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Online Elderberry

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Watts Up With That By Ronald Stein 4/9/2021

Intermittent electricity CANNOT provide the oil derivatives that are the basis of thousands of products that have benefitted humanity for more than 200 years

Before world leaders move too fast to consummate their climate policies, they need to be cognizant of two “aha” moments: 1) wind and solar can only generate intermittent electricity, and 2) electricity cannot manufacture the oil derivatives that are the basis of the thousands of products that have built the world’s cities, countries, and economies over the last 200 years.

Can you imagine primitive man with an abundance of wind and solar electricity and nothing to power! Imagine living with Just GREEN Electricity.

Interestingly, for more than two centuries the most important benefits to humanity from fossil fuels is the oil derivatives, that electricity CANNOT provide, and NOT the fuels that can be manufactured for the transportation and military infrastructures.

The world has had more than 200 years to develop clones or generics to replace the crude oil derivatives that are the foundation of all the products demanded by lifestyles and economies around the world. Wind and solar are not only incapable of manufacturing any such derivatives, but the manufacturing of wind and solar components are themselves 100 percent dependent on the derivatives made from crude oil.

More: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/04/09/cities-countries-and-economies-were-built-with-derivatives-from-oil-not-by-electricity/


Offline Absalom

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Stein is on the mark.
The driver of the infantile shallowness of our thinking is attributable to conceits such as,
"We are the greatest"; bullshit too stupid for words, as well as our inability to reflect.
When Henry Ford was considering the practicality of electricity to power his Model-T,
he employed Thomas Edison to assess its feasibility.
Edison's judgement was negative, explaining that cost was prohibitive at that time.
Yet perhaps circumstances might change in the future as a result of technological
breakthroughs, a reality for all inventions.

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Not only will wind and solar not get you down the road, it won't build the road you drive on.

Yes, Virginia, asphalt is derived from oil.
How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis