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DEC 31, 2022
Introduction
The most frequent question I get asked is: “How did you end up doing this?”
Most people can’t imagine why or how someone would become a huge champion of fossil fuels, of all things.
And growing up, I never imagined I would devote my life to this cause.
So, for those of you who are interested, here’s what happened.
Part 1: Deciding to become a practical philosopher
Sometimes people assume that I became a fossil fuel champion due to some combination of 1) fossil fuel industry money and 2) my personal background—e.g., my family was involved in fossil fuels, or I grew up in some pro-fossil fuel area.
Both couldn’t be more wrong.
I became a fossil fuel champion before I even knew anyone in the industry, let alone had a financial connection.
I had no family connection to fossil fuels.
And I grew up in a liberal area, Chevy Chase, MD, that had no connection to fossil fuels.
The key to understanding why I became a fossil fuel champion is a decision I made when I was a 19-year-old computer science major at Duke University: to become a philosopher—specifically, a practical philosopher.
Many think of philosophy as an impractical subject.
But at its core, philosophy is the most practical subject, because it studies the fundamental ideas that guide all our thinking and action.
Different philosophical ideas drive hugely different outcomes.
The practicality of philosophy made me fall in love with the field.
I decided to become a practical philosopher—using my understanding of philosophical thinking methods, assumptions, and values to help people think more clearly about complex issues.
Because I wanted to become a practical philosopher and get good as fast as possible, I made another controversial decision: to leave academia and not pursue a PhD—because I knew that I could develop my abilities much faster via self-directed learning and practical experience.
On several occasions in college I received physical threats for expressing my views. I decided that I would at some point learn Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. I eventually got my black belt in 2014. BJJ has kept me safe a number of times by helping me deescalate threatening situations.
I thought that a good step toward becoming a practical philosopher was to start by writing about political issues, because there was some market there for interesting thinking. I “turned pro” in my junior year of college, selling a couple op-eds for $250 each.
The good news for my early writing career was that people would publish me and pay me. The bad news was that I was very slow, often picking projects that ended up paying way below minimum wage.
At 23 I was in debt and lived with my parents for 6 months. But I was improving…
At 24 my thinking and writing were improving and I got a major opportunity: a job as a writer at the Ayn Rand Institute in SoCal. I could write full-time andwork with some smart people including ARI CEO Yaron Brook philosopher Onkar Ghate—who would be especially helpful in my energy thinking.
In my early career as a freelancer and in the think-tank world, I wrote articles applying philosophy to every conceivable subject: healthcare, economics, foreign policy, biotech, etc.
But I never found a subject that I wanted to become an expert in—until I found energy.
Part 2: Deciding to become an energy expert
My favorite subjects to apply philosophy to are 1) hugely consequential for human life and 2) being thought about in a very wrong way.
In 2007, at age 27, I realized that energy policy met both criteria.
I realized that energy policy is incredibly consequential because the more cost-effective energy is, the more human beings can use machines to be productive and prosperous. The less cost-effective energy is, the more human beings must use manual labor—which dooms them to poverty.
I realized that energy policy is being thought about in a very wrong way, because it commits a very basic thinking error with regard to our leading source of energy, fossil fuels: it considers only their negative side-effects while ignoring their benefits.
It should be common sense that when we’re evaluating what to do about a product or technology, we consider not only its negative side-effects but also its benefits. For example, we do this when deciding whether to take a prescription drug. But not with fossil fuels.
Here are 3 crucial facts about fossil fuels’ benefits I realized were widely ignored:
1. Fossil fuels are a uniquely cost-effective form of energy.
2. Cost-effective energy is essential to human flourishing.
3. Billions are suffering and dying for lack of cost-effective energy.
The fact about fossil fuels that most changed my mind was: fossil fuels give us an incredible ability to master climate. Most people have no idea that fossil fuels have not only contributed to 1° C of warming in the last 100+ years, but also to a 98% decline in climate-related disaster deaths!
I learned that the widely-respected IPCC does not acknowledge the massive decrease in climate-related disaster deaths driven by fossil fuels. This is as disreputable as a panel on polio that doesn’t acknowledge the massive decrease in polio deaths driven by the polio vaccine.
I also learned that in addition to ignoring the benefits of fossil fuels, many of our leading thinkers and institutions have a track record of catastrophizing the side-effects of fossil fuels—predicting fossil fuels would make life terrible when in fact they made it far better.
