Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Biden CANCELS Alaska Oil Drilling | The Kyle Kulinski Show" video.

  1. ENGINEER HERE: Sorry for the long comment. 1) There was always going to be an energy transition. Ever since the industrial revolution we have had some sort of transition (or major upgrade) around every 50 years because that's the approximate lifetime of most large scale energy systems like power stations. Nothing we built lasts. When it wears out it needs replacing. Normally transitions happen when we build the next power station or next fleet of trains or ships or planes. For example there was the transition from coal to diesel for trains and ships. After WW2 there was the transition from piston engines to jet engines in the airline industry. Bottom line is we don't build what we did 50 years earlier. So there's always the transitions going on. 2) This transition is vastly different from previous transitions because we have had a lot of INTERFERENCE. The worst have been ECONOMISTS mostly operating out of central banks and think tanks. Economists have been closely followed by Lawyers and Greenies. Lawyers because they interfere in anything and everything they can and Greenies because even though they mean well they are basically ignorant of what's PRACTICAL. What none of the Economists, Lawyers or Greenies get is that their interference HAS DELAYED the transition and during that delay all the energy infrastructure including the power stations got older and older. Power stations are physically big complex lumps of hardware that cannot simply be replaced by dialling up Amazon. Most take close to a decade to plan, design, approve and construct. nuclear power stations are even worse. Hinkley Point C in Britain took 7 years to design and approve and will take another 10 to construct - 17 years in total. Here in Australia we have done what other places like California, Britain and Germany to name a few places. We have been turning OFF OLD power stations (6 so far). We have not replaced 1 of them and have not a single plan to replace them up for discussion. You can't simply go putting up windmills and solar panels to replace that stuff. You can't simply say build nuclear as many have been saying. YOU HAVE TO PLAN IT or it becomes the stuff ups we've all been experiencing. This is the real reason for the energy crisis. The interference by Economists, Lawyers and Greenies in moving forwards. And so we are clear the lawyers and economists are bought and paid for by various business interests. 3) We simply don't have enough stuff to do the energy transition. Engineers like Simon Michaux and others have tried explaining this people. We simply don't have enough of what's needed (Lithium, Cobalt, Copper,... etc) to replace the 1,500,000,000 (YES 1.5 BILLION) cars that exist in the world. PLUS making a car requires a lot of energy. You have to dig stuff out of the ground, then process it, then send it to a refinery, then send it to a factory or to a string of factories as it progresses through the supply chain. Cars are made of various metals, various plastics, different cloths and glass AND ALL THAT STUFF REQUIRES ENERGY. After the 1.5Billion cars there's the trucks, buses, ships and airplanes. After all that there's still all those consumer good you all want. Like the computer you are on RIGHT NOW. Because of all the interference, some of it by well meaning people, we are not getting through this.
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