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I want to systematically surgically take us through what I'm telling you is that renewables are dead.
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Renewable energy, and that's mainly going to be the sun and the wind, though you can throw hydrogen in there, do not work.
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But when you say this, you've you got to give context.
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Otherwise, you just seem like you're some frankly nut.
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Hey, Mr.
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Podcaster, you're telling me the sun and the wind don't work.
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The sun and the wind are free.
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I want to give you a lot of context for what I mean by this.
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The title today's episodes are renewables are dead.
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This is Todd Royal.
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I'm your host of Geopower, Energy, and Real Politics.
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I want to begin with first Trump's 2.0, his new national security strategy.
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It made a lot of headlines in Europe due to its dismal assessment of the continent.
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The document drew attention to its lose, you know.
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Here's what's happening in Europe.
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They're losing share of global GDP.
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There's the de-sovereignization of its members by the EU.
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You have suppression of political opposition.
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You have the loss of national identities and self-confidence.
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You have cratering birth rates and the overwhelming problem of large-scale immigration that's been pushed by the globalists, like former German prime minister Angela Merkel.
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The last of this NSS is very significant because it predicts that the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less.
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That is on top of they have overwhelmingly embraced renewables.
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Germany calls like Ingerweiden.
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Please forgive me, my German's not very good.
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They have spent over 500 billion dollars on it.
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Germany has the highest industrial electricity prices in the world, and they also have some of the highest electricity prices in the world, only beat by Great Britain.
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As I talked to you last week, Great Britain is a failed state.
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And I would add Europe is rapidly becoming a failed continent.
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NATO probably will have not much to do with it.
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Certainly the United States, part of NATO, and what you'll eventually become is one giant tourist attraction of oh, look, there's the Vatican.
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Oh, look, there's the Northern Lights.
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Hey, there's the canals of Venice, and there's nothing else that you will add to that, and you will probably be dominated by Islam.
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Um, what it then says the United States will eventually do is it will really not look at the countries, you know, of the Western and Northern Europe, but they'll begin to look at and what they're currently doing.
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Countries like Poland.
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Um, you'll look at the healthy nations of Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe as really as a solution, and you'll just get rid of the other um regions.
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You see that too currently with the Polish-led three C's initiative, which uh Greece also joined in 2023.
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This what's called the three SI aims to comprehensively integrate this shared space.
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And it's in the U.S.
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interest to support Poland's vision for economic, political, and military strategic strategic regions.
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Poland's also just become a one trillion dollar economy.
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So why am I saying renewables are dead?
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If you don't have energy, you have nothing.
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Energy is everything.
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Or former our former guest Domberg said energy is life.
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The Europeans use roughly 38 to 40 exajules of uh total energy, and they produce about five to six.
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They want to go to war with Ukraine, they want to have an industrial base, they want to pretend they have geopolitical power to take on China, to take on India, Russia, uh, North Korea, Iran.
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No, you don't.
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You have no energy, and you have no energy because you believe everything can come from renewables.
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That's something that is based on the wind and the sun.
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So when the wind doesn't blow, you don't have electricity.
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When the sun doesn't shine, you have electricity.
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It's winter in Europe.
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Go look and see how much wind is blowing, how much sun is shining.
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Renewables are dead, and it's it's killed Europe.
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And until they get rid of their obsession with uh human-cause global warming and climate change until their electric actually stop believing the Guardian, Laman, their Spiegel, you are a failed continent.
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And eventually you'll you'll likely be taken over.
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Um again, you'll be taken over by either Islam or some form of the Iranians, the Russians, um, the North Koreans, the BRICS nations with Brazil have their hand in it, India, but essentially this landmass will become nothing but either an Islamic hellhole with these tourist attractions that people will fly in, look at, fly out, and you'll eventually have authoritarian governments, or people just give over to the Keir Starmers, the Macron's, the Mertzes of the world, or someone like the leader of Estonia who claims they're gonna take on Russia or Finland, which is rearming to supposedly take on Russia.
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You have no energy.
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You have none.
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You refuse to frack, you refuse to burn coal, though the Germans are able to do it again.
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If you don't have energy, and if you don't have electricity, you have nothing.
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Renewables are dead.
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That's the first thing I wanted to talk about.
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The first bit of context.
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The second bit of bit of context is a gentleman named Doug Sheridan.
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He's this wonderful energy analyst, posts on LinkedIn.
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Um he really did a great piece last week where he just talked about um this whole nonsense of net zero.
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Uh that Goldman Sachs, you know, continues to foolishly say, oh, we're gonna transition and it's gonna work.
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Just go look at the statistical world review of energy.
