A happy (would have been) 82nd birthday to Jerry Garcia, who died a mere week or so after his 53rd. Starting with Biomedical.
Biomedical. Dr Sam Bailey looks at Toxic Shock Syndrome and the notion that it is cased by bacteria.
Dr Sam Bailey, 7/30/24.
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Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS) is a devastating condition that can lead to permanent injuries and sometimes even death. In the 1970s there was an increase in cases in the United States following the introduction of new tampon lines. Despite the clear connection of illness to the products, germ theory was invoked and bacteria were said to be the "cause".
In this video we examine the key historical events and what some of the pivotal scientific papers actually revealed. We also consider the long-term repercussions of interfering with both menstruation and the normal function of the vagina. Additionally, new information is presented with regard to the toxicology of so-called feminine sanitary products.
Toxic shock syndrome is another example of the medical establishment claiming that our ubiquitous microbes are also disease-causing "pathogens". The underlying terrain is ignored and the allopathic system engages in a dangerous war against Nature. This presentation contains essential information for women while men will also discover important facts to understand and share with female family members, particularly those of child-bearing age.
Full show notes and references HERE [Link]
My comment at the page.
Jeffrey Strahl, Lockdown Times, 7/30/24.
Many thanks for this, Sam. I knew someone who died in 1996 from Toxic Shock Syndrome. She worked at the natural foods store i go to twice a week. How ironic that she avoided chemicals in her food but succumbed to them because she introduced them into her body in other ways. And of course i know the frequent problems women experience around menstrual bleeding, Got to know a lot about it via a long term relationship.
Very interesting regarding how the menstrual bleeding elimination process plays a role in lowering the risk of cardio vascular problems for women. This is a HIGHLY informative video. Not that this is unusual for your videos. :-)
And, Christine Massey and her team obtain yet more confessions from public health entities responding to FOIA requests regarding proof of certain viruses.
Computer models & pseudoscience underpin "expert” advice. Christine Massey, 7/30/24.
Greetings and Best Wishes,
July 29, 2024:
Sarah B. Kotler (“J.D.”) acting as Director, Division of Freedom of Information, confessed that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has no records
authored by anyone, anywhere:
1. that scientifically prove/provide evidence of the existence of any alleged "avian influenza virus",
2. that describe the purification of particles that are alleged to be "avian influenza virus" directly from bodily fluid/tissue/excrement of so-called "hosts",
3. wherein the purported "genome" of any alleged "avian influenza virus" was found intact in the bodily fluid/tissue/excrement of a "host" (as opposed to fabricated in silico, aka a computer model), or
4. that scientifically demonstrate contagion of the illness / symptoms that are allegedly caused by purported "avian influenza viruses"...
[see pg 12] [Screen shot]
… despite the “experts” at FDA: - giving "Updates on Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza” - "announcing results from a first-of-its-kind study ... The intention of this study was to further confirm that pasteurization is effective at inactivating Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza (H5N1 HPAI) virus in fluid milk and other dairy products made from pasteurized milk” - claiming to "continue to investigate an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus impacting dairy cows in multiple states” - posting "H5N1 HPAI" "Testing Results” [Link] and - posing as an authority on tests for the imaginary "Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza” [Link]
Apparently logic isn’t Sarah’s thing, because she wrote (pg 12):
“The FDA does not regulate or treat viruses. The FDA is responsible for protecting the public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, and medical devices; and by ensuring the safety of our nation's food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation. Therefore, we have no responsive records.”
[Note added July 31, 2024:
Many more failed FOI responses relating to the false “avian influenza virus” claims were included in one of my earlier newsletters:
Don't fall for the "avian influenza virus" hoax!]
(Note: this information has been sent to ~200 people who work for “the state”, lamestream media, etc. at Canada, Isle of Man, England and the U.S., so that they can’t claim later that they didn’t know.)
Related Recommended Reading/Viewing [Each has a link at the page]
The Untold Stories of Dr's. Powell & Fraser — Mike Stone, ViroLIEgy
The men behind some of the most devastating sets of experiments falsifying the germ "theory" of disease
[featuring a slice of Toronto’s history that the “pubic health” establishment would prefer remain forgotten!]
