Climate Change? Nahhh ...

And yes it will cost us a lot of money to update our infrastructure to adapt to carbon neutral or carbon zero energy. You know what else cost a bunch of money to do? Put that infrastructure in place to begin with, yet we did it because it benefited us. And you know what will cost even more than what it will take to install an maintain new energy systems? Not doing anything. To the tune of $2T per year or more depending on which study you follow. It could cost is more than $100T total by at best century’s end and at worse by 2050.


https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/04/climate-change-could-cost-us-2-trillion-each-year-by-2100-omb.html

https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pag...tte-launches-unlimited-reality-services1.html

 

Sounds like a compelling argument for energy diversity.

And for a more forceful response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

 

Remember “We're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business”?

‘This is the future’: rural Virginia pivots from coal to green jobs

 

Speaking of which . . .

Oil and gas firms’ green investments fail to match promise of publicity – study

 

Europe is pretty energy diverse. Because of the war it’s lost its fossil fuel component, and the US is currently in its own reverie its nose at fossil fuel development.

This story is good, but it takes its time to reach the crux of the matter:

Shock Waves Hit the Global Economy, Posing Grave Risk to Europe

That puzzle is complicated by the need to produce energy that not only is quickly available and affordable, but also won’t aggravate the calamitous climate change already endangering the planet.

 

If it feels like everything (and not just energy production and environmental measures) is changing all at once, consider it like a dam bursting after the baby boom generation kept everything stopped up for so long because of its outsized influence and resistance to change.

This Gen X’er won’t see his generation take total control for very long if ever … and that’s OK by me. Progress is messy and we need to help those affected as best we can. But nothing is sadder than people who pick out a year between when they were 16-25 and want that world frozen in amber forever.

 

Fisher Body would like a word.

Fisher Body - Wikipedia

"Fisher Body's beginnings trace back to a horse-drawn carriage shop in Norwalk, Ohio, in the late 1800s. Lawrence P. Fisher (1852 Peru, Ohio – 1921, Norwalk, Ohio) and his wife Margaret Theisen (1857 Baden, Germany – 1936 Detroit, Michigan) had a large family of eleven children; seven were sons who would become part of the Fisher Body Company in Detroit. Lawrence and Margaret were married in Sandusky, Ohio, in 1876. Margaret Theisen Fisher lived in Detroit after her husband died.

"In 1904 and 1905, the two eldest brothers, Fred and Charles, came to Detroit where their uncle Albert Fisher had established Standard Wagon Works during the latter part of the 1880s. The brothers found work at the C. R. Wilson Company, a manufacturer of horse-drawn carriage bodies that was beginning to make bodies for automobile manufacturers. With financing from their uncle, on July 22, 1908, Fred and Charles Fisher established the Fisher Body Company. Their uncle soon wanted out, and the brothers obtained the needed funds from businessman Louis Mendelssohn who became a shareholder and director. Soon Charles and Fred Fisher brought their five younger brothers into the business.

Prior to forming the company, Fred Fisher had built the first closed-body coupe, the 1905 Cadillac Osceola at the C. R. Wilson Company. The Osceola was requested by Mr. Leland to determine the feasibility of a car body that was closed to the elements. It was built on the chassis of the 1905 Cadillac Model E.[3] Starting in 1910, Fisher became the supplier of all closed bodies for Cadillac, Buick, Oakland and Oldsmobile.

In the early years of the company, the Fisher Brothers had to develop new body designs because the "horseless carriage" bodies lacked the strength to withstand the vibration of the new motorcars. By 1913, the Fisher Body Company had the capacity to produce 100,000 cars per year and customers included: Ford, Krit, Chalmers, General Motors, and Studebaker. Highly successful, they expanded into Canada, establishing a plant in Walkerville, Ontario. By 1914 their operations had grown to become the world's largest manufacturer of auto bodies. One reason for their success was the development of interchangeable wooden body parts that did not require hand-fitting, as was the case in the construction of carriages. This required the design of new precision woodworking tools."

 

The Supply Chain to Beat Climate Change Is Already Being Built