For example, as I document in Chapter 2 of Fossil Future, our leading thinkers and institutions predicted for decades that fossil fuels would drive catastrophic resource depletion, pollution, and climate danger, whereas in fact FFs drove huge improvements in all these areas.
My philosophy background enabled me to understand why our leading thinkers made the errors of ignoring the benefits of fossil fuels and catastrophizing the side-effects: they accept, sometimes knowingly sometimes not, anti-human assumptions and anti-human values.
The major philosophical reason leading thinkers catastrophize the side-effects of fossil fuels is a false assumption I call the “delicate nurturer assumption”: Earth unimpacted by humans exists in a delicate, nurturing (stable, safe, sufficient) balance that human impact ruins.
Insofar as you believe that Earth is a “delicate nurturer,” you believe that human beings are “parasite polluters” whose impact on Earth will inevitably lead to disaster. That’s why catastrophists keep thinking their next catastrophe prediction will be the one that’s right.
The truth is that Earth is not a “delicate nurturer” but “wild potential”(dynamic, deficient, dangerous) and human beings are “producer-improvers” who can impact it for the better. When you recognize this truth you value human impact and expect us overcome problems.
The major philosophical reason leading thinkers ignore fossil fuels’ benefits is that their primary moral goal is not advancing human flourishing on Earth but eliminating human impact on Earth. To them fossil fuels’ benefits are unimportant or even bad (because they impact Earth a lot).
Observe that leading opponents of fossil fuels are not just hostile to fossil fuels but also to nuclear, hydro, and the mining and development involved in solar and wind. Always because of their impact on Earth. Clearly they prioritize eliminating impact over human flourishing.
Realizing that leading thinkers and institutions were driven by anti-human ideas to ignore fossil fuels’ benefits and catastrophize their side-effects made me scared and motivated—scared their policy prescriptions were deadly, and motivated to learn the truth for myself.
I decided to become an energy expert who used pro-human philosophical ideas to evaluate our energy choices and made good policy recommendations. Above all I wanted to learn about the full benefits and side-effects of fossil fuels and spread the truth far and wide.
When I looked at the full benefits and side-effects of fossil fuels from a human flourishing perspective, I quickly discovered that, as the subtitle of my book Fossil Future says, “global human flourishing requires more oil, coal, and natural gas—not less.”
Part 3: Starting a pro-human energy movement
To publicize my pro-human approach to energy I decided to start my own organization that would be the base of a pro-human energy movement as well as a pro-human approach to other forms of industry: the Center for Industrial Progress.
I decided to make my organization a for-profit business, on the premise that if my ideas were as valuable as I thought the public would be willing to pay enough for my books and speeches for me to be able to make a decent living. And I liked the discipline of the market.
For more on my business model and how I have maintained intellectual independence, read this article and/or watch the last 30 minutes of this interview with Jordan Peterson.
My initial strategy to prove the value of my pro-human energy thinking was to make my approach known by taking the fight to people I disagreed with: by challenging them to public debates and even debating them at their rallies.
I debated a Greenpeace rep in 2011, leading anti-fossil fuel activist Bill McKibben in 2012, a Sierra Club leader in 2013, etc. While I didn’t know anywhere near as much then as now, these debates started showing the merits of my pro-human approach.
I also took my views to anti-fossil-fuel protests, including Occupy Wall Street in 2011 and the People’s Climate March in 2014–where I stood against 300,000 protestors with a giant I Love Fossil Fuels sign.
I did debates and crashed protests to prove a point: my pro-human way of thinking about energy is right, my conclusion that we need more fossil fuels is right, and my conviction in these things is far greater than the conformist pseudo-conviction of the anti-fossil-fuel movement.
In 2013, an agent watched my debate with Bill McKibben and was impressed. He read an essay I had written on “the moral case for fossil fuels” and thought he could get a major publisher to pick it up. I was skeptical, but he was right—and a game-changing book was born.
Part 4: The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels—influential and vindicated, yet ignored by the mainstream
I was given 6 months to write The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels and somehow I did this. Two big helps were my researcher Steffen Henne, who knows a ton and is good at catching errors, and my philosopher friend Greg Salmieri, who helped me quickly clarify my thinking.
