Hello, I realise this post is a little old so I don't know if you'll see this. Thank you for recognising that Saskatchewan peeps are organic populist\socialists. The health care system and the crown corporations especially sasktel and sask power were a collective necessity with small sparse populations on a large land mass.
I can't help but wonder if the green agenda has something to do with the general uselessness of the industry. The solar energy sector in the United States comprises 40% percent of the energy workforce yet only produces 1.5% of power. I think the output of power per person ratio was something like 40 solar workers to 1 coal energy worker, and far greater than that for nuclear.
I feel like this "managerial elite" suffers from a failure to launch syndrome. Like they don't actually want anything to be built. Or function. They just want to send endless chain emails, do endless studies, tick boxes. There seems to be a genuine fear real of infrastructure. I wonder if as a society were taking on less large scale projects.
I'm sure if you go look where the resources are to make solar panels and batteries, you could make the same argument. Furthermore, it would be pretty easy to tighter your grip on Alberta, or just stockpile centuries' worth of uranium. Your argument isn't convincing to me.
The problem with nuclear power is that the establishment has gone with varieties pressurized water reactors that use solid uranium fuel rods. This decision was made to lock in a business model in which the nuclear industry makes it's money not in building and running reactors, but in fueling them.
But what if there was a readily-available nuclear fuel that doesn't include a lucrative fuel rod assembly process?
It's called thorium. It's in dirt. Everywhere. Thorium can be used in a reactor using liquid fuel (high-temperature fluoride salt). No fuel rods. Dirt cheap, inexhaustible fuel.
Learn about molten salt reactors (MSRs)/liquid fluoride thorium reactors (LFTRs) here:
And remember, not all thorium reactors are MSRs (as in your research you may come across anti-thorium info, almost all based on solid fuel thorium reactors, in an attempt by anti-nuclear activists to suppress MSR technology).
Jun 27, 2022·edited Jun 27, 2022Liked by The Evolved Psyche
Intriguing. Definitely something to keep in mind while following the developments.
Putting my Popper hat on, what event or set of events would disprove this hypothesis? Preferably, something that is likely to happen if it is wrong?
One of the theoretical objections that comes to mind is that oil extraction is vital to American petrodollar hegemony. Thus the push toward renewables must be fundamentally dishonest at the top levels of American power
I think you're onto something. One aspect you don't touch on, though, is that the manufacture of "green" energy technologies is reliant upon raw materials - rare earths in particular - that are also largely found in the same resistant polities as hydrocarbons and radioactive fuel sources.
I think the reasoning employed by the managerial class for kneecapping the energy sector varies from person to person. I haven't seen this rationale before, but I'm sure it has crossed the warped minds of some of these misguided individuals.
I think this is a great hypothesis of what is actually going on with all of this climate change fear they are jamming down our throats! Everything you wrote makes perfect sense in explaining why they hate oil and gas so much! I live in Alberta by the way and yes the Trudeau Liberal government is doing everything it can to prevent us from getting it out of the ground and from exporting it elsewhere while they happily rob us of the profits in “transfer payments “ which all end up going to Quebec who now cut out English and only recognizes French as its one official language while the other 70% of Canada speaks English and we support their province financially?!
Hello, I realise this post is a little old so I don't know if you'll see this. Thank you for recognising that Saskatchewan peeps are organic populist\socialists. The health care system and the crown corporations especially sasktel and sask power were a collective necessity with small sparse populations on a large land mass.
I can't help but wonder if the green agenda has something to do with the general uselessness of the industry. The solar energy sector in the United States comprises 40% percent of the energy workforce yet only produces 1.5% of power. I think the output of power per person ratio was something like 40 solar workers to 1 coal energy worker, and far greater than that for nuclear.
I feel like this "managerial elite" suffers from a failure to launch syndrome. Like they don't actually want anything to be built. Or function. They just want to send endless chain emails, do endless studies, tick boxes. There seems to be a genuine fear real of infrastructure. I wonder if as a society were taking on less large scale projects.
I'm sure if you go look where the resources are to make solar panels and batteries, you could make the same argument. Furthermore, it would be pretty easy to tighter your grip on Alberta, or just stockpile centuries' worth of uranium. Your argument isn't convincing to me.
The problem with nuclear power is that the establishment has gone with varieties pressurized water reactors that use solid uranium fuel rods. This decision was made to lock in a business model in which the nuclear industry makes it's money not in building and running reactors, but in fueling them.
But what if there was a readily-available nuclear fuel that doesn't include a lucrative fuel rod assembly process?
It's called thorium. It's in dirt. Everywhere. Thorium can be used in a reactor using liquid fuel (high-temperature fluoride salt). No fuel rods. Dirt cheap, inexhaustible fuel.
Learn about molten salt reactors (MSRs)/liquid fluoride thorium reactors (LFTRs) here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3rL08J7fDA&t=4416s
And remember, not all thorium reactors are MSRs (as in your research you may come across anti-thorium info, almost all based on solid fuel thorium reactors, in an attempt by anti-nuclear activists to suppress MSR technology).
Intriguing. Definitely something to keep in mind while following the developments.
Putting my Popper hat on, what event or set of events would disprove this hypothesis? Preferably, something that is likely to happen if it is wrong?
One of the theoretical objections that comes to mind is that oil extraction is vital to American petrodollar hegemony. Thus the push toward renewables must be fundamentally dishonest at the top levels of American power
Wow, every paragraph of your work pulls the curtain back a bit more- thank you!
I think you're onto something. One aspect you don't touch on, though, is that the manufacture of "green" energy technologies is reliant upon raw materials - rare earths in particular - that are also largely found in the same resistant polities as hydrocarbons and radioactive fuel sources.
I think the reasoning employed by the managerial class for kneecapping the energy sector varies from person to person. I haven't seen this rationale before, but I'm sure it has crossed the warped minds of some of these misguided individuals.
I think this is a great hypothesis of what is actually going on with all of this climate change fear they are jamming down our throats! Everything you wrote makes perfect sense in explaining why they hate oil and gas so much! I live in Alberta by the way and yes the Trudeau Liberal government is doing everything it can to prevent us from getting it out of the ground and from exporting it elsewhere while they happily rob us of the profits in “transfer payments “ which all end up going to Quebec who now cut out English and only recognizes French as its one official language while the other 70% of Canada speaks English and we support their province financially?!
Green on the outside....Red within.....