Submitted by Steven Kaszab

Due to circumstances beyond their control many nations are reversing or re-imagining their energy policies. France has pasted a bill on the acceleration of procedures relating to their new nuclear facility, dismissing their entire public sessions in the Senate and simply removing their past objective of reducing to 50% the share of nuclear power in electricity production against the more than 75% used today. The reduction target to 50% was Frances flagship measure for the energy transition law of 2015, a building block of Frances 5 year energy plan. The plan to reach 50% by 2025 had already been postponed to 2035 and beyond. President Macron wishes to keep the framework of the plan while dealing with his nations energy needs.
Accusing Macron of lacking political vision, the opposition viewed his decision as moving backwards at a time when needed political courage and futuristic decision making was required. President Macron needed to flush his nations energy generation which France was to share with many other EU Nations lacking the needed power to heat their homes. The Russo-Ukrainian War’s influence upon the EU is sound and significant. Russia supplies a majority of the EU’s energy requirements, and has weaponized their ability to supply energy to energy poor nations. Germany, Brussels, Scandinavia, France and the Southern portion of the EU Alliance depend on Russian energy.
Energy is being portioned to individual customers, allowing governmental approve portions and no more. The cost of fuel and carbon based energy has sky rockets through out the EU. European Politicians are attempting to decarbonise energy, but economic, political and military needs are manipulating these attempts, hopefully for a limited time. European Nations that can provide coal for energy have returned to the harvesting of this dirty material. Beggars must flow with the tides of history.
History tells us that the use of all available energy options are on the table, driving backward Europe’s de-carbonation policy’s at ;least 3-5 years. Coal from Canada, America and the UK are flowing into Europe along with natural gas supplies. While this is going on, nuclear power plants that were to be rehabilitated or closed are not only open, but running at full power generation.
Weather announcements proclaim a sever winter will hit Europe, the Ukraine and Russia. What ever energy source is available, its cost and availability will be scarce and very high indeed. The Middle Eastern energy glut will also come to Europe’s assistance with exceedingly high prices. The EU’s political criticisms of the Saudi’s-Kuwait-Iranian abuses domestically, political assassinations and human rights abuses of the past have influenced Middle Eastern responses in kind. Never piss off a supplier of future needed products right? America has no real influence on the obviously preferred supplier of energy to the EU, the Middle Kingdoms.
The EU in Brussels needs to consolidate their overall needs, factor in future climatic events during this winter, and move towards a united energy front. All sources of energy in Europe will be allowed this winter. Winter conditions in the southern regions of Europe will be bleak, with usual temperatures dropping significantly. A good time to visit relatives in North America or the Caribbean Islands.
An obvious political move within the EU is coming. Far to many problems have arisen, leaving little time to legislatively carry out businesses. Authoritarianism within the EU Alliance has already appeared, and this influence will move to the very heart of the alliance in Brussels. Whether right – left wing, the EU will face a time where democratic ideals will face off against more assertive authoritarian movements and beliefs. Depending upon how difficult the EU’s suffering will be this winter, the authoritarian wing of the EU’s Legislator may make know its significant presence. Wish for a end to the wasteful Russo-Ukrainian conflict. It is the root block that can bring fascism back into vogue.
I’ve often wondered about how governments, especially after a natural disaster like a hurricane or earthquake, will arrange for the safe disposal of all the damaged or non functioning solar panels that could be left in its wake. In Barbados I suspect that the usual approach of “pitch it in the gully and lef it” will play a significant role in the aftermath.
‘Very dirty secret’ behind government’s clean energy revolution
https://youtu.be/bW7JnheL4GE
We continue to struggle in 2022 with converting waste to energy. We operate with a mindset that waste is waste and not a precious raw material.
The world is flat is another Conspiracy Theory that will blow your GreenMonkey mind.
The 2023 Spiritual Almanac has got the white race shitting themselves.
I remember at my Grandfather’s house all garbage was placed in an empty 50 gallon drum and burnt below the kitchen garden under the breadfruit tree by the pig pen.
That effectively removed most of the garbage and reduced the need for disposal.
The principal issue surrounding garbage is its disposal.
Fire works to address this problem but it also has a real benefit, it unlocks the stored energy as heat.
We should be using incineration not only to reduce the problem of disposal but also to produce energy.
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/forecast-2023-get-out-of-the-way-if-you-cant-lend-a-hand/
J.H. Kunstler is a blogger and an author of several books examining the relationship between energy availability, pricing and the sustainability of economies base on perpetual economic growth within a finite planet:
amazon(DOT)com/Too-Much-Magic-Thinking-Technology/dp/0802121446/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=james+howard+kunstler&sr=8-5
Energy stocks/sector continues to lead the way in investment portfolios. What does it say to us?
“Energy stocks/sector continues to lead the way in investment portfolios. What does it say to us?”
That you and Northern and Southern Observer are obsessed about money?
Like greedy Americans who go crazy when they think they are running out of their last dollar or may lose their standing as #1 Economy
Message to the White Man on Planet Earth:
There is enough for everyone’s need
But there is never enough for everyone’s greed
(and Whitey’s on the moon)
https://barbadostoday.bb/2023/02/03/cibc-sunset-crest-branch-transformed-as-bank-continues-digital-build-out/
David
on February 3, 2023 at 9:26 AM said:
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Energy stocks/sector continues to lead the way in investment portfolios. What does it say to us?
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The expectation is the US Government will pump real money into the alternative energy sources and people are queueing up to cash in whether the alternatives fail or not.
Look at what is happening here with solar “farms”!!
All the yardfowls looking to cash in on the borrowed money from over and away with no regard for the fact that the sun don’t shine at night.
How do you explain the high penetration of renewable energy in temperate Scandinavian countries for example? There is wind power and battery storage although problematic at this stage to be considered for backup storage and redundancy. Alternatives must be looked at to mitigate the fallout from extracting a finite resource.
David
on February 3, 2023 at 11:36 PM said:
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How do you explain the high penetration of renewable energy in temperate Scandinavian countries for example? There is wind power and battery storage although problematic at this stage to be considered for backup storage and redundancy. Alternatives must be looked at to mitigate the fallout from extracting a finite resource.
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“Norway has the highest renewable capacity among the three countries, and almost all its energy comes from renewable sources. Their wind power production is significantly lower than in Sweden and Denmark. Instead, hydropower is the main renewable energy source in Norway.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Sweden#/media/File:Sweden_energy_consumption.svg
How finite is finite?
“Our analysis suggests there are ample physical oil and liquid fuel resources for the foreseeable future. However, the rate at which new supplies can be developed and the break-even prices for those new supplies are changing.”
— International Energy Agency[59]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil
“In a 1956 scientific paper Marion King Hubbert introduced the world to the theory of peak oil where he predicted that US peak oil production would occur between 1965 and 1971 and that global peak oil would occur in the early 2000’s.”
So much for Marion King Hubbert’s prediction once upon a time in a land far away!!
If the ingenuity of man was constrained by your reasoning the mode of transportation today would still be horse and buggy.
Denmark energy
The electricity sector relies mainly on renewable energy. 80% of the electricity produced in the country came from renewables: 57% from wind power, 20% from biomass and other combustible renewables, and 3% from solar power.
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Norway and Sweden have lots of hydro power and lots of water in the mountains.
This has been the case for decades, right back to WWII and before.
Norsk Hydro made heavy water which the Germans sought to exploit for their nuclear program. Allies had to destroy it.
Denmark is the only one with significant wind energy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Denmark
Dominica is developing hydro power and geothermal energy from the volcanic activity below.
https://www.cepal.org/en/news/dominica-caricom-forerunner-renewable-energy-use-latest-eclac-report-reveals
Apart from hot air from our puny politicians, Barbados has no means of exploiting geothermal energy.
Wind energy capped the milling capacity for sugar production cane at around 10,000 tons per year all through slavery.
Steam and mechanization increased output 20 fold.
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wise google /
fake expert too
Homo sapiens, the first modern humans, evolved from their early hominid predecessors between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago. They developed a capacity for language about 50,000 years ago. The first modern humans began moving outside of Africa starting about 70,000-100,000 years ago.
Most people credit Benjamin Franklin with ‘discovering’ electricity in 1752
> “If the ingenuity of man was constrained by your reasoning the mode of transportation today would still be horse and buggy.”
Man survived and thrived for a very long time without this newfangled electricity
Will a belief that we can support and ever increasing level of complexity prove to be modern civilization’s utlimate “achilles heel”?
More:
https://ourfiniteworld.com/2023/02/03/ramping-up-wind-turbines-solar-panels-and-electric-vehicles-cant-solve-our-energy-problem/
Energy of the mind and body..
There is hardly a Bu thread where the word ‘slavery’ isn’t mentioned
so I will go back to past when Africans were the heavy machinery used to dig up and flatten lands and clear rocks etc
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In 1835, the Trevelyan family received £26,898, a huge sum at the time, in compensation from the British government for the abolition of slavery a year earlier.
The enslaved men, women and children received nothing and were forced to work a further eight years unpaid as “apprentices”.
A £100,000 fund, donated by the New York-based BBC correspondent Laura Trevelyan, will be formally launched in Grenada on 27 February by Sir Hilary Beckles, chair of the Caricom Reparations Commission, and Trevelyan family members. Caricom, or Caribbean Community, is a group of 15 countries in the region.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/04/british-slave-owners-family-apologise-reparations-trevelyans
African machines on February 4, 2023 at 12:39 PM said:
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The enslaved men, women and children received nothing and were forced to work a further eight years unpaid as “apprentices”.
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Slaves were fed, housed, clothed and given medical insurance from cradle to grave, regardless of preexisting conditions, a socialist utopia.
After emancipation they were provided with free education and religious instruction.
BTW, the apprenticeship period lasted only 4 years, get your facts right and don’t depend on others to lead you!!
Imagine how much you would save each month if you did not have to pay for food, housing, clothing and had no doctors’ bills.
Do the arithmetic!!
Source: Nation
Here is a politician in Scotland fudging figures to promote wind energy in Scotland.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/snp-minister-uses-fake-figures-to-inflate-scotland-s-wind-energy-potential/ar-AA178yVN?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=W069&cvid=93c22edc550043e9a48bae59b0bf75eb
The idea no doubt is that Scotland will attract loans which it will use to incentivize investment in wind turbines.
The companies will then take Government money, build the wind turbines and then go out of business with eyesores left all over the place.
Same principle in Barbados with solar farms, a recent craze as folks with BLP connections seek out the money!!
Things that make you go hmmmm —————————
BP sees biggest profit in 114-year history after oil and gas prices soar
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64544110
Documentary shows solar energy was employed in ancient times.
https://youtu.be/CWIADUnquug