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@Anonymous #372F
Environmentalism is a death-cult. It’s a way for Leftists to virtue-signal about how much better they are than everyone else by cutting their own nations’ economies off at the knees and driving their own people into poverty while enriching their people’s enemies. This is how they demonstrate “commitment to the movement,” which is to say, revolutionary zeal.
This is why the exact same people who preach about “the green future” and “green energy” and “public health” throw the borders wide open and ring the dinner bell to bring in tens of millions of ultraviolent disease-dripping IQ-55 Third World troglodytes who couldn’t give the faintest quantum trace of a shit about the environment, the culture, or the law.
Leftists don’t believe in any of the things they claim to believe in. It’s all rhetoric, no dialectic. They’re filled with hatred and project their bad motives onto everyone else. The only thing they believe in is power–power over you.
@Barhandar
Have you ever read anything from the late Dr. Jerry Pournelle? He was a science fiction author who worked for the Air Force and NASA at his day jobs. Solar panels have always been so energy-intensive to manufacture that, if they are to be used at ground level, it takes thirty years of 12 hr/day tropical sunlight just to get them to the point where they break even and have given back the energy it took to make them. Prior to that point, solar cells are a net energy sink, not an energy source. And when you count in inclement weather, dust, the need to repair them when they are damaged, that figure of thirty years goes up.
Dr. Pournelle’s insight was that the only place solar cells are actual tools and not toys to appease smug assholes with green hair is in space. NASA did some experiments in the 1970s and found that solar cells, because there’s no dust, no weather, no wind, no atmosphere blocking 90+ of sunlight from reaching them, and because they can be placed in orbits where they are exposed to sunlight more than twelve hours per day, they are more than ten times as efficient in orbit as they are on the planet’s surface. The power can be beamed down in the form of coherent microwaves and picked up by a type of antenna called a “rectenna” that converts microwaves to electrical current almost losslessly–85 efficient in NASA studies almost fifty years ago where they sent power down from satellites and picked it up on the ground in experiments and verified that it worked. They were going to use the Space Shuttle to build solar power satellites back then, when the Iran-Iraq war started and crude oil prices dropped by two thirds because the two nations were trying to undercut one another on the world oil market to fund their war, so solar power satellites got shitcanned, probably forever.
What is key to understand here is that environmentalists don’t want inexpensive clean energy for the peasants. They want your children and grandchildren to hunt rats by candlelight forever while they live in their gated condos drinking expensive wine and laughing at the starving peons outside. Where their food and electricity and expensive wine and jet fuel for round-the-world junkets will come from are details they haven’t thought out, because it’s a masturbatory power fantasy of grinding their boot-heels in your face, not an actual plan.
Environmentalism is a death-cult. It’s a way for Leftists to virtue-signal about how much better they are than everyone else by cutting their own nations’ economies off at the knees and driving their own people into poverty while enriching their people’s enemies. This is how they demonstrate “commitment to the movement,” which is to say, revolutionary zeal.
This is why the exact same people who preach about “the green future” and “green energy” and “public health” throw the borders wide open and ring the dinner bell to bring in tens of millions of ultraviolent disease-dripping IQ-55 Third World troglodytes who couldn’t give the faintest quantum trace of a shit about the environment, the culture, or the law.
Leftists don’t believe in any of the things they claim to believe in. It’s all rhetoric, no dialectic. They’re filled with hatred and project their bad motives onto everyone else. The only thing they believe in is power–power over you.
@Barhandar
Have you ever read anything from the late Dr. Jerry Pournelle? He was a science fiction author who worked for the Air Force and NASA at his day jobs. Solar panels have always been so energy-intensive to manufacture that, if they are to be used at ground level, it takes thirty years of 12 hr/day tropical sunlight just to get them to the point where they break even and have given back the energy it took to make them. Prior to that point, solar cells are a net energy sink, not an energy source. And when you count in inclement weather, dust, the need to repair them when they are damaged, that figure of thirty years goes up.
Dr. Pournelle’s insight was that the only place solar cells are actual tools and not toys to appease smug assholes with green hair is in space. NASA did some experiments in the 1970s and found that solar cells, because there’s no dust, no weather, no wind, no atmosphere blocking 90+ of sunlight from reaching them, and because they can be placed in orbits where they are exposed to sunlight more than twelve hours per day, they are more than ten times as efficient in orbit as they are on the planet’s surface. The power can be beamed down in the form of coherent microwaves and picked up by a type of antenna called a “rectenna” that converts microwaves to electrical current almost losslessly–85 efficient in NASA studies almost fifty years ago where they sent power down from satellites and picked it up on the ground in experiments and verified that it worked. They were going to use the Space Shuttle to build solar power satellites back then, when the Iran-Iraq war started and crude oil prices dropped by two thirds because the two nations were trying to undercut one another on the world oil market to fund their war, so solar power satellites got shitcanned, probably forever.
What is key to understand here is that environmentalists don’t want inexpensive clean energy for the peasants. They want your children and grandchildren to hunt rats by candlelight forever while they live in their gated condos drinking expensive wine and laughing at the starving peons outside. Where their food and electricity and expensive wine and jet fuel for round-the-world junkets will come from are details they haven’t thought out, because it’s a masturbatory power fantasy of grinding their boot-heels in your face, not an actual plan.