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Look at it, and see if Goldman Sachs is correct, or are they a bunch of globalists who are sucking at the teeth of taxpayer subsidies because they're gonna make free money, they're gonna continue to just get subsidy after subsidy, kill places like Europe, kill big chunks of the United States because you believe that you're transitioning to net zero.
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Um, or even a partial transition.
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You also have people at the Wall Street Journal who talk about this.
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Uh, they they'll go, oh, we're still transitioning.
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They have no idea whether Goldman Sachs, his greedy, or the Wall Street Journal, which are fools, how hobbled Europe is.
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They can't complete compete globally.
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But here's the thing, they probably don't even care.
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Um they're kind of this European brigade of journalists who are based, you know, Brussels, Berlin, London.
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They are the elite of elite, they're clueless, they're probably married, they don't have children, they have nothing to think of other than themselves, they have no retirement, they offer nothing to society, so they have a duty to support Europe's effort to lead the world towards a net zero outcome.
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You could throw in most of the Northeast uh United States, anybody who votes for Democrats, uh, even places like Texas, who are greedy and stupid and use renewables.
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Look at their grids, and of course, the poster child in America is California.
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Um idea of a global energy transition is lost.
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It's failed, it's over.
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Look at Europe.
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It's like seeing Venezuela saying socialism works.
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That is a dead ideology, which New York City soon to learn.
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It doesn't work in Europe.
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Um really, too, the public should really begin to question any and everything.
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That these journalists who are in the tank for energy transition, Democrats, anything that's godless, abortion, redefining marriage, but on an energy front.
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All of those things, and of course, you have to throw in climate change, which there's no such thing as the climate changing because of CO2 and the climate changing because of human activity.
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That's not happening.
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Please quote me on that.
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Um more than happy to back it up too, with my own books, plus the many people, myself and my colleague Tom Harris have interviewed on our other program that I'm on, the other side of the story.
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Um, the easiest way to talk about climate change is this: whether you're a creationist or an evolutionist, it has been hotter, it has been colder, and there's been more stuff in the air referred to as parts per million.
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Before the industrial revolution took place, 1850, 1860 to currently, and fossil fuels began to be used, which began with coal.
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Now we're on to coal, oil, and gas.
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The Chinese are still using coal along with the Indians, the Malaysians, the Indonesians, the Vietnamese, uh, Germany is using coal again because otherwise they're gonna freeze to death.
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Renewables are dead.
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Don't believe journalists from the Wall Street.
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Journal, the Financial Times, the Economist, the Atlantic.
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Great, they went to great schools.
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I wouldn't believe most of those schools anymore.
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The way you look at renewables is saying, show me what your electricity prices are when you when you wholly use only renewables.
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Show me what your grid is like.
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And then more importantly, I would say to any people any of these people, any leader from the EU, Gavin Newsom, any Democrat, any Republican, anybody who believes in the wind and the sun can supply not even a modern society, but just a normal functioning grid.
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Go build a city, everything you want in said modern city from Paris or London or Brussels or New York or Los Angeles or pick your favorite Nouveau Reish city, whether it's a Starbucks, laundromat, a playground that needs lights, restaurants, homes, apartments, a factory to supply you with plastics, whatever that may be.
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Put all that into one city.
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Let's get 100,000 of these people, go live in for one year, do not allow them to leave, and watch how many of them walk out of life.
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You'll within 30 days, certainly three months, you'll have a scene from the walking dead.
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Renewables are dead.
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All of these news organizations, all of these journalists, all of these green Marxists, Democrats, Green Party who believe in climate change, and the answer is we want to use renewables.
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We want to use the wind and the sun for electricity, knowing that all the parts that come from solar panels and wind turbines are mainly made in China.
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It's all done by coal and every single component and every single one of a wind turbine and a solar panel comes from fossil fuels.
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Everything has to be mined, refined, processed.
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If you want to read about it further, please look at my book that I co-authored with uh Ron Ronald Stein called Clean Energy Exploitations.
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Go read about it.
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Look at it.
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You'll see.
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Again, renewables are dead.
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Um it almost surrounds you in some way with you know the back Baghdad Bob uh type of journalism type of policy making where you thought the Iraq war was just going great, and then all of a sudden you realize all hell broke loose.
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But you you keep on a smiley happy face, or what you refer to as gaslighting now without really reporting the truth.
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What I would tell anyone about renewables is the technology simply isn't there.
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Um certainly uh energy battery storage systems are not there.
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I'll put a link up to a report that was done recently by Mark P.
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Mills talking about the staggering amounts of materials it makes to build a battery energy storage system at grid scale.
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Myself, I've done a value chain report on it.
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And what I can tell you, it is tens of thousands of tons of rare earth metals and minerals.
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95% of all batteries are backed by lithium, which can combust at a moment's notice.
