Energy & Environmental Newsletter May 18, 2020

Recent Energy and Environmental News 

May 18, 2020/in Energy, Environment /

by John Droz, Jr.

Our latest Energy & Environmental Newsletter is now available... For the full version of this issue, go here…  To review some of the highlights, see below.

Two COVID-19 upbeat specials:

Version of Paul Simon’s song: Fifty Ways to Catch Corona

Version of Billy Joel’s song: We Didn't Start the Virus

Based on serious concerns for our Country, a letter with multiple COVID-19 recommendations was written and signed by 70 scientists, economists, medical professionals, etc. It was delivered to the President last week by a member of the House Republican leadership. Two sample write-ups about it are: here and here.

My votes for the most outstanding articles this cycle are:

The Virus Modeling Scandal and “the Years of Living Hysterically”

Covid-19 Model has 'Most Devastating Coding Mistake in History’

Sorrento finds a coronavirus antibody that blocks viral infection 100%

A Tale of 2 Drugs: Lives Sacrificed on the Altar of Money & Power

Profile of a killer: the complex biology powering the coronavirus pandemic

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Trump issues executive order to protect power grid 

Wind and solar add zero value to the grid

Clean energy needs reliable supplies of critical minerals

Large solar farm could cause explosion on scale of small nuclear bomb

EPA: Drinking Water Health Advisories for PFOA and PFOS

Video of superior talk by Bret Kugelmass

Report: The inadequacy of wind and solar

Report: Wind Turbine Output Drops Steeply after Ten Years

Report: The Fatal Attraction of a Post-COVID Green Deal

Sorry, Coronavirus Lockdowns Won't End Climate Change

Climate Change – Ebb and Flow of the Tide: Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3

Historic Drop in US Reading and Math Scores Since Common Core ‘Debacle’

How Colleges Get Rid of Conservative Admins: An Example

The Strategic Conquest of America: Part 1 & Part 2 & Part 3

Short video: Social Justice Isn't Justice

The Religion of Leftism

China’s Electrifying Rags-to-Riches Ascent . . . at America’s Expense

Unbearable Truths About Our Current Political Moment

Is Trump a racist?

Good short video about President Trump

COVID-19: Therapies and Prevention —

Sorrento finds a coronavirus antibody that blocks viral infection 100%

A tale of 2 drugs: Lives sacrificed on the altar of money & power

Doctors Say HCQ Has ‘90% Chance’ Of Helping COVID Patients

Doctors Rate HCQ Most Effective Therapy for Coronavirus Infection

Arthritis Drug Appears to Help COVID-19 Sufferers in Small Study

COVID-19: Models and Data —

The Virus Modeling Scandal and “the Years of Living Hysterically”

Covid-19 Model has 'Most Devastating Coding Mistake in History'

Was the lockdown decision based on crude mathematical guesswork?

Code Review of Imperial’s COVID-19 Model

Redfield and Birx: Can they be trusted with COVID?

COVID-19 Death Rate Is Much Lower Than Estimates Justifying Lockdowns

State amends COVID-19 death count - says fewer have died

Crucial COVID-19 Testing Data

Short video: The reported COVID-19 deaths in Italy are highly inflated

COVID-19: Misc —

Profile of a killer: the complex biology powering the coronavirus pandemic

Big Government in the Post-Coronavirus Political World

The Most Monumental Social Engineering Effort in History

COVID-19 could kill an extra 75,000 Americans through "deaths of despair"

Do Your Genes Predispose You to COVID-19?

COVID-19 Patients Face Danger of Blood Clots

Coronavirus Mutates as Doctors Ponder 'East Coast vs. West Coast’ Strains

Video: Debunking the Narrative with Dr Dolores Cahill 

Greed Energy Economics —

Wind and solar add zero value to the grid

Wind Subsidies the Most Costly Government Energy Sector Ripoff

Coronavirus Relief Should Not Distort Our Energy Market

Wind Projects Are Being Rebuilt to Capture More Subsidies

Taxpayer Wind Subsidies have China as a Beneficiary 

COVID-19 Lockdown Has Killed 600,000 US Renewable Energy Jobs

Renewable Energy Health and Eco-system Consequences —

Hundreds of non-recyclable wind turbine blades are piling up in landfills

Clean energy needs reliable supplies of critical minerals

Solar Energy —

Large solar farm could cause explosion on scale of small nuclear bomb

EPA: Drinking Water Health Advisories for PFOA and PFOS

A billion dollar solar boondoggle in Vegas

Without Subsidies Germany’s Solar Industry Could Implode This Summer 

Nuclear Energy —

Video of superior talk by Bret Kugelmass

DOE launches Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program 

Natural Gas Energy —

Why China is Changing the Rules to Stay Competitive

Short Video: Rare Earth Emergency #1

Natural Gas Consumption Up, Emissions Down

COVID-19 Exposes Opponents Of ‘Fracking’

