible after a differential was build up between rich and poor. Usually slaves were deported, so their families could not come and kill you.
It’s all orchestrated – surely it should be obvious …
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/it-seems-that-this-could-be-the-final/
From a fake clown to a real clown
May I take a quiet moment to thank the commentariat here for their bookchat. I’ve read Alas Babylon and Earth Abides in the armageddon genre
Mirror and reante have had me reading Plato much more closely and I’ve discovered what a real cracker the end of Apology is!
Just now a request pls for suggestions on reading on the Cataline conspiracy, which Michael Hudson recently proposed was the last outbreak of serious challenge to the whole of the oligarchic hegemony system. I’ve just finished Sallust, but any others?
thanks in advance
I have not read it yet, it was the number one recommendation of Marc Andreessen(he has a few billion so he must have a fair understanding of how life works); The Ancient City by Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges. With a name like that it has to be great.
It is between Amazon and my mail box, soon now.
Dennis L.
I did not know you were into ridiculous names. Then why don’t you take rap? It has plenty of outlandish names you will like
Mandingo, by Kyle Onstott, had its black protagonist’s name as “Xerxes”. Since it was too difficult to pronounce on the movie version it was “Agammenon” You will appreciate such names.
“Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (French: [kulɑ̃ʒ]; 18 March 1830 – 12 September 1889) was a French historian. Joseph M. McCarthy argues that his first great book, The Ancient City (1864), was based on his in-depth knowledge of the primary Greek and Latin texts. The book argued that:
Religion was the sole factor in the evolution of ancient Greece and Rome, the bonding of family and state was the work of religion, that because of ancestor worship the family, drawn together by the need to engage in the ancestral cults, became the basic unit of ancient societies, expanding to the gens, the Greek phratry, the Roman tribe, to the patrician city state, and that decline in religious belief and authority in the moral crisis provoked by Roman wealth and expansion doomed the republic and resulted in the triumph of Christianity and the death of the ancient city-state.[1]”
From Wikipedia,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numa_Denis_Fustel_de_Coulanges
I am interested in seeing what I can of the fabric of the universe; I believe it is being written in real time and due to the distance from us we can only read it historically. Or, God does not want us to know what will happen if you are so inclined. I would settle for tomorrow’s stock prices.
Didn’t know phratry was a group of city citizens, learned something; thanks for the comment.
Dennis L.
Mandingo rams SSS Out Back the Dumpster… norm is not pleased
hey, I’ve read two or three novels of the Kyle Onsott/Lance Horner stable
Rogue Roman was a real gem, right up there with the paperback of Gore Vidal’s Caligula
Gail – you’ll likely also appreciate Ethical Skeptic’s Value-Chain Analysis on the pitfalls of EV’s as climate-change panacea.
https://theethicalskeptic.com/2021/01/04/the-pitfalls-of-electric-vehicles-as-climate-change-panacea/
Interesting!
Perhaps thinking about the practicalities of installing solar panels for each electric vehicle would get people to think about the impracticality of the whole idea. Not only is there a front-end cost, but there is a back-end cost, to try to keep the solar panels from polluting the water supply.
Also, most people don’t live where solar panels could be installed (apartment buildings, for example). If people want more battery availability than just is in their vehicle (so that they can, say, charge the vehicle at night, and use it during the day), this adds a whole new set of costs and resources to the system.
If people want to cook their food, they need a great deal more in the way of solar panels than simply to power their car. If people want to heat their home in winter, solar panels are not a good choice.
What do folks do when it is raining for days on end, or cloudy for days on end? Or in cold climates, when the cars don’t work well in the cold, and the solar panels don’t charge well?
Gail – here’s an insight to what some on the supplier side of the EV game are thinking. Through the eye of a needle maybe, ha!
“I agree with the author’s overall thesis i.e. during the transition years only. As EV technology(ies) evolve(s), I see a future where EV’s will generate most of their electricity via a combination of solar panels designed as part of the vehicle’s outer body (80%) and on rare occasions, the need to plug-in. Radically new battery technology will be a key enabler!”
I am sure the green groopies will believe that’s possible… cuz they are MORE-ONS
As AI and robots will replace us in the repetitive work, we will do only highly creative work that requires more and more energy. There will be an ocean of useless creativity that we will not be able to afford due to the low wages, as the creativity will rob us of of energy. As it is already happening…
I am not understanding this. Can you tell me more please.
MG
pointing that out will not put you at the top of the popularity list on OFW
Norm, if they take away your wheelchair and exchange your chip with a more advanced one, maybe you could fill a gap by walking Hoolio three times a week.
The word on the street is.. FE actually has 2 dogs, so dog walking for Hoolio + 1.
Thanks Replenish, awesome. Before we know it, i’m throwing saucages on Eddy’s bbq which i paid for and you’re walking in Norman from 15 miles away.
There’s our civilization in a nutshell.
a n excellent form of employment
but i would be forced to differentiate between eddy and hoolio
a decision based entirely on which of them humped my leg
Humping ones leg is a confirmation of the inability getting higher. I pass. Call me when Eddy’s cheeks turn red.
MG, one problem I see with us doing highly creative work is that most of us are not very creative. On the other hand, most of us do need to feel useful, so I hope the Elders, AI and the robots will be creative enough and kind enough to allow humans to do some of the useful work.
That is the point: most of us are not very creative and, at the same time, creativity consumes a lot of energy.
That is the limit of AI and robots: we can not compete with the machines which, on the other hand, depend on us.
We live in the sick world, where the humans compete with the machines.
We will work on subsistence agriculture. AI is not good at this.
That is really what remains us.
We can not be more and more creative, while, ar the same time, we can not afford our inovations.
This is one of the true innovations for subsistance agriculture that is available for everybody:
https://aaes.uada.edu/fruit-breeding/blackberries/
The costly innovations, available only for the rich, are in fact no innovations, as, in the end, no one will be able to afford them.
https://brownstone.org/articles/cdc-altered-death-certificates/
Brownstone Institute (https://brownstone.org/articles/cdc-altered-death-certificates/)
CDC Altered Minnesota Death Certificates that List a Covid Vaccine as a Cause of Death ⋆ Brownstone Institute
The actions of the CDC call into question whether it is qualified or trustworthy enough to be steward of the nation’s epidemiologic
ICD 10 has an absurdly refined set of classifications.
I would think that the CDC should have gone in exactly the opposite direction of the one that they did. They should have made certain that there were separate classifications specifically relating to this new vaccine, and made certain that coders were on the lookout for instances of adverse events.
That would assume they didn’t intend to exterminate 8B
‘Hellscape’
Russian Army Roars at Zelensky’s Fighters; Over 300 Explosions Rock Ukraine In 24 Hours | Watch
Over 300 explosions have been recorded in Ukraine amid intense fighting. Russia and Ukraine’s missile strikes have turned the embattled nation into a hellscape. Non-stop missiles and bombs have been landing across the line of contact. Kyiv is trying to make as much of a mark on the ground as possible before the NATO summit. However, Russia has virtually made it impossible for Ukraine to breach its defences.
The video makes a couple of references to the coming NATO summit. This is Newsweek’s write up of the summit:
https://www.newsweek.com/watch-nato-summit-2023-ukraine-russia-war-sweden-stoltenberg-1810976
Training exercise video. Basically fake. Where are the dead?