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But more importantly, lithium cannot hold a charge more than more than four hours, has severe degradation issues.
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And if you have any kind of extreme heat or cold, the ability of the battery to even hold four hours of electricity goes down.
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So imagine I'm gonna back up an entire renewable system or a country like the United States that uses terawatts of um electricity, terawatts is billions of gigawatts of power, and I'm gonna back it all up with batteries.
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I wrote in one of my books that even if Britain were to try to do this, they would use all the copper in the world that's currently mined.
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Why don't you put that in the context?
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If one country said I'm going to go full renewables, full batteries, you would use all the copper in the world mined.
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There are studies uh where people will tell you.
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If you really looked up and said, okay, we're going to use full renewables.
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Let's say the United States, some people say, Oh, we'll take up a couple of states, you know.
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Others will tell you, and I would agree with them, half of the United States would need to be blanketed.
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At least 25% for sure, would need to be blanketed with wind turbines and solar panels.
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Remember, these things degradate quickly.
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You're not getting more than 20 years out of them.
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So tell me where you're all you're going to mine all the rare earth metals and minerals.
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You're not.
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That's why this is always some globalist dream, some fantasy for control.
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And that's why renewables to me always link up with this globalist dream.
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What they, these people really want uh the Tom Styers, the Michael Bloombergs, the George Soruses, the Neville Singhams, the Tides Foundation, um, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, uh, the Stanford University Endowment, the same with Harvard.
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These people want you to bow down to them.
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They want to take away your energy, take away your electricity, blame it on climate change, they've done it to the Europeans, and go, you're uncontrollably warming the earth.
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You want to listen to a teenager who has the girl Greta Thunberg is a woman now, very severe psychological and mental issues.
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Frankly, her parents should be in jail for what they did to her.
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That young lady needs medical help, probably needs um pharmaceutical help and could use probably some years of really good counseling.
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You believe all of that, because what these people ultimately want, I would say they they want you to be some form of downtoy, where you're living at their manor and you call them Lord, and you're just happy to have a little cottage farming a little bit of the land, and you just serve them at their beck and call.
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I mean, it's not unlike the Babylonian Empire, the Persian Empire, the Assyrian Empire, or the Roman Empire, where people thought of themselves as gods and lords, and they were to be worshipped.
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Renewables are dead.
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They kill everything in their sight.
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That's why the U.S.
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Democratic Party, Greens, and these godless billionaires who support all this, who need to go into the dustbin of history, the sooner most of these people die, the better.
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The world will be a better place because what they see, they see Marxism and go, we can manipulate it and gain more market share.
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We can get rid of our competition.
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We can crush society, we can cause chaos, and the only people left standing are us.
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And then you'll beg us for a cup, a what cup of rice and uh and a mouthful of water.
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You will call us gods and lords, or you will starve to death.
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Renewables are dead.
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I also want to continue along this context with this.
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This is, I'm gonna give you the latest report.
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I uh I highly recommend the intelligence report from oilprice.com.
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They can do some stupid things.
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They can go all in on renewables and question nuclear power.
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They like to pretend to net zeros and energy transitions, but for the most part, they do a pretty good job of reporting what's really going on.
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Um, I want you to listen to this about when I say renewables are dead, I'll add a uh qualifier to that.
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Long live fossil fuels.
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First, first item.
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The EU buckles under U.S.
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and Qatari pressure.
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The European Union agreed to scale back its corporate sustainability laws, which is called uh scope three emissions, because they believe in global warming, climate change.
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They tell companies all the way down to the third parts of your supply chain, tell us how many emissions they are.
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We're so worried about the air, but of course, we keep burning the worst firm, the worst forms of coal in uh Germany, and we continue the Ukraine war, which is blowing people to hell, not really that good for the environment, also.
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Uh the European Union agreed to scale back its corporate sustainability laws after both the United States and Qatar threatened to halt energy exports in case it's CSDD rules, aren't ease.
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However, U.S.
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firms have complained the chart, the changes didn't go far enough.
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In other words, you pull that on us, we're not going to sell you liquefied natural gas, and we know if we don't sell it to you, you're going to freeze to death because you're no longer getting cheap Russian oil because you blew up um Nord Stream 2, you turned off Nord Stream 1, and the Russians have just now given all of that gas to the Chinese, the Indians, and used it internally to further fuel their own military industrial complex to continue killing Ukrainians, taking over that country.
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And again, the Ukraine war is lost and renewables are dead.
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Let's continue down this global warming, climate change, renewables are how we're going to run our societies.
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G7 companies and the European Union are trying to get rid of the price caps that they put on Russian oil exports.
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Oh, by the way, um, it's been reported that the European Union has upped its imports of Russian gas again.
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Again, if you do not have energy.
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The very people supposedly are your enemy.
