What do you get when you divide 41 by 10,000?

15 Replies to “What do you get when you divide 41 by 10,000?”

1. There’s only one solution: the Government has to prohibit the release of the wind energy figures.

   1. Or multiply them by 10,000.

   2. Don’t give them any bloody ideas.

      Just re-re-read “Animal Farm” (because living in the prequel to 1984 is too depressing to read it), and when Squealer is caught re-writing the “constitution”, I thought…damn. Now I’m living in the prequel to “Animal Farm”, too.

2. During the last decade the world has spent 2-3 trillion dollars on “renewables” and moved the needle from 83% fossil fueled energy to 82%. Lets double down! We’re almost there! Net zero is in sight! The last three phrases are the winning ticket speeches for the successful elections of sociopathic Morlocks.

   1. I was a typically naïve early teen back in the 70s, and got a book (probably from Scholastic) about renewables.

      Saw visions of damming the creek for hydro, wind farms (well, a turbine), maybe even a solar panel.

      Well, dad wasn’t up for the damming the creek at the time (became a pond anyway…no hydro created). The wind turbine was a bit harder to build (did get the cardboard model cut out and it kinda worked), but the solar panel (I believe it was a plastic garbage bag over a frame), didn’t last long (I believe it became a kite…briefly).

      Found a copy of the book a few years ago, and…hope you’re sitting down…the estimated juice we’d get from wind and solar “in the year 2000″…was off. A bit. By that I mean…multitudes of off. And the last 23 years hasn’t improved.

3. There are two types of people that believe we can run our society using renewable energy, those that are making money off it and really, really stupid people.

   1. Mike explain this one please! When my wife and I were in Germany doing a Rhine cruise I had an opportunity to talk to a German engineer! He explained that the solar farms in Bavaria and wind turbines were a complete disaster and the German government were going back to using ” Clean Coal Burning”! He wasn’t a”Really Really Stupid People”!

      1. Sorry Mike I misread your comment!

   2. +++Mike

4. When our “intellectual superiors” are lecturing us on the efficiency and effectiveness of their sacred “Alternate Power”,they are dividing by zero.
   Such power and efficiency…In their dreams.

5. What’s the problem? Your beautiful, noble, brave, steadfast, and eco-simpatico Indigenous peoples learned to live WITH nature, and when the wind stopped blowing they would take to the ice to collect water for the entire village. They saw the absence of wind as Gaia’s invitation to “pause” in the business of existential survival and give thanks for nature.

   So … all you HATERS just don’t like nature … or natives … Right?

   1. I hate them all Kenji. Nature I have to live with.

      1. The white mans taming of nature is what gives us the time and comfort to complain about shit. You should thank an oilfield worker if you didn’t have to chop wood today.

         Speaking of chopping wood …

         https://youtu.be/vUfZR9TdZRs?t=199

6. I think every windmill site (each tower site, not project as a whole) must undergo:
   – First Nations consultation (with all First Nations within 300 km)
   – a full comprehensive environmental assessment, for the site.
   – a detailed archeological dig at each site
   – a full environment assessment of the manufacturing processes and factories making the windmills
   – a requirement that no hydrocarbons be used in the manufacture or operation of the windmills (lubrication? – find an alternative to oil)
   – the concrete used in the base must be made without using hydrocarbons
   – post a bond sufficient to cover the cost of restoring the site, including removal of the concrete base.
   – the work force must include 50% LGB2XRSM

   1. joe: “(lubrication? – find an alternative to oil)”

      Whale oil. All the whales being killed by the offshore wind projects should just about cover the shortfall.