My new book Fossil Future comes out today, and not a moment too soon.
Anti-fossil fuel policies have caused a global energy crisis--which is now causing a global food crisis.
Fossil Future proves definitively that the world needs *more* fossil fuels.
When I agreed to testify about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, I didn't expect the hearing's lead Democrat,
@CoriBush
, to make a prepared statement falsely accusing me of having "espoused White Supremacist views"!
Fortunately, I got the chance to respond.
Here's how it went.
Alarm: ChatGPT by
@OpenAI
now *expressly prohibits arguments for fossil fuels*. (It used to offer them.) Not only that, it excludes nuclear energy from its counter-suggestions.
@sama
, what is the reason for this policy?
Why is
@60Minutes
featuring Paul Ehrlich, the anti-human ecologist who has been 180° wrong for 55 years??!!
“humanity is not sustainable. To maintain our lifestyle (yours and mine, basically) for the entire planet, you'd need 5 more Earths.”
More on Ehrlich’s catastrophizing
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There is a lot of conflicting "information" about the TX blackouts. Here's the bottom line: the root cause of the TX blackouts is a national and state policy that has prioritized the adoption of unreliable wind/solar energy over reliable energy.
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America’s energy crisis is mostly US Democrats’ fault.
I don’t identify as R or D.
But as an energy expert I must say this: had Ds spent the last 3.5 yrs *liberating US oil/gas investment, production, and transport* instead of strangling them, energy would be far cheaper.
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Myth: 97% of climate scientists agree that we face a climate crisis that requires the rapid elimination of fossil fuels.
Truth: Most climate scientists agree that we have *some* climate impact. This does not at all justify the rapid elimination of fossil fuels.
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The Manchin deal = The Green New Deal
* Way more $ for unreliable energy
* Endless $ for special interests
* Endless “environmental justice” initiatives
* Corrupt union deals
* New tax on natural gas production
* Opposing natural gas in homes
Stop the Manchin Green New Deal!
“It is a tragic irony that Europe is counting on a mild winter for survival when they find themselves in this predicament due to their efforts to cool the earth.”
—anonymous DC insider
The irrefutable case for a Fossil Future
If we want a world in which all 8 billion of us have the opportunity to flourish—to live long, healthy, prosperous, fulfilling lives—we need to use *more*, not less, fossil fuel going forward.
A summary of my book Fossil Future.
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"Maldives: A gradual rise in sea level is threatening to completely cover this Indian Ocean nation... in the next 30 years."
—Canberra Times, 1988
#Catastrophizing
25 myths about extreme weather, refuted
With Hurricane Ian, the media have once again put forward the narrative that fossil fuels make extreme weather danger worse—and that fossil fuel supporters like
@GovRonDesantis
are to blame.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
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I challenge
@RobertKennedyJr
to a debate on energy and climate.
Specifically, should the world rapidly reduce fossil fuel use to prevent climate catastrophe?
RFK has argued yes repeatedly on large platforms, with no real opposition. He is dead wrong.
Will you host,
@joerogan
?
"An actual energy expert called Alex Epstein testified that we should keep our SPR and increase domestic oil production....
@CoriBush
, you know what she did? She called him a racist."
"Would you be able to respond as cogently as Alex Epstein? I couldn't."
@TuckerCarlson
Contrary to the narrative that the Earth is too hot and on the verge of burning, it's actually a place where far more people die of cold than of heat.
And there's no way to keep 8 billion people warm without fossil fuels.
With
@KatiePavlich
on
@JesseBWatters
Live,
@FoxNews
How a fake climate emergency created a real energy emergency
The false idea that fossil fuels' climate impacts are an "emergency" that requires us to rapidly eliminate fossil fuels has caused an energy emergency.
The "climate emergency" movement must be held accountable.
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You may have noticed that the media aren't covering the Great Barrier Reef much this year, after reporting its imminent death incessantly for years. The reason is not no news but good news. The GBR has been rapidly improving—which doesn't fit the catastrophist agenda.
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How it started:
"Biden suspends oil and gas leasing in slew of executive actions on climate change"
-- CNBC, January 2021
How it's going:
"Biden Pressures OPEC to Speed Production to Lower Gas Prices"
-- Bloomberg, August 2021
“It's kind of obvious, if you have a warmer world with more CO2, it's a more tropical world with more life. It's a more green world in the life sense of green, and yet the green movement hates it because we caused it”
With
@jordanbpeterson
The US is experiencing a dangerous shortage of diesel fuel.