Former Pfizer VP: Why evidence is lacking for the existence of COVID-19 ‘virus’ or any other — Patrick Delaney
Virus, Bacteriophage & Single “Virus” Genomics — Dr Sam Bailey’s video version of Dr Mark Bailey’s recent essay
Dr. Tom Cowan with Pelle Neroth Taylor - July 23, 2024
Dr. Thomas Cowan - What Does & Doesn't Make You Sick - W.A.P.F. Conference 2022
Conversations on Health Freedom with Sally Fallon Morell - the Contagion Myth
Dispelling the Myth of Smallpox Contagion: Superstition exposed — Aldhissla
Unmasking the proof of flu transmission — Roman Bystrianyk’s short video describes concerted yet failed efforts to demonstrate contagion of the “Spanish flu”, etc., including the famous Rosenau study.
Mumps: Infectious and Contagious? No "pathogen" required. — Aldhissla
Keith at “The Truth is Angry” created 2 3-minute videos showing the Canadian “no records” FOI responses re the imaginary “SARS-COV-2” and points out that with zero scientific evidence of “the virus”, the jabs are clearly not “vaccines”:
Never Proven to Exist
Virus never proven to exist part 2
Flashback:
The Final Refutation of Virology —Kate Sugak’s excellent documentary featuring the wisdom and insights of Dr. Stefan Lanka, etc.
Translations of papers by the Perth Group re the imaginary “HIV”
Official Confessions/Evidence Showing that Virology is Pseudoscience [The usual suspects follow]
My comment at the page.
Jeffrey Strahl, Lockdown Times, 7/29/24.. Liked by Christine Massey FOIs
"“The FDA does not regulate or treat viruses. The FDA is responsible for protecting the public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, and medical devices; and by ensuring the safety of our nation's food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation. Therefore, we have no responsive records.” "
No records, but "we still take action as if they exist, just in case." LOL. Not that this is stopping the likes of Meryl Nass and RFK Jr from claiming this may be another bio weapon lab release. :-)
Thanks, Christine, you are holding their feet to the fire and they feel the heat.
And, Dawn Lester discusses how the vid is back.
Dawn Lester, 7/30/24.
I’ve recently been working on a new article, but when I saw the most recent propaganda piece, I decided to put that to one side and write this one. So what is it that I found so urgent? It’s an article on the BBC website with the seemingly innocuous title Are you feeling grotty all the time?
What is not so innocuous about it is one of the sub-titles - It’s a Covid summer - this is followed by the comment that, “We are in a summer wave of Covid so if you have a cough or fever then the virus is a possible culprit.” Claiming that it is THE virus that ‘may’ be the cause of any cough or fever is clearly an attempt to keep this monumental lie alive - and this is one of the reasons that exposing this lie remains important. It really is time to slap a ‘DNR’ notice on ‘Covid’ in particular and the whole ‘germ theory’ in general.
With that in mind, let’s dig further to see what they are hoping to achieve and how they plan to keep this lie alive. According to the article this ‘wave’ began in May, “Around 3,000 people in hospital are now testing positive for Covid - around twice the figure for early April. The infection isn't necessarily the reason they have been admitted, but it is one way of gauging whether we are in a wave.”
I’d suggest that this is nothing more than yet another ‘wave’ of testing. However, as has been shown in great detail by many of us during the past 4 years and counting, the ‘tests’ are meaningless. What is most significant to note of course is that these ‘cases’ are occurring within hospitals, where people are already in a state of poor health. This may encourage people to think that they therefore have a ‘weak immune system’ - but that too relies on the ‘germ theory’ representing how our bodies actually function; but it doesn’t.
Nevertheless, the propaganda continues relentlessly and here’s a major clue to what may be beneath this latest alleged ‘surge’, “This seems to be driven by the FLiRT variants of the virus and pubs rammed with football fans may have given the virus a helping hand too.” First of all, the claim that there is a ‘variant’ relies on the notion that there is/was a ‘virus’ in the first place. Again, this has never been proven to be the case. Secondly, the claim that crowds have helped ‘the virus’ is pretty suggestive of one of the underlying purposes of this story. It would seem that they are attempting to make large gatherings a source of ‘potential danger’ because this facilitates the spread of ‘the virus’. And this is another reason the ‘no virus’ position continues to hold a position of such vital importance to an understanding of what is going on.