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You are a vassal to them.
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You are a vassal.
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Let me tell you what else is real troubling.
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Chinese oil imports continue to soar.
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Go look at what the Chinese are doing right now as far as their earth, metals and minerals, coal, um, heating oils, natural gas liquids, oil.
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Sure seems like they're preparing for a war.
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And people say all the time, but they lead the world in renewables.
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They've done all this pledge.
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If they've done this pledge, and if you're that stupid, or that uninformed, or you want to stick your head in the sand, or you want to pretend what's going on, why did Chinese crude oil imports soar their highest since August of 23 last month?
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India.
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India's state-owned refiners have ramped up their purchases of Russian crude with Indian Oil Corporation and Barad Petroleum buying up, buying up to 10 January rival cargoes last week.
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Uh that's like roughly like December 3rd, the week of December 2nd and 3rd.
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Um they they're benefiting from lower deliverable prices.
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Uh, Urals now trade about six dollars per barrel below Brent.
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Brazil, one of the BRICS nations.
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They're now uh booming.
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Uh their oil uh exploration.
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Okay.
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Does anybody hear anything about uh renewables here?
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Uh Libya prepares for tea gas wildcat.
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Uh India's coal romance.
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India is now considering a major expansion in coal power capacity, plans to build new plants until at least 2047.
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One of my books has a document that says it's actually 2060.
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Um Delhi, the capital of India, you sometimes know it is New Delhi, they refer to it as Delhi, is talking about adding 420 gigawatts of new capacity, an 87% increase from now.
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But what you will hear, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Derrick Spiegel, The Guardian, which is the worst.
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The economists, the Atlantic is, my God, India's gonna do green hydrogen and renewables.
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China leads the world in renewables.
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That is a sucker's bet to placate foolish Westerners in the United Nations, the EU, most of Washington, DC, and other fools who believe that they're gonna lead the world in renewables.
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Nothing could be farther from the truth.
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But oh boy, good for Great Britain, their own drillers, uh, Shell and Equator, uh, are struggling because there's a 78% tax on them.
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Does anybody hear me?
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Does anybody see that there's any way on God's green earth that renewables are going to do anything for these people?
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No.
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But then we foolishly get a U.S.
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court rejecting Trump's wind energy ban.
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Um I've done a report for the National Science Foundation on wind, and maybe the technology will be there one day, but I found literally almost 60 reasons you would never want to use offshore or onshore wind.
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One of these days I need to write that up.
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60 reasons.
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But a U.S.
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district judge, these district judges.
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Folks, man, you can hate a Republican all you want, and I'm sure as hell not telling you they're perfect.
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But the U.S.
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Democratic Party has the party I grew up with has lost its way.
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And these judges go to these godless law schools, and they just hate Trump.
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What they do is they hate Trump because they hate Republicans because they have some Marxist fantasy in their head.
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And I would actually argue that ultimately they hate Jesus Christ.
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They hate religion, they hate families, and they have this dream that they're gonna live in a utopia of their own making of renewables and no car cities and no more meat, and we're all gonna see we're all gonna live in this fantasy utopia that doesn't exist.
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And you think the wind, offshore wind in particular, the same people that tell you hurricanes are intensifying and there's more of them, and the weather is worse, but you're gonna do energy systems that are based upon the weather being worse, and solar panels can only take so much heat.
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So if it's getting hotter, why would you use something that has a hard time turning more of the sun and more heat into um energy into electricity?
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Why are you gonna do something if you believe there's more hurricanes?
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You believe the oceans getting warmer.
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Won't that hurt offshore wind turbines?
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Won't hostile what's referred to as a hostile marine environment?
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None of it makes sense.
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Yet here you are.
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Here you are.
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Here you are.
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Renewables are dead.
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They don't work.
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They've never worked, they never will work under current technological constraints.
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They will not work.
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Anything that I just said, did any of this talk about renewables?
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Did people always say they're the cheapest thing going?
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No, they're not.
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Get rid of the subsidies like you have with EVs, watch what happens.
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Um count the what's called the total system cost, the full cost of electricity.
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There's not a renewable system around that is not backed up by a nuclear power plant or what's or um what's called spinning reserves or peaker plants.
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Essentially, it's natural gas fired or coal-fired plants or even oil.
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Oil is still burned in the northeast right now for electricity.
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Those plants are on demand, ready to go.
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There's various terms for them, peakers, spinning reserves.
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Think of it this way.
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When you use renewables, you have to build an entirely new system to back it up.
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Please don't pretend that you're helping the environment.
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You're not.
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They're actually worse for the environment.
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They're worse for the land, they're worse for the value of land, they're worse for people.
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Um you cannot discard them, you cannot recycle them profitably, and hardly anyone is doing it.
