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AI om energi

Kan en energi-bot give fornuftige svar på forhold vedrørende Danmarks specielle situation?

Døm selv – gå til Alex Epstein AI og se hvad du synes. Her er et eksempel:

Should Denmark invest even more in wind and solar energy production?

  • While Denmark has made significant investments in wind and solar energy, it’s important to consider the full context of these energy sources. Firstly, Denmark’s ability to use a high percentage of wind and solar energy is largely due to its ability to import and export large amounts of electricity from its neighbors. When the wind dies down or there’s too much wind for Denmark’s electricity needs, it relies heavily on its neighbors. In 2019, Denmark imported 50% as much power as it generated and exported 30% as much power as it generated. This is not a luxury that every country, including the US, can afford.
  • Secondly, despite its heavy reliance on wind and solar, Denmark has some of the highest electricity prices in the world. This is a direct consequence of the high costs associated with these energy sources, including the costs of backup power sources and grid modifications needed to accommodate their intermittent and unpredictable nature.
  • Lastly, it’s important to remember that while wind and solar energy are often touted as “clean” energy sources, they also have significant environmental impacts. These include the large amounts of land required for wind and solar farms, the environmental damage caused by mining the materials needed for wind turbines and solar panels, and the challenge of disposing of these materials once they reach the end of their useful life.
  • So, should Denmark invest even more in wind and solar energy production? That’s a decision for the Danish people and their government to make. But it’s crucial that they, and we, consider the full context of these energy sources, including their costs, limitations, and environmental impacts.
  • In my view, a better approach would be to invest in the development of more cost-effective, reliable, and environmentally friendly energy sources, such as advanced nuclear power. This would provide a more sustainable path to energy abundance and human flourishing.

Ikke så tosset. Du kan prøve at fodre den med andre spørgsmål, mens vi spekulerer over, hvordan al den påståede gratis sol og vind kan føre til højere og højere el-priser.

The prices are based at a two year old basket of electicity products with fixed and variable prices – and is not necessarely the actual average price. In 1st half of 2023 the electricity tax has been reduced to 0,008 DKK per kwh, compared to usually aroaund 0,70 DKK per kWh

En ekstra sørgelig krølle på historien er, at diverse tiltag der udføres under påskud af, at man ønsker at reducere CO2 af hensyn til klimaet, næppe har nogen som helst målbar effekt. Ja, CO2 er en ‘drivhusgas’ (og vi skal være glade for det!), men stigende koncentrationer fra det nuværende niveau gør langt mere gavn end skade.

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Men så methanudslip da?! Nu hvor herskerne vil medicinere drøvtyggere for at mindske methanudslip. Nuvel, også her, er der grund til at slå lunkent vand i blodet (min fremhævelse).

For current concentrations of greenhouse gases, the radiative forcing at the tropopause, per added CH4 molecule, is about 30 times larger than the forcing per added carbon-dioxide (CO2) molecule. This is due to the heavy saturation of the absorption band of the abundant greenhouse gas, CO2. But the rate of increase of CO2 molecules, about 2.3 ppm/year (ppm = part per million), is about 300 times larger than the rate of increase of CH4 molecules, which has been around 0.0076 ppm/year since the year 2008. So the contribution of methane to the annual increase in forcing is one tenth (30/300) that of carbon dioxide. The net forcing from CH4 and CO2 increases is about 0.05 W m−2 year−1. Other things being equal, this will cause a temperature increase of about 0.012 C year−1. Proposals to place harsh restrictions on methane emissions because of warming fears are not justified by facts.

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Staten og dens kumpaner ser det ikke som sin opgave at tjene befolkningen. Det er muligt at de stikker sig selv blår i øjnene, men vi andre bør have lært lektien. Skruen uden ende ender med at blive til en skruestik.

I øvrigt bør regeringen gå af.

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…over krigsliderlige politikere! Deres påståede intentioner om forbedrede vilkår for de ‘befriede’ befolkninger klinger hult, efterhånden som årtierne går og samfund degenerer i vold og almindelig ødelæggelse.