So, are we heading for attempts to introduce more lockdowns in order to ‘save us all’? Are they trying to create another wave of ‘fear’ so they can justify implementing further measures later in the year as we head towards winter in the more northerly parts of the world? Sadly, that is a possibility, because they claim that ‘respiratory infections’ are more prevalent during the winter months, as the article states, “The cooler weather, spending more time indoors and keeping the windows shut all give those respiratory viruses an edge at that time of year.”
And we don’t want to give viruses an ‘edge’ do we? But if this is the case, according to their ideas, how do ‘viruses’ survive during the summer? And why is there a new ‘wave’ now?
Here’s another strange comment, “… the pandemic restrictions have knocked that usual pattern (flu almost disappeared during some winter lockdowns) and things haven't quite returned to normal.” Normal? What do they mean? There is no ‘normal’. They keep trying each year to make us believe that there’s always something new to be fearful about, whether a new ‘virus’ or a new ‘variant’. It’s interesting that they refer to the restrictions, rather than the ‘virus’, as having changed the ‘usual pattern’. How do they justify that? But if the lockdowns made flu disappear, why didn’t Covid also disappear instead of fitting the pattern that the ‘flu’ left when it disappeared?
Here’s another ridiculous attempt to explain what they clearly do not understand, “It seemed to throw seasonality, particularly cold viruses, out of kilter so they were cropping up at weird times and I don’t think things have settled down at the minute, there's a little bit of catching up to do,” says Prof Ball. ‘Viruses’ crop up at weird times? Really? Does this sound like ‘science’ to you? Does it even sound as if they know what they’re talking about? No, I didn’t think so either.
The article then refers to an alleged ‘resurgence’ in whooping cough and attempts to explain it in the context of the ‘pandemic’, “The UK Health Security Agency warns: “The impact of the pandemic also means there is reduced immunity in the population.” Why is there reduced immunity to whooping cough that is alleged to be bacterial in nature? What does whooping cough have to do with a wave of ‘summer Covid’?
I suspect it’s related to ‘general’ immunity; they want us to think that our ‘immune systems’ aren’t working properly. And here’s the clue to my suspicions being in the right direction; it can be found in the article under a section sub-titled Vaccination rates dropped, the first sentence of which reads, “Lower levels of vaccination means there are more people getting sick from preventable diseases.”
This is a clear demonstration of the lack of understanding about the human body, what symptoms are, and that there are no such entities as ‘diseases’. But this does not serve the fear-mongering propaganda, as can be seen in this comment, “It has led experts to call for an "urgent reversal” of declining vaccination figures as we are reaching a tipping point of children dying or becoming seriously ill from preventable disease.”
The new UK PM is known for being very outspoken against ‘anti-vaxxers’. So the question is: Is this part of an attempt to begin a campaign of demonising those of us who have bothered to look into the issue and discovered that there is no evidence that any vaccine ever has or ever can prevent any disease? The only way to counter this propaganda is through knowledge and we still have a way to go to help share this information with our family, friends, colleagues, and anyone who will listen to us.
One of the key ‘challenges’ people face when confronted with the idea that ‘viruses’ aren’t the cause of illness, is the lack of an alternative explanation - they seem to want a replacement idea for the one they are being asked to relinquish. It’s a fallacy to assert that we must provide a statement about what is true when we expose what isn’t true.
So no, I can’t provide THE explanation for why people are ill - and neither can anyone else for that matter. But I don’t have to. It is not necessary to provide a replacement theory when refuting a prevailing theory. What I can do is offer a list of possible factors and say that any combination of these factors has the ability to contribute to a wide variety of symptoms, including those that people are experiencing at the moment:
• poor nutrition• herbicides & pesticides • overuse (use) of pharmaceuticals • heavy metals • toxic skin exposures • EMF exposures • toxic personal care products • toxic cleaning products • overuse (use) of antibiotics • fast food • processed foods • lack of time in nature • lack of exercise • poor detox pathways • overconsumption of alcohol • toxic tap water • lack of minerals • vaccines
And this is not an exhaustive list!!
It’s crystal clear that many more people are now aware of what’s going on than were aware in 2020. This means that there will be less willingness to comply if ‘the would-be controllers’ do try to roll out another ‘pandemic’.
