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Why Solar Power Can’t Meet Net Zero Carbon Dioxide Emissions Targets

stopthesethings's avatarSTOP THESE THINGS

Net-zero carbon dioxide emissions targets are driven by climate alarmists and renewable energy rent seekers, eager to profit from the expansion of the great wind and solar subsidy scam.

This band of profiteers and charlatans rely upon the notion that wind turbines and solar panels are the only means of reducing carbon dioxide gas emissions in the electricity generation sector, which the naïve and gullible swallow as an article of faith.

Trouble is, neither wind, nor solar has a hope in hell of reducing carbon oxide gas emissions to the degree required or, in the broad, at all.

A few weeks back we featured a piece by Donn Dears detailing why wind power will do nothing to achieve these net zero targets. Here he is dealing with solar.

Net-zero Reality Check #3
Power for USA
Donn Dears
24 May 2022

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Biden Acknowledges Climate Agenda Dead in Congress, Vows to Use Executive Action

More Evidence Against Basic Income

Dan Mitchell's avatarInternational Liberty

Some people argue the government should give everyone a “basic income.”

The problem with that approach (and the problem with other types of redistribution) is that some people will choose not to work if they can simply rely on handouts from the government.

That’s not good for the overall economy because total output is determined by the quality and quantity of labor and capital being utilized.

Some supporters of basic income claim that basic income would not discourage work.

They point out that giving the handouts to everyone would solve the problem that exists with most forms of redistribution, which is punitive, implicit marginal tax rates if recipients try to become self-sufficient.

It would be great to solve that problem, but I’m skeptical that basic income would be a net positive.

Let’s review some new evidence about no-strings handouts. Allysia Finley of the Wall Street Journal summarized

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PBS – American Experience: Eyes On The Prize – #9/14 – Power! 1967–1968

adamsmith1922's avatarThe Inquiring Mind

About this episode from IMDb

Exploring the influence of the idea of black power on freedom movement. Follows leaders of three black communities in their efforts to gain political and economic power that would enable advancements in employment, housing and education.

About this series

Wikipedia

Eyes on the Prize is an American television series and 14-part documentary about the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. The documentary originally aired on the PBS network and also aired in the United Kingdom on BBC2. Created and executive produced by Henry Hampton at the film production company Blackside and narrated by Julian Bond, the series uses archival footage, stills and interviews of participants and opponents of the movement. The title of the series is derived from the folk song “Keep Your Eyes on the Prize,” which is used in each episode as the opening theme music.

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Kim Wilde – Kids In America – Countdown Australia – 1981

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Monty Python – Brian holds a speech

The Life of Brian Crazy Prophets

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Why Big Batteries Can’t Cure Wind & Solar’s Hopeless Intermittency

stopthesethings's avatarSTOP THESE THINGS

Politicos and the MSM are wedded to the myth that mega-batteries are all we need to overcome the chaotic delivery of wind and solar. The addition of which, we are told, is both imminent and cost-free.

No country on earth has been able to crack the cost-effective grid-scale storage electricity. The laws of physics are something that can’t be overcome by wishing and hoping.

But the simple explanation arises by pure arithmetic; the volume of storage required to deal with bursts of dead calm weather and that regular occurrence, known as sunset, is off the charts astronomical.

One character who has had his finger on the pulse for more than a decade is engineer, Paul Miskelly.

Back in 2012, Paul had this to say about the prevalence of “wind droughts” where, for days on end, the total output from all the wind turbines connected to Australia’s Eastern Grid is a…

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Gaslit Nation: Democracy in Chains: The Nancy MacLean Interview – Part II

She is obsessed with James Buchanan which is weird. He is a boring writer whose only known policy proposals were a universal basic income, a flat rate tax, uniform regulation of all industries, 100% inheritance tax with a very low tax exemption threshold, and mandatory hiring quotas for minorities!

adamsmith1922's avatarThe Inquiring Mind

Some intriguing perspectives on America.

June 08, 2022

In this two-part interview, we take a deep dive into a right-wing hellhole with acclaimed scholar Nancy MacLean, the author of the bestseller Democracy in Chains, which discusses how anti-democratic networks run by powerful plutocrats came to hold the United States hostage. MacLean discusses the Koch dark money network and its shadowy political partners, the decades-long libertarian takeover of the Republican Party by far-right mercenaries, the infrastructure of this extremist network and how it has sustained itself for so long, the rise of the neo-confederacy, and the dystopian plans billionaires have for the American future. We also get MacLean’s opinions on recent crises like the pandemic, the Trump Crime Cult’s Capitol attack, and the assault on voting rights. And of course we ask her how we best battle these insidious adversaries, break America’s Koch addiction, and get our country back!

About…

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The Bank of England shouldn’t be above criticism

julianhjessop's avatarPlain-speaking Economics

If you believe many of the comments in the broadcast media and from the City, Liz Truss is threatening to undermine the independence of the Bank of England and rip up a policy framework that has served us well for decades. One member of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), Michael Saunders, has already felt the need to warn her off.

But at best Truss’s critics have misunderstood what she is proposing. At worst, it is another example of kneejerk groupthink, and the resistance to any form of criticism or change, that too often surrounds discussion of the Bank of England.

Take what Truss has actually said. She pledged to “look again” at the Bank’s mandate “to make sure it is tough enough on inflation”. She added that she feared “some of the inflation has been caused by increases in the money supply”, and that she would “have a very clear…

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