The Stampede To Mass Poverty…120 BILLION Tonnes Of Materials For Wind Turbines By 2050? – Watts Up With That?

Reposted from the NoTricksZone

By P Gosselin on 3. November 2021

Commentary by Fred F. Mueller 

[Germany] When trying on the present frenzy across the local weather rescue occasion COP 26 in Glasgow, one can solely get scared. Not due to our local weather, which doesn’t care about the entire hype, however due to the proposed hysteria-driven radical measures.

Resulting in a humanitarian disaster

The entire CO2 speculation is predicated on basically flawed assumptions concerning the CO2 cycles of the earth, as a result of the precise modifications happen within the oceans and never within the ambiance. The concern of mankind’s insignificant CO2 emissions, stoked by an unbelievable propaganda marketing campaign, is now main us towards a humanitarian disaster that may most likely value a whole lot of 1000’s, if not hundreds of thousands, of lives.

Glasgow is the media spotlight of a marketing campaign that has been working for many years to dissuade mankind from utilizing fossil uncooked supplies reminiscent of coal, oil and pure fuel. Within the meantime, the anti-fossil marketing campaign has assumed a breadth and mass that resembles a veritable tsunami in its impact on our society. Prior to now, it was primarily politicians, the media and “environmental” NGOs that put strain on trade and banks. Immediately, Huge Business and Huge Cash are additionally aligned and have mutated into driving forces of “de-fossilization”.

The dwindling variety of remaining mining and oil manufacturing corporations are being squeezed in quite a lot of methods. On the behest of  central banks, they’re now not being granted loans, insurance coverage corporations are refusing to cowl operational dangers, prospects should show they aren’t shopping for “CO2-polluted” merchandise, and as well as, associations such because the Carbon Disclosure Undertaking are exerting huge inside strain via all attainable channels.

The most recent forces on this spherical are authorized courts, all the best way as much as the German Federal Constitutional Courtroom, which for instance grant Peruvian farmers or younger folks from distant bushlands in the course of nowhere the rights of motion towards our fundamental industries. Because the icing on the cake, activist traders at the moment are additionally making their look, utilizing comparatively small quantities of capital to interrupt up reluctant companies and choose the fattest chunks from the leftovers.

Drax energy plant now not burns coal. Now it burns about one native forest a day. (Photograph taken by Paul Glazzard, Attribution Share-alike license 2.0  CC BY-SA 2.0)

A spherical dance of cruelties

Within the media frenzy of Glasgow, a veritable stampede is presently growing the place everyone seems to be attempting to outdo the opposite with guarantees of ever harder anti-CO2 measures. Furthermore, there isn’t any coordinated and thus particularly controllable motion. As a substitute, a patchwork of numerous actors from politics, associations, activists and the courts are dashing individually in the identical course. Apparently, not one of the politicians in Glasgow has the slightest concept what they’re doing to themselves and to all of humanity with these guarantees.

The primary results are already being felt with quickly rising costs within the power sector. Few appear to hassle about the truth that the extraction of uncooked supplies is an enormously time-consuming and capital-intensive endeavor. No matter whether or not we’re speaking about fossil uncooked supplies or ores: The event of latest deposits usually takes greater than 5 years and may shortly swallow up billions. And infrequently sufficient, they’re exhausted after simply 10 years or so.

Uncooked supplies provides can be interrupted 

To make sure that provides don’t come to a standstill, uncooked materials producers should subsequently make investments constantly in new initiatives. And it’s exactly this continuity that’s being shattered by the present campaigns. The results can be felt a lot sooner than we will think about at present. What we at the moment are experiencing with coal, oil and fuel will unfold like wildfire to all uncooked supplies, and as soon as the run on dwindling provides has begun, there can be a scramble during which second and third world international locations won’t be able to maintain up.

Even Europe will then be pushed apart by the following broad-shouldered “America First” consultant. The already rising tide of poverty refugees from Africa, Asia and Latin America will swell to gigantic proportions and put all of Europe in nice misery.

Warning alerts: magnesium, aluminium and cement

Only a handful of specialists appear to have seen the importance of the current magnesium scarcity. Because the manufacturing of magnesium requires a variety of electrical energy, western corporations received out of this enterprise a very long time in the past. Many right here had been even joyful to depart these “soiled” actions to China with its considerable and low cost coal-fired energy era. On the similar time, one might then lash out at China as “the world’s largest local weather polluter.”

Since then, magnesium manufacturing needed to be reduce there, not solely due to electrical energy costs, but additionally as a result of the facility crops had exhausted their CO2 quotas, which had been mounted by the state. China, too, is now firmly within the grip of CO2 hysteria.

This has triggered a series response that nobody appears to have had on the radar. Magnesium is likely one of the most necessary alloying components for high-quality aluminium alloys. The worth chain at present runs as follows: No CO2 means no magnesium, which suggests no aluminium. Interval.

Related rationales apply to metal and cement, and in precept to all different metals. How are we supposed to put in not less than 150,000 wind generators that can be wanted in Germany alone sooner or later if we’re neither in a position to produce neither metal nor cement for them? Inexperienced hydrogen and related “options” can solely be exalted by individuals who do not know in any way of such mundane phrases as power effectivity or cost-benefit ratio.

There’s no civilisation with out electrical energy

The brutal fact is that the uncoordinated, hysteria-driven world marketing campaign towards CO2 is inflicting us to catastrophically cripple the world’s power and uncooked supplies provide with out actually figuring out learn how to generate the lacking electrical energy. Wind and photo voltaic are ineffective for this, however few specialists know that. On tv, you solely ever see sure “specialists” who speak the speak of CO2 hysteria and are nicely paid for it. A chief instance is Germany’s Claudia Kemfert, who seems in each accessible speak present. As an economist, nevertheless, she doesn’t know the complexity of the expertise for energy era.

How about 50% wind energy worldwide?

What would we’d like for wind energy alone for the 12 months 2050, with then 10 billion folks worldwide? Based mostly on present power consumption ranges, most likely 80,000 terawatt hours (TWh) of wind energy alone could be wanted yearly worldwide by 2050. That’s, if we need to finish starvation and raise the third world out of poverty. That might be equal to some 20 million wind generators. Every wind turbine requires greater than 6,000 tons of fabric, primarily metal and concrete, aluminium, copper and uncommon earth metals. That provides as much as some 120 billion tons of fabric. Let’s not even speak concerning the prices.

On the similar time, current energy era is already being lower away with brute power. However such points should not being thought of in Glasgow. There the motto is a Mad Max like Safari, who shoots essentially the most CO2 sinners. And the most recent fad is that they need to save the forests. Fascinating about face particularly for England, the place a big coal-fired energy plant has been transformed to wood-fired energy. 12 months after 12 months, gigantic portions of wooden are felled in America and shipped from there throughout the Atlantic and disappear in its fiery gullet. After all, this mission has all mandatory eco-labels of being completely climate-friendly and CO2-free!Donate – select an quantity