KrisBut energy is not scarce. It falls on the ground and is blown over the surface of the planet, every day.
This is not energy scarcity, it's stupidity abundance.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/oil-crisis-exactly-net-zero-160302195.html
The actual article is even more unhinged than the headline suggests.
Epic Null@isotopp It is... but like, while this is based in the UK and I am in the US, it hasn't not occured to me that this would force us to make changes that get us away from our oil overuse. Like that is a good thing that could come of this. It's a crisis in a very specific way that might bring on one very helpful change.
It's just that the bad here far outweighs the good and I would prefer not to have the bad.
Clemens ZaunerWow. The Torygraph framing the Iran-War as a dark plot of the radical green canal, secretly running the world...
DrJohn
tkissing
SecondUniverse (she/her/they)@isotopp It's a bit like a militant meat-eater stranded on a desert island, refusing to eat the vegan snacks that washed ashore.
Neil Craig@isotopp I swear, any time "brigade" is used in a headline it's a lame attempt to disparage someone/something.
Whoever Matthew Lynn is, they can get in the bin.
Whoever Matthew Lynn is, they can get in the bin.
prozacchiwawa@isotopp
"the kitchen flame crisis is exactly what big extinguisher wants"
"the kitchen flame crisis is exactly what big extinguisher wants"
Aria <3 
Moté@isotopp please, no. Fully clean energy doesn't exist. Solar is in fact way cleaner than fossil, but it still isn't. First step absolutely is consuming less energy.
bluestarultor@petitmote @isotopp Wind can be very clean as well. And small wind at scale is absolutely an option. We could have generators powered by fluttering material lining the side of every bridge, vertical turbines catching turbulence made purely out of metal, etc.
If you want to talk about energy waste, please understand that craptocurrency single-handedly undid a decade of progress and slop is somehow even worse than that, mostly at the training phase! The US military is also the biggest single waster in the world and frankly for what? Then consider the rich and their private jets because the rich simply pay not to wait for anything.
It's not the average person who needs to use so much less; it's the greedy few. Anything we can do as harm reduction is a plus. Harm reduction is knowing there WILL be harm and mitigating it. I mean, eat the rich, but in the meantime, cleaner energy is better than nothing.
In that light, we can maybe afford a little solar, as a treat.
Armin Hanisch@isotopp Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.
tuban_muzuruWithout wishing to contradict anyone here - this oil crisis is the sort of thing which intelligent people have been predicting. Every facet of it has been gamed out.
Matthew Lynn is a detective, mostly - very much worth the read. The Net Zero Brigade, of which I count myself a paid up member in full - might not want everyone to suffer needlessly, but then again, it's not as if we, the NZB haven't been warning, however unpleasantly, of its arrival.
Since the 1970s.
AndiS 🌞🍷🇪🇺So Trump is a "Crypto Wokist" and a secret member of the Green-Communist Cabal. Everyting makes sense all off a sudden ;@)
There is a Austrian proverb: "If stupidity would hurt, some people would scream all day long"
There is a Austrian proverb: "If stupidity would hurt, some people would scream all day long"
DJ Sexy Fresh@isotopp 10000 IQ play by the all powerful green energy industry (/s)
Ollie Boermans