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PenguinEmpireReports's avatar

A very good read! Thank you for the research!

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Tuco's Child's avatar

Thank you for your support, I enjoy your writing as well.

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Dave's avatar

Thank you. Very interesting. Good reason to try to protect Taiwan from the CCP. Isn’t the same wafer technology used in the production of solar panels?

I propose that all leftists and climate change whackos agree to stop using any item involving chip technology.

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Tuco's Child's avatar

Great proposal - the 1s and 0s don't come cheap!

And there are plenty of Zeros on the leftists and climate change whackos side ;-).

Silicon in solar can be single crystal from wayers, poly-crystalline, or thin films blown down - it's dinosaur tech compared to integrated circuits, but yeah, mucho fossil to get there.

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Rick Gibson's avatar

… and the leftists and climate change folks should also give up plastics. That would leave them living a subsistence hunting and gathering lifestyle somewhere, out of touch with the rest of humanity. Meanwhile, the rest of us could get on with life.

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Tuco's Child's avatar

It should be a requirement for these lame brains to drop and dress out a wild hog in TX.

Now thats "sustainable"!

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Van Snyder's avatar

Read "Green Energy Exploitations" by Ronald Stein and Todd Royal. They make a good case that everything in modern economies depends on fossil fuels, and especially crude oil.

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Tuco's Child's avatar

Thanks for the recommendation, Uncle Ron is great.

Here is a Gedankenexperiment : show me anything in our world that has not been touched by fossil fuels in some way.

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Pablo Hill's avatar

Late reading, but great writing, this shows just how important energy is and how basically everything is energy.

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Thomas J Shepstone's avatar

Thank you, Pablo!

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Tuco's Child's avatar

Sucking down massive quantities.....

I contacted Intel to get the number of chips produced at Ocotillo - if anyone can find this number, it would be great.

In Part 2 we will discuss the energy consumed per chip.

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K.T. Lynn's avatar

Very interesting read!

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Adrian Foley's avatar

It is no wonder our legislators can’t get policy right- I doubt that 80% couldn’t get past the first 5 paragraphs. The dumbed down and incomplete calculations used for public consumption only obfuscate the real costs of “renewable” energy. If we(society)really understood the ramifications we would cease production of solar energy and strongly encourage fossil fuel exploration as well as forest management.

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Tuco's Child's avatar

Thank you for the excellent comments.

Obfuscate and bamboozle, that's what they do..

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Adrian Foley's avatar

Wow! After reading this and the inserted analysis of the energy and wood intensive processes involved

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Stephen Heins's avatar

illegitimi non carborundum.

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Tuco's Child's avatar

Great saying !

I think I will have it added to my memorial !

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