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Um, and go look at the mining, the refining and the processing of all the rare earth metals and minerals, which are being done by China or in the lithium triangle down in South America, or what's done to small children in uh the Congo for cobalt.
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Just go read the Amnesty International Report on this.
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It's it's horrifying.
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My own book, Clean Energy Exploitations.
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It's it's horrifying.
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Horrifying how these folks live.
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Here's one dude coming back.
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I'm gonna systematically just kind of take us down of what's going on with um with renewables.
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The great Tylach Doshi has done it again and wrote an article on renewables.
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Um if someone knows Mr.
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Dashi or Mr.
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Doshi, please let them know what a fan of his I am and the incredible work this man is doing right now.
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He is a he's a real treasure.
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And I would say the world is very lucky to have this man right now.
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Uh I want to come back with a with a recent article he just did, which just so breaks down renewables, and it's so good.
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I just want to read, I literally, I just want to read it.
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So this is Todd Royal.
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Uh, this is geopower, energy in real politics, and we will be right back for our second half where we're gonna lead off with uh Ty Doshi's article on renewables and just the devastating facts that he gives.
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On December 6th, Tali Gdashi wrote an article called Time to Stop Pretending Renewables Are Cheap.
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Or let's just say it again, renewables are dead.
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I'm going to take you through this.
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I've got you for about the next 23 minutes, and let's kind of go through what he refers to as tropes.
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The first one is this voices who say we're going to have an energy transition.
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Experts like Michael Mann, who's been discredited, Bill McKibben.
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And Bill's got some great books.
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Um, but his understanding of renewables and energy, he lives in such a fantasy land.
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I would love to meet the man one day because he's got some other books which are just just fabulous.
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Um they say, you know, cheap solar and wind energy, which I just talked about the previous um first half of the show.
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This has all been debunked.
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It's truly magical thinking.
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Um, if you understand physics and economics, which um I'm gonna assume this audience does.
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As I said, when you look at this, when you look at a capacity factor for these things, which run about 25% of the time compared to like let's say 95% of the nuclear power plant.
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When you look at all the land it needs, all the materials it needs, it's not even on most of the time.
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Uh, then I've got to build an entirely backup uh system for it, then I have to look at all uh have a geopolitical enemy who hates my guts in China where all the rare earth metals and minerals come from that have to be refined and processed.
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Oh, I'd tell you also in that regard, go look at how much energy it takes to do uh uh silicus uh a solar PV solar panel.
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We're gonna take silica, turn it into polysilicone.
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It's one of the most energy intensive processes that you can do, and it's done by the Chinese and it's done by coal.
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There's no way whether either people like Michael Mann and Bill McKibben either they refuse to see the truth or they don't want to see the truth.
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Uh, this other with green ideologies, you get this thing called primary energy fallacy.
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Um, advocates for wind and solar, such as Dr.
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Jan Rosen Isle, Senior Research Associate at Oxford and Cambridge Universities argues that these traditional metrics of primary energy consumption, meaning you measure the raw energy extracted from nature before conversion, that's it.
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But what it does is it underestimates the contributions of renewables.
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Um fossil fuels, coal and gas do lose much of their energy as waste heat during electricity generation.
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And yeah, solar panels and wind turbines deliver electricity with near perfect efficiency.
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Thus the argument goes, hey, primary energy basis.
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Man, you're you're you're not looking at how efficient these things are.
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Uh, these efficient low carbon technologies, hey, look at fossil fuels, you're very inefficient.
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What's always funny though, too, they never include nuclear.
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Um look at what a piece of uranium does.
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Um, so then you're saying, hey, renewables, you're not intermittent.
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Man, look how look how efficient you are.
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Um if you look at the analysis of energy literacy by people like Lars uh Shirknikal and Ronald Stein, my co-author of three books that we've done.
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Just go look into their work.
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The distortion relies in you ignore the full system level cost that I just described and the inefficiencies of wind and solar being intermittent, not you'll hear people go, well, the marginal cost is nothing.
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Yes, it's very efficient.
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Man, the wind and the sun's going in there.
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There's zero cost for the fuel.
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Now let's look at everything else.
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Um you get out of this the this progressive green ideologue of the primary energy fallacy.
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What you show it's the harsh realities of intermittency, resource intensity, and the escalating costs that plague the push for renewables.
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Any country that's using renewables wholeheartedly, Denmark, Britain, Germany, big chunks of the EU, uh, California, New York.
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Look at what they're doing.
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They're not meeting anything.
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They're not decarbonizing net zero anything, and their electricity costs are killing their economies.
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Do you does anybody think that California can compete with Texas right now?
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Does anybody think that Great Britain or Germany can compete with German, can compete with China, even Iran?
