Some countries, eighty-five of them if you believe the reporting, are trying to create a climate confab cabal outside the UN’s failed COP process, and why not? COP 30 was a disaster, and how are they all supposed to tap into the trillions in wasted “climate money” if they can’t all agree on pointless targets no one is ever going to try to make. It’s not like they’re Vermont or Minnesota, the former of which refuses to count inconvenient emissions, while the latter is going from a significant surplus to a deficit in pursuit of it.
They think this is all serious, and it is if there’s money in it, and there is, so how is it that blue states in America can’t but lose billions in the pursuit of the impossible? There is no net zero on any scale short of living in a cave with nothing but rudimentary tools and no fire. They are gaslighting you, as are the 85 so-called First International Conference on the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels.
You can’t make anything, especially mythological beats like wind and solar, without them. But there are still wealth marks, and some of them are actual countries filled with guilt-ridden, virtue-signaling white people.
Kudos for seeing how impotent the UN process is, and there could be more cash to throw around if you cut out the United Nations’ bureaucratic overhead. The problem there is that the green agenda is, itself, a lot of overhead. Lots of costs to make the electricity generated or not appear cheaper. You have to pay out incentives to build, incentives to operate, payments to turn it off or on, handouts are the operative word, and while it almost appears to bring the price of the KWH down, you pay two to three times more by other means to fund the scam.
Everyone in that food chain wants to get fed, so the Just Transition folks are looking for all the grace they can carry before it all falls apart along with civilization, but why would they care? They’d be rich, and they can live someplace not quite so stupid as to buy into the green lie.
The UK, for example, is the poster child for why Net Zero is dead in the water in real terms. The future is AI. Modern economies will stumble and fall without it, but Britain just fumbled a massive deal with OpenAI. It was part of a trade deal with the US that would bring US tech firms to the UK. So, what happened? “OpenAI pointed to high energy costs and regulatory uncertainty.”
It’s tough going for any nation hoping to be an AI superpower when it can’t power the AI.
The UK has been shutting down cheap, reliable energy for several decades and gone nearly all in on wind (mostly) and solar. You can’t run an early 21st-century country on that, so there’s no way you can run a modernizing one, even absent AI. I can’t see the UK going, yeah, let’s get back to nuclear, or even SMRs, not at least until this disaster, which the WUWT author suggests is more about the regulatory climate than electricity costs.
I suspect it is not so much the cost as the regulatory threat that is of most concern. Tech businesses have, of course, long known about our high electricity prices.
AI is here to stay, whatever the climate zealots may think. And they can pretty much be built anywhere. AI will be an ever increasing part of British life, just as the internet was 30 years ago and desktop computers a decade earlier.
We have the skilled workers to run it. Simply exporting our emissions to other countries achieves nothing.
You can pass the operating costs down into the cost of the service, but if you can’t trust the regulators or the politicians at the end of their leash (you decide who is on which end), then it makes no sense at all to even break ground, and that’s what’s happened.
It is also nearly impossible to fix the bureaucratic state, no matter where it is in its conquest and consumption of everything.
And while I know Jupiter Rising was not exactly a hit with the Sci-Fi genre fanbase (I thought it was fun), the scenes where she tries to give up her title (to Earth) offer a very realistic look at what happens to bureaucracies if the needed to say, keep track of and or run the whole galaxy (California’s is very near to that point now, in cumbersomeness).
Granite Staters, by the way, could send a signal of confidence to businesses all across New England by keeping Republicans in charge of everything. For years, companies likely stayed away because we kept flipping legislatures from pro-business, anti-tax Republicans to pro-tax, anti-business Democrats.
You want cheaper energy, lower taxes, better jobs, and more of them. Vote Republican. If you want higher taxes, fewer jobs, and more expensive everything, especially gas and electricity, elect Democrats. And you don’t even have to believe me. Just look at the blue states around us and across the country.
No matter what the federal government does, those places are more dangerous, more expensive, and they all jump into the big green hole that never delivers unless paying more for less is the goal.