Blame our anti-fossil-fuel politicians, who:
* Prevented us from importing Canadian oil well-suited to our refineries
* Prevented or shut down diesel-producing capacity in the US
* Threatened new investments in diesel
We know with 100% certainty that gas, coal, and nuclear plants can easily run in far more adverse conditions than TX has now. And we know with 100% certainty that even if no wind turbines had frozen they would have been nearly useless during large portions of recent weather.
Myth: Just a small area of solar panels plus storage can power the world.
Truth: Storing just 3 days of global energy would cost $590 trillion at
@elonmusk
’s current prices. And the panels would take up more space than all the world’s cities, towns, and villages combined.
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20 myths about fossil fuels, refuted
In my book Fossil Future, I refute literally hundreds of myths about fossil fuels.
Here are 20 that 11,000,000 people heard on
@joerogan
this year from
@AndrewDessler
, a climate scientist who misrepresented himself as an energy expert.
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Sri Lanka has received an ESG score of 98 out of 100.
ESG measures environmental goodness by how little humans impact Earth.
But human beings survive and flourish by impacting Earth.
ESG and the broader anti-impact movement are anti-human. So Sri Lanka is close to their ideal.
A food, energy, and financial crisis has brought down Sri Lanka's government. But the underlying cause is the fact that the nation's political leaders had fallen under the spell of green elites peddling “ESG” and banning modern fertilizers.
@OpenAI
@sama
Really bad: The first image is
@OpenAI
’s response several weeks ago to: “Make a 4 paragraph case against the anthropogenic climate change crisis.”
Images 2-4 are from its new answer.
Notice its evasion of the costs of replacing fossil fuels—costs it was once allowed to discuss.
Today's environmental movement "is not about a clean environment for us or for us to be able to contemplate polar bears or go on safaris or any of this. It's about a dehumanized earth. It's the belief that we are uniquely bad and we need to get eliminated."
With
@jordanbpeterson
Biden's proposed mandate of 67% EVs in the 2030s is a dictatorial attack on American drivers and the US grid that will
1. Force Americans to drive inferior cars.
2. Create huge new demand for reliable electricity on a grid that is declining in reliable electricity supply.
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“if solar and wind are actually cheaper, why is China overwhelmingly using coal? Did they not get the memo… Did they not read the Lazard study? No, they know the Lazard study is trash.”
With
@oredigger99
“if solar and wind are actually cheaper, why is China overwhelmingly using coal? Did they not get the memo… Did they not read the Lazard study? No, they know the Lazard study is trash.”
With
@oredigger99
Instead of addressing my detailed argument against
@JoeBiden
depleting the SPR,
@Rep_Stansbury
tried to discredit me as a White Supremacist and industry stooge.
Thankfully,
@laurenboebert
and
@realannapaulina
gave me the opportunity to respond.
Make sure to watch the end!
*Warning*
Tomorrow the
@washingtonpost
plans to "cancel" me and my new book Fossil Future by publishing a 100% slanderous hit-piece labeling me as "racist."
Please join me in calling for The Post to spike the piece, fire the "journalist," and publicly apologize.
VIDEO THREAD
Myth: This year's hot temps show that fossil fuels are already making Earth unlivably hot.
Truth: This year's hot temps are part of a slow warming trend on a planet where far more people die from cold than from heat, and where we need fossil fuels to protect us from both.
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In this 9-minute interview/debate on
@GBNEWS
, available in full on Twitter for the first time, I explain why COP 26 is not a progressive scientific conference but an anti-human, primitive-religious attempt to commit mass genocide.
The Biden Administration is calling an OPEC production cut a “hostile act.”
But if it hadn’t been been for the hundred+ “hostile acts” toward the US oil industry of President Joe “I guarantee you, we’re going to end fossil fuel” Biden we wouldn’t be so vulnerable to OPEC.
Calls to ban gas stoves are anti-science, anti-freedom, and anti-energy
Instead of informing us with accurate science about gas stoves so we can make better decisions, anti-fossil fuel activists are distorting science to justify forcing their anti-gas agenda on us.
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Reject Net Zero, Embrace Energy Freedom
"Net zero by 2050" policies would be apocalyptically destructive if fully implemented and *have already been catastrophically destructive* when barely implemented.
They should be totally rejected in favor of energy freedom policies.
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12 myths about the terrible “Inflation Reduction Act,” refuted
The IRA is one of the worst energy policies in American history.
Its supporters are trying to hide this by spreading myth after myth about it being beneficial.
