RE:Scientist wants government to stop any future carbon captureSkylar1 wrote: subsidies . It's unproven technology they say , instead put more money in renewables phase out fossil fuels like it's an alternative proven source to replace the world with energy . Maybe we should put Trudeau and company in one city in Canada to live for a few years on solar and wind and give up all fossil fuels to prove to the rest of us it can be done . I would love to see that silver spoon useless human having to chop wood for heat , hunt for food and be the owner of a beautiful outhouse. I'm all for a cleaner planet and all of us can make a huge difference cutting waste and going green where we can but I not going back to the 1800's . I do remember carrying bucket's of water to my house when I was 5 or six years old before water and sewer was installed in on little town.
I saw one of those academics on BNN this morning. She is a complete idiot and I would have no problem telling her so. Even "renewables" require hydrocarbons inputs in too many ways to count. not only that, it requires the destruction of the environment just to explore for metals/minerals needed for all of it where a discovery might be made 5%? of the time out of all exploration activities. Then there is more environmental destruction required for production which , also requires hydrocarbons.
They think oil companies will continue to operate on standby for when these same idiots require hydrocarbons to not only get their food to their fridge but to also grow it and produce it yadd yadda yadda. These same scaredy cats sitting in their basements scared of Covid don't mind sloshing hand sanitizer on their hands all day long ignoring that it's made from nat gas.
A millennial I spoke to once a few years ago was on the virtue signalling environmental extremist bandwagon and she was extreme just like this genius academic on BNN this morning. So I asked her if she knew how much of the environment was destroyed, how many people were exploited, how much political corruption occurred, how much energy was used to find that little bit of gold and the small diamond she had on her finger and for the earrings in her ears. For once, a millennial was speechless and didn't know what to say.