Wanna see more?
https://youtu.be/cGXnb0uFMGM
https://youtu.be/2sZLPb37Ff0
SHRINKAGE
To touch on an earlier comment by Gail–There will be radical shrinkage for the “we.” But I don’t think that the “we” would need to necessarily be of a different composition than presently. INSTEAD OF SOME BARELY SHRINKING ANd oTHERS COMPLETELY DROPPING OUT, there there could be relatively more evenness as to whom the shrinking affected. It could be a matter of economic practicaly as well as not.
Artleads
“BRICS: 130 Countries Move Towards CBDC Currency, US Dollar in Jeopardy
“If the soon-to-be-released BRICS currency is considered a threat to the U.S. dollar, then the CBDC could be its death knell. Out of 195 countries in the world, 130 nations are moving towards building their Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). Therefore, 98% of the world is looking to launch their respective CBDC currency making it easier to settle cross-border transactions.”
https://watcher.guru/news/brics-130-countries-move-towards-cbdc-currency-us-dollar
“Modern monetary theory”?
Fake, digital “money” with many invisible strings attached.
There will be nothing to buy with it because productive people will not perform actual WORK in exchange for fake, digital “money” with many invisible strings attached.
“We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us.”
You may very well be right. Thanks for the observation.
I keep reading that the population in China has been resisting its use. Can’t imagine why.
No ‘CBDC’s’?
“ . . . . That is, instead of the 144TWh per year used by Bitcoin, CBDCs would consume some 7,056TWh – more than three times the UK’s total 2019 energy consumption of 2,185TWh… In an increasingly energy-constrained global economy, it should – but likely won’t – be clear that programmable CBDCs are a non-starter… a solution looking for a problem to solve indeed! “
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2023/02/08/cbdc-bait-and-switch/?fbclid=IwAR0SiB_yriPZCOiFTmwAn8rv2Fz9IuvxOYTTRF6i2JCun21ow5JQqJQTGig
Interesting post. It points out the high energy use of the CBDC system.
I would point out a different problem: What happens to all of the banks we have now, and all of the intermediaries, and their employees and all of their current obligations? I suppose it depends on the structure of the new system.
Doesn’t the system still implode if it issues debt that cannot be repaid with interest? Or is more money simply issued, to change the problem to one of inflation instead of implosion?
Trade among countries is another issue. Can it really work with this system?
A cbdc is current flow between assets like fiat currencies, but with an additional control feature aka blockchain. In case of an economic downturn.
Duhhhh, in the Netherlands we had this many years ago.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zeH2Um-yOrA&pp=ygUTdXBzaWRlIGRvd24gdmFuZXNzYQ%3D%3D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4npxHiOA8s
Colchester Council (UK) Hearing on Green Energy
Mike Yeadon shared this on his Telegram. It perfectly describes why Green Energy is a DOA, and the horrific ramifications of attempting it. Its also incredibly interesting to see the city council deny reality, and immediately reject the speaker for telling the truth.
Rachel & Carinna go back to hold the council accountable for their concerning environmental decisions, meeting both resistance and support.
How can they not see that green energy is simply a puff of hopium intended to calm the mob and make them believe in the Great Transition rather than face the fact that fossil fuels are in deep depletion
As if the folks pushing this rubbish are not aware that renewables and EVs are not viable alternatives
People think the folks pushing this are stooopid … they need to look in the mirror to see stoooopid
Predicting the future is inordinately difficult. But I suspect that large number of people dying from heat will focus political attention on mitigation, especially fast mitigation.
There are a number of things that could be done fairly rapidly
Back in 2009 there was a proposal by Stuart Strand to put 5 methane eating genes into the US corn crop. The idea was abandoned because of the rising tide against GMO crops. But now 40% of the US corn crop goes to alcohol. The US corn crop filters the whole atmosphere about every two years and the plants would pull out almost all the methane in a relatively short time.
There are a number of ways to directly reduce CO2, but they take energy which is also a problem.
A sunshade in L1 has been considered. If constructed it would immediately solve the problem, but it is not a simple project. First pass estimates it takes 100 million tons of metal. If done from the Earth, it would take magnetic catapult capable of escape velocity. The other possibility is to mine an asteroid. The asteroid mining project could be extremely profitable.
There is another project which involves directly cooling the Earth with clouds that radiate into space above most of the blocking CO2. I am waiting to talk about it until it goes public, hopefully soon.
There are others, including, I am sure, some I don’t know about.
Lots of engineering work ahead. Fortunately AI is rapidly increasing the productivity of engineers.
It’s becoming evident consensus is looking in the wrong direction once again. As we wrap our heads around what is occurring under our feet things get much more interesting. Check this work out.
The Climate Change Alternative We Ignore (to Our Peril)
Posted on February 16, 2020 by The Ethical Skeptic
https://theethicalskeptic.com/
Overview:
my alternative idea could be titled: ‘The Heat May in Part Be Coming from Beneath our Feet’
Later quote:
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Another quote:
Observation 7:
Observation 8:
Another Quote:
While parts of the article were written on February 16, 2020, it was updated on July 5, 2023, according to the link.
AI enables engineers to calculate engineering problems more accurately and quickly and thus efficiently.
Only additional material input ultimately increases productivity in the long term
Zoom meeting with some tech folks today talked about the combining of GPT-4 with Mathematica. Seems to be a remarkable engineering tool. Ghod knows we need it with all the problems facing us.
Also turns out that the combination does a remarkable job of educating people on math.
Some time ago I mentioned that China was being left in the dust regarding the government (CCP) coming down hard on AI.
The Washington Post has come to much the same conclusions.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/03/china-us-ai-technology-chatgpt/
keith
if i posses the physical means to keep and rear only one pig, and by so doing, eventually slaughter it and consume the meat energy it contains, even with my limited grasp of mathematics, having the ability to multiply one pig by 4, just using pencil and paper, still leaves me with one pig in the sty.
not 4 pigs.
In online WSJ:
New York State Built Elon Musk a $1 Billion Factory. ‘It Was a Bad Deal.’
New Tesla facility in Buffalo was supposed to house a huge solar-panel operation, but the project hasn’t turned out as planned.
If this was New York State’s experience, with Elon Musk trying to manufacture solar panels, I wonder how successful any other project will be. There were jobs created building the building and buying the machines, but they basically had little do with creating solar panels. It also sounds like Elon Musk is getting an ongoing low rent subsidy.
As I was saying. Gone is the Bethlehem Steel Mill which stretched along the Lake Erie coast line in the suburb of Lackawanna, NY. Now it’s Elizabetown Ky that’s building the battery plants. So I guess if you follow the electricity, the next becomes where are all those charging stations being built? The third part of the dark triad of electrical energy production.
solar panels are the cheapest part of a solar installation, installation is expensive, providing for replacing the roof on a periodic basis is insane, electrical wiring is expensive and of course finding someone to purchase the power is harder and harder. If ground mounted bring galaniace steel, or perhaps cheaper, use gold – cost of steel is very high now. Additionally, all these materials including the panels must be transported to the building site – I know a bit about trucking, it is incredibly expensive.
Panel price has not been an issue for years, the above mentioned are the installation issues and this is all up front money for the purchaser.
Dennis L.