For a book that took 6 months and many did not expect to succeed, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels did incredibly well, becoming a New York Timesbestseller. It influenced many elected officials as well as many CEOs—some of whom finally started standing up for their beleaguered industry.
Most importantly, the book was right. It correctly predicted that any negative impacts of fossil fuel use would be outweighed by the unique benefits of fossil fuels to human flourishing—including their unrivaled ability to provide low-cost, reliable energy to billions.
Even though it was very popular, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels was largely ignored by mainstream thinkers and outlets. Instead of engaging me they preferred to pretend that I, my book, and my pro-human arguments didn’t exist. But this strategy was doomed to fail as I found new ways to spread my ideas.
Part 5: Energy Talking Points: Pro-human, pro-freedom messaging and policies for politicians and citizens
In 2020, I created Energy Talking Points to solve a crucial problem: elected officials as well as citizens who wanted to promote pro-energy, pro-freedom policies didn’t have good messaging—the right words for the right situation.
The first phase of Energy Talking Points was to a create a website, EnergyTalkingPoints.com, that offered concise, powerful, well-referenced messaging on many energy issues from a pro-human, pro-freedom perspective. This got great feedback from politicians and active citizens.
After pioneering a new caliber of messaging with Energy Talking Points, I created a program exclusively for major elected officials and staff to give them custom, current guidance on energy messaging. This program now has members from 170+ major political offices.
My energy talking points greatly increased the world’s exposure to my pro-human energy thinking and the case for more fossil fuel use. This has made it impossible for mainstream thinkers to ignore my latest and most important project: Fossil Future.
Part 6: Fossil Future: An irrefutable and unstoppable case for more fossil fuel use
While pro-human thinking about fossil fuels has been on the rise, it has been no match for the growing scope of the anti-fossil-fuel movement, which has totally mainstreamed the murderous goal of rapidly eliminating fossil fuels.
I spent a lot of time thinking about what I could do, as the world’s leading champion of fossil fuels, to change the world’s deadly anti-fossil-fuel trajectory. I decided the most impactful thing I could do was write a new book that was 10 times better than The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels.
Based on the success of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, which I wrote in 6 months knowing much less about energy and persuasion than I do now, I believed that a new level of impact was possible if I wrote a totally new book about fossil fuels.
I spent over 3 years making Fossil Future the clearest, most persuasive, most comprehensive, most current book possible about fossil fuels and what our policy should be going forward. I believe it’s at a different level than any other energy book—and many agree with me.
Fossil Future begins by proving that our leading institutions are evaluating fossil fuels based on an anti-human philosophical framework. It offers an alternative “human flourishing framework.” Both its exposé of the establishment and its alternative framework are hard to refute.
As Fossil Future shows, once you look at the benefits and side-effects of fossil fuels from a human flourishing perspective, everything changes. Fossil fuels go from a world-destroying addiction to a world-saving value that actually makes us safer from climate.
Happily, Fossil Future is already having a huge positive impact. In its first week it outsold every book on the NYT bestseller list but one, in some cases, selling 5 times more. It has gotten great reviews from leading thinker after leading thinker. Here are some of them.
Most excitingly, I get endless comments from readers about how Fossil Future changed how they thought about energy and climate. This shows that Fossil Future really is great at winning hearts and minds.
Attempts to refute Fossil Future have uniformly been straw-men that totally misrepresent the contents of the book.
The most prominent attempt to attack Fossil Future shows the strength of the book and the weakness of my opponents. The Washington Post attempted to smear me, a lifelong individualist, as racist. I destroyed their attempt. This is the best they can do?
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein
How I stopped The Washington Post from canceling me and Fossil Future
Two weeks ago, I wrote here about The Washington Post’s plan to cancel me and Fossil Future: Yesterday I woke up to find out from my publicist that The Washington Post, in response to the book about energy and climate they had been sent (Fossil Future…
My ideas are winning. At this point it’s nearly impossible to find a prominent person who will debate me, particularly in an extended time format where they won’t be saved by the bell.
Pro-human thinking about energy can’t be stopped. There is now a fast-growing group of “energy humanists” including Michael Shellenberger, Bjorn Lomborg, and Steve Koonin, who are all compellingly arguing that the benefits of fossil fuels outweigh their negative side-effects.