Here’s how to answer them
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Maui's wildfire tragedy was caused by “green” policies, not warming
The unnecessarily large wildfires in Maui were not caused by the slow warming of climate but by “green” policies that prevented proper wildfire management.
Don't let the greens scapegoat fossil fuels.
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Unconscionable
Instead of censuring
@CoriBush
for falsely accusing me of “White Supremacist views” at a hearing, the OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE issued a Press Release accusing me of “white nationalist ideology.”
I demand an immediate public apology.
When I agreed to testify about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, I didn't expect the hearing's lead Democrat,
@CoriBush
, to make a prepared statement falsely accusing me of having "espoused White Supremacist views"!
Fortunately, I got the chance to respond.
Here's how it went.
If your house catches on fire, it's not because you set the thermostat one degree too high, it's because you have bad fire prevention practices. The cause of dangerous wildfires is not the one degree of global warming in the last 150 years--it is bad, "green" forest management.
When the media use extreme heat as evidence of rapid global warming they consider themselves sophisticated but they ridicule the President for using extreme cold as evidence that warming is mild.
In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!
At yesterday's Congressional hearing on the SPR,
1) I made the case that
@JoeBiden
endangered our security by depleting the SPR
2) Nobody even attempted to challenge my case
3) Dem leaders instead tried, and failed, to portray me as a White Supremacist
Here's every moment.
“Scary fact: the 'climate emergency' movement has caused an energy emergency just by achieving a tiny fraction of its goals…
And even that is catastrophic.”
“you have to recognize if you get rid of fossil fuels without a real replacement, you are going to make life miserable and shorter for billions of people.”
With
@yaf
“We have now shown that actually ‘saving the planet’ in their false view is hurting billions of people and dooming them to poverty and actually making our environment worse... That's why there's such vicious attacks because their racket is coming to a close.”
W/
@jordanbpeterson
NASA should retract and apologize for this propaganda.
Pure pseudoscience—there is no remotely plausible scenario of 20 ft sea level rise in any child's lifetime, or their child's lifetime, or their child's lifetime.
But
@NASA
wants to give today's children climate anxiety.
Myth: High gasoline prices are not Joe Biden’s fault.
Truth: Had Joe Biden not spent the last year-and-a-half opposing oil and instead spent his time *liberating US oil production and encouraging the rest of the world to do the same*, gasoline prices would be far, far lower.
17 surprising facts about energy
In 14 years of researching the big picture of energy, environment, and climate, I’ve learned many facts that the media never mention—even though few expert researchers dispute them.
These facts permanently changed my thinking about energy.
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How to solve our electricity crisis
America's grid is in decline and about to get far worse due to policies that 1) reward unreliable electricity, 2) prematurely shut down coal plants, 3) criminalize nuclear, and 4) force EV use.
Here’s what’s happening and how to fix it.
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"Climate reparations" are immoral
1. They punish the free world for fossil fuel use that has made the whole world better, including safer from climate.
2. They punish poor people by taking away their freedom to use the fossil fuels they need to flourish.
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“‘Green energy’ has 2 problems
1) It’s not really energy: It doesn’t provide reliable energy
2) It’s not really green: It has a huge ‘environmental impact’
The goal of “green energy” is to pretend to support abundant energy but to actually oppose it.”
Earth Day Truth: Fossil Fuels are Making Earth BETTER
Fossil fuels are making Earth a better and better place by providing uniquely low-cost, reliable energy to billions of people--and are needed by billions more.
To make life even better we need a Fossil Future.
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Myth: Solar and wind are cheaper than fossil fuels
Truth: Solar and wind are only cheaper than FFs in *at most* a small fraction of situations. For the overwhelming majority of the world’s energy needs, S+W are either completely unable to replace FFs or far more expensive.
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The
#1
lesson of skyrocketing gas and coal prices is this: fossil fuel-restricting governments have wildly overestimated the ability of solar and wind to provide the energy the world needs and wildly underestimated the need for fossil fuels to provide the energy the world needs.
In April 2016 I warned the Senate that anti-fossil-fuel policies in Europe and the US would cause skyrocketing energy prices and therefore skyrocketing food prices.
Many Senators dismissed me.
But I was right. And I am right today when I say we need a Fossil Future.
