2022 Could be Huge - 2021 SummaryReally thought we would be further along the curve at this stage of 2021 but $ 40 + is better than what it was last year. As this thing tightens and coils, just makes the next innings that much better in the U world.
But here is some perspective BIG picture and who is really driving this World Energy bus into the ditch. Sure Nuclear is required of course we want that hopefully for both $$ and it makes clean base load power sense. But speaking of buses - was following a school bus yesterday obvioulsy Deisel spewing filthy black sooted exhaust into the air ahead of me - this single school bus polluting more than 1000 Lincoln Navigators which I am driving.
Let's Scale this up at each step below
1. What will happen to this bus in a few years as it as in very good shape - will leave the US and spew filth in another country for the next 20+ years. As brownouts grow around the US...
2. Let's then talk pollution. Emissions of Principal Air Pollutants in the US : In Million Tons
1970 : 310,000,000 Tons
2019 119,000,000 Tons Translation doing very well AOC
Bad Air Quality Days in All Largest US Cities :
In 1980 : 2172 Days - yes 2000 + Bad air days.....
In 2019 : 119 Days - yes just over a hundred. Squad and Brandon listening........
3. Let's talk more pollution:
In the 1850's, New York City and London air pollution was soo bad and thick, people died very prematurely due to lung smoke inhalation - some days you could not see in front of your face.
Today, the air looks pretty good almost every day - even in LA most days
Speaking of LA bad air days, in 1980 over 200 bad air days. In 2019, about 66 bad air days.....
Translation - we are actually doing very very well over the past 40 + years..
Yet we want to cripple the US while the rest of the world carries on with Fossil Fuel.
4. Fossil Fuel - Ahh now we get into the deep water. What is Coal - it is a tree - what is Oil -it comes from leaves that accumulate and stew over eons from a tree. Fossil as in Fossil - animals ?? All the Coal, Oil and Natural Gas found on land in the United States comes from TREES, not dead animals......
Have been walking in the same park for 30 years - same park. Now calculate the numer of leaves that have fallen in this park for 30 years. We can as a typical tree has roughly 200,000 leaves each year X 30 years is 6,000,000 leaves weighing about 2000 LBS - per tree.
How many trees in this forest - maybe a few thousand - so 4,000,000 LBS of leaves over 30 years - in this single forest X how many forests in the US.........
Now how many dead animals over the same 30 years - the ratio of leaves/trees to dead animals - not even close. So Fossil Fuel comes from trees and dead trees. Yet we want to eliminate this fuel source from the United States that has brought so much wealth etc.
5. Now we get serious on Climate Change. Paris Accord - 1.5 degrees below early 2000's etc blah blah... Stuff happens BIG time that most humans cannot even fathom currently
Man has tamed fire for over 1,000,000 years - evidence everywhere of kilns at 500,000 years and older. So let's use about 750,000 years. At 750,000 years ago man is using fire in many different ways on earth - so for the next 100,000 years to about 650,000 years ago, man continues to improve until WHAMM - Yellowstone Blows it's top and spews 240 Cubic Miles of stuff into the air - for decades earth is compromised and how many of these fire makin humans survived this time period.....
Then it gets better as some humans of course survived and continued the march of progress and made strides for the next 200-300,000 years then BAMMM another eruption 75,000 years ago - TOBA - another bad day for humans and the planet. Decades of no sun, cold, dark. Well of course some survived once again and then we get to the written history of Mesopotamia about 6000 years and more accurate history detailing then begins.
Point of all this going back to the spewing Bus in front of me yesterday - humans are not perfect that is for sure - too much plastic in the oceans yes of course but this Fossil Fuel business and getting rid of it is really really starting to look like a very bad direction and needs to be corrected.
Yes Solar of course, yes Wind as well but we shall see in 20 years how these heaps of used panels and blades are recycled in a good way.
Cars are very clean right now. Powered by Fossil (Tree) Fuel. Electric cars for sure are great as well. Will get one in a few years.
Nuclear Power Plants using Uranium mined in ethical and clean ways should go on for the next 80 years out to 2021.
Can read the news now in 2051 - the UEX Shea Creek mine was finally decommissioned after over 20 years of successful and easily exceeded the Cluff Lake production when it hit over 150,000,000 LBS of Uranium production.
We shall see - have a Happy and Safe 2022 and buckle up - going to be a wild ride.
MM