Today, the homeless actually "represent" how 80% of humanity live around the world as those homeless in the wealthier developed nations are a visual reality to a world without fossil fuels.
If those more than 6 billion people on this planet living on less than $10/day are ever going to join the industrial revolution, they will need a supply chain of the 6,000 products supporting the materialistic demands of the infrastructures that did not exist 200 years ago, before fossil fuels, as well as an increasing demand for continuous and uninterruptible electricity, i.e., the case for nuclear power.
A basic need for our "Green" and "Net Zero" policymakers is to understand that electricity did not exist before we learned how to refine raw crude oil.
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- Electricity came AFTER oil, as ALL electrical generation methods from hydro, coal, natural gas, nuclear, wind, and solar are ALL built with the products, components, and equipment that are made from oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil,
- All EV's, solar panels, and wind turbines are also built with the products, components, and equipment that are made from the oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil.
- It is of note that most so-called renewable energy products are manufactured in countries that primarily use coal fired power generation, so they are not "green" at all. A good example is electric vehicles that utilize huge Lithium Ion based batteries.
- All the transportation fuels for cars, trucks, merchant ships, aircraft, and military are made from raw crude oil.
- Getting rid of crude oil would eliminate all six ways of generating electricity, and the more than 6,000 products in demand by hospitals, airports, communications, and would paralyze virtually all transportation!
Another basic need for our "Green" and "Net Zero" policymakers is that they understand that raw crude oil is just black tar that is virtually useless, unless it can be refined into derivatives that are the basis of more than 6,000 products in society that did not exist before the 1800's, and the various transportation fuels like gasoline, diesel, and aviation fuels that are also made from that raw crude oil. They also need to understand that this process requires the availability of economically priced and reliable electric power.
Policymakers need to STOP using the word ENERGY and start referring to the demands of the economy for reliable supply chains of:
- Products, i.e. more than 6,000 that are made from oil derivatives manufacture from oil.
- Transportation Fuels, i.e., to support demand of cars, trucks, ships, and airplanes.
- Electricity, i.e., economically priced, continuous and uninterruptable.
It is worrisome that the "Green" and "Net Zero" policy makers in all Western countries presently spending billions on solar and wind generated electricity completely ignore proven scientific and engineering research by widely qualified academics and engineers that shows conclusively that carbon dioxide has only a minuscule effect upon global temperatures, thus the whole world-wide Net Zero push is all for nothing, it is unnecessary! The amount of money wasted upon Net Zero world-wide is staggering.
It's scary that our "Green" and "Net Zero" policymakers are setting "energy" policies that are mandating subsidies, directions, and tax breaks, when they have no comprehension of the subject of ENERGY.
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About the Authors
Ronald Stein is co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book Clean Energy Exploitations.
He is a policy advisor on energy literacy for the Heartland Institute,
and the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, and a national TV
commentator on energy & infrastructure with Rick Amato.
John McBratney, B. Tech (Electronic Engineering) is an engineer with over 50 years’ experience in hardware design and systems engineering. He contributes to an independent group of engineers and scientists in Australia that works to change government opinions on Net Zero back to sensible practicable strategies.