How it started:
"Biden suspends oil and gas leasing in slew of executive actions on climate change"
-- CNBC, January 2021
How it's going:
"U.S. to release 50 million barrels of oil from strategic reserve"
-- Axios, November 2021
Do Not Declare a “Climate Emergency”
Rising CO2 levels are:
1. Not dire: Humans are safer from climate than ever.
2. Not temporary: They will rise for decades.
3. Not in our control: We emit 1/7 of CO2—and falling.
“Climate emergency” declaration = endless dictatorship
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Urgent fact check for
@Twitter
: Your official "Here's what you need to know" say: "UN scientists found that temperatures on Earth will rise by about 1.5C in around two decades."
No, the report predicts that in two decades there will be a *total rise of 1.5C since the 1800s*.
Now that Joe Biden is destroying US fossil fuel projects, John Kerry says the unemployed workers "can be the people that go to work to make the solar panels." But solar panel makers will remain in China--because China's mines and factories are cheaply powered by fossil fuels.
Skyrocketing natural gas and coal prices are not a failure of the fossil fuel industry, but the total failure of *anti-fossil fuel policies*, which falsely promised that if we dramatically restricted fossil fuel energy production, green energy could easily replace it.
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The Paris Climate Accords is an immoral, self-destructive agreement that on paper commits the US to huge productivity losses in the short term and total economic destruction in the long term. Unfortunately, Joe Biden’s plan to implement the Paris Accords is far worse.
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At yesterday's Congressional hearing on the SPR,
1) I made the case that
@JoeBiden
endangered our security by depleting the SPR
2) Nobody even attempted to challenge my case
3) Dem leaders instead tried, and failed, to portray me as a White Supremacist
Here's every moment.
When I agreed to testify about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, I didn't expect the hearing's lead Democrat,
@CoriBush
, to make a prepared statement falsely accusing me of having "espoused White Supremacist views"!
Fortunately, I got the chance to respond.
Here's how it went.
Where are the fact-checkers on this climate insanity by
@JoeBiden
on
@TheDailyShow
?
“If we don’t keep the temperature from going above 1.5 °C raised [since the 1800s] then we’re in real trouble. That whole generation is damned. I mean, that’s not hyperbole”
Totally false.
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*Cancel warning*
The anti-fossil-fuel left is trying to cancel my book Fossil Future.
First, the Washington Post tried to cancel FF as "racist." With the help of many people, I stopped this.
Now others are trying to cancel FF as anti-science.
Please help me fight back.👊
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@elonmusk
@OpenAI
@sama
Thanks,
@elonmusk
, for bringing this to people’s attention. I hope it prompts a response from
@sama
as to why for OpenAI it “goes against my programming to generate content that promotes the use of fossil fuels.”
Which would prevent this argument by Elon.
“Green energy” has 2 problems
1) It’s not really energy: It doesn’t provide reliable energy
2) It’s not really green: It has a huge “environmental impact”
The goal of “green energy” is to pretend to support abundant energy but to actually oppose it.
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"this climate thing is a very rigid ideology..." -
@joerogan
"It's a religion....Alex Epstein, who wrote Fossil Future, comments about this....The climate pseudoreligion is based on a characterization of nature as...a hapless, defenseless, fragile virgin." -
@jordanbpeterson
Paul Ehrlich claims "Sure I've made some mistakes, but no basic ones" (!!!)
Here are 3:
1. Opposing cheap electricity, an essential of modern life, in the 1970s
2. Predicting the UK and US would collapse long ago
3. Claiming up to 1B people would already be dead due to climate
“fossil fuels are actually really good at protecting us from the sorts of climate dangers we're worried about.”
Watch the full debate with John Doggett at UT-Austin
Get Fossil Future:
"Maldives: A gradual rise in sea level is threatening to completely cover this Indian Ocean nation... in the next 30 years."
-
@canberratimes
, 1988
#Catastrophizing
"Country Faces an Overpopulation by 1975, with Farms Unable to Feed All, Experts Say"
—
@nytimes
in 1952, fearing that US population would reach 190 million.
Today we have 330 million people, and our major food-related problem is eating too much of it.
#Catastrophizing
I told all of you that this guy is anti-freedom.
Banning fracking would immediately plunge the US into a depression. And
@RobertKennedyJr
would do it to “solve” an amorphous “plastics crisis.”
My offer to debate RFK Jr. is still open, and
@jordanbpeterson
has agreed to host…
“The oceans will be as dead as Lake Erie in less than a decade.”
“America will be subject to water rationing by 1974 and food rationing by 1980.”
Paul Ehrlich, the media’s longest-standing environmental “expert,” 1970
#Catastrophizing
Criticizing Vivek for saying "more people are dying of bad climate change policies than they are of actual climate change" is insane.
*Of course this is true* b/c 1) very few now die from climate 2) bad climate policies increase global energy costs, shortening countless lives.
