The “Energy Trilemma” – a super wicked problem

Recently retired SaskEnergy CEO Ken From writes in Pipeline Online about the “Energy Trilemma” – energy security, affordability, and transition; Germany’s folly and practical realities.

There’s a whole lot of cold water splashed on the faces of true believers in the energy transition.

The cultish obsession with renewables – a mixture of managing by pixie-dust and mass delusion – has stymied discussions on real emissions reductions. A recent workshop in Stavanger Norway explored the role of fossil fuels as part of the solution – i.e., how do we maintain energy affordability and energy security within the context of reducing emissions. The participants called this the Energy Trilemma.

13 Replies to “The “Energy Trilemma” – a super wicked problem”

  1. I do not care how much BS and bafflegab is coming from the mouths of so called “experts”, the human species will not survive without fossil fuels, I don’t care if a caveman existence is what they want. You will be burning something to heat your cave and cook your food. Wipe out 7 billion people and you will still need “fossil” fuels. The inability of people to think rationally will kill them.

  2. Here’s a suggestion – cut it down to two: cheap and reliable energy. There’s no need to cut emissions of CO2 or cow belches and farts.

  3. A failure to plan is a plan to fail.
    Renewables aren’t even a plan.
    They’re just a failure.
    In Canada, energy failure = grim death.
    The people who are pushing these programs are your enemy.
    Take names.
    And FFS, have a Plan B.

  4. “A wicked problem”.
    Nice definition offered up in this article.
    Except it is bull.
    Try “First World Problem” where a lazy and overfed inheritors of a functioning civilization ,have so few real problems that they have to invent some.
    Like Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming, now called Climate Change,yet always portrayed as a warming planet because of evil man..

    The wilful ignorance required to belong to this cult is impossible to parody.

    The Cult of Calamitous Climate is a First World Problem..

    Where those who serve no function,get to play the victim and seek to destroy the complex systems that give us our luxurious lifestyles..

    They demand “Sackcloth and Ashes for all”.
    That man must starve in the midst of plenty.
    And that man is not part of nature.

    And then their fear of the weather..
    Pampered little parasites who never leave the air conditioned enclaves of modern society,wet themselves and prattle about endtimes when they see a storm.On screen.

    The basic triangle of needs is simple.
    Food .
    Shelter.
    The illusion that these will continue tomorrow .(Some call this security).

    And we of Western Canada?
    Tired of supporting the delusional parasites of gang Green,will soon enough separate our affairs from them.

    Let these fools and bandits demonstrate the wisdom of their ways..without out our wealth..without mandating we obey their insanity..and without the ability to steal from us to cover their bankruptcy.

    Statism will always fail.
    For who is “The State”?
    Other than a Bureau dedicated to living large at your expense,never ever responsible for their own failures..

    Notice the commonality all through history,these “helpers” are all mighty generous..with your wealth,while you are diminished,they swell..Until the society they feast upon fades away..

    Our intellectual superiors call this “Bad Luck”.

    Maybe we should relabel our Public Servants,
    “The Bad Luck Club.”
    Repeaters of the greatest lie in history.
    “We are from the government,we are here to help you”..The last part;”Into servitude and poverty” almost always gets left unsaid.

    CAGW is an intelligence test.
    Most of our wanna be leaders have gleefully failed it.
    But with Delusions of Adequacy coursing through their pea brains,they “KNOW”,that they shall direct your life better than you can.

    I advocate for long walks,of off short piers,for all such.
    However an Arctic Gulag has many entertainment possibilities..
    And those “Vanishing Polar Bears” need to eat too.

    1. Good rant. I would add that what you ascribe to intelligence, can be at least partially ascribed to evil, not in the theological sense but in the pathology of those who advance any and all forms of hysteria or mysticism in the pursuit of power over the lives of others, the “do-gooder”, those party to coerced institutional “altruism”, and worst of all, those advancing the “benevolent” state.

    1. Kerry and his fellow psychopath, Al Gore, both came close to having had the nuclear launch codes. Death cult zealotry with the means to exterminate much of humanity. Global Russian Roulette.

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