I’m just getting started. I am going to keep giving speeches championing fossil fuels, keep appearing in the media, keep debating anyone who will debate me, and keep working with elected officials to develop and promote pro-human, pro-freedom energy policies.
If you a student or educator, you can actually get a free copy of my book Fossil Future, courtesy of Young America’s Foundation, by going here.
Please join me in changing the world of energy. You can make a huge impact by spreading the word about my work—especially EnergyTalkingPoints.com and Fossil Future. These resources are incredibly persuasive, and if they’re spread widely enough, the truth will be unstoppable.
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Once more, I “copied another student’s homework.” I hope you don’t mind. Let me know what you think in the comments.
Practical Philosophy????? Where has Epstein been the last 3 years? Has he never heard of Klaus Schwab? Bill Gates? WEF? The climate change Nazis? The Great Reset? The fact that they want us all to own nothing and be happy? Eat bugs and ride bicycles in our 15 minute cities/concentration camps? This is Alice in Wonderland stuff that he is spouting—not that he’s wrong. He needs to wake up and smell the bug juice that WEF and the media are serving us all.
he knows all this and is focussing on what he can do in his field
energy is a critical attack vector on us, maybe the most important one
africa will starve first if they get everyone to believe this carbon garbage
Robert PLEASE GET HIM TO ADDRESS PEAK OIL…is it true, how can the economics of not easily accessible oil anymore …all of that. It is something that Chris Martenson talks about alot in terms of the economy…and Martenson’s on our side….he uprooted himself five years ago and now is a farmer…because he saw it coming?
peak oil is a myth, we have oil and other fossil fuels that can last possibly 1000 years
Read Alex’s books for more
these scarcity themes are psychopathic and designed to create anxiety and justify genocide
one less thing for you to worry about
also see my Patrick Moore interview and essays and I also rec his recent book
Ok thanks…what I am looking at is the increasing cost of getting it out of the ground…and I suspect a lot of it has to do with govt regs…but thanks I will.
For some reason, I never beleived oil was dead dinosaurs, nor that it was finite…to me it seems like our earth inside makes oil…we just have to wait for it to refill?
Old fracked wells have been found to recharge themselves and can produce more oil. Who knew? We are still discovering thngs.
I’ve known about Epstein and his points countering the global warming narrative. Socially, there’s little to argue with, however, no matter how fake “global warming” is, fossil fuels are sources of pollution from extraction to burning. Lack of responsibility from drillers/transporters and their bought politicians has allowed oil/gas companies to put profit ahead of responsibility. Hydrocarbon particulate emissions absolutely cause disease and death.
Fossil fuels can be a more viable narrative if the companies involved were held to task when a pipeline bursts, when fracking and polluting water supplies, when a ship runs aground and leaks, when a train derails, etc. Fossil fuel viability aside, the fact that the companies can do obvious harm and get away w/it needs to end.
In 1974, the car companies said they would be put out of business because they needed to add a sub $200 catalytic converter to cars. They’re all still here. I believe they bitched about lead being removed from gas too. Both legislations and latter increased emission standards have not hurt the car industry or the fossil fuel industry, but have saved untold lives. An easy compromise that needs to continually improve.
Additionally, newer nuclear technologies are reasonably safe and can burn up current waste fuel rods and provide “localized” energy with smaller grids.
All of the above are reasonable expectations that I’m not aware Epstein will advocate for and I don’t know if he criticizes the oil industry for their never ending supply-side games that rig global market prices and hurt personal wealth/sovereignty. So he does come across as a shill in many ways. Whether he is or isn’t, I don’t know.
Lastly, rockefellers are the biggest segment of the oil industry and drove petroleum based pharma, eugenics, wars, WHO, WEF, a recent “lab leaked” virus and more. Be real careful of who you are cheering for until you know who is who and why they say what they say.
All important and no-one in this game is advocating irresponsible earth stewardship. read Epstein’s books they elaborate
There is still no substitute for cars. Until then, we are doomed to 15 minute cities.
Yes, oil has driven a lot of evils, but also a lot of good. Maybe we need to decentralize the industry…or something.
You may be doomed, but I’m not. I make my own future, not the assholes.
we need dogs like you in this fight
If I were younger, I’d be right there with you.
Oil is almost all good
I do hate getting drawn into debates about (types) of fuel. Itu2019s not the discussion free people should be having when it comes to energy. I do believe in free enterprise and independent businessesu2014but not everything must be for profit, especially utilities (sidewalks, roads, water, communications AND Energy, which should be free for everyone; almost free, that is. Follow me, doc. Electricity cost ZERO beyond Fair-Trade Taxes collected to pay for functional superconductor (a/c & d/c) infrastructures, and no fossil or liquid fuels, whatsoever, are necessary for it; energy. There are literally infinite ways to collect up and generate electricity. Itu2019s everywhere. My BIG issue with energy isnu2019t the type or method to obtain electricity for everything humans needu2014which works its way out via honest democracyu2019s of naturally-stable, centered, majority-Independent peoplesu2014but itu2019s the MONSTERS who charge people beyond fair taxes for an abundance made scarce for profit. Again, Electricity is Free, itu2019s just the infrastructure problems humans need to iron out to free themselves from the money-junky whores manipulating the u201Cfor-profitu201D energy industry. Interesting article and story, doc. Thanks for keeping me thinking.
close to exactly on point
The knowledge of what is a tax is no longer taught. I get weird looks when I tell people that the FEE they just paid to get into a Park is a Tax. As is their car tags. BTW while I think of it, the various Taxes for those who smoke is 67%, which is going up again. While I don’t like the practice, it is wrong to ban it like Newsom wants to do or keep taxing it. And do wish my 2 boys who complained about their dads smoking, I divorced my first one I wouldn’t tolerate him abusing my first 3 boys, and Doctors were promoting it at one time, never took up the habit. My eldest (52) faces a Heart catheterization on the 14th. Will it be a Stent(s) or a Bypass or both, won’t know till the Cardio looks at the arteries. Whatever sent the doctor to avoiding son to the ER scared him into stopping. He’d already dropped to 1 pack from 2 a day.
I’d like to know more about this National Divorce as Idaho is adopting counties from another state. We here in Tennessee have 4 major BLUE Counties that think they run the State and Ignore State Laws.
But someone just introduced a bill that would allow the people, the agencies, the judge and jury’s the governor and your state reps to NULLIFY ANY UNCONSTITUTIONAL FEDERAL MANDATE/RULING, etc. OVERREACH.
If you guys pass this, and espeically if you re-establish State Banks….I’m moving to TN.
Whats a good location (non blue??)
Depends on what weather you like, the West is hot and humid, we hit 110 this summer with little rain, the East is cold and snowy in the winter, Middle is good for hunting, fishing, farms, and boating. Land Between the Lakes is gorgeous and covers both TN and KY, with lots of small towns. I’d want out in the country, at least an hour or more from Memphis (Worst), Nashville #2, Knoxville, or Chattanooga. They are all FULL BLUE. Away from colleges too. The trouble is they are where the biggest Medical is. https://www.roadsnacks.net/most-conservative-cities-in-tennessee/
Much obliged.
Alex Epstein is a breath of fresh air. He is right as our earth was created for us humans to live in with all the materials that we might need. The problem is greedy people who want all the resources for themselves and make life difficult for others with their elaborate rules and restrictions so they can control mankind with their nonsense.
resources are almost unlimited
Yes, I agree. Mother Earth is a living breathing entity that we are most delighted to live in close proximity to her many beauties. Now if mankind could just get over themselves we could have a happy world!
Peak oil please Robert. I am crazy and believe that we could drill Alasaka, and by the time we exhuast that field, we humans would have invented a good substitute….
Please? It drives me crazy …..can he please look at the economics of Peak oil (if he can disentagle it from the governments constant interference..) and give us an answer?
So how does he succeed convincing people in this psyops climate when you, I and millions of others have been fired, deplatformed, censored and sometimes bumped off for speakng the truth on Covid? I’d love to see your book become a “New York Times bestseller!” Ain’t ever gonna happen.
Joel, he’s a specialist the whole picture is too much for the mainstream
Gas is Cheaper than electricity. WHEN DID WE HIRE A KING NANNY? Telling us what Stove we can have. I thought this was a Free Republic, not a Dictatorship. https://gailhonadle.substack.com/p/when-did-we-hire-a-king-nanny-telling
Lowe’s is already warning those who are remodeling their kitchens. I’m quite sure Alex would do a better job. It impacts a lot more than just home stoves, where gas is cheaper for the purchaser than an Electric Stove. Of course, they had to add in their Racist boloney. Biden owns 4, one for each of his homes, Trumpka says Gas Stoves based on 1 dubious study increased Asthma by 12%. Biden got out of the Nam Draft by claiming falsely he had it while playing HS Football. Another one of his falsehoods.
We moved a lot, as Military families typically do, you take what stove that comes with a rental unit. Base housing was not for lower Ranks. Still isn’t. I would love a Gas Stove. Wonder what Iron Chefs like Cat Cora would say about having to deal with STOVEGATE? All great Chefs cook on Gas Stoves and Charcoal Grills.
And if we look back there was way more SMOG in the Industrial Revolution. The Earth is still here. IF we can’t keep the Enviro Wackos from destroying our Food and Climate. At 74 I’ve seen how it swings, and in different areas. China has a lot more SMOG. Doesn’t take a Ph’D to understand the basics. They want to force their will on others and let the government spend a lot of money doing it they can then SCAM off with, or write another stupid book full of false information.
I agree w/ Alex on pretty much everything… except: The Polio vaccine was a scam…read: u201C Dissolving Illusionsu201D( new edition coming soon) by Dr Susan Humphries. And u201C Turtles All The Way Downu201D… and follow Dr Sherri Tenpenny ( and some u2018recoveringu2019 physicians, like Pierre Kory), and we got a deal!!!!!
yes he is not expert on this.
I can’t imagine a starving plastic surgeon, even one who retired early.
Epstein rediscovered the Econ 101. The problem with Econ 101 is that nothing is true, but you don’t get that until you study more.
Why is everything in the extreme? Either slaughter all the coastal birds with the bird blender windmills or pollute our air with dirty power plants. Why not use the scrubber tech that we ALREADY have for the power plants, use solar where appropriate, put the windmills away from the coasts, and just buy the damned Chinese solar panels because we already wasted one or two billion $$$$ proving we can’t make them.
Solar panels are not the place to decide we need strategic US production. There are tons of solar panel and other tech all over China. INSTEAD, let’s make sure we can REPAIR the nuclear power plants that we already own by making sure we can produce those parts in the USA. Now? We rely on parts from China.
And why is everyone so juiced about China? It isn’t their turn to babysit the USA or refrain from trying to BUY our corrupt government and corporate leaders. They aren’t our allies. We have to hold our own leaders to task, jailing the corrupt ones who sell us out.
Look at the board of WEF and the CFR. You find the same big US corporations running the show.
The first effing thing we need to do is to MAKE OUR OWN ELECTRICAL TRANSFORMERS.
They all come from China.
IT takes 2 years to get one.
Our government hates us and wants us dead or slaves.
Ah, transformers… Totally agree!
Funny story: After I finished a five year stint on a Cybersecurity Round Table, I asked former DHS Sec Napolitano if it were true that all the transformers come from China. She said, “No, I think some still come from Germany.” Everyone else in the room was shocked because they thought the transformer fairies delivered them.
Germany might not have enough energy to make them anymore…they are now taking turns with the factories and the little energy they have left.
Also, there needs to be scrapping of nonsense, improvements, and investigation of other energy production methods, including serious and unbiased trials, I’d suggest:
* Completely junk the destructive CO2 “Green House Effect” nonsense, if necessary by legal action.
* Ensure that diesel engines either consistently produce little particulate matter or the exhaust has a decent particulate scrubber, because the release of particulate quantity can be quite nasty during cold weather. Petrol, “Gas”, didn’t have that problem.
* Solve the Nitrogen Oxide production/pollution problem with ICEs (Internal Combustion Engines), so that more efficient Lean Burn is practical.
* Ban EVs (Electric Vehicles) as a mass replacement for ICE vehicles, because there are uneconomic end-to-end and pose nasty resource sourcing, safety and disposal problems.
* Ban power-generation windmills in all but some consistently windy areas, because most are a net loss, because of costs, short-lifespan, and unreliable power supply, including none during “too-fast” wind, which requires significant redundant power fossil fuel power generation plant and possibly less efficient use of it, thus effectively a net loss.
* Try safer and fast-breeder atomic fission reactors, preferable without risky, and often polluting, water cooling.
