Materials Required By Energy Source

Chris Martz writes on X:

Okay. Study this chart. Look at it real hard. Look until your eyeballs fall out of their sockets.

Materials requirements per terawatt-hour (TWh) of electricity produced for renewables:

Solar Photovoltaic (PV)
4,050 tons/TWh of concrete
7,900 tons/TWh of steel
2,700 tons/TWh of glass
850 tons/TWh of copper
680 tons/TWh of aluminum
210 tons/TWh of plastic

Hydroelectric Power
14,000 tons/TWh of concrete
67 tons/TWh of steel
1 ton/TWh of copper

Wind
8,000 tons/TWh of concrete
1,800 tons/TWh of steel
92 tons/TWh of glass
23 tons/TWh of copper
35 tons/TWh of aluminum
190 tons/TWh of plastic

Geothermal
1,850 tons/TWh of concrete
3,300 tons/TWh steel
2 tons/TWh of copper
100 tons/TWh of aluminum

Materials requirements per terawatt-hour (TWh) of electricity produced for nuclear and natural gas:

Nuclear
760 tons/TWh of concrete
160 tons/TWh of steel
3 tons/TWh of copper

Natural Gas
400 tons/TWh of concrete
170 tons/TWh of steel
1 ton/TWh of aluminum

https://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2017/03/f34/quadrennial-technology-review-2015_1.pdf

So, tell me again how clean “green energy” really is? Mining for these raw materials would have to increase by >300% to achieve “net zero” goals, which would make that [arbitrary] target date by 2050 impossible.

Nuclear is by far the most efficient energy source we have, and it is the most “carbon-free” (and I use that term lightly) technology. Natural gas, while not carbon-free in the slightest, burns cleaner and is much more efficient than coal. If nuclear and natural gas aren’t a part of the “solution” to wane us off fossil fuels, then you, as an environmentalist, cannot be take seriously.

Mental Health Professionals Research Results

Dr Karen Mitchell PhD writes on X:

Hey everyone. I am reaching out for support.

I have been chatting on here, respectfully and happily.

Yesterday I tweeted that there are many narcissists/psychopaths/predators in the psychiatric and psychology community based on my PhD research.

The responses from mental health professionals have been nothing short of abusive. I feel judged, character-assassinated, misunderstood, humiliated, disrespected. I feel physically sick.

I am stunned at the maliciousness and demeaning nature of the group bullying from mental health professionals. I am really, really distressed.

Have a look at all the retweet comments on the post below.

For any psychiatrists and psychologists who might like to actually read my work before further attacking me, here is a link…

https://researchbank.swinburne.edu.au/file/15436c0d-4d4f-4506-b649-eb1129ab0390/1/karen_mitchell_thesis.pdf#page145

I replied:

If you ever needed the equivalent or better (and without the wait) of a peer review of your work, it was just handed you on a silver platter!

So, well done for being over the target, that’s when you cop the flack! You stand with giants in the field who tried to clean it up..

…Dr Peter Breggin and Dr Thomas Szasz being two that come to mind.
As to immediate help for you personally, take a walk and look at things till you feel better. The only power anti-social personalities have is the power to enturbulate. Disempower them!

Another Look At The Blue Zones

Another look at the Blue Zones and some of the reasons for the better health outcomes found there. Blue Zones are areas on Earth where people live longer (up to 15 years longer) and with better health (88% less likely to die from prostate cancer and 85% less from breast cancer) than other places.

Key takeaways:

Exercise Regularly
Don’t Smoke
Don’t drink alcohol to excess
Keep weight in a healthy range
Eat a diet rich in fruit and vegetables and legumes

https://longevity.foodrevolution.org/masterclass/watch/

Heavily slanted towards being a vegetarian (which is, according to many observations reported to me, unsustainable).

Don’t Cause Permanent Harm Over A Temporary State Of Mind

Brittany Traynor

“My feelings of being in the wrong body started when I was a toddler. I hated girl toys and I only wanted to play with boys, I had short hair and dressed myself like a boy. I didn’t understand other girls my age so I felt out of place.

When someone would mistake me for a boy I would feel so good, much to the chagrin of my older sister who would quickly correct them and exclaim, “that’s my SISTER.” At 4 I worked up the courage to ask my mom, “Does God make mistakes, because I think I was supposed to be born a boy?” My mother replied, “No God doesn’t ever make mistakes, he made you exactly the way you’re supposed to be, a beautiful little girl.”

And that was that. I didn’t have any more delusions because my mom cleared it up for me right then and there. Don’t get me wrong I still didn’t like my body and dreaded growing breasts one day, but I didn’t have to question if there was something wrong with me. I was allowed time to grow up, and once I hit puberty I not only felt like I was in the right body, but I became a girly girl!

If I was born in our society today I know I would have been “affirmed” by my teachers and started on a cascade of interventions that would have left me infertile, mutilated and without the husband and two beautiful children that I have today.
Our kids don’t need to be socially or medically transitioned. They need to be left alone, and they need time to grow up.” ~ Brittany Traynor

Thrive With Compassion

Thrive With Compassion

Good call Mary, good call! To my readers, I wish this for you. More awareness, more intelligence, more competence. For you and yours.

The Ultimate Guide to Bone Broth: Nature’s Collagen Supplement

Bone Broth

Homemade beef bone broth is a budget-friendly and nutritious dietary cornerstone, rich in collagen, healthy fats, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, silicon, sulfur, trace minerals, chondroitin and glucosamine.

Bone broth helps “heal and seal” the gut lining, which is important for optimal health and disease prevention.

Abundant in collagen, bone broth supports tissue integrity, muscle repair and overall longevity, surpassing costly supplements.

Harnessing the convenience of a pressure cooker like the Instant Pot streamlines bone broth preparation, ensuring safety and efficiency.

From sipping it warm for comfort to enhancing soups, stews and sauces to reviving leftovers, bone broth elevates dishes with rich flavor and nutritional value.

Finish reading:  https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/04/08/benefits-of-bone-broth.aspx

Reductive Stress — The Hidden Culprit of Chronic Disease

This is an extremely technical article. I struggled with it. Lots of words I had to look up. The key datum from the whole thing? Keep your fat intake low to best fuel your mitochindria, the energy production units of your cells.

How to Become a More Efficient Glucose Burner
One of the key take-homes from this is that if you want to be optimally healthy, you want to burn glucose in your electron transport chain of your mitochondria, and one of the best ways to ensure that is to increase carbs and lower your fat intake.

As explained by Marshall, when you eat a meal, insulin is released. When you consume a meal that generates a lot of insulin, it suppresses the release of free fatty acids from your fat cells. Those free fatty acids are what cells import and burn in the mitochondria.

“Essentially, what the insulin is doing is it’s kind of telling the fat to get out of the way because you can’t efficiently burn fat and glucose at the same time because of the Randle cycle. The burning of fat will displace your ability to burn glucose,” Marshall explains.

“So, insulin lowers the amount of fat that can enter the mitochondria. Interestingly, it also lowers the amount of branched-chain amino acids that are circulating.”

Marshall struggled with elevated blood glucose in the mornings and, as an experiment, he swapped muscle meat and protein from grains for bone broth and pork rinds.

“Papers have shown there’s this competition between branched-chain amino acids that are high in muscle meats and grains, and glycine that is high in connective tissues, collagen, gelatin,” he says.

Within about two weeks, his fasting blood glucose was reliably right around 80, which is optimal. He was consuming about 600 grams of mostly starch and some sugars, primarily sucrose from whole fruit.

Finish reading: https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/04/07/reductive-stress.aspx