We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans

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

1. Wish people would stop referencing petroleum as “fossil fuels”. There is absolutely zero reason to believe there is any connection between petroleum and fossils.

   It would be like referring to water as dragon tears.

   1. I would second that motion in a heart beat. It plays into the narrative that this a finite resource. The book Black Gold Stranglehold is a reference for alternative discussion other than the narrative carbon based fuels are limited.

   2. Grates on me like nothing else.

   3. All I can say is that I certainly have an open mind as to the origin of hydrocarbons.

      There is a alternate theory to the current “fossil fuel theory” that petroleum is produced by an abiotic process. To wit: Deep below the surface of the earth, as pressure and temperature increase, rocks are sequentially transformed into a ductile, elastic state and finally attain fluid stage if there is sufficient temperature and pressure. This fluid state is petroleum.

      That petroleum is produced from the decomposition of ancient biomass would have more credibility with me if someone could provide the math to explain how many tons of biomass would be needed to produce a ton of petroleum. (So far, a brief Google search says that humans have extracted about 250 billion tons of oil since we have begun such extractions and that there are about 200 billion tons in known reserves.) Then we would need an estimate of the amount of biomass that would have been available – and so on.

      1. Thomas Gold’s abiotic origin of petroleum was debunked decades ago. The Swedes spent billions drilling the world’s deepest mohole in the 1980s at the project called Gravberg 1 trying to demonstrate it. It failed.

      2. I dislike the term,”tar sands”.

         The ruskies drilled a hole called the Kola Superdeep Bore Hole – over 40,000′.
         They hit a deposit of hydrogen so massive that mud coming from the hole was boiling with it.

      3. Natural gas can be produced abiotically, but not petroleum. N. Gas has been detected on moons of Jupiter, Saturn.

         1. And don’t forget Uranus!

            1. You win the net today

            2. That’s pretty good sound from a 1/2 inch speaker.

   4. So, while you guys are arguing about what to call oil & natural gas powered energy, the Progs are shoving renewables up yer backsides.

      A little perspective, please.

      1. shoving renewables up yer backside

         I dislike the term ”renewables”.

         There is zero connection between solar panels, windmills, or lithium batteries and “renewable” materials.

         1. Jesus wept…

            1. 🤣 🤣 🤣

         2. I dislike the term “carbon”.

            Carbon and Carbon-dioxide are two entirely different things.

            We don’t talk about “hydrogen” emissions when we refer to water vapour.

            1. Speaking of methane…

   5. Fully agree, stop using their language.
      It endorses them as the authority when they are lying.

   6. “Wish people would stop referencing petroleum as “fossil fuels”. There is absolutely zero reason to believe there is any connection between petroleum and fossils.”

      There’s an avid climate change zealot who runs a blog called “Insites”, the primary purpose of which seems to be to oppose Site C and promote wind power (which is of course the *worst* possible generation method). He now uses the term “fossil gas” to refer to natural gas. People laugh at him a lot.

2. wind and solar have nothing to do with power generation. they have everything to do with making sure the “Right” people are getting rich.

   1. “wind and solar have nothing to do with power generation. they have everything to do with making sure the “Right” people are getting rich.”

      Absolutely…and without government subsidies there would be *no* wind or solar generation at all.

3. So much for wind and solar as baseload power sources.

   Personally, I’m holding out for a Mr. Fusion™ reactor in my basement for lighting, heating, and hot water. That could be a while, though.

   1. Well we can always hope…..but I do recall the “cold fusion” scam of the late 1980’s.

4. So maybe don’t plug in your EV for a few days as we need to keep the lights on in the house.

   Slowly we are becoming aware that a 1000 year old technology, windmills, was great to run a milling operation to grind up the grain, but it just cannot power today’s mammoth energy needs.

   Windmills, like the covid vaccines, simply don’t work.

   1. If only we could use a technology of the 1940s to make power instead of a technology of the late 1800s…

5. “0.7% of total generation”

   And they’re praying it someday gets to a nice round 1 percent. Hosanna!

6. Here is what everyone should know: https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/the-iron-law-of-power-density-part?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=630873&post_id=136252141&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

7. What is the source of this chart? i.e., the URL?

8. Who is “we” Jenn? You got a mouse in your pocket?

   1. I expect she has a tapeworm.

      1. I expect it IS a tapeworm.

9. WTF are you writing about?
   Dammed lakes are gravity storage batteries and uranium is nuclear storage batteries.
   Solar works well…in space.
   Wind has a negative ROE.
   “Integration” is a joke made up by the wind grifters.
   Wanna pump some water? Use a douche, stinky.
   And the only thing you’re winning is a Cunned Stunt Award.

10. Has to be two sides to a deal, Jenn. I’ll look at that, you learn math so you can understand the physics. Deal? Didn’t think so.

11. A reminder; the gang greens have opposed every hydro dam on the planet.

    1. “A reminder; the gang greens have opposed every hydro dam on the planet.”

       Yes, the cleanest, greenest and safest *mass* energy production available to us. Hydro is number one, nuclear is number two and natural gas probably third.

       (‘mass’ being the key word there…windmills and solar panels will never be more than backups)

       Some people complain about methane being released by the rotting trees when valleys are flooded. So log them off first, then…offer free timber to any companies willing to do the job.

12. I think you are talking to yourself. Otherwise … what is it you are trying to say … really?

13. I dislike the term “green”.

    How in the hell will the world turn greener if more hydro dams, windmills or solar panels are built/installed?

14. Do you folks in Alberta ever get the feeling that your provincial government is nothing more than “controlled opposition” to the madness of federal Ottawa? The last provincial government that was truly for Albertans was run by King Ralph…every one after–not so much.