Source: The Highwire with Del Bigtree
NET ZERO A BIG ZERO?
Apr 22, 2023 · 14m 32s
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Let's talk about the transition the United States is currently in, transitioning from our current energy power sources to electric wind solar and also the entire automobile fleet. This is the headline that just happened recently out of Reuters Biden US proposes 56% vehicle emissions cut by 2032 requiring big EV jump by insane 67% of vehicle sold by 2032 should be electric or want they want to be
electric now. 7% of cars in America within the next 10 years will all be electric. I mean what is that? What do we have something like 280 million cars out there on the road? 67% I'm gonna just get rid of that. Probably 190 million cars. We're gonna be taking off the road that are birded gas right now. We'll call it mountain car. Every, you know, we're
gonna build this giant rusty heap of dead cars that weren't obsolete but made obsolete by an authoritarian policy. It appears. Exactly. And so we can look over to the European Union to the UK who's already run into this push a little further than we are and we can see some of the headlines coming out of there. Let's look at how that's doing. The backlash has begun
against net zero's relentless war on driving. It says a fanatical obsession with congestion charges, low traffic zones and electric cars is ignoring the needs of the majority of ordinary people. Again, you're gonna hear that ignoring the needs of ordinary people is a big part of this. Right. And so charging stations, let's talk about that. We have a lot of cars to transition here. 278 million in
the United States. Let's look at how that's going in the UK. Headline, ban on petrol and diesel cars by 2030. Unrealistic as electric charger network won't be ready. It says in the article, estimate suggests that around 280,000 to 480,000 chargers will need needed across the country by 2030 to fulfill demand from drivers. Currently, they're around 28,000. And if you look at this graph here, you can
see this is basically the cars that have been registered from 26,000. So, you can see almost about 800,000 cars and they have 28,000 charger stations. I don't know where the planning is going there, but the clock's ticking. You got about seven good years left to get that done. I don't know if that's gonna happen. But some countries are actually looking at this and pushing back. So,
European Union was gonna vote on this car ban banning petrol and diesel cars and Germany and Italy blocked Brussels from banning this. That is the headline. Now, Germany has been in talks to try to find some type of work around around this, but not all countries are hookline and sinker on this because they possibly are looking and seeing that this may not be able to be
done. I mean, here's what I find so shocking. And by the way, I have to make this caveat because I want to be understood by my audience. I have always been for a clean environment. I still am. I consider myself an environmentalist though I'm looking for a new word. Maybe I'm a conservationist now. But here's the truth. I think we should be across party lines, Republican,
and Democrat, libertarian, whatever it is. We should agree that our air can be cleaner. That there are cleaner ways to burn fuels. There are better technologies that are out there. And we should utilize those because our children have asthma and all sorts of health issues that cost hundreds of millions of dollars in medical problems every year in America that could be alleviated by clean or air.
I think we should all be able to agree that just like Hunkleberry Fane used to be able to go down and fish out of a river and eat it, that those of us that live in America are going to be able to eat it. I like to fish with our kids, should be able to go to any river in America, pull a fish out, go home
and grill it, not be told you just poison your children and your family. While that is the case, we have work that we can do together. I believe in the immediate that there's an issue that we can all start working together to say, how do we clean all this up? How do we use technology? How do we use the free market space to make things better
and cleaner? Great. I'm for all that. What I'm not into is enslavement by some idea that the ocean is going to be a foot deeper 100 years from now, like that somehow as an effect or that you have any proof that we're going to get there. The immediate is where this conversation needs to be. And also we need to be reasonable. This idea, I mean when
I think about this right now, that 67% of our cars are going to be electric within the next 10 years. I challenge anyone in my family and my friends that are part of that clean earth that we've all dreamed about our whole lives. How the hell is this going to happen without destroying countless lives? First of all, what you are going to do is you're going
to take all of these needed resources like coalball and lithium and all the other things that we're going to, I mean it's amazing. Shut down coal money but it's okay to mine copper and lithium and coalball with child labor. Look at these fields, these lithium fields. How the heck is that considered environmental? This is what we want? Oh this is okay? Toxic, sludge, speutic cross large
vast spaces of the earth. I don't understand it. Solar panels covering our mountains. This is the future. This is environmentally sound. Look I'm open to conversations but we're talking about child labor. You want to talk about warlords in Africa. What infrastructure is going to be built for this demand? We're going to turn these rare minerals into blood diamonds. If you don't think that's the case then
you clearly are just lying to yourself. This is an interesting video that was just recently out where these people like I don't know how regulated this is are trying to save each other from collapsing minds while they're trying to get these earth friendly cars built that Biden has got rushing onto the market. This is absolutely pure and total insanity right now. We should be reasonable. We
should be moving forward. I'm going to say this too. I have solar panels on my house. I bought the house that way and I put solar panels on other houses. It reduced my cost. The market made it interesting and affordable. I would also say I've thought about it by an electric car that I can charge during the days sometimes off my own solar panels. Maybe I
am going to be able to reduce some of the pollution out there but it's a personal choice. And the market is allowing me to make that choice. I don't need an authoritarian government coming in and destroying the economy around me and by the way an administration that claims to care about those underserved or those that are living paycheck to paycheck like Ernesto that we just talked
about. What's he going to do? You can tell me he's not going to buy a Tesla. The next year and the next 10 years. Come on. This makes absolutely no sense at all. One of the issues that I'm finding is scratching underneath the surface of this climate situation and the climate push whether it's taking of the farms in the Netherlands, whether it's trying to throttle the
American car fleet is this obsession by government industry to control and restrict down to the very smallest aspects of our lives. And it's beautifully encapsulated in this headline here. This is just a recent headline. One of many sees property and build wind and solar farms as JP Morgan chief. That's Jamie Diamond. That sounds like it's eminent domain. That sounds like a great idea to get this
