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.
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.
… 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.
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.
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.
A very good read! Thank you for the research!
Thank you for your support, I enjoy your writing as well.
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.
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.
… 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.
It should be a requirement for these lame brains to drop and dress out a wild hog in TX.
Now thats "sustainable"!
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.
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.
Late reading, but great writing, this shows just how important energy is and how basically everything is energy.
Thank you, Pablo!
New Intel plant just down the road needed a big gas line.
https://siliconheartland.newalbanyohio.org/
https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/news/2023/01/05/columbia-gas-seeks-approval-for-natural-gas-pipeline-for-intel-
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.
Very interesting read!
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.
Thank you for the excellent comments.
Obfuscate and bamboozle, that's what they do..
Wow! After reading this and the inserted analysis of the energy and wood intensive processes involved
illegitimi non carborundum.
Great saying !
I think I will have it added to my memorial !