I see Professor Ian Young – Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University has this Canberra Times article – Time to move to a post-carbon world
Baring nuclear – I can not see any of the current crop of renewables technologies taking over from fossil fuels to power our grids with anything like the “round the clock” reliability we have come to expect.
So I wonder what the brave new post-carbon world will look like.
How can we find out?
TO paraphrase (badly) a WW1 song:
We divest because they divest,
because they divest we divest,
so we divest because they divest.
Repeat ad nauseam.
It is desperation time for the lemmings. No warming, no proof of CO2 causing warming,
no proof of a link to ‘extreme weather’ (thanks NOAA), no proof of polar ice melting,
and the worse threat they can come up with is the volcano in Iceland going to COOL things down.
BUT THEY WON’T GIVE UP.
This is just an attempt to convince people that there is no future in fossil fuels.
I suspect the only people they will fool is themselves, and when they realise that you’re right about the alternatives?
> So I wonder what the brave new post-carbon world will look like
Just observe Europe, and especially the UK, this NH winter
Brave new experiment, brave new world
Agreed Ian, but as yet the EU hasn’t even looked like reducing CO2 emissions. All they’ve succeeded in doing to date is to construct a lot of very expensive green energy tokens which make the work of the existing real world power generators (coal, gas, hydro and nuclear) much more difficult and inefficient. Despite not even looking like achieving their headlined planet saving aims, they have only succeeded in making the electricity grids more insecure, and the electricity much more expensive.
Oh, and I guess we should also recognise that a lot of rent seekers have had their wallets stuffed courtesy of compulsory subsidies.