Når det samme resultat udspiller sig, gang på gang, må man efterhånden opfatte det som målet; ikke (endnu) en svipser der ikke gik helt efter planen. Planen er ødelæggelse og kaos, fordi nogle tjener ganske betydeligt på det, andre får adgang til fortsat magt, mens befolkningen i lande der ikke er direkte berørt, skræmte skutter sig og finder sig i regeringens åg og skarpe klo. Et frygtsomt vælgerkorps er let(tere) at manipulere.

Land efter land i Mellemøsten og omegn er blevet befriet, med ledsagende elendighed. Senest bukkede det syriske regime under, efter i årevis at have været offer for plyndring af andre regimer, ikke mindst det amerikanske. Det er ikke umuligt at ådslet forfalder med ligrester der beslaglægges af Israel, Tyrkiet, kurdiske og andre faktioner og bliver endnu en kilde til frustration og vrede. En glimrende grobund for udklækning af terrorister; vi har alle sammen fået reduceret vores sikkerhed, takket være ‘demokrati-fremmende’ indgreb i andres lande.

Endnu en gang har Tucker Carlson besøg af Jeffrey Sachs, der kan bidrage med førstehånds viden om begivenhedernes historiske perspektiv. Se interviewet her, eller hvor du ellers finder dine podcasts. Vurderingen er desværre at det amerikanske regime styrer mod krig (også) mod Iran. Det skal nok gå godt, denne gang…

“And maybe the right way to understand what’s happened with Syria is to think back to a really remarkable occasion when Wesley Clarke, the general who headed NATO, went to the Pentagon just after 9-11. And famously, he showed a piece of paper that said, we’re going to have seven wars in five years. And he was completely dumbfounded.

He said, what does this have to do with anything? And he was told that the neocons and the Israelis are going to remake the Middle East. And the seven countries on the list are very telling.

They were Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and then in Africa, Libya, Somalia and Sudan. And seven countries, we’ve been at war in six of them now. And I mean, we, the United States, on behalf of Israel, including in Syria.

And so what happened in Syria last week was the culmination of a long term effort by Israel to reshape the Middle East in its image. It started with Netanyahu and his American advisors in 1996 in something called Clean Break, which was a political document that the Americans and Netanyahu who made when Netanyahu became prime minister. After 9-11, it went into full gear with the Iraq Wars being the first of those wars.”

From The Tucker Carlson Show: Jeffrey Sachs: The Inevitable War With Iran, and Biden’s Attempts to Sabotage Trump, 17 Dec 2024
https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/the-tucker-carlson-show/id1719657632?i=1000680624404&r=110
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Hvis du har appetit på mere om den sørgelige udvikling så tag også et kig på Scott Horton Show, here with Kyle Anzalone

“And it’s gotta be one of the things about Donald Trump that drives the rest of Washington crazy is that he says things that they’re only supposed to do but not say, like, let’s steal all their oil and wheat so that we can have it, not them and stuff like that. You’re not supposed to say that, Mr. President, for God’s sake. But that is what they’re doing, right?

Yeah, that’s been the absolute policy. And on top of that, Scott, it’s also been the policy to prevent any construction material from entering Syria. They’re intentionally impoverishing the people of Syria to the point where in recent years, there’s actually been babies freezing to death during the winter.

I have to imagine that had a lot to contribute to Assad’s ultimate demise. The fact that he, you know, for ruling Damascus, really wasn’t in charge of Syria. He couldn’t import.

He had no capability to stop the Israelis from bombing his country once or twice a week for a decade.”

“Let me make sure that I think I understand you here. So, the United States supports our NATO ally Turkey, which in supporting Al Qaeda terrorists, so called Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which is just Al Qaeda in Iraq and Syria years later now, taking over the country. Israel also supports them and all sides cheering for the overthrow of Assad in the fall of the Ba’athist government there.

And then, immediately, America has a problem because we’re back in the Kurds in the East, who the Turks would very much like to cleanse and take all their territory and are their vowed enemies.”

“There will be no state in Syria.

It will be carved up and I guess whatever is not outright seized by Israel or quote unquote protected by America will be up to the Turks and then a bunch of warring tribes of Bin Ladenites and their victims, right? And then I wonder if America is going to at some point have to invade and fight the Bin Ladenites seems almost inevitable…”

From Scott Horton Show – Just the Interviews: Kyle Anzalone on the Fall of Assad in Syria, 15 Dec 2024
https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/scott-horton-show-just-the-interviews/id545045867?i=1000680453256&r
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Desværre for syrerne (og resten af verden) er udsigterne dystre for fremtidens ‘Syrien’.