Let’s remain vigilant but not afraid!
My comment at the page.
Jeffrey Strahl.Lockdown Times, 7/30/24. Liked by Dawn Lester
FLiRT? Seriously? That's the new "variant"? What's coming, KiSS? Omicron was an anagram of "moronic," they are really humoring us, knowing most people will repeat whatever they hear, see, read via the order-giving-organs of the mighty Wurlitzer. Any "freedom" folks who are keeping the virus ideology alive are helping this project. Thanks for undermining this pillar of the dominant narrative, Dawn!!
4IR. On top of the assassinations of top Hezbollah figure Fuad Shukr in Beirut on Tuesday and of Hamas head Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on early Wednesday, the IDF killed a leading Al Jazeera journalist and his camera man later Wednesday.
Al Jazeera refutes ‘baseless’ Israeli allegations against Ismail al-Ghoul. During its war on Gaza, Israel has claimed its bombings of journalists and civilian targets were strikes against Hamas. 8/1/24.
Al Jazeera has “strongly” rejected “baseless” Israeli allegations that the network’s correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul, who was killed in an Israeli attack in Gaza, was a Hamas operative. The Doha-based network said on Thursday that the accusation, which Israel presented without proof, is an attempt to justify the “deliberate killing” of al-Ghoul and his companion cameraman, Rami al-Rifi.
The two journalists were killed in a direct Israeli air raid on their vehicle in the Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza on Wednesday. Al Jazeera Media Network said the accusation against al-Ghoul “highlights Israel’s long history of fabrications and false evidence used to cover up its heinous crimes”, underscoring that the country has barred international journalists from entering Gaza.
And, Electronic Intifada’s weekly news show.
| The Electronic Intifada Podcast, 7/31/24, Two hours and 55 minutes.
00:00 Introduction
02:33 Ali Abunimah's remarks on the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh
12:59 Donya Abu Sitta reports from Gaza
20:00 Ilan Pappé discusses regional developments and his new book, "Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic”
01:26:48 Nora Barrows-Friedman delivers the news report
01:50:36 Jon Elmer analyzes latest resistance news across multiple fronts in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon
02:30:08 Group discussion on expanding regional war and other developments
My comments. Pappé’s book is extremely interesting, includes an analysis located the roots of Zionism in the Christian Zionism in the UK and US in the early 19th Century, with a goal of ridding Europe of Jews by getting them to move to “where they [[ALLEGEDLY, with no proof]came from,’” and how the Zionist movement of the late 19th Century picked up on that strand of thought, for its own power-seeking plans. He also talked about the events of recent days.
The news report had some startling items, including the storming of an Israeli military base, where several personnel where being held for raping Palestinian detainees, both men and women, by crowed of settlers supporting the detainees and even members of the Knesset. Very unfortunately, the report again pushed the false narrative of poliovirus being put out by the Gaza Health Ministry, seeing this as promoting its own agenda of attacking the actions of the Israeli government
Again, some truth serum regarding “polio”
Toxicology vs Virology – Rockefeller Institute and the Criminal Polio Fraud, Dr Sam Bailey, 10/15/22.
F. William Engdahl is an award-winning geopolitical analyst, strategic risk consultant, author, professor and lecturer. In July 2022, he published a brilliant essay titled “Toxicology vs Virology” that exposed the Rockefeller Institute’s role in creating virology. Using Polio as an example, it outlines how fictional “viruses” are used to advance medical tyranny.
And, back in June, RFK Jr pushed more stuff supporting the genocide regime.
RFK Jr. doubles down on opposing Gaza cease-fire, invokes Nazi Germany, Lauren Irwin, 6/14/24,
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doubled down on his opposition of a cease-fire in Gaza and pointed to what the allied forces did to combat Nazi Germany in the 1940s. Kennedy joined “Piers Morgan Uncensored” on Thursday and explained his point of view. “I would say that hostages have to be returned and Hamas has to be disarmed, or else how can you have a peace?” Kennedy said.