Oil and Gas is more than Energy; It’s a Socially Responsible Industry 

Misc Energy —

Trump issues executive order to protect power grid

Report: The inadequacy of wind and solar

Report: Wind Turbine Output Drops Steeply after Ten Years

Report: The Fatal Attraction of a Post-Covid Green Deal

Replace coal with Renewables. Why not? 

China’s Ascent To Global Superpower Based On Cheap Coal 

Wind Energy Solution Doesn’t Pass Smell Test 

Manmade Global Warming: Some Deceptions —

Sorry, Coronavirus Lockdowns Won't End Climate Change

COVID-19 give sense of proportion of the risk of death from climate change

Oops! Climate Change Actually NOT the Cause of Coastal Flooding

Mega Drought or Mega Propaganda?

The Coronavirus Lockdown Has Not Made the Air Cleaner 

Manmade Global Warming: Misc —

Climate Change – Ebb and Flow of the Tide: Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3

Report: We are winning the war on climate-related diseases

Germany’s Course Could Signal End Of Clamor Over Climate Change

Michael Moore Has Become a ‘Hero to Climate Deniers’

Earth records 600 millionth consecutive cooler-than-average month

Climate alarmism lurks behind COVID-19 

Education Related —

Historic Drop in US Reading and Math Scores Since Common Core ‘Debacle’

How Colleges Get Rid of Conservative Admins: An Example

The Academic and Social Benefits of Homeschooling

The Therapeutic Campus

As Budgets Tighten, Colleges Still Vulnerable to Ransomware

US Politics and Socialism —

The Strategic Conquest of America: Part 1 & Part 2 & Part 3

Short video: Social Justice Isn't Justice

The Religion of Leftism

Will COVID-19 Kill Environmental Leftism?

Net-Zero Greenhouse-Gas Emissions, and Extinction Capitalism

Progressives Use Virus for Agenda Opportunity 

US Politics and China —

China’s Electrifying Rags-to-Riches Ascent . . . at America’s Expense

China Is Still the Next China

Senator Cruz Seeks to End U.S. Dependence on China for Rare Earth Metals

White House directs federal pension fund to halt Chinese investments

Other US Politics and Related —

Unbearable Truths About Our Current Political Moment

Is Trump a racist?

Good short video about President Trump

5 Ways Election Will Determine New Normal

Democrats Face Worsening Dilemma With Biden

Science and Misc Matters —

Pandemic researchers — recruit your own best critics

Computer modelled

scaremongering ain’t going to cut it any more

Last day to tell EPA to end secrecy in studies they accept (Good comments) 

John Droz, jr.

physicist & citizen advocate

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Locks and Chains, Hobbles and Handcuffs

To: Australian Climate Sceptics Blog

For Immediate Release

19 May 2020

Locks and Chains, Hobbles and HandcuffsTo download this article with all images click:https://saltbushclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/unlock-australia.pdf

by Viv Forbes

The Lockdown Depression is rushing towards us. Many in politics, media and industry are digging the hole deeper, some through panic and ignorance, others cynically pushing anti-industry agendas or serving vested interests.

We will never rebuild our industries and jobs with locks, chains, hobbles, handcuffs or handouts. We need to recognise the realities of history, geography, geology and economics.

Australia is a huge dry continent with an empty heart - over 70% is desert, indigenous land or national parks. Outback mines provide some income and employment but a huge area does little to employ, feed or clothe Australians. Too much land is a haven for weeds, pests and bushfires, a no-go zone for water conservation or mineral exploration, and a magnet for over-populated neighbours.