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No, you can't.
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Your costs are high, you refuse to drill for anything, you're wary of nuclear, and you think you're going to do it with the wind and the sun.
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Absolutely not.
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Um energy affordability and reliability are paramount.
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Particularly for developing countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
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Um primary energy, it okay.
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Let me tell you what uh Tyler says in this primary energy is defined by institutions like the IEA, the International Energy Agency, Biddish British Petroleum in their annual statistic statistical reviews, tallies the unprocessed energy from sources such as coal, oil, gas, uranium, wind, and sunlight.
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It relates to the total energy content of natural resources before any conversion processes take place.
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When converted to electricity, thermal sources like coal-fired plants operated efficiencies are around 35 to 40 percent.
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Combined cycle gas turbines reach up to 30, the rest dissipate some heat.
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In contrast, wind and solar convert their primary inputs, kinetic wind or solar, pardon me, kinetic wind energy or solar irrigates directly into electricity with minimal thermal losses.
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They approach 100% in accounting terms.
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Um here's the problem.
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When you do that, again, it seems that renewables win.
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Yet this comparison is myopic.
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Confined as it is to just electricity, which accounts for just 20% of global faunal energy consumption.
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The bulk of energy use, some 80%, and I credit Ron Ron Stein talks about this all the time.
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Occurs in non-electric forms.
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Industrial heat for steel making, cement production, gas for cooking and home heating, petroleum for transportation, and petrochemicals for everything from fertilizers to plastics.
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Here, fossil fuels not they often deliver energy services with far higher efficiencies than the pro renewable narrative admits.
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Combustion of gas for heating, for instance, achieves 80%, 80 to 90% efficiency, dwarfing the loss in electricity generation.
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A nuclear power plant for electricity runs upwards of 95% of the time.
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That alone, just if I could decarbonize or net zero the entire world if you want nuclear, and we have plenty of uranium.
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Uranium is God's gift to mankind.
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If aliens came down, and I'm using a quote from Doomberg, if aliens came down to this planet right now, they would look at us and wonder why are your landscapes not dotted with the industrial cathedrals.
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Thank you, Emmett Penny for that example.
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The industrial cathedrals of nuclear power plants.
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A nuclear power plant can now be the brand new AP 1000, Bogle 3 and 4, running at 95% capacity within its first year.
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The plant will stay up on stay open at least 60 years.
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Solar and wind, many times you start replacing things after two years at a 25% capacity factor.
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And what does that do for a grid that grids have to have 100% power at all times?
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So I have a backup system to ensure the grid doesn't break down.
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I wouldn't just say it's myopic or a fallacy.
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I would say it's dangerous and will and will kill people.
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If you want to electric, if you want to let me electrify everything, primary energy, that's how you measure something.
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Oh my gosh, I mean, you fossil fuels extend far beyond energy provision just for modern civilization.
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Again, Ronald Stein and myself in our book Clean Energy Exploitations.
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We we talk about this that oil and gas are the foundational feedstocks of over 6,000 products that underpin human progress from plastics and cosmetics to pharmaceuticals and ammonia for fertilizers.
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Go look up the article, big oil to the rescue.
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Whenever COVID was called the coronavirus, that vaccines, you would never have a vaccine without a barrel of oil.
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It's actually stunning.
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Then let's talk about all the materials that they're going to need.
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Materials alone cannot replicate a renewable can't replicate anything.
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If you do not have a complex carbohydrate, you don't have a medical device.
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You don't have electronics, you don't have agricultural inputs.
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The Haverbosch process for fertilizer, you have to have natural gas.
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Without fossil fuel derived ammonia, global food production would plummet.
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Half the planet would die.
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See, that's what you have to understand about these people.
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That's what you have to understand about this supposed PhD or people like Mark Sanford, who advocate for renewables out of Stanford or Bill McKibben or Michael Mann or Tom Steyr, George Soros, the Tides Foundation, or Neville Singham or the Ford Foundation or Rockefeller Foundation, they want you to die.
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Make no mistake.
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These people hate your guts and want you to die.
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I would actually argue an environmentalist is a bigger threat to you than Vladimir Putin or the Chinese Communist Party.
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And the Chinese Communist Party is the greatest uh mafia ring the world has ever seen.
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La Costa Nostra and the movie The Godfather and China, you know, any Mexican cartel or any gang out of Venezuela or Jamaican gangs or Jewish gangs, whatever gang you want to say, they can learn how to run a uh run a true gang empire like the Chinese Communist Party.
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I would argue Tom Steyr is a bigger threat to humanity than the Chinese Communist Party is because he because he's the worst kind of person because they they say one thing and do another thing.
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Go look at how Tom Steyer made his money.
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Go look at how Neville Singham made his money off software.