Morgan interjected, asking the candidate how he would plan to disarm Hamas.“We’re not sure how many are left but certainly thousands of them. When they’re embedded now in refugee camps amongst hundreds of thousands of civilians, millions of them,” Morgan said. “And so, every time you … launch an offensive against them, as we saw with the apparent targeted attack of two Hamas terrorists in the Rafah camp, and as you saw with the rescue of these hostages.”
Morgan noted that at least 210 Palestinian civilians were killed by Israel during its rescue operation of four hostages. He then posed another question for Kennedy. “At what point does this desperation to eliminate the last members of Hamas get overtaken by the sheer volume of civilians being killed in the process, which I cannot believe will do anything longer term than ferment the ideology that drove Hamas in the first place,” Morgan said.
Kennedy responded by detailing an argument between the United Kingdom’s Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944. “Roosevelt said we have to denazify Germany and if we don’t denazify Germany … the Nazis are gonna rise up and do the same thing again. Churchill did not want an unconditional surrender for the Nazis. He said, ‘We’re gonna have to kill too many civilians to do that and everybody will fight for the death,’ but Roosevelt won that argument,” Kennedy said. “We killed about 2 million Germans during World War II in order to get to Berlin and denazify it,” he continued. “Today, Germany is the richest country in Europe, it’s one of the most powerful economies in the world. I think it’s the fourth most powerful and nobody’s scared of Germany because it’s a peaceful country.”
Kennedy argued that he doesn’t see how people are making the argument for a cease-fire because Hamas has proved it only has one goal: to eliminate all Jewish people.
And, a recent experience i had recently over the course of several night, starting Friday night, when i was in a … very mindful state. A video of a walk through the streets of Tel Aviv. Starts with the beginning of the city’s most well-known boulevard, Rothschild, starting in the financial center, then moving north and east, lots of examples of Tel Aviv’s unique Bahaus architecture style. Familiar to me as a child, though of course altered in many ways. But then, a step away one block eastward, and we’re in an area which was not even built up back when we left in 1958, now full of wide streets, malls, and hi rises rising to 30-50 stories, when even 10 was unknown in back in ’58, Disembodiment in a major way.
Relaxing WALKER, 2/28/24. Just over an hour.
And, methane emissions are skyrocketing. However, not one mention here in this “progressive” media outlet of reducing overshoot caused by technology use and the growth imperative of global industrial capitalist system.
Global methane emissions rising at fastest rate in decades, scientists warn. Researchers call for immediate action to reduce methane emissions and avert dangerous escalation in climate crisis. Oliver Milman, 7/30/24.
Global emissions of methane, a powerful planet-heating gas, are “rising rapidly” at the fastest rate in decades, requiring immediate action to help avert a dangerous escalation in the climate crisis, a new study has warned. Methane emissions are responsible for half of the global heating already experienced, have been climbing significantly since around 2006 and will continue to grow throughout the rest of the 2020s unless new steps are taken to curb this pollution, concludes the new paper. The research is authored by more than a dozen scientists from around the world and published on Tuesday.
While the world “quite rightly” has focused on carbon dioxide as the primary driver of rising global temperatures, states the paper published in Frontiers in Science, little has been done to address methane, despite it having 80 times the warming power of CO2 in the first 20 years after it reaches the atmosphere.
“The growth rate of methane is accelerating, which is worrisome,” said Drew Shindell, a climate scientist at Duke University and lead author of the study. “It was quite flat until around 20 years ago and just in the last few years we’ve had this huge dump of methane. It’s made the job of tackling anthropogenic warming all the more challenging.”
So far in the 2020s, global methane emissions have typically been about 30m tons higher each year than during last decade, with annual records in methane emissions broken in 2021 and again in 2022. While there is no single clear reason for this, scientists point to a number of factors.
Methane comes from the drilling and processing of oil, gas and coal, with a boom in fracking causing a rash of new gas projects this century. The gas is also emitted from livestock, primarily through the burps of cows, and increased animal agriculture, as well as to a lesser degree expanding rice production, has contributed.
Meanwhile, rising global heat is causing the faster decomposition of organic matter in wetlands, thereby releasing more methane. In 2021, the US and the European Union spearheaded a new initiative, called the Global Methane Pledge, which commits to a collective 30% cut in methane emissions by 2030. This scheme has now expanded to 155 countries yet only 13% of emissions are covered by current policies and only 2% of global climate finance goes towards cutting methane emissions, according to the new paper……...