The foundations for today’s Australia were built by aboriginals, explorers, miners, farmers and foresters. The first European explorers marvelled at the vast grasslands and open forests which were created and maintained by frequent aboriginal fires. Then prospectors, miners, drovers and settlers blazed the first wagon tracks and droving trails. Foresters followed to harvest timber thus clearing land for small farms in fertile coastal areas. The mighty Cobb and Co had a policy to “Follow the Gold” and their coach tracks became roads, and their supply stations became towns. The overland telegraph crossed the continent and railways and road trains replaced horse-powered coaches, camel trains and bullock wagons.

Mines built towns and roads everywhere - Mt Isa, Cloncurry, Cooktown, Charters Towers, Mungana, Mount Morgan, Collinsville, Newlands, Moranbah, Dysart, Blair Athol, Blackwater, Anakie, Sapphire, Callide, Ipswich, Stanthorpe, Stannum, Broken Hill, Silverton, Cobar, Newcastle, Yallourn, Wonthaggi, Clunes, Ballarat, Bendigo, Renison, Mt Lyell, Roseberry, Whyalla, Port Pirie, Leigh Creek, Lightning Ridge, Moonta, Coober Pedy, Olympic Dam, Kalgoorlie, Coolgardie, Collie, Laverton, Leonora, Marble Bar, Argyle, Dampier, Port Hedland, Halls Creek, Rum Jungle, Pine Creek, Tennant Creek, Groote Eylandt, Weipa and many more. The taxes paid by mines and their employees supported an ever-growing government/welfare sector and their profits funded smelters, refineries and fabricators processing iron and steel, copper, lead, zinc and aluminium. 

Our farmers and graziers fed the miners and the rest of the country.

These backbone industries have always carried Australia through wars, droughts, depressions and epidemics. When gold bottomed, wool boomed. Then wheat, beef, mutton, cotton, sugar and rice buffered the cycles in base metal prices; then iron and coal became our backstop industries. 

But these work-horses are now heavily handicapped by locked gates and no-go zones, green hobbles, inadequate education in engineering and science, expensive electricity, excessive taxes, and export tariffs, barriers and red tape. Government handouts will create nothing but debt and dependency. Our real industries could pull us out of the looming Lockdown Depression but they must be set free to do it. 

The first step is to break the Green manacles on Australia’s backbone industries – exploration, mining and agriculture. Mineral deposits are where you find them - their discovery and development cannot be planned by some bureaucratic model. And it is a scandal that a mining project can take ten years or forever to get through the bloated bureaucracy. Agriculture needs water, so build more dams. And stop prosecuting and fining farmers and graziers for managing their own land and vegetation – this neglect and oppression is sowing the seeds of rural revolt. Kyoto must be unwound.

Secondly, people hesitate to develop businesses or improve assets on insecure title. Governments should quickly offer all leasehold and indigenous land-owners individual freehold title to their lands on attractive terms. Then abolish the capitals gains tax so that aging owners are encouraged to sell to new owners who will immediately start thinking of productive capital improvements.

Thirdly, convert half of the land frozen in National Parks and reserves to freehold forestry, grazing or nature tourism. Locking up so much land for weeds, pests and bushfires is criminal waste.

Fourthly, industry needs low-cost reliable power. We must ensure that EVERY electricity generator who connects to the grid can supply reliable 24/7 power using their own backup facilities or via firm contracts.

Finally, abandon the Zero Emissions farce. Bullock-drawn wagons, camel trains and horse teams may achieve the zero-emissions dream but they will not keep our cities fed - there are no electric tractors, dozers or road trains.

This Lockdown Depression is giving us a taste of “Zero Emissions”. It is a bitter taste. It leads to unemployment and poverty with no proven benefits for nature or the climate.

          
“Net Zero – Like Lockdown but Permanent”

Viv Forbes

19 May 2020
Washpool   Qld   Australia 4306

Viv Forbes is a geologist, financial analyst and weather watcher with long experience in Australian rural and mining industries. 

More Reading:

Massive Lockdown Modelling  Mistake:

https://mailchi.mp/b1afcba3dee8/covid-19-lockdown-modelling-accused-of-most-devastating-coding-mistake-in-history-177009?e=e1638e04a2

A Tale of Two Hysterias:https://www.forbes.com/sites/tilakdoshi/2020/05/14/coronavirus-and-climate-change-a-tale-of-two-hysterias/

Renewable Energy a Threat to electricity reliability:https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6156880775001

New Zealand Budget Ditches Climate Change, Prioritises the Economy:

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/05/16/new-zealand-budget-ditches-climate-change-prioritises-the-economy/