Why big oil conquered the world. By James Corbett on Youtube.

Make of it what you will.

Some more interesting stuff from James.

Now we may be getting somewhere
Fast!
The missing link has been found:
A giant Elon Musk Powerpack built in South Australia in slightly less than 100 days with the capacity to store wind farm energy for 30,000 homes just started to supply power to the electricity grid on Thursday, November 30, 2017, during peak demand hours.
We're on the road to be able to utilize wind energy even when the wind doesn't blow .....

From the Runtime Milestone Thread:
Congratulations, David Autumns
Very interesting concept in all of its logic and simplicity (in theory), indeed.
However, you may need to have some topography backing it up.
It looks as if it could be made profitable within a reasonable span of years.
Are there any plans to repeat the success in the UK?
You shouldn't have a poem for bjdbest, by any chance?
Or one of your astonishing photos?

16,000 Additional Wind Turbines Required to Power British Electric Car Fleet
Wind farms would need to ‘cover whole of Scotland’ to power Britain’s electric vehicles

SCOTLAND would need to be entirely covered by wind farms in order to power all of Britain’s electric cars, according to a leading academic.

By PAULA MURRAY, EXCLUSIVE
PUBLISHED: 00:01, Sun, Oct 29, 2017

Jack Ponton, emeritus professor of engineering at Edinburgh University, said another 16,000 turbines would be required in order to replace petrol and diesel cars with electric vehicles.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has pledged to phase out the internal combustion engine by 2032 – eight years ahead of the rest of the UK.

But Prof Ponton said that, even if the issues of power generation and charging points were sorted out, the National Grid could simply not cope with the increased demand.

He said: “It is a nice idea as electric cars are much more efficient, cleaner and actually simpler devices than the current internal combustion engine vehicles.

“Technically, it is an excellent idea. But the problem starts when you begin to think, ‘Where are you going to get the energy to run them?’.

“I’ve seen three different estimates for the amount of new generating capacity that we would need if were going to have all the cars in Britain running on electricity.

“The most detailed calculation says we’d be looking at five Hinkley nuclear stations to run this. It would be the best way, the most efficient way to get electricity because nuclear power stations can run 90 per cent of the time.

“If you want to do this with wind turbines, you are talking about 16,000 more wind turbines, four times as many as we have at the moment, and I’ve estimated that would occupy some 90,000 square kilometres, which is approximately the size of Scotland.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/10/30/16000-...itish-electric-car-fleet/
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The Good Energy Con
December 4, 2017
But what they also don’t explain to customers is just what all of this precious renewable energy is actually costing.

They do not give any figures of MWh sales, but based on their declared figures of 71000 customers and electricity revenue of £55m, we are probably looking at about 426 GWh.

Using their mix of solar, wind and bio, the subsidy costs paid via Renewable Obligation Certificates would amount to £23.6m in a full year.

These costs are of course not paid by Good Energy’s customers, but by all electricity users. If all of the cost was actually added to Good Energy bills, they would rise by 43%.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com...od-energy-con/#more-31125