B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for January 30, 2022

Fossil fuel.

Solar power cannot replace fossil fuels. That’s a fantasy.

Sure, once the dinosaur bones age a few hundred million years.

I don’t think any scientists believe that fossil fuels came from dinosaur bones. Coal most likely formed from ancient tropical forest plants. Most Petroleum fossil fuels likely formed from decaying marine organisms.

Burning fossil fuels is burning the raw material for manufacturing plastics and we are moving rapidly into the plastic age. It’ll be short lived the way we are going.

Except fossil fuels do not come from the dinosaurs. It comes from Flora, not Fauna.The cleanest energy comes from nuclear but the oil companies have successfully demonized it into regulation stagnation.The biggest problem with solar and wind is the batteries needed for storage. The mining and manufacturing are definitely not eco-friendly.Lead… Lithium… Cobalt… problems with all of them.Lead Acid batteries are rechargeable, but very, very heavy and not all that efficient.Cobalt mining carries a high cost in human lives – the technology is already nearly prohibitively expensive even with the miners being made to work in horribly dirty and unsafe conditions – doing most of the work by hand to save the mining companies money.Lithium mines are less horrible – and the United States has one of the largest deposits of Lithium in the world under the Nevada Desert… to bad the the “Green” folks are doing everything possible to block mining of this resource needed to advance the green agenda. One of the worst NIMBY fiascos ever.

I do find it fascinating that, throughout human history, whenever energy needs increased, a more robust energy source was found to solve the problem.

Question: How much fossil fuel is used to make solar panels and wind-turbines? How much fossil fuel is used to mine the minerals to make these things? How much fossil fuel is used to refine the raw materials into something that is useful? And what do you do when these things wear out, (Solar panels have rare-earths and other toxic stuff inside them. Plus they only last for about ten years give or take a year or two.).

And good morning to you too ant (I’ll be the answer to the question in the second panel if no one else will….)

Don’t forget the tidal hydro power generator. If you’re near an ocean it’s a fairly reliable constant source. Saw it’s being built or used in Northern Europe.

Been there, done that. Still there, doing that. Nothing has changed.

I wonder if, at some time in the past, someone thought that burning up all that oil and tar that was leaking out of the ground would help clean up the environment?

Or we could use lithium, destroy the land, the environment and the people and then wait forever to recharge you car so you can go half way to the next charging station.

Biggest fear…. No more funerals and the bodies will be used for fuel…. Soylent Green!!!!!! For you younguns that was a movie in the 70s ( yes we had movies then, even in color!)

Let’s do away with gas stoves and ovens, and gas autos, and go all electric! BTW, where’s the electricity going to come from?…

Solar power won’t be an option if we don’t limit the amount of pollution of our air; more pollution, less sun!!!!!

Out for a nice Sunday Troll?

Be more curious, not judgmental. Quote Ted Lasso

I am curious. Why, in my lifetime, am I seeing the impacts of an accelerating change in climate?

Has it impacted me? Yes. After 15 straight years of visiting National Parks in the western U.S., I stopped (5 years ago) because I could no longer handle the excessive heat/temperatures. Yes, the smoke from fires was also an issue.

Republicans

Since they mentioned M. C. Escher that would appear to support the speculation of some that “B.C.” is not in fact set in prehistoric times but in a post-nuclear holocaust world. The dinosaurs are mutant lizards of course.

How do they plan on talking those old dinosaurs into giving up their bones? Old dinosaurs probably want to keep their bones for a while.

“Fossil” fuels aren’t actually composed of dinosaur remains.

Here in Scotland, 97% of our electricity needs are now from renewable sources – although more from wind power than solar.