The US is a lot more fragile industrially than most people realise.
The problem is that to have real manufacturing, beginning with new steel production, rare earth metals and silicon crystals for making wafers, you have to have metallurgical grade coal that is affordable to mine and transport.
The US today produces very little of that, production has been in decline for more than a century. The signs of the decline are all over the Mid West of the country from Detroit to Gary Indiana to Buffalo New York, also known as The Rust Belt. The steel industry built America and now it’s mostly dead.
As the article says, they were hoping to produce millions of solar panels at the Tesla site and they thought that would create a cluster of other employers supplying the plant. But there’s no coal available to produce silicon crystals. That’s all in China. And since China is producing the crystals, it only makes sense for China to transport them a short distance to their wafer plant to turn them into wafers. And at that point they may as well just finish the job and turn them into solar panels at the factory next door.
It turns out that you can just buy Chinese made solar roof tiles for $11 each, should you want them.
https://pingyungroup.en.made-in-china.com/product/NOWTVhXCwSrl/China-Solar-Roof-Tile-22W-Photovoltaic-Power-Generates-Energy-System.html
There’s a video of their factory producing them. Very clean and new with robots everywhere cranking them out.
Canada’s wildfires now need ‘unprecedented’ international aid to fight
https://globalnews.ca/news/9814587/canada-wildfires-international-aid-update/
a climate belli 🙂
Or perhaps, a very long period of suppressing forest fires, and not realizing that burning down is part of the natural cycle of forest. It is in some ways parallel to collapses of economies.
Forests do NOT burn down naturally – only pine forests do every now and then. Are these pine forests? Birch and pine are pioneer plants with a high percentage of easily burning resins. Forests with spruce (picea) and larch, beech, oak and hazel or acorn do NOT burn down regularly and naturally. They are even difficult to set on fire by humans.
We have the idea of garden Eden on the one hand and a 100% human controlled environment on the other side. I think both narratives are false. The forests 5000 years ago were clearly influenced by humans. What we consider untouched natural forests are made with human influence.
There have always been changes; change of climate, of soil, of salts, of vegetation and humans always had to react on it – and they did. Fixed settlements came up in the Middle Ages and it has to do with trade, especially iron. Iron was needed, because people let their cattle graze in the forests, thus they made a selection of hard and thorny plants and humans had to give up their village and rode a new piece of forest. With iron, the hard and thorny plants could be cut off.
There is no way to avoid thinking!
By the way, people before the Middle Ages needed 30-40 hectares of arable land for 100 people surrounded by forest to mitigate temperature and moisture effects on grain.
In the Middle Ages, iron, salt, glass, ship construction, trade, let to an overexploitation of the forests with effects on agriculture so that carrying capacity sank. The black death diminished the people, then. Whatever was first, pathogen or malnutrician.
So there was a time between Hunter & Gatherers period (which saw large areas of grass steppe) and the @Kulm period, where nobility helped to create a surplus and taxed it away. In this intermediate period (Völkerwanderung) villages with 100 inhabitants lived in the forests and grew grain and rised cattle and goat. Every 30 years they would resettle. No further civilisation or centralized organisation.
There is a natural life cycle of forests, as described in this website, relating to Idaho:
https://www.idahoforests.org/content-item/tree-forest-life-cycle/
In fact, some species of trees need fire for reproduction.
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/giant-sequoia-needs-fire-grow/15094/#:~:text=TRANSCRIPT-,Giant%20sequoias%20are%20the%20largest%20trees%20on%20Earth.,really%20are%20born%20of%20fire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrophyte
The Idaho first article I linked to mentions that in addition to fire, there are other natural causes that forests become susceptible to, including insect predation and disease.
Ecosystems of all kinds go through cycles. Our economy is a sort of ecosystem; that is why it goes through a collapse cycle.
The media would like us to think that there is a new sin–it is an ecological sin that causes systems from staying perfectly stable. Unfortunately, finite systems keep cycling.
The illusory promise of a stable and unchanging environment appeals because subconsciously it promises no interruption in the supply of food and water.
Just like a dog, we like to be able to assume that the bowl will be in the usual place, always.
Jan, can you site some supporting data
Dennis L.
This was on the peakoil barrel blog:
So nuclear waste was put near the current fracking. Well, a collapse without radioactivity isn’t a real one.
GERRY MADDOUX
IGNORED
07/05/2023 at 10:11
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The story here is not so much the use of polyfluoroalkyl substances in the fracking solution, but rather the fact that that particular area was gone over with a geological microscope during WIPP (the nuclear Waste Isolation Project), but somewhat after the fact, when Congress finally ordered a study that should have been done at the front. After a substantial deposit of uranium waste was interred there, with the thinking that salt creep would entomb it, a discovery was made that not only was there a high radioactive level in the area aboveground, but that there was a lot of oil nearby. This WIPP deposit is on the eastern edge of Eddy County, almost to the border with Lea County, the area that is written about as the future of American domestic oil known popularly as the Delaware Basin.
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no one ever mentions the fact that this is also an area of unusual karstification, and that the Oglala Reservoir is nearby, and that this is a geological/chemical/nuclear disaster cleverly hidden by greed and oversight
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Color me crazy, just an old fart with too much worry in my head, but this was a piss-poor area to put radioactive waste and it’s also a piss-poor area to allow the injection of “trade secret” chemicals down holes. It might be okay if they stayed there, but like the uranium, they don’t. Instead, waste water is taken by truck into Texas, where it is deposited into deep, well-sequestered disposal wells, only now those are full, and the pressure is high, and Mother Nature is really pissed off, and there are almost daily earthquakes, and when a large enough earthquake hits, this crap is going to get into the fissures of the earth, and go wherever the fissure goes.
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Finding natural resources and oil requires focus on limited locations. One goes to the ends of the earth to find what you need.
But getting rid of waste is far less discriminatory. As long as it’s not in your back yard, there’s nearly the whole planet which can be used to dump what you don’t need.
As a followup on my caustic remarks about the new battery plant being built in Elizabethtown, KY, I suggested that it could wind up being used as a dumping ground for the expended wind turbine blades, depleted batteries, and solar panels. (I am the only one who has posted any comments.)
Lots of hype. Not much chance of things really working out well.
This sounds pretty awful.
Of course, EROEI calculations assume no end of life costs for any type of energy related investment, other than perhaps for nuclear, and that is whatever is budgeted for end of life expenses.
Is “self-organized” open to question? A simple comparison is evolution, order out of chaos by survival of random fluctuations. But that is a very slow, energy wasteful process. A word salad from Wikipedia: spontaneous, order out of disorder, distributed, decentralized, islands of predictability, entropy, dissipative, survive, robust, self-assembly.
Is it another example of social science borrowing a term from physics and chemistry without analysis? I also brood about “adaptive” as in complex adaptive systems. It might take a century or a millennium to see if something is adaptive. Order here but chaos over there.
it is also possible to view humankind itself as ‘self organised’ but ultimately self destructive.
we have been around for 1 m years maybe, and appear to be at a dead end
whereas bees (for instance) have been here foir millions of years without self destructing—dinosuars the same
so which species is the more intelligent?
Somehow, an awfully lot of coincidences have occurred to allow humans to form and survive. Allowing life on Earth as soon as it did seemingly could not have happened by randomness alone. Something else had to spark it–perhaps imported life from elsewhere in the universe, or at least molecules close to giving life.
