Olive Grove Eggs on Nostr: The anti green energy brigade are right about needing fossil fuel as the backstop ...
The anti green energy brigade are right about needing fossil fuel as the backstop baseload at a national level. I'm sat here in a raincloud drawing power from a grid not running on sunshine or wind. But what if that need for constant energy for all is a poorly conceived notion? Is it really so bad that I'm not as productive economically today as I was last week?
There's a famous story from the gulag, can't remember who wrote it, but the only ones who survived were those who slept furthest from the stove.
Obviously someone's going to say that with endless energy supplies the fire never goes down. And I would respond that humans who don't know hardship are the weakest, physically and mentally. That's not some macho 30-something alpha male BS, the stove story backs up the observable fact that life , like muscle, only gets stronger in adversity.
So why do we strive for perfect energy supplies?
To be the most productive people in the graveyard?
There's a famous story from the gulag, can't remember who wrote it, but the only ones who survived were those who slept furthest from the stove.
Obviously someone's going to say that with endless energy supplies the fire never goes down. And I would respond that humans who don't know hardship are the weakest, physically and mentally. That's not some macho 30-something alpha male BS, the stove story backs up the observable fact that life , like muscle, only gets stronger in adversity.
So why do we strive for perfect energy supplies?
To be the most productive people in the graveyard?