The first step to making a solar panel is you shovel a ton of quartz, 3/4 ton of coal, some petroleum coke and some wood chips into a blast furnace. Then you light it on fire until it's 30,000 degrees so it can burn off all the toxic elements. You keep doing that until you have pure solar grade silicon. To this day there is no way to make a solar panel without coal. There is no such thing as a perpetual motion machine unfortunately.
LOL. If you don't believe all Communists are liars who manipulate the facts to build their empires and enslave mankind look at the gigantic lie of Global Warming. Ancillary to this is your point of the massive ingredients it takes to make a solar panel. And when you look at the endangered birds killed each day by windmills it becomes clear how huge the subterfuge really is.
It's a great book, it will take a long time for people who have been indoctrinated into a certain belief system to be willing to consider a different thought process. He clearly understands that and frames his talks with that in mind.
We must continue to process and use oil as there isnt a better source of energy .Carbon isnt the problem but moisture may be and what if anything needs done the answer is NOT wind or solar as they are not near as productive as nuclear and oil
This was weaker than I expected. Alex has explained it better in other video's I think. Without fossil fuels 99% of us would be farmers. With fossils fuels the majority of society is free to follow other pursuits; intellectual, scientific, artistic, etc. Fossil fuels and the industrial revolution have turned us into supermen. So the point is, if fossil fuels make the climate, lets say, 10% more dangerous, but they also improve our ability to protect ourselves from the climate by 20%, then wouldn't this be worth it? I think it's this general idea he's getting at.
Fossil fuels had its time. Yes it was necessary, but predictive studies by most scientists concur that it will lead to devastating effects (rising sea levels, release of bacteria and toxins frozen in permafrost etc etc). It's in our interest to advance research on other forms of energy as well, so that we can adopt those technologies when they become available. I've read some of his pieces. His unfamiliarity with actual scientific literature and consensus is clear and he provides very little or no evidence or references to back up his claims. He also misrepresents facts. I'm not suggesting banning fossil fuels, but if energy demands (what we use fossil fuels for) can be met through cleaner ways or through a better blanced combination of fossil fuels and clean energy, it will be more beneficial than solely relying of fossil fuels. Another fact worth considering is that the rate we consume fossil fuels is exponentially faster than the time it takes to form and generations down the line we'll run out of it.
There is some excellent information here at Our World In Data, demonstrating that with a world still highly powered by fossil fuels, everything is improving - air pollution is down, energy production is up, food production is up, global poverty is down, et cetera: ourworldindata.org/energy, ourworldindata.org/energy-access, ourworldindata.org/outdoor-air-pollution
He iiars about the dangers of climate change.and the long term benifit of the present system.we bourgh from the future yes people can be lifted up for a time but only to through them back down again
From my personal experience in the oil drilling industry, I can tell you that the amount of diesel that 2 to 3 Cat 3512 engines running generators nearly 24/7, plus a fleet of trucks hauling everything from brine to cuttings/solids, diesel, lubricants (oils) to supplies and parts, not to mention the fleet of trucks, cranes, and equipment it takes to rig down, moveand set up a rig burns more fuel in a year than i will use in my entire life. This is just kne rig, mind you. Let's not even mention tbe amount of gasses released to atmosphere, the spills, pressure washing units that spray diesel, downhole flui losses leaking oil based drilling fluids out into rock formations, etc. I dont even have a toe print from my smallest toe compared to the foot print left by the petroleum industry. From one rig.
yes only there are about 8 billion more little toes than there are drilling rigs aren't there and your toe print doesn't support all human life on this planet does it . But fossil fuels support life on earth in more ways than can be listed including everything you used to make this post . Not to mention carbon is the driving force behind all life and with out it nothing would exist . Oxygen is produced from carbon is it not . Do you honestly think it will matter if earth survives and we do not . One things for sure we will never know wll we so your whole line of thinking is pointless Jesse.