I think that is from the book Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe by peter Ward and Donald Brownlee, published in 2003.
The favorable climate has also been important for humans.
(La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana – News)
“3000 deaths: Pfizer admits in a report the tragedy of who suffered adverse events after the mRNA jab.
900 cases of complete blindness, 700 serious complications in pregnancy. And 3000 deaths.
Pfizer’s Report data only now confirm that it was indeed true: vaccination meant risking lives. And health. And for those reasons it should not have been coercively mandatory.or strongly recommended.
[…]
This report is however about only the so-called passive pharmacovigilance, which is based on spontaneous reporting.
Spontaneous reporting depends entirely on the initiative and motivation of an health professionals of the hospital or users, who need to enter the system and fill in the report…
https://lanuovabq.it/it/3000-morti-pfizer-ammette-con-freddezza-il-dramma-dei-danneggiati
https://lanuovabq.it/storage/docs/effetti-avversi-pfizer-report.pdf
other Italian newspapers and tv reports are talking about that news today:
https://www.laverita.info/report-di-pfizer-3-000-morti-per-il-vaccino-2662231723.html
https://www.byoblu.com/2023/07/06/pfizer-getta-la-maschera-tremila-morti-da-vaccino-controcanto-6-luglio-2023/
In my view public opinion in Italy is by now completely divided and radicalized between people who (unconsciously) prefer not to see, going on trusting institutions and others who have now understood to have been deceived.
It seems like quite a few people around the world will be forced to decide one way or the other–did the vaccine make sense? Can we trust governments (and organizations such as the US CDC and WHO) to tell us the truth?
Quite so, Gail.
They will certainly be forced to choose when the next fake ‘pandemic’ or other threat materialises and the WHO starts issuing orders to signatory states.
It will not be possible to ignore things or stay neutral then.
Lines have be drawn now, unlike the confusion of 2020.
My dad, highly intelligent, highly educated, impressive medical career: If the CDC lied, there would be noone I could trust. I wouldnt like to go on living like that! Me: Dont you see this argument is a bit flawed? Him: I know, but I cannot help it…
Same goes for the moon landing 911 etc… nobody wants to think they are ruled by people who are willing to do these things
Interesting, Jan.
In fact, there would still be many people to trust, but they would be those who do not exist in the institutions – and history tells us that institutions invariably tend to corruption of various kinds, unless subject to external controls and inspections. They are in fact the most likely to be dishonest.
In respect of the institutions and official bodies here, it is certainly dismaying to see that they are ALL complicit in the Great Lie and cover-up, even the various health charities and professional Colleges.
It is a frightening prospect, of course, but one has to face up to it. The consolation lies in not being a dupe, in having broken free of all the lies – a somewhat lonely situation but worth the sacrifice of security.
The point about passive versus active AE surveillance is very important indeed: here it’s a passive system, ‘Yellowcard’.
When the emergency authorisation was granted, the head of the Commission for Human Medicine, which advises the regulator, said that he would like to see active surveillance with mandatory reporting of AE’s.
Of course, this didn’t happen. One suspects that he was just going through the motions ‘for the record’. Since then one hasn’t heard a peep from him.
As for injuries, about 15,000 were blinded immediately here, many more with sight injuries; and Prof Fenton estimates 50,000 dead at least, at a very conservative estimate.
‘magine going blind after a shot… we know someone who went blind at the injection centre — she was not overly fazed by this commenting … my vision came back after a about 20 minutes… not sure if she took any additional Rat Juice
But you think if you got a shot and went blind you’d be freaked out
Zombies
Stealth federal reserve system called the federal home loan bank is lending like never before. More banking crises around the corner?
This has always been the economic heroin of all countries. Once housing tanks widely, that probably takes everything with it. Whats the point in investing in something which will be worth far less?
Vern Baker , added a new word to my dictionary ” economic heroin ” . Thanks
Excellent video – notice how this does not make FT WSJ.
That’s cuz they are not interested in truth.
We are on the highway to hell…
This is very good. A major issue is that housing prices cannot stay this high. Once the price bubble breaks, there will be a lot of lenders in trouble.
In advance of all of this happening Gammon talks about places we can see the high level of stress on the system.
This is the main chart he is concerned about: Federal Home Loan Banks Advances; Asset Level. This is used by banks in distress, such as Silicon Valley Bank even though a person would think that it should be used by homeowners, not banks in distress, when they cannot get funding elsewhere.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGZ1FL403069330Q
The total Advances (lending) started advancing in the 2nd quarter of 2007 and hit a peak in the 3rd Quarter of 2008 (when oil prices peaked, and the quantity of mortgages “peaked”). They have increased a great deal, recently again.
There is a lot in this short video.
On another note, given costs of materials / permitting / labour etc, one of our builder clients in W Van was telling us that average home builds he works on are now $1,000 / sq ft. Wow, so it costs $2,500,000 to build a 2500 sq ft house and then add in the land? crazy. I hope this is a West Van thing.
The math nor physics work with costs like this… why build a new house if the secondary market is cratering…. you’d have to be mentally ill.
More Wind Generation corruption and subsidies.
WEF-partnered wind company with ties to governor sees huge tax breaks in New Jersey
“Orsted, a wind energy company that is partnered with the World Economic Forum (WEF), is getting huge tax breaks from New Jersey legislators to install offshore wind turbines. Tax credits being offered to the company were originally going to be returned to utility customers. One of Orsted’s lobbyists notably has direct ties to the New Jersey Governor’s office.”
“Prior to the tax breaks that passed last Friday, there was legislation in New Jersey that directed costs associated with a failed project back to any off-shore company if it could not perform. It said that “ratepayers and the State shall be held harmless for any cost overruns associated with the [offshore] project.”
“However, according to the law that was passed last Friday as a result of more tax credits from the Inflation Reduction Act, if securities given to a company, such as Orsted, are “forfeited, the board may elect to return the funds to ratepayers or may utilize the forfeited funds to support infrastructure necessary to advance the offshore wind industry.”
Use taxpayer money to subsidize technologies that are certain losers, but hide our energy problem.
Another nail in the coffin of “Wind Energy”….failing in the UK. See the article “Wind Industry Blackmails UK Demanding Huge Ramp-Up Of Subsidies” in Zerohedge.
epic fail coming soon
Jesse,
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/wind-industry-blackmails-uk-demanding-huge-ramp-subsidies
I believe this is the article you are referring to.
Gail is right, renewables always need to go first and the always need more money.
Conclusion: cheap energy is behind us for a time, we must and will adjust.
Dennis L.
I am afraid it will be a smaller “we” however.
I expect that the end of wind energy will come like the end of fossil fuels. Buyers cannot afford the high-priced output. The UK is finally starting to see the problem.
(JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER – 23 GIU 2023)
An interesting article by JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER
The Darkness Ahead: Where The Ukraine War Is Headed
This paper examines the likely trajectory of the Ukraine war moving forward.
https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/the-darkness-ahead-where-the-ukraine?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mearsheimer
The two main questions addressed:
and again from the article:
“The West made a colossal blunder, which it and many others are not done paying for.”
