MADDOG'S LAIR
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact

Environmentalists and their romantic "solutions!"

10/31/2019

Comments

 
The trouble with ‘renewable’ energy | AEI
​

In the larger context, the opposition to conventional energy that is the core of the GND is fundamentally anti-human, because one major implication of the opposition to fossil fuels is an aversion to increases in the value of human capital and other parameters that have the effect of increasing the demand for conventional energy. Moreover, the authoritarian implications of the GND are serious, however unnoticed.

High costs are a major problem with wind and solar power. First, wind flows and sunlight are intermittent: Power generation from windmills and solar panels cannot be scheduled in advance, because the sun does not always shine and the wind does not always blow. This means that wind and solar “capacity factors” — the percentage of the time that wind and solar units actually produce electricity — are much lower than those for such conventional units as coal, gas, and nuclear, new installations of which have capacity factors of 85–90 percent. For onshore wind units, the figure is 40 percent or less, and it is 30 percent or less for solar facilities. Note that a massive expansion of wind and solar power as envisioned in the GND would drive those numbers downward, because the sites with the best wind and sunlight conditions are developed first, with new wind and solar farms necessarily sited at increasingly unfavorable locations. Accordingly, the wind- and solar-power industries would experience scale diseconomies — rising average costs — as more such capacity was added to the market. ​
Comments

Progressives are the force against liberty!

10/31/2019

Comments

 
New York Times Confirms: It’s Trump Versus the Deep State

The outcome increasingly looks binary, either liberty and middle America win this civil war or the forces of totalitarian oppression and serfdom win. There is no discernable middle ground. 

It is past time to take a stand; stand and fight or flee and accept your enslavement. 

Pray for peace and cooler heads, but prepare for war, the progressive left does not understand where they are headed or the probable outcome of their coup attempts. ​
Comments

Kafka Smiles!

10/30/2019

Comments

 
Adam Schiff Accused of Witness Tampering

Schiff and the progressives are undertaking a Kafkaesque show trial a la the 1930s Soviet Union. All one needed to do during those halcyon days of hellish socialism was to offer up the man, the machine would find the appropriate crime soon enough. And, so, America has now stooped to the level of 1930s Soviet socialism. 

An election looms, choose wisely.  ​
Comments

Snake Plissken for President 2024!

10/30/2019

Comments

 
Dan Crenshaw challenges entire premise of Ukraine impeachment efforts

​
Oops, his name is Dan Crenshaw, who knew?!!! My vote is as good as cast. 

I've never seen Snake Plissken and Dan Crenshaw together, odd, no?!!!
Picture
Picture
Comments

​It is the hunters, shooters, and outdoorsmen who preserve and protect the environment, not the environmentalists!

10/30/2019

Comments

 
Instapundit » Blog Archive » HMM: How Democrats’ Gun Control Plans Would Wreck Wildlife Conservation. “Every current Democratic…

The hipster hikers and backpackers pay nothing to preserve the environment while denuding it!

Perhaps it is time to put a wildlife tax on all of the hipster fashion outdoor clothing and accessories.
Comments

​The end goal of the progressives is totalitarian control of the people!

10/30/2019

Comments

 
They Live, We Sleep: Beware The Growing Evil In Our Midst

Most of the politicians of both parties want this outcome. We have met the enemy, it is us, at least the progressives among us. 
Comments

Other than that, how are the trade talks going Winnie the Pooh?

10/30/2019

Comments

 
China Blasts Trump Admin For "Economic Bullying Behavior" Over 5G Equipment Ban​
Picture
Comments

​Odd, no, another person with dirt on the Clinton's dies mysteriously!

10/30/2019

Comments

 
"Jeffrey Epstein Was Strangulated", Famous Forensic Expert Says

Dead men tell no tales. 
Comments

​Progressives motto: "Power by any means necessary!"

10/30/2019

Comments

 
PayPal De-Platforms Conservative Street Artist Sabo, Holds His Funds for Six Months

We haven't seen anything yet. The worst is much further down the road and will be much worse. When the progressives lose in 2020, there is a reasonable chance they will ignite a civil war, if not then, they will almost certainly do so in the 2024 election. The progressive left cannot win nationwide elections if they tell the truth, so they lie. Now that their lies are apparent and their wins limited to small localized areas in the progressive cities, they will become frustrated with their lack of power. That frustration will blossom into anger, then hate, and finally, civil war against those standing in the way of the progressives power grab. 

