…Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
1) David Brooks:
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Shai Agassi’s company, Better Place [hurl], for example, has generated glowing magazine profiles, but it has managed to lose more than $500 million while selling astoundingly few cars. He stepped down as the chief executive, and his replacement lasted only a few months. It turns out that the things that are sexy to politicians and paradigm-shifting to conference audiences are not necessarily attractive to consumers…
By 2020, the United States will overtake Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest oil producer, according to the International Energy Agency. The U.S. has already overtaken Russia as the world’s leading gas producer. Fuel has become America’s largest export item. Within five years, according to a study by Citigroup, North America could be energy independent. “OPEC will find it challenging to survive another 60 years, let alone another decade,” Edward Morse, Citigroup’s researcher, told CNBC.
All of this was accomplished by people who exist largely beyond the reach of the lavalier-mike circuit.
Joel Kotkin identified America’s epicenters of economic dynamism in a study for the Manhattan Institute. It is like a giant arc of unfashionableness…
2) Spiegel Online:
The Price of Green Energy: Is Germany Killing the Environment to Save It?
The German government is carrying out a rapid expansion of renewable energies like wind, solar and biogas, yet the process is taking a toll on nature conservation. The issue is causing a rift in the environmental movement, pitting “green energy” supporters against ecologists…
Who’d a thunk it?
All of this was accomplished by people who exist largely beyond the reach of the lavalier-mike circuit.
The most important developments are almost never identified by the media until they become blindingly obvious. Reporters prefer fawning puff pieces on promising technologies destined for the dust bin.
“…yet the process is taking a toll on nature conservation.”
Europe. What a bunch of dummies! Can’t get anything right!
I mean, there have been thousands upon tens of thousands of acres of bush, scrub, and other habitat cleared in Ontario in the past few years for corn-sourced ethanol – but the greenies all voted for the Dildo’s green energy package….so it MUST be good!
“OPEC will find it challenging to survive another 60 years, let alone another decade,”
Huh?! Perhaps he meant vice-versa?
“It turns out that the things that are sexy to politicians and paradigm-shifting to conference audiences are not necessarily attractive to consumers…”
Follow the simple rules….
1) If a leftard poli or group(including the shifters),propose anything,immediately condemn it to File 13.
2) If any other group/poli proposes anything,study it very carefully.
You can always rely on the Germans to get it wrong. This sentence is the giveaway.
“One would assume that ecology and the Energiewende, Germany’s plans to phase out nuclear energy and increase its reliance on renewable sources, were natural allies.”
Nuclear has by far the smallest footprint of any energy source per unit of energy generated. And it doesn’t require transmission lines traveling thousands of kilometres through natural forest. The Germans are in trouble in no small part because they forgot all of this. But thinking never figures prominently in antinuclear hysterics.
As for Martin Kaiser, so-called forestry expert for Greenpeace, this dillhole’s organization has been calling for wood pellets for bulk heating use for several decades. It ignores the fact that wood contains the least energy content compared to any fossil fuel and has the most impurities causing real pollution.
And note that Der Spiegel is only talking about official forestry policies and practices. It’s silent on all the illegal woodcutting going on now that, thanks to nuclear phaseout, Germany’s electricity costs are now the second-highest in Europe.
How many times are we going to hear, “Oh sorry, we were wrong.” from these morons?
Good articles indeed. Petroleum drilling technology was advanced and sophisticated in the 1980s. Then it went ahead and became even more sophisticated. As did seismic exploration. The Hibernia discovery off Nfld. was found because Chevron developed a new method of analysing their seismoogical data.
In 1980, 800 ft was considered “deep” for oil work. Now 4000 ft is routine (although by no means trivial).
I don’t know what is involved with frakking but that old technique seems to have taken a leap forward over the last decade.
What a great world it is for young men!
The Spiegel article reads like a description of a lunatic asylum written by other lunatics. Wood! Renewable, yes, but as is well known in Canada, the renewal time is long in a cold climate. Germany has a cold climate. I suppose it may be possible to burn wood without significant pollution – real, eye-watering pollution that the effete young know nothing about – but it sure isn’t easy.
Unfortunately we still hear on the Left Coast the Bill Good show these “witch doctor warmists” that he drags out time after time to spout the bullshit that he believes in, and basically censors anyone that disagrees with it.It is truly “gag” inducing.”Lefty,Lefty, Green…. Gag a maggot. And Bill, the useful idiot is so left, he doesn’t even know it.
I think he meant another six years, on the premise that the US will possibly be energy independant in five years.
Exactly. The greatest threats to the environment come from modern-day environmentalists.