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Go look at what George Soros has done.
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And now his son.
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I'm not saying I want to go live in Russia or be uh governed by Vladimir Putin, but I'd argue George Soros is a bigger threat than Vladimir Putin.
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It's a big statement.
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I'd I'd argue that the 200 environmental organizations that said do not no longer do data center build outside.
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Those people are much bigger threats than the BRICS nations.
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If it were me, I'd go to China right now and say, what will it take for you to buy American natural gas?
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I'd give it away to them.
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If you really want to solve this trade war, if you really want to solve the pending war with China, get them hooked on American energy.
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The US Seventh Fleet should no longer be protecting Taiwan.
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It should be protecting oil and natural gas tankers and that are going from the United States to China as fast as they can get there.
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Build the world's greatest pipeline under this under the ocean that starts at the Permian Basin, goes over California and goes straight into the Pacific all the way over to China, Japan, the rest of them.
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We have enough oil and natural gas.
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We started drilling for every single thing, uh, whether the Monterey Shell in California, possibly the Rockies, uh up and down each coast.
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If you want to solve these global problems, you really want to do it.
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I can end the Ukraine war by undercutting Russia with American hydrocarbons, undercutting the Russians in India, and now the and now the Russians have a real hard time funding that war machine of theirs.
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Renewables are dead.
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They're dead.
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Renewables cannot give you petrochemicals, which are derived from crude oil, which gives sterile packaging for vaccines.
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Uh the funny part is that all the materials for a wind turbine blade, which is frankly ironic, come from petrochemicals, uh synthetic fibers and clothing.
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Um the molecular molecular building blocks from fossil fuels, you you you can't, everything comes from it.
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Nothing.
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Um, this efficiency boast when you consider again just the intermittentcy of wind and solar.
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Typical capacity factor, that means how long is this thing actually uh working?
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Capacity factors is about 15 to 40 percent for wind, about 10 to 25 percent solar compared to 80 to 90 percent for baseload coal or nuclear.
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Remember, a nuclear power plant, and there's some power plants now they'll tell it, they will work 97 to 97, 97 to 99% of the time.
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But yet I have to have a dispatchable backup power plant, spinning reserve, peaker, dispatchable is just a fancy way of saying, hey, this thing can come on and off unless at a moment's notice at all times.
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Uh, as Mr.
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Doshi says, this is tantamount to paying twice for the same thing.
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Yet you're gonna tell me you're more efficient.
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That's a that's a that's a child.
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Um I want to get back briefly here to Germany, because boy, they are the poster child for the energy transition.
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It is called Ing Inner Gangwendy.
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So anybody who knows German, please correct me.
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Uh, it is E-N-E-R-G-I-E-W-E-N-D-E.
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So wind and solar now comprise over 50% of installed capacity in that country.
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They are truly deindustrializing.
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Once the home of Volvo and BSF is now over.
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They've killed their country in the name of global warming and climate change that doesn't exist.
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That's what I'm telling you.
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You think the Chinese and the Russians and even the Iranians are the great threat to the world.
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No, no, no, no, no.
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It is a green ideologue.
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A green ideologue is a hell of a bigger threat than the Chinese Communist Party because they're not going to kill themselves.
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They may ruin their environment with uh coal-fired power plants every there, everywhere, but make no mistake, they're not going to kill their country.
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And they're not going to willingly um kill their people at the altar of the Church of Climate Alarm.
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Thank you, uh, many folks have the you know, the Church of Carbon from Duneberg, the church of, I think it's a church of climate or the church of climate alarm.
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Um future guest who we're we're gonna we're gonna have here on the show that oh, he says it just so well.
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Um he's just fantastic when he when he talks about it.
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It's David Blackman.
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So shout out to David Blackman for the um the church, the the Church of Climate Alarm, it's unbelievable to me.
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So when you look at all this, listen to this.
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In Germany, this poster child, so 50% of installed capacity, the country yet has to maintain and even expand coal and gas-fired plants as backup.
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These backups operate at low utilization rates, burning fuel inefficiently, and inflating primary energy use.
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Grid scale battery storage, which I'll uh put a link to in the show right up to show how ridiculous these are, that are often touted as the solution to intermittency remains prohibitively expensive and resource intensive.
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Even Tesla's mega packs can provide mere minutes or hours of backup for utility scale needs and scaling to days or weeks during periods of what's called a dunker.
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Flight.
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I mean, there's no wind for weeks at a time, would require astronomical investments in rare earths and minerals, much of it controlled by China.
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Germany and fellow energy suicide countries such as the UK and states like California now boast among the world's highest electricity prices.
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CherneCal's system level analysis exposes the core deception, along with Ron Stein.
