Month: January 2022

Media Covid Quotes Retracted by History

At zerohedge is an article “The Virus Stops With Every Vaccinated Person” – Eight Quotes From The ‘Experts’ That Aged Horribly.  Excerpts in italics with added bolds.

I began an article yesterday with the line: If coordinated lies could stop the spread of respiratory viruses, Covid would have ended in March of 2020. It applies just as much to this article. The following quotes come from Tony Fauci, Joe Biden, Rochelle Walensky, Bill Gates, Albert Bourla, and others who promised – promised! – us that the vaccines were going to end this alleged pandemic.

From the beginning, all talk of preventative care, repurposed drugs, alternative treatments were not only ignored but disparaged. Several states threatened to pull the licenses of doctors and pharmacists who either prescribed or filled prescriptions for hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. Even now, a doctor in Maine has had her license suspended and made to undergo a psychiatric evaluation for dispensing these beneficial treatments. (Seriously, even if they did nothing, how is that worse than injecting yourself with a brand-new, lab-made cocktail of goodness knows what?). It isn’t just medications; something as cheap and simple as supplementing with vitamin D or going outside in the sun were actively suppressed. Southern California, home to some of the most beautiful landscapes and endless supply of Pacific sunshine, shut down beaches and parks upon threat of arrest. 

From the beginning, only vaccines would get us out. They told us that. They promised us that. We would have to die unnecessarily at home since hospitals didn’t treat anything and sent us home until we were too sick and every potential medication was blackballed, but it would all be worth it. If only we hunkered down until a vaccine could be developed, then there would be an eventual light at the end of the self-imposed tunnel. Amazingly, right after Donald Trump was defeated, pharmaceutical companies announced their foregone results to the world: The vaccines were here and life could get back to normal.

Don’t take my word for it; take theirs:

  1. Joe Biden: “You’re Not Going To Get COVID If You Have These Vaccinations.”
  2. Tony Fauci: “You Become A Dead End To The Virus.”
  3. Rochelle Walensky: “Vaccinated People Do Not Carry The Virus — They Don’t Get Sick.”
  4. Alberta Bourla: “[O]ur COVID-19 vaccine was 100% effective in preventing #COVID19 cases in South Africa. 100%!”
  5. Bill Gates: “A key goal [of the vaccination program] is to stop transmission.”
  6. Rachel Maddow: “Now we know that the virus stops with every vaccinated person.”
  7. Francis Collins: “‘[R]eason to be pretty optimistic’ that the available COVID-19 vaccines will be effective against the new Omicron variant of the virus; All of the other variants that have emerged during this COVID-19 pandemic have shown response to the vaccine, including Delta
  8. Brian Stelter: “The newspaper [USA Today] describes ‘America’s fourth Covid-19 surge,’ noting this ‘didn’t have to happen,’ since vaccinations are so widely available. The headlines are followed by a call to action: ‘Let’s end it now.’”

9, Honorable Mention, any of your obnoxious friends or family members: “You’re an anti-vaxxer. The vaccines are safe. They work. I’m doing my part. I’m better than you. You’re unsafe to be around. Just do your part. You’re selfish. Trust the science. Do you know more science than Fauci? Trump wahhhhhhhh!”

So that didn’t age well.

And before anyone says the science changed, just ask yourself: Do you really believe that? This entire vaccine debacle is the result of intentional lies and propaganda. 

If the medical and political entities had been honest from the beginning about supplements, preventative lifestyle changes related to diet and exercise, alternative treatments, and, indeed, optimism over a new delivery system for the purpose of inoculation, then so be it. If they had treated us like adults – free citizens, not subjugated peasants – then it seems unlikely we’d be at this crossroad. Instead, they have lied with gusto and mandated we take the vaccine upon threat of lost livelihoods. It is criminal what they have been and are still doing.

And they lied this whole time.

Already n 2020 it was known that HCQ or IVM plus nutritional supplements were effective early treatments for Covid19.

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January 30, 2022 at 08:36AM

UK CCC Claim Offshore Wind Will Cost £25/MWh!

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By Paul Homewood

The CCC’s Sixth Carbon Budget also includes this gem:

Do they really believe that offshore wind costs will drop to £25/MWh, well below even the cost of onshore wind at the moment?

It is only by this chicanery that the CCC were able to keep the costs of Net Zero down to just an odd trillion or two.

Assuming a more realistic cost of £100/MWh, which is consistent with known construction costs, the costs of Net Zero would be £18 billion a year higher.

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January 30, 2022 at 08:09AM

Don’t They Know We Will Still Need Oil & Gas?

By Paul Homewood

A photograph of the Dunlin oil rig platform located above the Osprey Field in the North Sea off Scotland.

It is abundantly clear that all our major parties are now opposed to further development of North Sea oil and gas reserves.

Ed Miliband, for instance, had this to say about the proposed Cambo field last month:

“It makes no environmental sense and now Shell are accepting it doesn’t make economic sense,” he said.

“Ploughing on with business as usual on fossil fuels will kill off our chances of keeping 1.5 degrees alive and carries huge risks for investors as it is simply an unsustainable choice.

“Shell have woken up to the fact that Cambo is the wrong choice. It’s long past time for the Government to do so.”

 

Lib Dim leader, Ed Davey went one step further last year, effectively declaring war on Big Oil:

Under the plan outlined to the Guardian by the Lib Dem leader, Ed Davey, another immediate policy would be to stop new bonds being issued in London to finance oil, coal or gas exploration.

Fossil fuel firms already listed in the UK would then have two years to produce a coherent plan about how they would reach net zero emissions by 2045, or risk being struck off the LSE.