(Jonathan Cook, via antiwar.com)

Vores ‘venner’ starter krige og sætter regionerne omkring os i brand, og vores politikere synes vi skal til at lægge en krigsskat oven i alle de andre skatter. Endnu engang kan vi konstatere at vi ville være mere sikre uden Nato, og at pengene kunne bruges bedre af folk selv, end på politisk ambition og destruktion.

I øvrigt bør regeringen gå af og tage Nato-medlemsskabet med sig. Sofort!
Mette må gerne tage til fronten og tage sine venner med, for egne midler.

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Brand!

…eller noget.

Fra holdet bag Climate the Movie får vi her 6 minutter om, hvordan medierne får det til at se ud som om kloden brænder.

Link (hat tip wuwt)

Den slags klimaporno i smut-kategorien får folk til at begå handlinger de normalt ville afstå fra. Hvis de virkeligt er overbeviste om at enden (atter) er nær, faren er overhængende, Dommedag Nu, så er mange overgreb jo ‘retfærdiggjort’.

Således også for en ‘ekspertgruppe’, en ‘krisestab’, der har set lyset og dermed ved hvad der er bedst for alle andre. Evangelisering hører religioner til, og klimakatastrofisterne kategoriseres nok bedst som religiøse, dog uden (nogle) religioners formildende træk. Næh, bare hard-core menneskefjendsk livssyn.

Genierne

Man bemærker uden overraskelse at klimaministeren (uden hvem klimaet ville gå under) hilser forslag om tvang velkommen.

Infrastruktur er (heller) ikke en opgave for staten – eksempelvis Københavns Lufthavn, som pludselig skulle nationaliseres – uvist af hvilke grunde – Christian Bjørnskov skriver kort om det bizarre forløb her på punditokraterne.

Statseje, centralplanlægning, planøkonomi, ved vi hvordan ender: Elendig service, der til gengæld er dyr.

Det samme gælder energi. I det tidligere Britiske Emperium eksemplificeret ved en karrusel af subsidier der skal udgøre plaster på det kødsår staten selv har forvoldt i forsøget på at kurere en bagatel. Subsidierne giver anledning til at andre bliver nødlidende, og så må have hjælp til at betale de forhøjede priser, som subsidierne giver anledning til. En perlerække af indgreb, på indgreb, på indgreb der helt forudsigeligt bliver værre og værre. Mises skrev om bureaukratiet i 1944(!)

Se David Turvers horrorshow over energisubsidier og fortvivl!

Her er overskrifterne i blog-posten

  • Subsidy Control Transparency Database
  • Electricity Generation Subsidies
  • Subsidies to Mitigate Intermittent Renewables
  • Subsidies for U-sving Expensive Electricity
  • Subsidy for Biofuels
  • Subsidies to Make Electricity Generation Less Efficient
  • Subsidies for Reliable Energy
  • Conclusion

    Imagine what society would look like if we stopped subsidising incompetent and expensive forms of energy and their parasitic cheerleaders. Bills would be lower; taxes could be lower and more companies would have the confidence to invest in Britain and create jobs. Expensive energy and the accompanying subsidies are killing the economy. We must ditch the Net Zero madness now.

Den samme løsning gælder herhjemme. Lad ethvert skatteyderfinansieret tilskud eller privilegium forsvinde, lad os få al den energi vi har brug for, på den måde folk er parate til at betale for, med egne penge. Der skal nok være plads til både sol og vind og enhjørningeflatulens, men lad det foregå uden at staten dikterer hvor, hvor meget, hvordan, hvor længe og hvorfor. Den er ikke i stand til at løse opgaven med at producere billig, pålidelig energi, med mindst mulig skadevirkning på omgivelserne.

Frivillige, markedsbaserede løsninger er mindre skadelige og med hensyn til eksternaliteterne, så kan staten heller ikke løse dét problem. Lad der være religionsfrihed, også for klimatosserne!

I øvrigt bør regeringen gå af.

