the brilliantly leaping gazelle

Maybe it’s me, possibly because I’m brain damaged, maybe because I’ve only had one cup of tea so far today or maybe it’s because of the heat. Whatever it is, it made me laugh like drain when I read the on the BBC that.

A coal-fired power station in Nottinghamshire has been warmed up to cope with expected higher energy demand in the warm weather.

Hang on, by implication that means that we are not currently producing enough energy to meet our needs?

That can’t be right, can it?

It would mean that the dream of achieving Net Zero – U.K producing no carbon emissions -by 2050, as this government has pledged to to, and to which both Labour and the Li-Dems fully endorse is trumpery moonshine? That would mean that the dream of soon turning our backs on coal or nuclear energy and instead replacing them with solar and wind generated power would be a nightmare. Politicians and other virtue signalling agitators would have to own up to the fact that solar and wind generated power is nowhere near being capable enough to meet our current needs, and it seems socially irresponsible to suggest they ever will ever be in the near future. No-one has yet explained how wind turbines will generate power when there is no wind, or how solar will generate power when there is no sun. Instead the public is expected to put their faith some as yet unknown but practical and affordable solution to a problem that is oddly present at the time of writing, when then is hardly any wind but the sun is burning so hot that a river in the Lake District, called ‘the wettest place in England’ is drying out.

There’s an inherent contradiction at the heart of all this Net Zero nonsense , a vicious circle that’s as inevitable as it is undeniable. Namely, the more the population expands, the more energy will be needed to support that expanding population and the more energy that an increasing population uses, the hotter the planet will become. And the hotter it is, the more energy that we’ll all need to keep cool and the so the vicious circle will become ever more vicious. Or am I missing something here, a something that’ll magically make everything make sense? Are any political parties strongly advocating an immediate compulsory sterilisation scheme, as both an effective way limiting future energy use and also safe-guarding the integrity of the existing energy infrastructure we as well? If, and that’s a big if, we ever get to a stage where advances in renewable energies, their reliability, their storage and affordability are sufficient to allow a cautious relaxation of said scheme, then fine.

But we’re not there yet and as I’ve repeatedly said, while doing less of this, doing more of that and stopping doing the other may salve the conscience, it won’t solve anything. Consumption is still consumption, and the more people there are consuming, the more that the inherent contradiction at the heart of Net Zero becomes even more contradictory.