Ending this segment and this edition, a big reason why it’s pretty impossible to replace fossil fuels.
67 Reasons why wind turbines cannot replace fossil fuels, Alice Friedemann, 7/26/24.
Preface Last updated 2023-10-20
• The most important problem to be solved is electrifying transportation, otherwise how can you deliver the 8,000 parts of a wind turbine to the assembly factory and deliver it to the final site? Or mine iron ore and get it to the ore crushing plant, or deliver cement to make the wind turbine platform, or truck 100-foot long tower pieces and But the heavy duty cement, long haul trucks carrying the turbine, and cranes to lift the pieces into a 300 foot tall turbine run on diesel, not electricity. Batteries are so heavy class 8 trucks are not going to go far, if at all. No matter how much money you throw at truck batteries they are limited by the unbreakable laws of physics and thermodynamics.
• If you are able to defy the laws of physics and build a battery to electrify trucks, then you must be able to manufacture them (and more baby wind turbines). But there are no electric ways to make cement, iron, other metals, glass and so on. Arc furnaces only remelt existing steel and downgrade it. Today 70% of steel is made from scratch with iron.
• If you can make a battery to electrify trucks and electrify manufacturing, you must greatly expand the existing transmission system to carry many times as much electricity as is used today to keep transportation and manufacturing running. It is unlikely enough wind and solar can be built, and it the electric grid ends when natural gas is scarce since energy storage doesn’t scale up (CAES, PHS, batteries)
• Lubricants, epoxy, plastics and other essential components of wind turbines are made out of petroleum. So a way must be found to make them (and 500,000 other products) out of Something Else.
• If you can do all of the above, the wind turbine must be able to construct energy storage devices to store excess electricity for times when the wind isn’t blowing. There are only four choices. Three have limited places to put them — pumped hydro storage, compressed air, and concentrated solar plants with thermal storage. The only battery for which there are enough materials on earth to store one day of U.S. electricity generation are Sodium-Sulfur (NaS) batteries. They would weigh 450 million tons, take up 923 square miles, and need to be replaced every 15 years. And you’d need at least 28 of them to cope with seasonal wind shortages of four weeks or more.
• If you can electrify transportation and manufacturing, make essential components out of something besides fossil fuels, build 26,000 square miles of NaS batteries, then you’d need to build at least three or more times the number of wind turbines required to store excess electricity. And replace them every 20 years.
• If you can do all of the above, then every other product under the sun will need to be constructed with wind turbine (and solar) electricity before you can turn your lights, computer, and refrigerator on, or charge your electric car.
If we zero in on just the wind turbine life cycle it is smothered in diesel and coal. Gigantic mining trucks that can haul 300 tons of iron ore aided by trucks digging deep into the ground haul it to ships or rail to take to ore crushing and smelting facilities. Blast furnaces to make iron and steel run around the clock for up to 22 years (any stoppage causes the lining to shatter so intermittent electricity won’t do). There are over 8,000 parts to a wind turbine which are delivered over global supply chains via petroleum-fueled ships, rail, air, and trucks to the assembly factory. There are 70 million Km of asphalted roads in the world. Wind turbines and solar panels and their raw materials depend on these roads, and the energy to build and maintain them. Roads are how the diesel cement trucks arrive at the wind turbine site to pour many tons of concrete while other diesel trucks carry segments of the wind turbine to the site and workers arrive in gas or diesel vehicles to assemble it.
Here are the 60 reasons (details below):
• Windmills require petroleum every single step of their life cycle. If they can’t replicate themselves using wind turbine generated electricity, they are not sustainable
• SCALE. Too many windmills needed to replace fossil fuels
• SCALE. Wind turbines can’t be built fast enough to replace fossils
• Not enough materials such as rare earth metals or fossil fueled heat to create the cement, steel, epoxy, and other parts needed
• Not enough dispatchable power, such as natural gas or hydropower, to balance wind intermittency and unreliability……
1. Windmills require petroleum every single step of their life cycle. If they can’t replicate themselves using wind turbine generated electricity, they are not sustainable
Fossil fuels are essential for making wind turbines, as Robert Wilson explains in Can You Make a Wind Turbine Without Fossil Fuels?
