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Key extracts from “The “New Energy Economy”: An Exercise in Magical Thinking” by Mark P. Mills

This is a superb paper – available here. KEY MESSAGES Hydrocarbons are the most concentrated form of readily usable energy Since hydrocarbons are so easily stored, idle conventional power plants can be dispatched—ramped up and down—to follow cyclical demand for electricity. Wind turbines and solar arrays cannot be dispatched when there’s no wind or sun. […]

Extracts from Dr. Lars Schernikau’s Why wind and solar energy cannot (yet) power modern civilization

This article provides valuable info to add to my list of data compiled here. == Costs for renewable power generation have dropped faster than many anticipated, this is a good thing… but they will not improve 10-fold anymore, physical limits will be reached Common comparisons of renewables vs. conventional power generation are misleading and wrong. […]

Climate hysteria is harming India’s poor – a placeholder

A researcher was telling me about billions of dollars in subsidies provided to renewable energy companies in India. I don’t have the precise data, but this amounts to a direct transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich. That money could have been used to fund education and health for the poor but has […]

Notes for a state manifesto

Had a minute to dictate a few points. Will develop as time permits. Target – to finish in the next few months. SBP party would have a two state manifestos: The first a transitional one in which the current system still continues, the second the final manifesto after the national system has changed. The final […]

My next TOI blog post: Climate hysteria is a great opportunity to teach children to ask questions

Greta Thunberg is a sad product of a failed education system. In this article I outline ways by which climate hysteria can become an opportunity to educate children in the scientific and Socratic method of asking questions.  

CO2 seems to have first figured as a concern in 1972: Only one earth – commissioned by Maurice Strong

See: https://archive.org/details/onlyoneea... (the book can be borrowed) EXTRACT FROM P. 193 (part of the essay by Barbara Ward and Rene Dubos on: The Shared Biosphere  

Extract from Robert Zubrin’s Merchants of Despair on how “carbon remedies” will DESTROY the poor

I have touched upon Zubrin here. Now an extract from his on how the carbon remedies will impose a deadly impact on farmers. Not just energy prices, therefore, but prices of fertilisers and pesticides. Do read his book. He has extensive sections on the benefits of GM and biotechnology. Let Indian farmers reject the climate […]

Robert Zubrin – a voice of sanity (book: Merchants of Despair)

Someone sent me a link to this article: Merchants of Despair: Robert Zubrin vs. Malthus, Darwin, and Others This is superb. So I’ve been now reading the book. Really good. Strongly recommend that readers of this blog consider getting hold of it. More later. Also a short video. He makes a very good distinction between PRACTICAL […]

Two more climate hysterics to study: John Holdren and Timothy Wirth

Placeholder. I will study these two people separately, later. Chanced upon their weasel work while watching a video. I also recall reading about Wirth in Julian Simon’s Ultimate Resource. More later. In the meantime if you’ve got something on their “work” let me know. To read: https://www.americanthinker.com/artic...    

Questions we need to ask, in order to prove that CO2 causes harmful “climate change”

I’m following up from a comment I made on Twitter: Most people have a tendency to believe, so let's practice questions. What information would you – as a scientist – need in order to check the CO2 hypothesis? No answers please, only questions! I'll compile them all. — Sanjeev Sabhlok (@sabhlok) August 19, 2019 See […]