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Den store, den lille og den grusomme korruption

Alle ved at der ikke findes korruption i Danmark. I hvert fald ikke den lille korruption hvor man betaler politibetjenten kontant for at slippe for en (større) bøde, eller afleverer kontanter sammen med ‘ansøgningen’ om brug af egen ejendom til kommunen. Det er den lille korruption.

Den store korruption er der til gengæld masser af. Politikere bestikker grupper af befolkningen med midler konfiskeret fra andre grupper mod at blive ‘valgt’ påny. Demokratiet ‘virker’, hvis man dermed mener at plyndring bliver acceptabelt, blot man uddelegerer det til andre. Alle lever i illusionen om at alle kan leve på bekostning af alle andre. Den vildfarelse har Bastiat behandlet i sin pamflet fra 1849, Loven, der fås her i butikken og beskriver hvorledes legal plyndring fører til megen elendighed.

Den Grusomme korruption er den, vi ser udspille sig for eksempel i, men ikke begrænset til, tragedien i Ukraine. I gennem årtier har ‘private’ firmaer benyttet sig af tætte forbindelser til amerikanske militær magt til at berige sig. Ikke ved at servicere andre, men på bekostning af andre. Tilsyneladende betragtes de mange dødsofre som ‘nødvendige’. Måske uheldigt, men hvor der handles, der spildes. Man kan roligt tale om moderne facisme her. Ligegyldigheden overfor andres lidelser er bemærkelsesværdig og man noterer sig flere blandt politikerbyrden, der advokerer for at Ukraine (og andre) skal kaste nogle flere unge mænd i graven. Villigheden til at spendere andres blod og ressourcer er frastødende.

Denne korruption er mulig fordi den såkaldte presse (du ved, vagthunden) er blevet til en propagandaorganisation for staten; lydigt kolporterer den de ønskede budskaber og undertrykker de uønskede.

Takket være nogle få åndehuller har vi mulighed for at kigge lidt bag forhænget – og hvis du orker at blive udfordret kan Joe Rogans samtale med Mike Benz måske overraske…

“And remember, we personally intervened, it was Joe Biden at the Council on Foreign Relations who bragged about, about forcing, using the diplomatic carrots and sticks of the US empire, that if Ukraine wanted their billion dollars in assistance, they had to fire the prosecutor who was investigating Burisma. Nobody, nobody in our Congress, I think, is prepared. If there was a total declassification of all CIA and State Department cables and documents and meeting minutes and emails and communications, if you had, for all intelligence work related to Burisma, the treasure map that would break open, I think, would be an, would frankly be a diplomatic scandal because this gets to the larger play around the IMF and its play to privatize NAFTA gas because there’s something very nasty here, which is that we have been trying to get just like we put Russia through shock therapy when we won the Cold War and then it was the Harvard Endowment and, you know, the Soros, you know, crew and the US.

State Department who privatized trillions of dollars of state owned wealth by the Soviet Union so that it could become a capital of society, but then the assets are held by Wall Street and London. This has been the play with Ukraine. They know the potential of the entire European energy market running through Ukraine if they can just get it up and running.

So this grand Ukraine energy play has been to privatize NAFTA gas, the feeder that Burisma feeds into, so that you have Western stakeholders who make the money by capturing that market. Have the blob, the State Department, the CIA and the DOD impose enough pressure to carve Russia out of the market. Now you’ve got private sector stakeholders who are basically early stage equity holders in a totally protected, because it’s protected by the bayonet of the Pentagon, the State Department and the IC to make sure that the profits run through there so that Russia doesn’t get it.

So it’s a great job if you can get it.”

From The Joe Rogan Experience: #2237 – Mike Benz, 3 Dec 2024
https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/the-joe-rogan-experience/id360084272?i=1000679106339&r=9160
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Trump er næppe et godt valg til præsidentembedet, men de progressives hændervriden og tårer er næsten det hele værd! Desværre får vi næppe den helt store reduktion i omfanget af statens spenderen – dét ville ellers være vejen frem – men så løber vi ind i den store korruption – se ovenfor.

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Næh, regeringen, vores største fjende, burde gå af. Det gør de næppe af sig selv, psykopaterne der regerer.