She didn’t mention having regrets about not hooking up with Fast Eddy .. fake news for sure https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12270123/Coco-Lees-final-message-took-life-revealed.html
High Octane Mass D… https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrlB25EgirG/?igshid=M2MyMzgzODVlNw%3D%3D
The history of Russia is far more interesting than I knew.
The Tsar in Russia symbolized the Orthodox faith, the state and the nation, uniting them. The murder of the last emperor of the Romanov dynasty, which ruled in Russia for thirteen centuries, has become not only a forerunner of massive physical reprisals, but also a symbolic embodiment of revolutionaries trying to kill the very soul of Russia and its people.
Sverdlov receives the order from Schiff to kill the royal family
Further events are as follows. Sverdlov receives orders from Schiff to kill the royal family. Lenin and Sverdlov signed the death sentence and sent it to Yakov Yurovsky. [all Jews]
The sentence was carried out in the most barbarous way. It was not just an execution. The sons of the tribe of Dan have made it in a ritual manner. It was not a merely a political revenge over the head of state. It was a spiritual ritual murder against God’s anointed one.
Kulm, what say ye?
The war has nothing to do with Elinsky. It is about the tribe of Dan entrenched in D.C. and called neocons.
yes!
Elinsky is merely another corrrupt puppet among many puppets.
all the world’s a stage.
onwards to Vilnius!
next year in Moscow! (ha that’s a good one.)
What does high interest rates do to oil investment. My guess I that it is less investment looking for new oil. Less Oil on the market….higher oil prices…..higher stagflation.
yes 2024 will be slightly worse than 2023.
hurrah for the Inner Core.
we drink the nectar of the gods.
we live on Olympian heights.
Olympian BAU Q3 onwards to 2024, bay-bee.
“During the pandemic lockdowns, much of what remained of the fracking industry was shut down and locked in. And with interest rates rising faster than at any time in modern history, there is little enthusiasm for funding drilling on anything like the scale needed to bring prices down toward $40 per barrel again; particularly in an environment in which governments and banks are actively promoting regulations which make further oil production ever harder. “?
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2023/06/01/why-just-stop-oil-will-win/?fbclid=IwAR259f7WE4kAz71ximIC9zKchWO7G2sL8beM21DkiTXw8naH3i-XD3OSCdI
Again – entirely orchestrated… the protests are of no consequence — but they send out a message >>> vilify oil… just as the GW narrative does… we soon won’t need it
Also, with higher interest rates, boats cannot store oil offshore cheaply for a higher price later. Instead, price tends to fall going forward. The lower future prices discourage producers from developing new sites (using money they borrow at a high rate of interest).
A current day writing by a Russian that bridges religion, history, prophecy, culture, Russia, Ukraine, Israel, US, Gog and Magog, the third temple, the anti-Christ . It has it all.
https://antimatrix.org/Convert/Books/Tatyana_Gracheva/Nevidimaya_Khazariia/Invisible_Khazaria.html#PMCs_become_a_roof
In 1898, that is, a year after the establishment of the World Zionist Organization, the Zionists created the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). Of the nine delegates present at this organizational action, eight were Zionists. The Zionists have also created the Socialist Revolutionary Party, the Party of Constitutional Democrats, the People’s Socialist Party and other organizations.
The February Revolution of 1917 was carried out by Zionists
The February Revolution of 1917 was carried out by Zionists, who used Marxism to crush the monarchical state in Russia and then on the ruins of the empire, using misguided proletarians, to give the revolution a global nature in order to achieve world domination. It was a successful revenge of Khazaria, which caused terrible suffering in Russia.
The fall of the Russian Empire as anti-Khazar force in the fire of revolution followed shortly after the appearance of Zionism as an invisible force of Khazaria, designed to take over the world.
The Zionists have played a significant role in the October Revolution of 1917. It is known that in the summer of 1918 in Petrograd only in the higher echelons out of 298 members 271 were Zionists. 265 of these 271 were brought in from New York by Trotsky.
Khazar-Zionists began to establish a new Khazaria in Russia with the intent to use those who inhabited it, as slave labor. Just as it was in ancient Khazaria.
Through terror and blood baths we will bring the Russian intelligentsia to complete dullness
Why would anyone believe any app is ‘private’ hahahha… people are just f789 stoopid let’s face it https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/49285
signal is the likeliest to be actually secure. created by moxie marlinspike, a hacker of some reknown, regularly hassled by feds, here’s an example of his thinking:
https://moxie.org/2013/06/12/we-should-all-have-something-to-hide.html
that said, if you want guaranteed privacy, PGP (pretty good privacy) is so effective that the US gov tried to ban it. combine that with Tor and you’ve got genuine privacy. install wireshark to watch those packets flow if in doubt.
Applying logic … if you ran the world and you had the power to control the MSM and social media … why would you allow this app to have special privileges?
Dolsten said people may not remember or even feel comfortable taking three different shots for those respiratory diseases on an annual basis. So creating a shot that will help people fight more than one of them at once will “simplify life for them,” he said.
https://sagehana.substack.com/p/that-does-it-ive-seen-enough
This guy is a paid actor – part of Operation Demoralize https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/49283
The goverment health agencies have for years been making a push for a “universal flu vaccine” and also for an RSV (respiratory syncitial virus) vaccine. I mean that’s what they’re funding.
eddy
i daresay you know what you’re on about—Its way beyond my grade of intellect.
still—its good to know tommy is out of solitary—so you can can get you chatfeed on a regular basis again
You just stick with writing those instruction booklets norm
And don’t miss your next Rat Juice appointment … the Safe and Effective wears off so you should not be complacent
Sage Hana is in Fast Eddie’s debt.
Amy Sukwan and Doom Porn Fast Eddy helped me to see that the Rocketurtles All the Way Down…and if I can get in a groove this will be the next edition of CIA Studios.
However, Sage’s prose is not for the faint-hearted. I can’t follow what he/she/they are talking about 40% of the time, and I actually pay attention.
https://sagehana.substack.com/p/shake-it-off
Fast deciphers and summarizes in the comments
Fast Eddy
24 hr ago
The PR Team has a sub team of very capable psychologists who understand the zombies — they’ve conducted experiments on them for decades — and just live Pavlov they know how to make them push the lever. Fear and money are the primary methods used to control the zombies (and free donuts).
They also understand that hope is important in controlling zombies — hope in the future (see renewable energy + EV’s and if that fails we move to Mars – Elon anointed Tech Messiah) — hope when faced with despair >>> see A Vaxxers who recognize ‘the evil’ and reject Safe and Effective…
The psych team knows that so long as there is hope that ‘the evil’ can be overcome (it always is in the movies – right? Even The Road has a happy ending)… the zombies will not try to Burn it Down.
The rules are — keep them fed — keep them amused (see cocaine at White House – see Biden pretending to be lost in space) — and make them believe they are winning … that good will triumph.
The team has a contest — each month members of the team have to submit an idea that will promote the narrative of A Vaxxers winning. Previous winners include:
– planting false actors on SS and having them expose all sorts evils to the echo chamber… A Vaxxers see all of this and they are convinced that any day now the Vaxxers are surely going to get wind of this info and turn.