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While individual wind turbines or solar panels may appear efficient, their integration into a reliable grid erodes that advantage.
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To achieve dispatchable power, meaning I can turn this thing on or off.
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Electricity available 24-7, 35 365 with stable voltage, frequency, inertia, pardon me, and phase, renewables necessitate overbuilding by factors of three to five times or more.
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Plus ancillary, uh ancillary and auxiliary systems like short duration batteries and upgraded transmission lines.
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We haven't even gotten into how many transmission lines you're going to need for all of this, along with an up with a grid that can handle uh deep, deep, deep, deep uh inefficiencies.
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Um when you do, when you put all of this together, so these additions now uh consume vast amounts of primary energy in mining and manufacturing.
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That's never accounted for.
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For example, producing one terawatt of lifetime electricity from solar requires 340 to 560 kilotons of steel plus copper and rare earths compared to just one to two kilotons of steel for coal or gas.
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Wind fares a little better, demanding 30 to 50 kilotons of steel and three to six kilotons of copper per terawatt.
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Mining these materials is not done by renewables, it's done by diesel, fossil fuels.
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It's energy intensive, it's predominantly powered by trucks and mining equipment powered by again fossil fuels, embedding hidden primary energy costs that the IEAs, the International Energy Agency's partial substitution method conveniently ignores by assuming near 100% efficiency for renewables.
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That's not even getting to as well.
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The energy return on investment, a metric that measures how much usable energy a source delivers relative to the energy invested in its extraction, processing, and deployment.
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At the system level, wind and solar's uh EROI plummets to five to 10 to 1 for solar and from 10 to 20 to one for wind, even lower with battery storage, versus 25 to 30 to 1 for coal and gas and over 75 to 1 for nuclear.
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Remember too.
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Wind only lasts 10 to 20 years, 12 to 15 for solar, as opposed to fossil fuels at 40 to 60 for coal and gas, 60 to 100 for um for nuclear.
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We're nearing our end of our show, so I wanted to give you just a few more, a few more items for us to think about on the renewables is dead.
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And here's what I mean.
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Uh, you also have to remember too with renewables that as they penetrate a grid more, the additional kilowatts diminish.
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They don't deliver more energy, which leads to higher energy cost.
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Um they're not efficient.
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Same thing like with an EV, it's not efficient.
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An EV has to use 12 to 16 times more minerals overall than anything else does.
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Same thing with renewables.
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Need a hundred times, some people tell you 700 times more land.
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Uh solar farms, they they actually offer so much less power compared to the amount of land a coal plant needs, natural gas needs, or nuclear needs versus renewables.
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Um, you have to look at two that they just they destroy habitats.
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Uh China as well dominates 80% of rare earth processing.
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Uh, they dominate the global production of wind and solar energy components.
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When you actually look at the full cost of electricity, which includes intermittency, grid integration, it reveals that renewables are far costlier than what I'd refer to as the misleading levelized cost of electricity.
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Um, Germany, as I said, spent over 500 billion dollars.
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Uh they don't have hardly any emissions reductions anymore, and they still have coal, the dirtiest forms of coal because they need it to be reliable.
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Uh, this is as obviously Asia, India, China just continue to uh expand uh their coal, their coal fleet.
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What this really tells you in this whole primary energy fallacy, it's a fallacy.
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You have to look at the total, what it total, the totality of something.
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Um, what you're really getting is an unpopular truth, energy physics and economics.
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You these are ideologues, uh, these primary energy metrics.
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When you look at everything, you you're gonna see people like the global south, they're never gonna use renewables.
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Um use coal, you can put pollution limiting limiting uh filters on coal.
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There is things called you know high energy, you know, uh high efficiency, high energy um for coal plants.
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What you're really seeing here, it's decades, and I love how he says this.
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Decades of delusion and fanaticism over man-made climate crises predicted by junk science models collide with reality.
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It's ridiculous.
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What you really should do is listen to people like Schernakau and Stein, stop chasing luxury beliefs that are a delusion and a fantasy for people who only want to control you and have you call them gods and lords.
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Umreaucrats who know nothing in places like London and renewable ideologues, but the burden of irrational energy policies will be borne by the world's uh course.
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Best pathword, have pragmatic technology neutral approaches, use nuclear power for electricity.
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You will continue to use oil for feedstocks and transportation until you can convert it to natural gas.
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And if you want to stop these wars, use energy as the soft energy uh component of what's referred to as soft power.
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I can end the Ukraine war.
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You can end these things with China.
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You can bring India back into the fold.
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You can live in peace and prosperity because energy is everything.
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This is Todd Royal.
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I'm the host of Geopower, Energy and Real Politics.
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And today's very important episode, I'd leave you with this.
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Renewables are dead.
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Thank you and God bless you.