David Craig, on July 3rd, 2023Monday/Tuesday blog
I guess I’m a bit slow on the uptake as I’ve just discovered that there is a ‘Department for Energy Security and Net Zero’ (DESNZ).
This confused me slightly as, from what little I understand, ‘energy security’ and ‘Net Zero’ are two mutually exclusive concepts. If you want energy security, you need lots of locally-sourced coal, oil and gas with a bit of nuclear thrown in. If you want Net Zero, you need loads of solar panels, which are useless when the sun doesn’t shine, and loads of wind turdbines, which are useless when the wind is either too weak or too strong:
Just a note for any of our good-for-nothing, expenses-fiddling, parasitic, UK-loathing politicians reading this, the sun doesn’t shine at night so you’re not going to get much energy from solar. And even during the day, Britain and Northern Europe are not known for having quite as many sunny days as say Spain or Morocco or Timbuktu. That’s why the boss of Germany’s largest energy company said that trying to get electricity from solar in Germany was like trying to grow pineapples in Alaska. As for wind, well you don’t get much wind on the coldest winter days when energy demand will be at its highest. So where will our electricity come from then? These are just some of the reasons why supposed ‘renewables’ – wind and solar – can never provide energy security.
This (IMHO) absurd incongruity of a department is run by possibly Britain’s most gifted and trusted politician – the right honourable Grant Shapps – and reminds me of the fantasy animal from Dr Dolittle – the push-me pull-you which apparently believed it could walk in two opposite directions at the same time:
Dr. Dolittle�s two-headed wonder is an obvious metaphor for the problem of trying to provide energy security while closing down all the sources of energy security to achieve the ludicrously-unnecessary and economically-ruinous Net Zero. If both heads want to go in opposite directions, nothing happens. If one head wins out, you get more of one thing (energy security or Net Zero) and less of the other.
It seems incredible to me that anyone with even the slightest hint of a few brain cells could take this absurdity of a government department seriously. Moreover, I fail to understand why nobody in the mainstream media has spotted the more than striking inherent contradictions in this preposterous department’s supposed aims.
Here’s a photo of two employees of this fatuous, farcical excuse for a government department hard at work:
Truly we are governed by idiots!
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All very true DC, Your last but one paragraph says it all really, and the ‘tandem’ photo is very apt as ‘le tour’ is in progress!
Holding contradictory thoughts simultaneously is fairly common in the creative mindset that seems to pollute our government and state apparatus. Real lack of business engineering and science knowledge and where it exists is often marginalised as not on message.
The biggest issue is the state dictates these people love which presumably reflects their beta personalities. They need to read some Adam Smith and let the technologies evolve that will crowd out expensive dirty and inefficient rather than banning everything and not giving a stuff about the consequences. Who doesn’t want a lovely affordable zero emission 1000 mile range car that can be charged at home once a month and capable of being the family workhorse and drive long distances a few times a year. But at the moment there is no alternative to the ICE so banning is stupid and moronic.
One interesting aside is the recent Harry Garage video showing the Mercedes EQXX which solves a lot of the above issues. The battery is provided by High Performance Powertrains which is the old Uk based Ilmor engine company now owned by AMG F1 and Mercedes. But you never hear about this sort of thing although as one commentator posted this thing with a small petrol engine would work even better.
There�s another point about solar, which I think you covered in your book, and it is the low energy density meaning huge areas of land needed. It should all work out when we change our food to insects and cultured meat.
Energy security and net zero is much easier to achieve when we are not allowed to use energy. It is all part of the WEF�s owning nothing and being happy. I think you might have failed to see the purpose of the two bikes. It is the latest idea for electricity generation, soon to be provided in every home so that the grid can be closed down completely.
Be optimistic, not long to the general election when we can vote to throw this lot out and get politicians who know what they are doing.
There are no politicians ‘who know what they are doing’. Labour are more obsessed with the ruinous Net Zero than the fake Conservatives.
I was being sarcastic.
All of the insanity going on just proves that we have allowed mentally sick people to come to power all over Christendom, aka the Anglosphere. Feminism kicked things off, in my opinion – the disease of the Anglosphere. That is, of Protestant Christianity. Feminism, aka the Equality disease, exists nowhere else.
Just when you think things could not possibly get any screwier, they do. As with the banks closing accounts based on a person’s opinions. Such as a vicar complaining about his building society covering its branch in LGBTQ+ stuff to celebrate LGBTQ+ month gets his account closed for complaining.
These sick narcissistic people regard themselves as special and as such they want to get rid of the rest of us so that only they inherit the earth.
I say that their one and only aim is depopulation. But they have to run things down as far as possible before they dare to bring the curtain down on the rest of us.
Notice how everything they do demoralises, reduces or runs things down.
Unfortunately, it is only they who need to get rid of themselves. But I have a powerful feeling that fate is somehow going to come up with or use a unique way of doing just that.
There should be one reason, and one only, for a bank closing a client’s account, and that is PROVEN money laundering for tax evasion purposes. Not just a suspicion of illicit transfers, or dislike of a client’s political views, or possible inconvenience caused by a client wishing to withdraw a large sum of money in cash. The latter is no one’s business but the account holders. If, for instance, I wish to bung a family member �5K in cash, whose business is that other than mine and the recipient’s? Equally, it should be the client’s responsibility, not the bank’s, if a client is foolish enough to fall for some scam by a rogue builder demanding cash in advance for “roof repairs” or a rubbish driveway. It’s high time for people to take responsibility for their own idiocy. However, “protecting the customer” has nothing to do with this spate of cancelled accounts. Let’s make no mistake. The banning of Nigel Farage, the most extreme example, from banking facilities in the UK, thus making him a “non person” and sending him into exile abroad, is just the most extreme example. The clergyman, clearly an eminently respectable gentleman and a practising Christian who lives by traditional Christian doctrine and was offended by the rainbow nonsense in the local branch of his building society and has had his account closed because he had the effrontery to say so, is another. There can be no doubt that the UK, with its pressure on everyone to move ever more to a cashless society, is well on the way already not only to CBDC but to social credits, China style, as well. We MUST all fight this. I am surrounded already in the small town where I live by neighbours who are effectively banned from driving into the nearest sizeable town, because all parking must be paid by one of any number of the diabolical “parking apps” which now I understand overload people’s phones. The people of whom I am thinking do not possess smart phones, even less how to operate one. Personally, I refuse to have anything to do with it. I no longer go anywhere where I cannot put cash into a machine and get a ticket to display on the dashboard. If enough people do likewise and the High St suffers in consequence, causing businesses to protest, then there could be a reversal of policy by the Local Authorities running the car parks. That is my – so far relatively minor – rebellion, but I can sense the approach of greater, more significant, rebellions. It is up to every one of us to take a stand. I know we oldies are already despised and marginalised, our interests disregarded and our views considered antediluvian, so perhaps we should show our power with our pockets and our purses. I know that were my bank to be the one which initially cancelled Farage (we know which one it was and its partner/subsidiary) I would already have transferred to another bank. How long, I wonder, before they come for you, David, and then for those of us who respond on this forum?