Clean energy does work in some cases. I live off grid with solar and batteries, but I burn wood in winter for hot water cooking and space heating. I still need petrol and diesel for the cars and I still buy food as we don’t grow much.
Running an aluminium smelter or a steel mill is a whole different story. Imagine the battery to sustain a (aluminium smelter) pot line (like Boyne or Bell Bay here in Australia) for five days while the wind doesn’t blow. Don’t worry, I’ll tell you: it would take a battery so large it would consume all the batteries in the world and make aluminium cost more than gold. It’s just not feasible. What is feasible is depopulating the world and feeding the remaining slaves insects. People are mostly stupid sheep and the evil psychopaths have taken advantage of their ignorance and laziness. Not for much longer it would seem.
I appreciate what you are saying, re: the first paragraph. I have been there and done that, and have returned to the luxury of the National grid. We moved to a remote Island that had no grid, twenty years ago.
The firewood demand for cooking and baking, laundering, washing ourselves and keeping warm (three kids) was a full-time job. We literally spent the daytime doing that, and stoking the fires and kneading dough, and the night-time scheming how we were going to make life better for ourselves. And yes, we had put ourselves in that position. Candles were our main form of lighting, and the only petroleum product in the house, as beeswax candles were just silly expensive.
Oh and we had these 'match crises'. Running out of matches was a disaster. I kind of like my heatpump and full baths, TBH.
But I agree with your second paragraph. Energy = life-blood to the economy. Economy = jobs and life. German Industrialists can attest to that.
Clean energy does work in some cases. I live off grid with solar and batteries, but I burn wood in winter for hot water cooking and space heating. I still need petrol and diesel for the cars and I still buy food as we don’t grow much.
Running an aluminium smelter or a steel mill is a whole different story. Imagine the battery to sustain a (aluminium smelter) pot line (like Boyne or Bell Bay here in Australia) for five days while the wind doesn’t blow. Don’t worry, I’ll tell you: it would take a battery so large it would consume all the batteries in the world and make aluminium cost more than gold. It’s just not feasible. What is feasible is depopulating the world and feeding the remaining slaves insects. People are mostly stupid sheep and the evil psychopaths have taken advantage of their ignorance and laziness. Not for much longer it would seem.
I appreciate what you are saying, re: the first paragraph. I have been there and done that, and have returned to the luxury of the National grid. We moved to a remote Island that had no grid, twenty years ago.
The firewood demand for cooking and baking, laundering, washing ourselves and keeping warm (three kids) was a full-time job. We literally spent the daytime doing that, and stoking the fires and kneading dough, and the night-time scheming how we were going to make life better for ourselves. And yes, we had put ourselves in that position. Candles were our main form of lighting, and the only petroleum product in the house, as beeswax candles were just silly expensive.
Oh and we had these 'match crises'. Running out of matches was a disaster. I kind of like my heatpump and full baths, TBH.
But I agree with your second paragraph. Energy = life-blood to the economy. Economy = jobs and life. German Industrialists can attest to that.