The first step to making a solar panel is you shovel a ton of quartz, 3/4 ton of coal, some petroleum coke and some wood chips into a blast furnace. Then you light it on fire until it's 30,000 degrees so it can burn off all the toxic elements. You keep doing that until you have pure solar grade silicon. To this day there is no way to make a solar panel without coal.
@@Michael-ei3vy and that blast furnace is not blasting due to wind and solar, but good old fashioned ff. None of them will say a peep when china fires up 26 coal plants.
I dont understand this guy's point. Not many people are out there arguing that fossil fuels havent made life easier or made it possible for humans to do amazing things like send rockets to the moon. Unfortunately fossil fuels are killing the planet and putting the future of our species and many others at risk, so we should probably start thinking of new solutions to our energy needs. They have also been greatly over-promoted for the financial gain of an elite few to the point where our culture is now overdependent on them in ways we shouldnt be. Again I dont see the point of the "argument" unless you're trying to morally justify to yourself your career in oil and gas and the moral case for the fat paycheck you receive for doing nothing particularly creative.
The first step to making a solar panel is you shovel a ton of quartz, 3/4 ton of coal, some petroleum coke and some wood chips into a blast furnace. Then you light it on fire until it's 30,000 degrees so it can burn off all the toxic elements. You keep doing that until you have pure solar grade silicon. To this day there is no way to make a solar panel without coal.
Oh and EVs have twice the CO2 emissions as an internal combustion engine. And what generates the electricity that they run on? Mostly coal and some natural gas. I wish these "green technologies" were better but they are in fact far worse. Energy is a very hard problem to solve and there's no such thing as perpetual motion.
What you don't seem to understand is that carbon does not hurt this planet with out carbon life would not exist oxygen is made from carbon . Fossil fuels are actually making this planet better and who would be left to say killing off mankind to save the planet was a good idea . His argument needs no moral justification all one has to do is see how fossil fuels have raised mankind up out of poverty and allowed us to feed the world . Everything in your life was brought to you by fossil fuels and without them mankind would perish . He's not trying to justify it or defend it he's trying to explain how stupid the other sides argument is , nothing more nothing less .
Fossil fuels are not doing what you are stating. Epstein's point is that fossil fuels allow life to flourish, not just our own species. Our species has benefited so much from the use of fossil fuels. Vast numbers of people are being brought out of poverty and continue to be. I've seen it in Asia during my life time. There is a fundamental case for being able to continually supply cheap reliable energy. This is a example of the moral argument. Poor countries need it more than ever as population numbers grow. Renewables (wind and solar) are not able to offer reliable energy yet. Until they can do so, we will need to rely on fossil fuels for much of our energy mix. Realistically, we are looking at several if not many decades.
Ha ha ha. He literally says, "The way I got into this industry - Um - I mean the way I got 'interested' in this industry ...." Freudian slip - Oops! :P
The first step to making a solar panel is you shovel a ton of quartz, 3/4 ton of coal, some petroleum coke and some wood chips into a blast furnace. Then you light it on fire until it's 30,000 degrees so it can burn off all the toxic elements. You keep doing that until you have pure solar grade silicon. To this day there is no way to make a solar panel without coal.
The first step to making a solar panel is you shovel a ton of quartz, 3/4 ton of coal, some petroleum coke and some wood chips into a blast furnace. Then you light it on fire until it's 30,000 degrees so it can burn off all the toxic elements. You keep doing that until you have pure solar grade silicon. To this day there is no way to make a solar panel without coal.
@@Michael-ei3vy Agreed. The climate/green agenda is not fundamentally about the harms of fossil fuels, as much as the political/corporate marketing has convinced naive voters/consumers. This movement is about fundamentally shifting the ownership and the politics of energy sources away from domestically controlled energy sources to globally controlled supply chains. Makes for pretty good leverage for centralize political control. We can look to the globalization of capital as a similar historical example.
