American Thinker: Greens dream of a zero-emissions world without coal, oil, and natural gas. They need to think about what they wish for.
First, there would be no mass production of steel without coke from coking coal to remove oxygen from iron ore. People could cut trees in forests for charcoal to produce pig iron and crude steels, but forests would soon be exhausted. Coal saved the forests from this fate.
We could produce gold and silver without using mineral hydro-carbons, and with ingenuity, we could probably produce unrefined copper, lead, and tin and alloys like brass and bronze. But making large quantities of nuclear fuels, cement, aluminum, refined metals, plastics, petro-chemicals, and poly pipes would be impossible.
Making wind turbines and solar panels would also be impossible without fossil fuels. A wind turbine needs lots of steel plus concrete, carbon fiber, and glass polymers as well as many other refined metals — copper, aluminum, rare earths, zinc, and molybdenum. Solar panels and batteries need high-purity ingredients — silicon, lead, lithium, nickel, cadmium, zinc, silver, manganese, and graphite, all hard to make in backyard charcoal-fired furnaces. Transporting, erecting, and maintaining wind and solar farms plus their roads and transmission lines need many pieces of diesel-powered machinery. more here
…don’t bother Democrats with reality when they’re busy virtue signalling, or they’ll cry “OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!” to their minions…and you know THAT bunch LOVES them some decapitations…and, come to think of it, they love living in the medieval period, as well, just not in the European version thereof…
What the Left really wants isn’t an environmental paradise, it is a complete return to the Feudal system.
Because they envision themselves as the Feudal lords and the rest of us as their vassals. They will be the Kings and Queens, Lords and Ladies, Noblemen and Knights and such and we will fear and obey them without question as their high positions show we should.
Getting rid of our abundant and affordable energy is one of the ways they intend to accomplish this, but only one of them.
Look, anything to impoverish us and take over so they can loot the country and live large themselves. Just look back on those 2 obama low-lifes.
Well I guess it’s back to “Whale Oil & Seal Oil” lamps…… oh wait, they’re endangered species, so I guess we’ll regress even further to campfires in the living room (cave), until there’s nothing left to burn.
I could never live in a zero emissions world. I fart too much, and would constantly be in trouble.
“(Nothing But) Flowers” – Talking Heads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2twY8YQYDBE
Here we stand
Like an Adam and an Eve
Waterfalls
The Garden of Eden
Two fools in love
So beautiful and strong
The birds in the trees
Are smiling upon them
From the age of the dinosaurs
Cars have run on gasoline
Where, where have they gone?
Now, it’s nothing but flowers
There was a factory
Now, there are mountains and rivers
You got it, you got it
We caught a rattlesnake
Now, we got something for dinner
We got it, we got it
There was a shopping mall
Now, it’s all covered with flowers
You’ve got it, you’ve got it
If this is paradise
I wish I had a lawnmower
You’ve got it, you’ve got it
Years ago
I was an angry young man
I’d pretend
That I was a billboard
Standing tall
By the side of the road
I fell in love
With a beautiful highway
This used to be real estate
Now, it’s only fields and trees
Where, where is the town?
Now, it’s nothing but flowers
The highways and cars
Were sacrificed for agriculture
I thought that we’d start over
But I guess I was wrong, hey
Once there were parking lots
Now, it’s a peaceful oasis
You got it, you got it
This was a Pizza Hut
Now, it’s all covered with daisies
You got it, you got it
I miss the honky tonks
Dairy Queens and 7-Elevens
You got it, you got it
And as things fell apart
Nobody paid much attention
You got it, you got it
I dream of cherry pies
Candy bars and chocolate chip cookies
You got it, you got it
We used to microwave
Now, we just eat nuts and berries
You got it, you got it
This was a discount store
Now, it’s turned into a cornfield
You got it, you got it
Don’t leave me stranded here
I can’t get used to this lifestyle
Who is John Galt?
Those wingnuts couldn’t survive without their iphones and slim fit levis, let alone all the other things they take for granted.
They should be laughed and scoffed at for the doltish histrionic snittpusses they are.
My undergrad is in metallurgy and materials science. A classmate of mine did his PhD work on long-life batteries for industrial and automotive apps. These rabid half-wits would have a cardiac arrest if they learned the ore benefication and reduction processes required to power their smugmobile Prius.
Fuck ‘um
“….but forests would soon be exhausted.”
They were. That’s why England has rolling, grassy hills instead of massive ancient forests. They dug for ore to smelt into copper, bronze and iron. They darkened the skies with pollution and gashed the earth to rob it of its treasures. They literally straightened rivers to bring supplies to seaside castles, thus forever marring natures work.
The only upside to returning to the medieval world is that my ancestors would have enslaved these eco idiots and burned them at the stake for the glory of God.
But AOC wouldn’t have to wonder what a garbage disposal is.
The AGW enviro-whackobs never once stop to ponder how they would travel to the next Climate Change Summit without fossil fuels. Nor admit they used fossil fuels to travel to the last one. They’re too lazy to walk there.
One other thing is certain – fossil fuels were used to make the materials, transport them to the construction site & also used during the construction of the 5-star hotels they stayed in while at the CC Protest Summit. Plus provided the electric power used to light their room an power their cell phones.
It’s all about the Benjamins… and control! Oh! and I don’t mean the joos are involved …………necessarily.
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
20 years into implementing this policy the town criers will read hand bills copied in DC and sent by runner to be read aloud so we can learn the will of those in the Lighted Areas.
We don’t need fossil fuels. We can just ride the bus.
The watermelon environmentalists are really just modern communists. There are two types:
The capital C version – those who really don’t believe in the nonsense but want the power.
The small c version – the useful idiots who can’t think for themselves.
OUTDOOR
In ’60 when Ronny said, “My party has nominated, and now elected a Communist. I’m leaving!” (He in fact did not got to Norwalk and leave til ’62!) He also mentioned he was “Randian”! I was and , still am , Randian. the Tea Party move that was made 5 years ago was not bad. “Who is John – ?”
She was far moer critical of our Commie President than Ron 58 years ago! But then she did not have a political future, he did!
Greens would not settle for midievel use of forests for construction and energy. That’s why I call them the straw hut and breachcloth crowd.