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And it is a cult. Viv Forbes “started his life with candles, kerosene lights, and a wood-burning stove. His parents milked cows and harvested corn by hand.” Over time, as energy sources improved, the result was a dramatic increase in the farm's surplus of food." Now Mr Forbes has a prediction at American Thinker about the future of the Green New Deal:
. . . But what keeps trains,
elevators, hospitals, and refrigerators going if we have a still night followed
by another cloudy day? More batteries or Snowy 9 Pumped
Hydro? And if the still cloudy weather continues, what will recharge
the Big Batteries and re-pump the hydros? And will Greens apply the
same conservation standards and delaying tactics to wind, solar, hydro, and
power line construction that they now apply to coal mines?
. . .
Soon after the last coal power
plant is demolished, in a snap of still, cold, cloudy weather, the lights will
go out, electric trains will stop, and battery-powered food deliveries to the
cities will falter. There will be uproar in Parliaments, and all Green/Teal/ALP
governments will fall. The media will blame "climate
change."
Energy Realists will take
over. They will immediately place orders for dozens of modular
nuclear power plants.
But this energy reality will come
too late. Long lines of city-dwellers with bicycles, wheelbarrows
and old diesel utes [utility vehicles] will flee from the hungry cities.
Read the article here.
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