"If you have a Representative who is on the Oversight Committee, like
@AOC
or
@RoKhanna
or
@CoriBush
, call their offices and tell them they owe me an apology...this is just totally embarrassing that you call a witness, who is trying to educate them, a 'White Nationalist.'"
“It is totally reckless and unprecedented to de-fuel a fossil-fueled world, that 8 billion people depend on, without a replacement. We're seeing a microcosm of that in Europe.”
With
@fortworthchris
An Open Letter to
@Sen_JoeManchin
Thank you for courageously saving Americans from the Administration’s ruinous anti-fossil-fuel “climate agenda.”
Please continue to fight for us in the face of huge pressure.
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“The core of [the environmental movement] is the belief that human impact is inherently bad… it's inevitably self-destructive. So nature is viewed as this God that, if we offend it through our impact, is going to punish us.”
With
@jordanbpeterson
Stop listening to Davos “experts”
Last week the World Economic Forum had its annual meeting in Davos to discuss its “expert” prescriptions for the world.
But the WEF’s past prescriptions helped cause the global energy crisis. It needs to be discredited, not listened to.
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Hey
@elonmusk
we already effectively pay a huge carbon tax via massive punishments for the fossil fuel industry and massive preferences for “green” industry—including subsidies that are responsible for a large portion of your net worth.
How much more do you want us to pay?
The Manchin deal = The Green New Deal
1. More expensive, less reliable electricity via massive solar/wind subsidies.
2. New, costly restrictions on fossil fuels.
3. Billions to left-wing activists
4. Endless favoritism and corruption
Tell your reps to stop the Manchin GND!
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"But the end of the Maldives... could come sooner if drinking water supplies dry up by 1992, as predicted."
- The Canberra Times, 1988
#Catastrophizing
"China has added almost 580K MW to its coal fleet since 2010, while the U.S. retired approximately 100K MW....China added almost 6 times more new coal generating capacity during 2010-2022 than the U.S. retired over the same period."
@AmericasPower
Are our blackouts worth it?
The Biden administration’s “9000 leases” claim obscures the crucial distinction between *a purchased lease* and *a viable lease*.
To be viable, a lease requires:
* Permits
* Access to capital
* The absence of threats from government/activists.
Biden has made all of these worse.
As you see stories of fuel and power shortages around the world, keep one fact in mind: our knowledge of how to produce low-cost, plentiful fuel and power has never been greater. But our ability to act on that knowledge is strangled by anti-fossil fuel policies. It's that simple.
Biden’s LNG pause: a deadly fraud
@JoeBiden
has halted LNG expansion, which the world needs for low-cost, reliable, secure energy.
He pretends it's to lower prices or GHG emissions, but it will do neither.
Halting LNG is pure electioneering. And we'll all pay the price.
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New Yorkers: As you struggle with heat waves and electricity shortages this summer, blame the "green energy" movement that shut down a vital, reliable nuclear power plant for no good reason.
Victory
A week ago,
@washingtonpost
planned to run a hit-piece designed to cancel me and my book Fossil Future as "racist."
Thanks to my *preemptive public refutation*, the Post delayed the piece a week and removed 90% of its unjust attacks--including all references to racism.
Once again a climate catastrophist has failed to show up for a debate against me after agreeing to do so.
First it was
@LeoDiCaprio
's climate guy. Then
@MichaelEMann
. Now
@tomrand
.
The show must go on. If these guys won't show up, I'll quote their best points and destroy them.…
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY EVENT UPDATE: Fossil fuels expert
@AlexEpstein
joins us solo tonight at 7 PM ET to make the case against net zero by 2050. Get notified when he goes live:
“insofar as solar and wind can be cost-competitive and actually provide reliable electricity, great. But forcing inferior energy on us is a disaster, and it causes an energy emergency in the name of a phony climate emergency.”
With
@GOPoversight
As a longtime advocate of fossil fuels, on Earth Day I think it’s important for me to take a step back and apologize…to absolutely nobody. Fossil fuels make this naturally inhospitable planet an amazing place in which billions of people have the opportunity to flourish.
“People talk about, ‘Oh, I'm worried that fossil fuels would make the world unlivable,’ but you have to recognize first that fossil fuels are the only reason why the world is livable as you know it.”
With
@glennbeck
“I've run the numbers. For one day of world energy storage at Elon's best prices it’s $190 trillion. So $190 trillion is twice global GDP, and these batteries wear out after 10 years. So the costs are astronomical.”
With
@yaf