JoNova » The dirty secret behind our clean green future aired on mainstream TV

By Jo Nova

Finally, the horror show that is “renewable energy” has had one expose on the mainstream media. A full hour of hard hitting investigation into the environmental destruction, the clubbed koalas, the dead bats, and the poor whipped slaves of Africa.

For the first time, there are none of the usual caveats explaining how climate change is still a threat and we will “have to” do something.

And Liam Bartlett mentions China or Chinese involvement more than 50 times. That will bite hard with Australians feeling the cost-of-living squeeze and it will be a dark new theme for most mainstream TV watchers who are used to soaking in the green fairytale story.

The awful truth of our renewable fantasy is that it’s so uncompetitive, it’s so uneconomic, that we have the second largest reserves in the world for Cobalt, but we can’t afford to mine it, because it would push up the price or renewables even higher.

Renewable energy is so uneconomic we have to use slave labor in Africa to even pretend it’s affordable.

In Liam Bartlett’s questioning at the end Bowen tells us we are 150 million kilometers from the sun, like a grade schooler trying to show how smart he is in a trivia contest. If only he could cite how many barrels of diesel we need each day and where they are going to come from if the Strait of Hormuz doesn’t open soon. Because all the refineries in Asia that we normally buy from, rely on ships from the Middle East.

Bartlett might have done better asking what percentage of the giant mining haul trucks and combine harvesters were solar or wind powered, and how exactly, our renewable future will power the heavy machinery that our economy depends upon.

Giles Parkinson at the industry rag Reneweconomy is appalled (naturally) and calls the episode a “Wild Attack”, possibly because he can see how the whole renewables cartel will collapse in a hole if there are a few more shows like this one. Parkinson complains that Bartlett is hopelessly wrong because cobalt is not in “every battery” now. But even Reneweconomy admitted in 2022 that child labor and slavery were a problem in the industry.

So they knew it was happening and kept promoting the panels and batteries anyway? How does that that moral equation pan out — we worry more about the children born in a hundred years time suffering through one extra hot day than we worry about the living children of Africa dying right now in a primitive mine?

And cobalt is still used in NMC batteries (the C stands for Cobalt) and magnets for wind turbines, and all the mobile phones, and lap tops.

–hat tip Paul Michael, Another Delcon and Jim Simpson. Thank you!

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