– plant stories on SS (using their agents) that Pfizer has doubled the price of the Rat Juice — so that the Vaxxers believe this is all about $$$ — and the evil Pfizer will surely be exposed as screwing us and we will ultimately bring them to justice and win
– insert stories about millions of vials of Rat Juice being dumped… cuz nobody wants the Rat Juice…
– offer to debate the folks pushing the Rat Juice — they always refuse but it does create the perception that surely the Vaxxers must see that they hold a weak hand… why not debate (the Vaxxers are totally unaware of the debate offers of course)
– throw controlled opposition in the truckers in Canada who push for a convoy to Ottawa… ooooh … big bad truckers and their big powerful trucks!!!! Ooooh .. our heroes! We’ll come rumbling into town and win!! Police are way bigger and way badder… and after the photo opp they ended that by stopping them from refuelling — freeze or leave. Good idea to do this in the winter — -30C sucks
– one of the better suggestions was to have farmers drive round and round in Holland … yahoo – we are winning – look at the big machines — they are even dumping manure on the road hahahaha suck on the WEF!!! Round and round… round and round… take a break … we’re back going round and round (nobody thought to dump on Pfizer HQ… an obvious move if it’s not fakery)
– another good one is to create an uber villian … Klaus is perfect – even has that creepy german accent – they even made a website https://time.com/collection/great-reset/ .. Noel’s great too telling us that we are superfluous and need to be fed to the pigs – how dare he! now we have someone to target — even though nobody knows how to target them….
Whichever members idea is chosen wins Employee of the Month … and gets free flights hotels and tickets to Disney World along with a night with the Tranny Freak of their choice from the cast of Frozen.
The A Vaxxers are entertained .. fed… and believe they are winning. Even though all the Vaxxers continue to believe the Rat Juice is Safe and Effective – that injuries are very rare and that the Rat Juice saved tens of millions of lives and believe so even if you ask them — when Covid was extremely deadly and there was no vax… why didn’t tens of millions die from it.
And we continue to march directly towards the Meat Grinders … and our extermination … expecting a Hollywood ending.
We do nothing that might upset the plan … nothing that might result in a bullet in the head or being dumped into the gulag… oh no heaven forbid… why do that — we are winning … any day now the Vaxxers will wake up and Fauci and Friends are gonna get there’s! The gallows await them
Then adds a little more
Fast Eddy
23 hr ago
It’s ok to tell the truth because the closer it is to the real truth the more unbelievable it is by those who do not accept that powerful people conspire.
Notice how difficult it is to get Vaxxers to acknowledge the truth that Rat Juice is not Safe or Effective?
They have a way out if they want to go there — the authorities were well-intentioned — we’d have all died if they did not have the vaccine ready quickly so steps were skipped — all is forgiven if some folks were maimed and killed.
But nope. They won’t even consider that truth.
‘Magine trying to convince them that the authorities fed the mob Remdesivir and Midazolam intentionally murdering them … hahahahahaha They’ll believe man did not land on the moon before they believe that nonsense…
Unless The Truth makes cnnbbc … and it won’t of course… it is not dangerous
Hoolio is faking death – a very strange dog
https://i.postimg.cc/nc1mn8cD/Hoolio.png
He wants a belly rub.
Don’t we all?
Nick Kelly
Jul 5, 2023 at 2:07 pm
Anyone know what it costs to demolish a tower that is surrounded by others, with the usual minimal space between?
I don’t see how you could do one of those controlled demos with explosives. To use a wrecking ball would you have to block off the street? Looks not just very expensive but risky.
https://wolfstreet.com/2023/07/05/cre-nightmare-for-cmbs-holders-office-mortgage-delinquency-rate-has-biggest-six-month-spike-ever-and-its-just-the-beginning/
Get the experts who took down the Twin Towers to do it?
Coco Lee:
It’s not a secret that Coco Lee has plastic surgery.
Let’s fix it, there are so many artists in the circle that have plastic surgery. But Coco Co was really cruel to herself-she had removed two of her ribs to make it look better on the camera, and she appeared to have a thin waist.
Although courage is commendable, but the consequences are also serious. From then on, you can’t run or jump, and you can’t go to crowded places and be crowded by others, because the internal organs can easily flow out…it’s terrible to think about it. Try, our body is used to earn money from work. As for the waist, it is of secondary importance.
After learning that Coco Lee had removed two ribs, whenever I saw her dancing on stage, I was a little frightened.
I told you … Fast Eddy could sense trouble ahead with this hottie… Fast can smell mental illness… in it’s very earliest stages… beauty pageant contestants are destined to go Full Ret ard at some point… the hotness always fades like the bloom comes off a rose…
And they will turn to Desperate Measures …
Fast has 1500HP and great instincts…
What? Not the rat juice?
Remove ribs?
My quiver of ribs probably looks something like the carbon fiber remnants of the infamous imploded sub. I’d need a few fresh ones. They also seem to become brittle with age and defects.
Is this what we are supposed to see as BAU comes to an end?
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/last-friday-was-busiest-day-us-aviation-history
Busiest day ever pushes the system over the edge?
Other places aren’t doing as well as US, so world flying was not at record, I expect. Europe and China seem to be on the edge of recession, perhaps leaving more for US.
In Europe it is extremely difficult to get a flight. They are 50% more expensive than before the pandemic, and full. There are also fewer flights in all honesty. I am posting this from Vnukovo so I know (Vnukovo is full at 3 in the morning). For Europe, I could not get where I wanted on one leg, nor could I get the day I wanted on two out of 3 legs. So we are still way away from the end of BAU.
Flight availability out of China is limited and very $$$ — that comes from people I know who live in China
That sounds rather hopeful, as Chinese tourists were the bane of this place before 2020, moving through our narrow historic streets like a giant intestinal blockage, and just as unattractive.
We also see very small groups who are chauffered in, I suppose on a luxury package.
I generally think Casey is a smug hypocrit, kind of like “aw shucks” the govt bail out beneficiary Warren Buffet or Rick Rule, seeing that all have profited off the system handsomely without having done any useful productive work or had any major accomnplishments in their lives other than as moneychangers and wealth tranferers /concentrators, skimming all the way. But they do have religion and can preach to us peons.
Having said that and trying to overcome my hostile bias, I think Casey’s summary (ies) is (are)worth a read to address some loose ends, except of course for his self promotion in the end -even though PMs as a strategy for transfering intergenerationl legacy wealth after the new currency or monetray system stabilizes, has merit.
I mean, getting a second passport? Come on, that’s like that financial services ad saying a starting a vineyard could be our sound retirement vehicle! A vineyard?
https://internationalman.com/articles/doug-casey-on-rfk-and-why-the-deep-state-hates-him/
Who wants a shot of fear/adrenaline?
CRE Nightmare for CMBS Holders: Office Mortgage Delinquency Rate Has Biggest Six-Month Spike Ever. It’s just the Beginning
https://wolfstreet.com/2023/07/05/cre-nightmare-for-cmbs-holders-office-mortgage-delinquency-rate-has-biggest-six-month-spike-ever-and-its-just-the-beginning/
The problem is different this time:
“companies have figured out they won’t ever need this vast amount of vacant office space.”
Interest rates have gone up. Many landlords will need to charge higher rents. Default rates have shot up faster than ever before. This cannot end well.
It’s coming….. The Bossche Mutation …
However, recent studies have shown that vaccinated individuals are producing an IgG4 response and are therefore tolerating the virus in the same way we do pollen or bee stings.
So we are at the point where vaccinated individuals are no longer producing an antibody response to new variants, due to OAS, whilst allowing the virus to run riot in their bodies, due to the IgG4 response tricking their bodies into thinking the virus is as harmless as some pollen.
What does this mean? Who knows at the moment but it is highly likely that the vaccinated have turned into virus mutation factories. Fortunately, the current variants aren’t particularly deadly but that could change over night. Furthermore, if their bodies are overwhelmed with a virus which they can never fully fight off, are they prone to getting other infections, completely unrelated to Covid. Is this what is causing the relentlessly high excess death rates?
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/pandemic-of-the-vaccinated-original
Anecdote: I got a case of high fever and worst sore throat ever after working in the home of a boosted elderly client who had nasty upper respiratory symptoms. The family said I have Covid-like symptoms (not respiratory) so I tested positive for Covid on rapid antigen test to confirm Moron status. My Mother, who I am close to, only developed upper respiratory symptoms and tested negative for Covid. Vaxxed are not developing antibodies and the immune system is shifting to allergy mode tending back towards respiratory symptoms – no mucosal immunity?.
Can anyone see stitches on her ‘defective foot’…
Vax injury
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/22941299/coco-lees-heartbreaking-health-battles-fighting-demons-horror-surgery/
You kill yourself cuz you have surgery on your foot????? Come on man…
Can you see what the PR Team is doing here https://www.instagram.com/reel/CtpMD8fg85_/?igshid=M2MyMzgzODVlNw%3D%3D
Strange! Menstruation is not something people who are born men do.
The RAWD are light years ahead of us in the arts of Psychological Manipulation
The War on Germs rapidly scooped up those who were savvy about the War on Terror or the War on “Axis of Evil” and then “I Stand with Ukraine” or “I Stand with the Next Big Thing”
https://sagehana.substack.com/p/the-rawd-are-light-years-ahead-of
Ya’ll bein played .. endlessly
The key issue seems to be:
“You can make people do anything if they are afraid.”
paying them lots of $$$ also works … see doctors
Suicide? I am thinking not.
Rather a bit too high profile to allow this to be related to the Rat Juice
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/coco-lee-a-hong-kong-born-singer-dies-at-48-4181329
BTW – if it was soosiside … we need to go back to the likely reason why… and this is a true story… there was a very popular Thursday night ladies night at a club in HK … Fast would sometimes attend (often at a lone wolf) to ‘work the numbers’ i.e. get telephone numbers for follow up on the weekend… Fast would have one drink and circulate for an hour or so working the crowd… then head home.
Anyhow a super hottie strolls past and Fast Gets the Chat going … American Chinese yadda yadda — moved to HK to enter the Ms HK contest… Fast is slightly put off by someone who would want to enter a contest for MORE-ONS who are no doubt keen on leveraging that to be a ‘movie star’ .. so HE applies the 1500HP and quickly decides this is gonna be way too much trouble to Close the Deal so after a bit more chat moves on to other Targets — HE does not ask for The Number — and maybe she would not be willing to provide it given her lofty ambitions… her name was Coco
Fast Forward that a few years and there’s the lovely Coco having leveraged the Ms HK signing at the Oscars etc… and Fast recalls the chance meeting at the club. Coco’s done well… then Coco marries the billionaire Canadian Rockowitz… https://www.herworld.com/gallery/life/entertainment/coco-lee-ties-knot-lavish-12-million-celebration/
And then Fast is checking his email alerts this morning and boom there’s Coco Lee – dead … WTF… only 48… Fast smells Vax Injury … (has anyone noticed a royal funeral for the thai princess with with the 12 heart attacks while walking the dog… can’t have that – too high profile- ice her down)
But no – it’s suicide… ok … whatever….
And Fast is thinking … poor Coco … she so wanted Fast to ask for her number on that fateful night… every day over the past 25 years she has dreamed of Action Adventure with Fast Eddy … the missed opportunity …
She put off Bruce the Billionaire for many months in the off chance that she might miraculously encounter the Great Fast Eddy … and this time HE would ask for her number … and he’d call…and they’d meet for a drink … and finally the Action Adventure would happen…
But alas… it was not fated… and on the 25th anniversary of crossing paths with the GOAT… she could not take it anymore and as a tribute to Fast … she downed a handful of Super Fent … apparently she left a letter detailing all of this expressing deep regrets at not making it onto The Fast Eddy Numbers List… she has turned it over and over in her mind for 2+ decades wondering what she did wrong… was she not coquettish enough – not showing enough cleavage… not giving HIM the correct vibe? And finally as this began to drive her insane… she decided to end it.
Either that — or she died of a vax injury … or she could not stand the suffering caused by the vax injury … and killed herself.
In any event … the part about meeting her in the Club is true.
There is a slight possibility that the rest of the story is true — but it is impossible to confirm because how can we know what went through her mind over the course of 25 years?
Anyhow she’s dead… and she was 48 so unlikely to be much of a hottie so who cares — although she did not breed – and breeding pretty much destroys the unit — so if she was not stuffing the maw with Doritos and had a good fitness routine she might still have been decently hot…
Something to ponder throughout the day…
CNBC says Coco Lee’s death was suicide. She had been suffering from depression.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/singer-coco-lee-dies-suicide-age-48-siblings-say-rcna92717
Vax Injury deaths involving prominent people are generally attributed to either drug OD or suicide.
Coco is a Vax Injury Suicide… there are many who do this when the pain becomes too much to handle
Forty-eight is the age when women’s beauty is in full bloom. Not a hottie, perhaps, but young enough to be my daughter or Norman’s granddaughter.
When is People magazine going to break the background story about this depression? Was her hubby stingy with the housekeeping? Or were there there any health or s*xual or personal relationship problems that fueled the depression? Or was she on antidepressants that didn’t agree with her?
My research indicates Bruce was playing around on her… never met the guy … don’t know anyone who knows him… but we’ll assume his is a filthy coke snorking expat… most of them are – specially when have billions to splash on the fresh honey pots
Alas, not full bloom, but the petals may be holding on, just before falling. If one has been attractive, it must be a most difficult and ominous time.
Nonetheless, a most chivalrous comment, Tim, just as we would expect from you.
Alas, my own petals are long since withered, but I still retain a pert bottom and a full head of hair if anyone is interested……
Be careful… norm might knock on your back door.
Who’s there?
It’s the NOF.
The NOF?
Ya norm.
Oh no.
Only the highest paying clients FE: I see Norm NOF as something of Scrooge in that department.
True… SSS will do anything for a quid and a bag of donuts… that’s why norm is loyal
I am thinking that I’ve elevated SSS to icon status… might be time to organize tours to see the freak Out Back the Dumpster….
sounds as if you know the going rate xabier
would that be for the tourist season there?
they tell me theres lots of chinese there this time of year—they do it differently i believe.
eddy
the way a woman spots a man who is useless in ‘that’ department, is the obsession with ‘self’.
no more needs to be said—you told us everything.
“Suicide? I am thinking not.”
Depends on your perspective. At the very least taking a shot or several is playing at Russian Roulette, probably not how she saw it. And although rare, there are increasing number of stories of people committing harikari because of their extreme post-shot injuries. Maybe if you are rich and famous and spoilt, you don’t need extreme injuries to take the self-destruct option?
Interesting times.
Murder / Suicide
Vax Injury / Suicide – it’s now a thing
From the WSJ today:
Utility Companies Sell Wind, Solar Farms to Shore Up U.S. Power Grid
It sounds like a good idea to dump the unprofitable renewables, if there is a reasonable chance that regulators will allow a reasonable profit on investing in transmission lines.
Pretty information dense interview with Dan Steffens here by scrappy Jason Barack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mfZjkD6nsc&t=29s
Permian the only real show in town
02:50 DUC (drilling of uncompleted wells has run its course) 4,000 DUC have been been depleted.. a lot of dead ducks still will remain in dead duck inventory
04:30. Number of rigs declining,, number of frack crews and drilling rigs declined
05:00 : since there is increasing gas coming out of wells vs oil, a lot of wells are entering DUC . Can’t flair it. Can’t pipe it away.
7:00 shortage of oil 2mbpd in 3rd quarter
SPR still being tapped, not refilled
Saudi needs $80/b to run their economy. Holding back, resting their fields
11:10 Russia output will decline oil service companies pulling out
11:50. “Fear of recession is only thing holding back oil prices.”
12:30. “ Can’t have a recession when there us full employment” << not sure if I agree
Etc
Very informative discussion. Thanks.
Thanks for the link and your summary.
I looked at how much the Strategic Petroleum Reserve has been drained in the last year. It is about 400,000 barrels per day. (Data through June 30 will be out later today.) This additional oil has allowed oil prices to be a little lower than they would otherwise be. It has also allowed the US to export more oil products and import less crude oil than would otherwise be the case. Drainage could continue at this rate for a little over 2 more years before exhausting the SPR.
This extra oil, indirectly from draining the SPR, will make the US’s crude oil production something like 400,000 barrels a day higher than it would have been without the SPR reduction. I am not sure where this would appear in EIA reports. It isn’t the production of any state. It seems like it would still be included in countrywide reports, such as the one shown at this link. It would make the oil production of the US look that much better in the second half of 2022 and first half of 2023.
I would agree with you about recession. It very much could be around the corner, whether or not employment is high now. The dollar will buy less and less finished output, I am afraid.
companies are just now starting to lay off employees…
(Al Jazeera 1 and 2)
For direct impact, it depends where one is located, for a general impact on life on planet earth, it doesn’t matter much, unfortunately….
1) “The Kremlin has warned that the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is tense, claiming there is a “great threat of sabotage from Kyiv”.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/7/5/russia-ukraine-live-news-kyiv-attacks-russian-forces-in-donestsk
2) “Japan may start controversial Fukushima water release next month.
Plan to release treated water into the Pacific Ocean over several decades secured IAEA approval on Tuesday.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/5/japan-may-start-controversial-fukushima-water-release-next-month
“The solution to pollution is dilution”
Old song, the solution to pollution is Jupiter. Whether one likes it or not TINA.
Spaceship earth needs a break, takes too long to build a new one, say a few billion years give or take.
Dennis L.
The nuclear story doesn’t say much more than Student quotes. There is a link to another nuclear power plant story (from September 2022) at this link:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/4/infographic-ukraines-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-power-plant
It says
Another story I found from July 3, 2023 says:
https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Zaporizhzhia-reconnected-to-back-up-power-line-aft
Models used for building nuclear power plants always assume that outside electricity will be available, very quickly. If the world economy gradually becomes unglued, or moves to intermittent electricity, this will not necessarily be the case. It was the loss of outside power that was a big problem for Fukushima.
(TAG 24)
Killing our own armies through jabs have been one of the most odd decisions of the western world in the last centuries….
“Asti (Italy), a paratrooper dies from sudden illness at rally parade: he was 62 years old.
In Asti, this morning, June 25, 2023, a paratrooper, Roberto Doro, died from a unexpected and sudden sickness during the parade at the 29th Italian National Parachute Rally.
https://www.tag24.it/680080-asti-paracadutista-muore-durante-un-raduno/#content-meta-wrap
There’s a new Sherriff in town.
Understand?
2024 in the Western World will look like 1814 in France.
The late Dr. Robert Firth said Europe was saved when Wellington and co won at Waterloo. he died without specifying what was Europe saved from.
Europe was saved from advancement and progress and it suffered 50 plus years under the rule of benighted princelings who thought it was still ancien regime, leading those who had some freer minds to run away to USA. Unfortunately USA had problems of its own, which I will describe in other day, which grew up and is consuming the world now.
I expect a lot of the world’s advancement will be eliminated since these countries , essentially China and its stooges, don’t give a crap about that and want to revert the world to the Hydraulic Civilization , described by Karl Wittfogel.
When the lot did start? It is hard to say, but it was there long time ago. Not nuking China during the Korean War was probably the most stupid thing done in the 2nd half of 20th century.
Headline: “Germany Achieves Record 57.7% Renewable Energy Share for First Half of 2023”
Reality: Germany’s electricity generation, which is ~20% of all their energy needs, is 57.7% renewables. Ergo, Germany’s energy is 11.5% renewables while their industrial economy is imploding on account of lowered oil and gas supplies from Russia.
https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-media/press-releases/2023/german-net-power-generation-in-first-half-of-2023-renewable-energy-share-of-57-percent.html
According to the article:
With respect to “Load was 234 TWh in the first half of the year (H1 2023: 250 TWh),” this is a 6.4% decline in load. This is likely relating to the imploding industrial economy.
With respect to “Electricity production decreased from 252 TWh to 225 TWh compared to the first half of 2022,” comparison with the previous sentence says that in the first half a 2022, Germany was a small exporter of electricity (252 produced versus 250 consumed). In the first half of 2023, Germany was an importer of electricity (234 consumed compared to 225 produced), even as part of its nuclear remained operating and demand was down due to industrial implosion.
The article later mentions:
But if wind, solar, hydro, and biomass renewables are so good, isn’t production supposed to be increasing from year to year, based on policies and installations? Why is production slightly down?
I would also remark that a warm winter no doubt helped this comparison. Also, all of the stored natural gas. Without a warm winter, and France’s nuclear coming back on line, the folks would have been in terrible shape.
“California’s grid operator has just approved a $7.3 billion plan to build the thousands of miles of new high-voltage transmission lines the state needs to hit its climate goals. “
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/transmission/california-has-a-new-7-3b-plan-to-fix-its-transmission-problems?utm_campaign=canary&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=259245128&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-98zeSJKefZ5ZhKy6-TQh4hcvimLGjReQqcjkeXsuUgqqlovFoltpV1KPMU42grmVmhNs7LvzKZYLP9e3ut7sjYLpvMuA&utm_source=newsletter
The article later says,
“CAISO’s 20-year transmission outlook released last year identifies $30.5 billion in new transmission needed to reach the state’s 2045 clean energy goals. Thursday’s plan is just the first step in that long-range effort.”
Stories elsewhere connect this $7.3 billion plan to an application for a federal loan to fund this effort.
I wonder how California will get those buying electricity to afford the high-priced electricity that all of these efforts will lead to. California’s residential electricity rates are already up close to 30 cents per kWh. This is near the top in the country. Rates for other types of electricity are also high.