* Stop the pointless high spending on “White Elephant” magnetic-bottle (e.g. Tokamaks) and laser hot-fusion projects, and instead try cold/electric-plasma fusion projects, like those planned as spin-offs of the SAFIRE Plasma Sun Experiment. Electric/Plasma Universe theory makes a lot more sense than the Standard Physics Model, Einstein’s Relativity, and Quantum Physics, and is effectively a unifying theory of nature.
* Try modulated-DC, alleged-over-unity, water electrolysis, then scaling this up, to fuel gas turbines, and other mobile ICE and catalytic power plant.
* Try power collection from natural EMF/RF in the atmosphere, e.g. using tall, tuned, resonant structures, then scaling this up.
* Try to make water batteries/power-collectors using Structured Water Theory.
* Some of Tesla’s work suggests that other over-unity power plant is possible.
* Isaac Newton was clearly corrupt and wrong about “gravity”, what if he was wrong/lying about energy too!?
A number of these alternative power sources may have been ignored/memory-holed because establishment science and corrupt corporation didn’t want to lose power, wealth, or admit that they were wrong, and corruption was probably part of this too!
The real climate emergency is trying to slow Coal plants. That is not happening here, where we are working to close Coal plants. Meanwhile, China permitted the equivalent of two new coal plants a week last year.
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1160441919/china-is-building-six-times-more-new-coal-plants-than-other-countries-report-fin
Yes, the Chinese are not stupid. Western world is. WHY in God’s name have all our representatives and our media been trying to brainwash everyone for the last 50 years? Because they want our world GONE. Trust me, there will be Enough Energy for the Elite.
I call it EEE.
That is what they are planning.
Coal is cleaner than you suspect in the USA but nuclear could easily, cleanly, and rapidly replace it if we could get around all the “green” agendas, translated: psychopath globalists
If one were keep digging into this subject you may find we have “Abiotic Oil” not “Fossil Fuels” and why there is no real shortage and old oil fields keep producing and are sought after fiercely. It’s a product so important world wars are started over it. Worth keeping an open mind on it at least. http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/Geopolitics___Eurasia/Peak_Oil___Russia/peak_oil___russia.html
YEAH!!! I always thought I was the one who thought oil is a renewable earth generated resource…so I am not a crackpot?
Mr. Epstein lost a lot of credibility when he used polio vaccine as being causally related to the dropping death rates of polio as an example for IPCC wrongful thinking. Nothing could be further from the truth. Happy to debate Mr. Epstein on his use of the vaccines dropping polio deaths. He should prepare himself by familiarizing himself with the McKinlay and McKinlay study as well as Dr. Kass presentation in 1970 for starters. For finishers, letu2019s not forget that the diagnostic criteria were changed after the vaccine was released to try to show efficacy. Dr. Salk later had some statements as a follow-up to his vaccine and its credibility to actually dropping the death rates. Of course, thatu2019s not the narrative that the AMA, Pharma, and our public health agencies would like us to believe.
Yes, disappointing but no one is perfect. Let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
all accurate but everyone cannot be expert on everything
Alex is bright but not medical
Your readers are thus informed, thanks again,
WOW. PLEASE ASK him to address the PEAK OIL conundrum…that we are running out of easily accessible oil, and consequently it is not economic to pull it out of the ground anymore…?
You know, the Peak Oil Theory which is what they are using to drag us all back to the stone age?
no conundrum
myth
“This is as disreputable as a panel on polio that doesn’t acknowledge the massive decrease in polio deaths driven by the polio vaccine.” Your comment.
I must ask, please research this subject. Because there is a much debated facts about this claim.
I stopped reading your article at this point
I will however go back and finish reading.
You picked it up. This was Alex not me.
Perhaps, if we ALL stopped buying cheapy, China, crap, we wouldn’t be having this argument about fossil fuels. China produces most of the #$&*! That ends up in OUR landfills. Does anyone discuss the amount of ” stuff”, one buys on a regular basis? How about all the crap we put in ” storage”! Let’s be realistic and talk about consumerism, medical prescription waste, garbage foods we purchase and eat. It’s not utopia but everyone of us can change.
Thank you Sir. I saw a small video that basically asked everyone to look around their home & work environment to find anything that didn’t involve FFs in their production. Result? Not a thing.
Then posed the question of what was used in manufacturing the wind turbines & solar panels?
Exactly FFs. The anti FFs brigade are blinkered to put it politely. The majority of the climate doom mongers are all suffering from HUAS Head Up Arse Syndrome.