{"id":59369,"date":"2021-09-18T12:44:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T17:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59369"},"modified":"2021-09-18T12:44:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T17:44:06","slug":"a-far-from-perfect-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59369","title":{"rendered":"A far from perfect storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-cover-head\">\n<div class=\"single-post-thumb single-has-thumb\">\n<div class=\"post-cover-title\">\n<h3 class=\"name post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consciousnessofsheep.co.uk\/2021\/09\/16\/a-far-from-perfect-storm\/\">A far from perfect storm<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content post-cover\">\n<article id=\"the-post\" class=\"post-listing post-6770 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail  category-energy\">\n<div class=\"post-inner\">\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Global warming may yet prove to be the one thing which saves us from our largely misguided attempts to respond to global warming.\u00a0 This is because, while the crisis is real enough, the solution that we have bought into is an absolute stinker.\u00a0 While a great deal of corporate profit has been made from the deployment of non-renewable renewable energy-harvesting technologies (NRREHTs) whatever question they are an answer to, it is not \u201chow do we operate a complex industrial society without fossil fuels?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Up until now this has not been a problem, of course.\u00a0 For the best part of half a century, politicians have been mouthing warm words about protecting the environment and saving the planet.\u00a0 But in practice they have simply presided over more business as usual while hoping that clever people somewhere else will discover some new energy source or invent some new technology which will save the day.\u00a0 In the meantime, energy-expensive solar panels and wind turbines were deployed \u2013 with huge subsidies doled out to landowners \u2013 to lull a gullible public into believing something was being done.<\/p>\n<p>The establishment media played their part by conflating\u00a0<em>electricity<\/em>\u00a0with\u00a0<em>energy<\/em>, so that they could falsely claim that this city, region or country had run entirely on renewable energy yesterday \u2013 although \u201cyesterday\u201d often turned out to mean \u201ca couple of hours yesterday.\u201d\u00a0 But since electricity is only 20-25 percent of the energy we use, these media stories simply ignored the gas used for heating and cooking, the oil used to operate transport, plant and agricultural machinery, and the coal used to make steel and cement.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A far from perfect storm Global warming may yet prove to be the one thing which saves us from our largely misguided attempts to respond to global warming.\u00a0 This is because, while the crisis is real enough, the solution that we have bought into is an absolute stinker.\u00a0 While a great deal of corporate profit 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