We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans

CTV;

A new study has found that if the world were to meet the targets set out in the Paris Agreement, there would be eight million more jobs globally by 2050.

But in this scenario, researchers say some fossil fuel-dependant economies such as Canada would actually see fewer energy jobs.

Because most of those eight million jobs would be in manufacturing wind turbines and the like, and not in actual energy generation. And nobody sane is going to manufacture that crap in high cost jurisdictions like Canada. It seems they’re just figuring that out now.

You know, there’s a Nobel Prize awaiting the first economist who successfully explains to mainstream journalism that when a system creates “eight million more jobs” than would be otherwise required, it’s a flashing red siren that energy generation has become vastly less efficient, and that vastly less efficient translates into vastly more expensive for consumers and industry alike.

Good luck keeping manufacturing plants in northern latitudes when winter heating costs go through the roof. Adios Amigos.

(There’s a lesser prize awaiting the first person to explain why there’s a hyphen between “fuel” and “dependant”).

40 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans”

  1. Wow, 8 million jobs by 2050 on a planet with almost 8 billion people. Of course how many will starve or freeze to death with out fuel is anyone’s guess.
    I will say, it has been interesting watching the world descend into madness. The suicidal attitude of millions is difficult to grasp. Fortunately we all have a limited life span so the insanity will eventually be left behind.

    1. We’re almost at 8 billion now. By 2050 the number could be +10 billion (minus the freezing and starvation things…).

    2. Vowg. The streets of Edmonton are just jammed with electric golf carts all winter.. They persist in their stupid bullshit fantasies because they are Green Commies. When Gorbachev played his hand in the collapse of the USSR, he created the Green Shield in collusion with Maurice Strong and the Communist Sustainability Green Communist Goals of Equity not Equality..Agenda21/2030 etc…The goal has been the destruction and collapse of western civilization and industrial might since Rio92…When these Globalist Madmen openly state their goals and agendas why is it no one believes them..

      1. Because we have been tuned to scoff at the “mad scientist” who reveals his diabolical agenda just before he meets defeat. If more stories ended with him successfully destroying the world as he so carefully planned we would not be so complacent.

  2. All based on one of the biggest lies in human history. Anthropogenic Global Warming.
    Plus if they get their way, many an avian animal will either become extinct, or at the very least endangered.
    Except for bird brains and ding bats of course.

    1. And as we cover more and more pristine lands with giant wind factories … why are they all assumed to be just as efficient (read: horribly inefficient) as every previous wind factory?

      Does every square foot of the planet experience persistent high winds equally? Haven’t we strategically placed every existing wind factory in optimal HIGH WIND environments? How many MORE of these high wind features are there on the planet. Aren’t we facing a steep decline in wind power efficiency with every new wind factory location?

      You cannot convince me that “the NEW technology” *cough* *cough* of wind machines are soooooo efficient that they only need the slightest breeze to spin. There is no doubt in my mind of the diminishing returns from each new wind factory. Oh! I see! Then we will need TWICE as many wind factories as planned. Goodbye beautiful countryside.

      1. Kenji, I think the people who believe this green energy crap believe in perpetual motion machines. They still can’t seem to grasp the fact that those wind thingys can’t be made without coal, oil, gas and some serious mining.

    1. That’s the only travel we may have left.
      Takes 12 years of government approvals up and down their pig troughs of pretending to be an important job.
      And then the real restrictions and regulations kick in.
      Far easier to import.

    2. How many more jobs could we create for all of Canada’s canola growers if we replaced all their tractors and machines with Haitian immigrants holding shovels and hoes!? These Haitian “workers” are flowing across America’s southern border … and Bidin-Heiress will happily put them on USAF transport planes and fly them to Alberta.

    3. Let’s abolish the wheel and employ the whole planet carrying everything on their backs and heads. Our life expectancy would come down to a sustainable level like 30 for the surviving half billion, the planet could heal, the oceans recede, no one would own anything and we’d all be happy. The largest scam in the history of the planet is succeeding and our elected “representatives” are ramming it down our throats.

    4. Quite right. This foolishness about jobs created. The purpose of energy generation systems, coal, gas, oil, nuclear, is simply to create as much energy as possible, as reliably as possible, and as reasonably priced as possible. This is so that all the rest of us to go on to do other things. If we want to simply create jobs with energy systems, simply round everyone up, hand them an axe, point them at a woodlot and say, “Have at it.”

  3. High prices are part of the cure: industry will need public equity to meet the earth’s needs. You know the words. It’s up to you to use your imagination to find the solution.

  4. Did anything in that “report” distinguish any of those 8 million jobs as something other than servitude?

    Or will they issue another report telling us that this “work” will make us free?

    The report is made up like any other excrement sandwich and if anyone expresses criticism they will be accused of not liking bread.

    1. The TRUTH is that MOST of those jobs will entail boiler rooms of cold calling sales of solar systems … yep. High pressure sales of solar panels. What a “career” …

    2. Joseph, I believe I have read that work will make you free in another language and it was real ugly.

  5. ” . . . why there’s a hyphen between “fuel” and “dependant” ”

    Because so far they haven’t been able to figure out how to add unnecessary syllables. They have a committee working on the problem though.

  6. I wonder if they just plugged in labour “statistics” into the magic climate modelling machine?

    1. Damn right buddy. It is estimated there is at least 600 years worth of coal to used. That be many many many years of slavery.

  7. Outlaw ceiling and motorized fans. AC in buildings and cars, max temp 60º in winter in ….ALL government buildings first. You know, “leadership”.

  8. “eight million more jobs”

    With the direction eco-tards are taking us, every one of these new jobs will be peddling a stationary bike to generate electricity for the ‘elites’.

  9. There is a reason that all this money is being pumped into solar and wind, and not small, modular reactors and thorium reactor research.
    In Ontario, “privatizing” electricity actually meant shutting down small, municipally owned rural generator stations (like the one on the Trent river, and the one on the Scootamata river) and granting Ontario Hydro a monopoly. Back in the day, at least in Flinton, electricity costs were included in the property taxes, which were still much lower than they are now.

  10. And how many jobs will be destroyed in the fossil fuel sector? I want to see a rigorous analysis before I accept their claim that 8 million jobs will be created net.

  11. There seems to be a correlation between the loss of a right of centre voice and how blatant the lies from government and experts are.
    It’s frustrating that all of this is going to have to be implemented so it can fail catastrophically before any doubts will be allowed. We’re telling them now that it’s all the fever dream of an acid tripping clown, but when it all collapses…
    ‘ This could not have been foreseen. ‘

  12. It is amusing when I come across someone silly enough to refer to a Nobel Prize like it is anything other than “Communist Friends Club Participation Trophy”. It doesn’t happen every day.

  13. I was curious as to why the hyphen. To my surprise, there has been only one response to that. So I’ll give it my best shot: because those who would impoverish us would like us to associate the existence of affordable easily available fuel with being in a state of dependency.

    IMHO the exact opposite is true. Someone once said to me “don’t you hate the oil companies?” I told him I did not because their product has allowed me to affordably see all 48 of the continental United States save Oregon, as well as 6 Provinces, while making a decent living. It wasn’t that long ago when “well-traveled” in my native New England meant “he’s been to New York City.”

  14. ” it’s a flashing red siren that energy generation has become vastly less efficient,”

    Yep, but we live in a world where the obvious must be denied. That’s why lefties are so fond of murdering everybody with an IQ above room temperature when they achieve total power.

  15. “…it’s a flashing red siren that energy generation has become vastly less efficient, and that vastly less efficient translates into vastly more expensive for consumers and industry alike.”

    Cuts both ways. Price in the externalized costs of fossil fuel-based energy generation — pollution, environmental degradation, human health consequences, etc. — for a fairer comparison of relative efficiency and consumer costs.

  16. 8 Million jobs canceled out in 21 days.

    what am I saying? please read on,

    every day 385,000 babies are born,

    thus every 21 days we have 8 Million new humans

    they will all need jobs

    Every 21 days we need about 8 Million new jobs

  17. l got a question.
    these 8,000,000 jobs, or zhobs as l prefer, how these folks gonna do the work when the food production system has collapsed because traditional HYDROCARBON energy sources all got leprosy?
    is there a huge pile of pixie dust somewhere they gonna eat instead?
    jist askin’ . . . .

  18. So, we could mandate that all homes have to be painted pink. Every five years. It’s the law. Think of all the jobs that would create. Painters, paint manufacturers, painting supplies. That would be great, wouldn’t it? That would create jobs and wealth in the economy, right?

    Or would it. Intelligent minds know why.

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