Oil is used from start to finish — from mining to crushing ore and smelting it, to delivery to the fabrication plant to the supply chains for 8,000 parts in a turbine to the final delivery site over 4 million miles of asphalt roads (in the U.S. alone) that need constant repair with diesel construction trucks laying more asphalt, which is found only at the bottom of a crude oil barrel. Cement trucks drive to the delivery site over roads built by diesel powered road equipment, fossil made cement and steel rebar to pour the foundations wind turbines sit on, diesel trucks haul the components of the turbine to the installation place, and diesel cranes lift the turbine sections and 8,000 parts upward. There are no electric blast furnaces, only fossil fueled ones to make cement and most steel, nor are there electric mining trucks, electric long haul trucks to deliver the 8,000 parts made all over the world, electric cement trucks, electric cranes, and so on. That means even if a wind turbine could generate enough energy to replicate itself, it wouldn’t matter, the process from start to finish needs to be electrified.
To build enough wind turbines to supply half of global electricity would require two billion tons of coal to create the concrete and steel, plus two billion barrels of oil to make the composite blades (Mills 2019). Then rinse and repeat. Wind turbines only have a 20-year lifespan.
Not only would windmills have to generate enough power to reproduce themselves, but they have to make enough power above and beyond that to fuel the rest of civilization. Think of the energy to make the cement and steel of a 300 foot tower with three 150 foot rotor blades sweeping an acre of air at 100 miles per hour. The turbine housing alone weighs over 56 tons, the blade assembly 36 tons, and the whole tower assembly is over 163 tons. Florida Power & Light says a typical turbine site is 42 by 42 foot area with a 30 foot hole filled with tons of steel rebar-reinforced concrete –about 1,250 tons to hold the 300 foot tower in place (Rosenbloom).
The fossil fuels to construct offshore wind turbines is even greater (Anderson 2017):
“The precise volume of fuel consumed when constructing and operating offshore wind farms significantly varies depending on vessel size, weather conditions, load, etc., but a jack-up vessel (used to install turbine foundations) uses approximately 2,640 gallons per day of marine fuel – or 63 barrels per day – according to guidance provided by consultancy BVG Associates. Constructing a 500 MW installation requires between 200 and 300 days of jack-up rig time, which means between 12,571 barrels (bbls) and 18,857 bbls of marine fuel consumed during construction. For comparison, Amtrak consumed about 1.6 million bbls of diesel fuel in 2014, according to the Bureau of Transportation statistics. So, the jack-up rig fuel requirements of building a 500 MW offshore wind farm account for 0.8% to 1.2% of the fuel annually consumed by Amtrak.
In addition to driving the foundations into the seabed, offshore wind farm construction and maintenance activities include laying export and array cables; port construction; offshore substation installation; turbine installation; and crew transfer for the 20-year lifespans of these installations. These activities are completed using vessels, that for the most part, run on marine fuel. Developing the potential offshore wind project sites identified to date along the east coast alone – not to mention the west and Hawaiian coasts – would require tens of thousands of barrels of petroleum.”
2. SCALE. Too many windmills needed to replace fossil fuels
See point #4 in Energy Overview. Oil is butter-fried-steak wrapped in bacon. Alternative Energy is lettuce.
Consider the scale of trying to replace fossil fuels. Every hour 3.7 million barrels of oil are pumped from wells; 932,000 tons of coal are dug; 395 million cubic meters of natural gas are piped from the ground. In that same hour, another 9,300 people are added to the global population. By 2100, the world will be home to 11 billion of us (Jones Energy Policy).
Consider just the wind power needed to replace offshore oil in the Gulf of Mexico: At 5.8 MBtu heat value in a barrel of oil and 3412 BTU in a kWh, 1.7 million barrels per day of gulf oil equals 2.9 billion kWh per day, or 1,059 billion kWh a year. Yet the total 2008 wind generation in Texas was 14.23 billion kWh, and 5.42 billion kWh in California. Which means you’d need 195 California’s, or 74 Texas’s of wind, and 20 years to build it (Nelder).
And then start the process over every 20 years, the very short lifespan of wind turbines, when energy will be required to dismantle the old one and replace it with a new one (15 years for offshore wind turbines due to corrosion)……...