done. I guess they have to rush to do it. So they're going to take your property to do it. Well, I guess if it's a good idea, we're supposed to do anything for the environment as long as the science is there. Right. Well, we have some science. A new white paper by Michael Kelly. He's a professor of engineering at the University of Cambridge. And he just
wrote a new paper titled the Feasibility of a net zero economy for the USA by 2050, not a gen to 2030, 2050. And this is what he says in there. This is a pretty well researched document. He says the scale of this project suggests that a war footing and a command economy will be essential as major cuts to other favored forms of expenditure such as health,
education and defense will be needed. He said the fourth a fourth project is to secure the buying of the public. Did you get asked for this for what will be 30 years of social security? Social disruption, diminished living standards and living under a command economy. Now, Dell, let's get to your point about the batteries. If the he says if the US were to convert overnight to
an electric fleet, that's of cars, the materials requirements for the batteries alone, compared with annual production today are estimated by scaling UK estimates by popularity ratio as this one million tons of coal, almost 20 times the annual global production, 1.3 million tons of lithium carbide over seven times the annual global production, at least 36,000 tons of neodymium and dis dispro, disprocime nearly five times the annual
production of neodymium, 10 million tons of copper, nearly the global production in 2018. Look, God forbid we mine for coal. I mean, I'm sorry. Look, the amount of mining I'm looking at there. Please, all my friends, let's have, I'm ready for this debate. We will do it offline. Call me, I need, we need to have this conversation. And so Michael here even gives a price tag
and you get ready for this one. He says this with extra cost comfortably in excess of 35 to really and with a T a dedicated and skilled workforce comparable to that of the education sector and key strategic materials demanded at many times the supply rates that prevail today and all for no measurable attributable change in the climate and the global climate. The mitigation of climate change
via a net zero missions US economy by 2050 is an example of the global climate. Extremely difficult to ask without a command economy, the target will certainly not be met. And then he speaks to those people, the climate change community says my analysis requires the climate change community to go back in all humility and ask themselves really how bad will as opposed to might the world's
climate become the proposed solution seems far worse for society than the problem. So really some hard words there is you know stuff we haven't seen before by academic professors too much. And it's not stopping there. We have another professor Wade Ellison professor physics from the University of Oxford and he now takes a stab at the wind power the wind generation through windmills in a paper title
of the inadequacy of wind power. And he says in there the generation of electricity by wind tells a disappointing story the political enthusiasm and the investor hype are not supported by the evidence here we go again not supported by the evidence he goes into some of the numbers if the wind speed is 10 meters per second about 20 miles an hour the power is 600 watts
per hour. So that's the power of wind. And then he says this if the wind drops to half speed the power available drops by factor of eight almost worse if the wind speed doubles the power delivered to the wind power of wind. And as a result the turbine has to be turned off for its own production. So he finally concludes by saying this with with general
electricity shortages the war near a high prices and the likelihood of failures in electricity supply many popular scientific presumptions underlying energy policy should be questioned absolutely. But he says this wind power fails on every count again Dell this is just like lockdowns no cost benefit analysis should be rejected out of hand because there was no cost benefit analysis on these things the science where is the
science on this I mean what's going on in the same place I mean look I look at this all the same I these are we are looking obviously I'm going to assume that a lot of these these scientists because I know how this works are not even imagine are going to drive countless children to have their arms chopped off in Africa if they don't dig up
enough cold off before all of that happens. Can we get an independent body of both sides 10 from the pro environmentalist side they think this is an environmental action and 10 from the other side to really start putting this all on table. And by the way let's broadcast it. Let's have a whole world wash these conversations and weigh in on what's going on here. I'm really
tired of these decisions being made for us and not by us. And moving back here to the United States announcement just by President Biden he says this is the headline after his announcement Biden backs tearing down Columbia Snake River dams contrary to comprehensive scientific assessment. Now these are four hydro power dams that provide clean renewable energy to homes and businesses in Washington in central Washington. So
they want to breach these dams which would obviously have a dramatic impact on that energy production. But also the scientific is not clean energy. I mean like again and maybe maybe we're finding out it's not clean. I don't know water flowing through the turbine seems like the best now Biden while you know screaming green energy is about to tear down one of the best forms of
clean energy we have. And even if they're side of it look again the reason why you don't dive in if you're starting to find scientifically there's a problem with this type of energy. This is why you don't pass laws to shift everybody over but continue continue on. Right. And so it was against a comprehensive scientific assessment as well. So that's what has a lot of people
stretching their head because the cover story if you will I guess is they're doing it to bring the salmon runs back to the central river system in that area. But Army Corps of Engineers and National Oceanic and atmospheric administration. They did a comprehensive scientific assessment of this and they said they basically included the dams can stay and the salmon the salmon runs can be built back
up. But I can also say this from personal experience when I got out of school I went worked in the fish hatchery in Alaska. It is very easy to put a man made of a hatchery the mouth of almost every river and raise a hundred times the amount of fish that need to flow up you know there are modern things that we now have that we
can do here. I've been a part of that process. This is ridiculous. And so the headlines are showing that that type of frustration now I mean just full throttle here this is the before you know maybe 10 years ago you'd never see a headline like this now we are net zero is a Trojan horse for the total destruction of Western society strong words there backed by
some pretty good. Points in that article.
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