The next decade will be trying. 
Comments

​Unfettered competition hones the competitors, who knew?

10/30/2019

Comments

 
Trump's steel tariffs were supposed to save the industry. They made things worse

Just like in a sport where the competition is shackled, the unshackled competitors become fat and lazy, so the unfettered businesses with fettered competitors become uncompetitive. 

If Trump is only laying on tariffs to protect US businesses, he is making those businesses uncompetitive and hastening their failure. I suggest that it is not his primary goal, it might be the most talked-about, but the real goals are the elimination of Chinese IP theft and foreign policy/military objectives like the end of the Chinese aggression in the South China Sea.

If I am wrong, the answer is zero tariffs. If I am right, Trump needs to stay the course; the foreign policy objectives are more important than the pain which results from the tariffs. 
Comments
<<Previous

    Author

    Maddog

      Blog Subscription

    Subscribe to Blog

    Archives

    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016

    Categories

    All
    1000-ways-to-die
    Abortion
    Amazon
    America
    Antisemitism
    Anti-semitism
    Bible
    Blogging
    Blue-model
    Book-links
    Booze
    Bus
    Cancer
    Children
    China
    China-ccp
    China-gdp
    China-ghost-cities
    China-ponzi
    Climate-change
    Coast-guardrescue-swimmer
    Cold-war
    Concealed-carry
    Constitution
    Cool-stuff
    Corruption
    Creative-destruction
    Crime
    Crisis-change
    Dead-guy-vote
    Dead-pool
    Death-of-the-pc
    Declaration-of-independence
    Deflation
    Democrat
    Demographic-decline
    Diet
    Earth-hour
    Ecommerce
    E-commerce
    Economic-change
    Economy
    Education
    End-of-history
    Energy
    Environmentalism
    Epa
    Eric-barker
    Europe
    Executive-outcomes
    F35
    Faith
    Family
    Fascists
    Financial-irresponsibility
    Financial-times
    Firearms
    First-world-problems
    Fitness
    Flight-to-security
    Food
    Fourth-turning
    Free-eye-exam
    French
    Funny
    Gdp
    Gdp-usa-vs-britain
    Gdp-usa-vs-germany
    Gdp-usa-vs-sweden
    Generational-theft
    Global-warming
    Government-incompetence
    Government-we-deserve
    Happiness
    Health
    Helicopter-parent
    Hell
    Holocene
    Honor
    Housing-affordability
    I-love-beaver
    Imf
    Immigration
    Independence-day
    Inefficiency
    Inflation
    Innovation
    Intelligence
    Intergenerational-conflict
    International-relations
    Investing
    Iran
    Iraq-war
    Islamic-reformation
    Italian-travel
    Japan
    Jodie-foster-effect
    Kayaking
    Keynesian-economist
    Kurdistan
    Law
    Leave-nato
    Leave-the-un
    Light-rail
    Maddog-story
    Marine
    Marriage
    Media
    Medical-insurance
    Medicine
    Middle-east
    Military
    Military-waste
    Money
    Monopoly
    Nanny-college
    News
    New-seasons
    Nirvana-is-another-name-for-hell
    North-korea
    Nukes
    Obama-doctrine
    Oil
    Oregon
    Organic
    Parenting
    Partition
    Pearl
    Pensions
    Peter-principle
    Police
    Politicians
    Portland
    Portlandia
    Portland-transit
    Predictions
    President-bush
    President-feckless-odither
    President-obama
    Psychology
    Race-huckster
    Rape
    Recession
    Recipe
    Replace-the-un
    Republican
    Research-studies-are-always-wrong
    Reviews
    Russia
    Salafism
    Sanctions
    Science
    Science-versus-faith
    Self-defense
    Self-drive-vehicle
    Sex
    Shale-oil
    Shia
    Sjw
    Sleeper
    Smart-growth
    Socialism
    Sovereignty
    Sport
    Sunni
    Supreme-court
    Syria
    Tax
    Technology
    Terrorism
    The-fed
    The-house-of-saud
    The-last-economic-superpower
    Therapy
    Trade
    Transit
    True-believer
    Tvfilm-review
    Un
    Union
    Urban-planning
    Urinals-of-note
    Venezuela
    Voter-fraud
    Wages
    Wahhabism
    War
    War-crimes
    Weird
    Weird-science
    Welfare
    Whole-foods
    Work



    RSS Feed

​Maddog's Lair is copyright 2016-2018 by Mark Sherman. Please feel free to quote from this site provided you link back to the original article.
Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact