by David Blackmon, The Daily Caller:
The Los Angeles Times published an op/ed Friday in which it perhaps unintentionally poses the central proposition of the mythical energy transition: “whether our expectations should evolve in the name of preventing climate catastrophe.”
The op/ed is appropriately titled, “Would an Occasional Blackout Help Solve Climate Change?” It is a headline that tacitly admits a truth about the transition that boosters of renewable energy have been careful not to publicize: That the notion that generation sources with extremely low energy density like wind and solar cannot hope to be viable alternatives to generation with extremely high energy density like natural gas, nuclear and coal. It is a notion that defies the laws of thermodynamics and physics, and those are laws, not suggestions that can be discarded as a matter of convenience or, as in this case, in pursuit of a hyper-political agenda.
GOLD CLOSED UP $23.45 TO $1976.60//SILVER SURPASSES THE 25 DOLLAR LEVEL TO $25.05//PLATINUM CLOSES UP $7.25 TO $987.15 WHILE PALLADIUM HAD A SOLID DAY UP $33.95 TO $1319.00//IMPORTANT COMMENTARIES TODAY: MATHEW PIEPENBERG//CHINA THINKING TO END THE PETRODOLLAR SCHEME AS THEY MOVE TO PROTECT SAUDI ARABIA//EU TO ELIMINATE ENERGY SUBSIDIES//TURKEY’S AGREEMENT TO ALLOW SWEDEN INTO NATO IS NOT A DONE DEAL WITH MANY CONTENIOUS STILL ON THE TABLE: DOWN GOES THE LIRA//COVID UPDATES/DR PAUL ALEXANDER//SLAY NEWS/VACCINE IMPACT/NEWS ADDICTS//USA RETAIL SALES DISAPPOINTS//INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION IN THE USA LAGS//BIDEN TO PUMP ANOTHER $1.3 BILLION DOLLARS TO UKRAINE SO THAT MONEY CAN BE FUNNELED BACK TO DEMS.
There is a growing sense in Israel that Jerusalem is quickly running out of time to prevent Iran from becoming a regional nuclear power.
