Reading worth reading
In the last few weeks, I have been reading a lot. Today, I thought I’d share some articles that I found very enlightening and worth reading.
Peter Zeihan. Ukraine: The War after the War
Suzy Weiss. Watching Lia Thomas Win
David Sacks. A Social Credit System Arrives in Canada.
And for fun, here was my latest rebuttal to Andrew Dessler following his appearance on Joe Rogan. Truly, the material is endless.
Dear Andrew,
Just before you transitioned to talking about power plants in Indiana, you said one of the most ridiculous things in the whole interview. ‘Fossil fuels are bad because the pricing is so volatile. One minute you are paying $4 a gallon, the next $2 a gallon. You can’t plan a business around swings. But… “I have an electric car so price swings don’t matter to me.”’
Andrew- where does your electricity come from??? In Texas, it’s 47% natural gas, 20% coal, 20% wind, 10% nuclear and 1% solar. And that “back up power that is essential since everyone knows renewables are intermittent” you keep talking about? When wind produces <2%, as it did last February, you have to buy the feedstock - coal, uranium, natural gas, diesel - for your back up. And that shows up in your electricity bill for you EV.
Do you know WHY prices are high in the UK? Because there was a wind drought around Europe, decommissioning of coal plants that brought their share of electricity generation from over 25% in 2010 to less than 2% today. There is not enough storage of natural gas and Europe and the UK have built a political (not free market) system that has artificially forced the building of intermittents and not invested in enough natural gas. Perhaps that’s why Europe has now declared investing in natural gas is “green.”
Facts are stubborn things. No matter your inclination to make them change…. They don’t.