In the longer term, pension funds would have to disinvest from fossil fuels by 2035, with all companies with fossil fuel assets removed from the exchange by 2045.

https://www.libdemvoice.org/liblink-ed-davey-says-private-capital-must-switch-from-dirty-to-clean-68490.html

Both parties have of course called for a windfall tax on North Sea oil, which would effectively kill the entire sector stone dead anyway.

Meanwhile regulators have killed off the massive new Jackdaw gas field on spurious environmental grounds, and new North Sea projects will only be approved if ministers judge them to be compatible with the drive to net zero.

Yet none of these politicians seem to appreciate that the UK will carry on needing gas and oil, and lots of it too, for decades to come.

Take natural gas, for example:

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https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/digest-of-uk-energy-statistics-dukes-2020

Total gas consumption, net of energy industry use, was 810 TWh in 2019, more than double total electricity generation.

Gas used in the power sector was 297 TWh, which in turn generated 132 TWh of electricity.

According to the Committee on Climate Change’s Sixth Carbon Budget, we will still need 50 TWh of dispatchable generation by 2035, rising to 60 TWh in 2040:

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https://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/sixth-carbon-budget/

This will either have to come from gas with carbon storage, or hydrogen made from gas. (The CCC acknowledge that electrolysis will remain a tiny source of hydrogen for many years to come).

So we will therefore still need a lot of gas for power generation, one way or another. And because both CCS and hydrogen production are energy inefficient, even more gas.

A rough calculation would suggest we would require 180  TWh of gas to produce 60 TWh of electricity, via CCS or hydrogen. That is 60% of current consumption.

It is hard to see much of a decline in gas consumption in the other sectors. Even if new gas boilers are banned in 2035, as mooted, it is unlikely many householders will have already converted to heat pumps beforehand.

Equally industrial users of gas will be loathe to spend billions switching to electricity, and a hydrogen network simply won’t exist in any scale by then.

My guess is that natural gas consumption will still be around 700 TWh by 2035, only 14% lower than currently.

At the moment, we produce about half the gas we use, and import the rest.

North Sea Oil

Now let’s move on to oil.

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https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/digest-of-uk-energy-statistics-dukes-2020 

 

Surface transport accounts for most of the UK’s oil consumption, 37 TWh or 57%.

According to the CCC, the ban on new petrol/diesel cars from 2030 will reduce numbers of these on the road from the current 34 million to around 14 million in 2035. This is on the extremely optimistic assumption that there will already be 12 million EVs on the road in 2030, up from the current hundred thousand or so.

But taking the CCC’s projections at face value, we could estimate that oil consumption will decline from 37 million tonnes to approximately 17 TWh. This assumes that HGVs will still largely be dependent on diesel.

Oil used for aviation fuels may decline slightly, as biofuels start to play a bigger part, but given this is essentially an international issue, it would be risky to assume any significant drop in demand for oil.

As for the other sectors, it is difficult to see any substantial cuts in oil consumption.

If we add this lot up, oil consumption in 2035 will still probably be around two thirds of today’s.

Worse still, it is not only the UK, where oil and gas exploration is being actively discouraged. We see the same thing happening in the USA and across Europe. And all in the wishful thinking that we will be able to run our economies largely on renewable energy in a few years time.

Instead we will end up facing acute shortages of oil and gas, which will make the current energy crisis seem like a picnic in the park.

That would trigger another Great Depression.

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January 30, 2022 at 07:45AM

KTM CEO Pierer: “Electric Mobility Is Nonsense Promoted By Politicians With No Technical Knowledge”

Combustion engines will be around long after 2035, says Austrian KTM CEO…”500-kg battery to substitute 20 liters of fuel” …”a stupid idea” …”phony sustainability”…

Stefan Pierer, the Austrian CEO of KTM Group, recently told SpeedWeek.com here: “Electromobility is nonsense promoted by politicians with no technical knowledge.”

KTM CEO Stefan Pierer. Image cropped at KTM.de

The numerous drawbacks of e-vehicles

Especially electric passenger vehicles are notorious for their limited range, environmentally-damaging batteries and generally low energy efficiency. Other drawbacks include safety, especially is case of fires.

Pierer, also president of the European Association of Motorcycle Manufacturers (ACEM), has made it clear that the internal combustion engine is not going away anytime soon and that the future of mobility is not going to be exclusively electric.

The KTM Group includes names like Husqvarna, GasGas, Rieju. KTM has become Europe’s number one motorbike manufacturer, and so it’s no surprise that CEO Pierer would have a strong interest in the internal combustion engine.

Some practical applications

Pierer says, however, electric powered vehicles do have some practical applications.

“We assume that with 48-volt electrics up to class A1 – that is 11 kW or 15 hp – there will be many electric motorbikes in the next ten years, especially in Europe,” Pierer told SPEEDWEEK.com. “That applies to scooters, mopeds and motorbikes. Everything concerning motorized two-wheelers above 48 volts is going in the direction of e-fuels.”

Need 500-kg battery to equal 20 liters of fuel

The Austrian KTM CEO also believes there’s plenty of room for the combustion engines in the future and that they will continue to be essential: “We can still run vehicles with combustion engines for a long time.”

“Electromobility as a whole is nonsense promoted by politicians without any technical knowledge,” Pierer told SPEEDWEEK.com. “For a MotoGP bike that covers the complete distance of a race with 20 litres of fuel, a 500-kg battery would be needed to achieve comparable performance and range, and also have the same power. That’s a stupid idea,” he said.

“Phony sustainability”

Pierer also criticized the “phony sustainability” in MotoE races, reminding that the batteries are charged up “with diesel generators”.

When it comes to the solution for combustion engines, Pierer foresees CO2-free synthetic fuel as the solution.

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January 30, 2022 at 06:10AM