Warning - What Happened In California Is Coming To The World

sweltering heat no electricity it's not a good combination it sounds like a third world country but no it's the richest state in the united states and it's not by accident as a matter of fact it's much more serious and in this video i'm gonna explain what's happening and why it's coming to the rest of the country and to the world so stay tuned [Music] hey welcome back if you're new to the channel my name is mark moss i do these videos because i believe the only real security we have in life is to take responsibility for ourselves we have to learn how to make money how to grow our money how to protect our money so that we have options in life all right the world's changing fast and if you agree and you want to hear more about these topics click the like button right now also hit the subscribe button and the bell notification so you're notified every time i put new videos out now we are talking about raging heat we're talking about no air conditioning no electricity like a third world country but no it's right here in the richest state in the country and one of the richest areas in the world now what i'm talking about we've seen all over the news we have wildfires that have been raging across most of the u.s most of the western u.s anyway in california specifically wildfires everywhere we've had a really high temperatures heat waves and of course it's summertime it's the west coast it gets hot in the summer here the thing is though is that temperatures were pretty much in line with standard so it was hot of course it's summer but they're in line what's normal for this time of year but what isn't normal is that with the high temperatures and with the smoke-filled air because of all the fires and then on top of it everyone's already staying inside because of covid but they're all doing so without electricity and that's because the power grid in california the grid couldn't produce enough electricity for everybody and now this is at a time keep in mind this is at a time when businesses are shut down california is still one of the strictest states in the country and businesses are completely shut down that means office buildings shut down gyms closed movie theaters closed schools shut down they're all closed all those big companies schools etc that use electricity aren't even open and yet the grid still couldn't deliver enough electricity needed for the home so just think about that for a minute at a time when it's the hottest and you're at home and you have no electricity you have no air conditioning to cool down you have no power to run your computer well the kids are doing home school they need their computers they can't run their computers adults can't work from home if they're working from home they can't do that now last week this has happened in california like i said it resembled more of like a third world country than it did in the united states but for contrast as a matter of fact i was actually in mexico and i was deep in mexico not a resort community deep in mexico as a matter of fact i was in a town with only one paved road the temperatures were about the same as california but they didn't have any problems with electricity as a matter of fact our electricity in mexico never went out one single time so what gives what's the problem how is it that california is the richest state in the united states right after all we have a hollywood we have silicon valley the economy the state of california economy is so large it's the richest in the united states it's actually if it were a country it's the fifth largest economy in the world if it was a country and not just that the economy the gdp is big but it's also the richest as far as revenue because not only do they have the highest economy they also have the biggest tax as a matter of fact california state taxes are the most in the nation and not just the most they're almost double the second highest state in the country right so i mean there's plenty of money and yet they still can't manage it they still they have more than enough money for energy for electricity but they can't seem to figure it out and on top of that the rates that we pay in california for our energy for electricity are about six times more than the rest of the country in some states you see six seven eight cents per kilowatt hour no in california it's about 40. so we're already paying six times more and we still can't get the power even with all that we still don't get steady electricity but the big problem here big problem that this video is about is it's not by accident all right this is not by accident as a matter of fact i believe it's done by design and the scary part is as i said in the intro this is coming to a state or an area near you and sooner than you think whether you're in the u.s or in another country you're gonna need to be prepared because i'm going to explain to you right here so what is this design that i'm talking about what and what is this design that's going to cause this to happen and why is it going to leak to the rest of the country why is it going to leak to the rest of the world well first we have to look at the design okay so the underlying reasons that california is experiencing blackouts is from the state's climate policies which aim to completely remove the use of coal and natural gas and move a hundred percent of electricity to renewable energy and like i said the whole country the whole united states is under that and the rest of the world at least the developed world western europe etc is all trying to move towards that as well and so you're going to see exactly what's going to happen now of course getting away from fossil fuels and moving 100 to renewables sounds great right i'm for it everybody's for it no this video is not against that sounds great everybody loves that but there is a problem it's not about what we want it's about what reality is okay so first it's it's super expensive but it's worse than that in the end it doesn't work all right now california like i said already seen its electricity prices rise six times more than the rest of the united states from 2011 to 2019 due to its huge expansion of renewables so they were putting billions of dollars into it into renewables and shutting down regular electricity plants at the same time which caused the power prices to go up so high and yet even with that we're still unable to meet the demands right and why is it again like i said it's simple um have you ever heard of unobtainium does that ring a bell well it's the magical energy mineral found on the planet called pandora and it's from the movie avatar now it's a fantasy in a science fiction novel but environmentalists think that they we've that we found it here on earth but it's in the form of wind and solar power all right so that's what we're trying to move to wind and solar power they all think that all the energy we need can be supplied by building enough wind and enough solar farms and of course enough batteries now the simple truth though is that we can't right and not only not only can we not do it but we shouldn't want to do it now what makes me qualified to talk about this well for one i had a solar company for four years so i worked in the solar space for about four years so i know that industry pretty well both on the industrial and the residential side and of course as a market analyst i've studied this like crazy and let's break this down so like i said i don't believe we can and i don't believe we should and i'm going to tell you why right now if one of our goals is to be good stewards of the planet which of course this whole climate change agenda is right saving the planet so if our if our goal is to really save the planet then we have to understand all the costs all right there's everything has a give and a take all right so to understand this just consider some very very simple physics realities okay ones that aren't being talked about so you see all sources of energy have limits that can't be exceeded all right the maximum rate at which the sun's photons can be converted to electrons converting electricity is about 33 now today our best solar technology is about 26 efficient for wind the maximum capture is about 60 and our best machines today are about 45 so there's a little bit of room for improvement but we're pretty close to the limits of wind and solar plants right now now despite everything that you hear the pr claims about big games coming there just aren't really any possible like i said we're already pretty efficient and then the other thing is that wind and solar only works when the wind blows or when the sun shines but the thing is that we need energy all the time not just when the sun is shining as a matter of fact more energy is used during the evening because that's when everybody's home and everything's on so what's the solution well of course batteries right so we use the we store uh the energy from the solar and the wind in batteries of course no big deal except for we have physics and we have chemistry right there are there are limitations so physics and chemistry tell us that this is actually really hard to do so let's put this into perspective consider the world's biggest battery factory right now is the one that tesla built in nevada it's the world's largest battery factory and it would take that battery vector the largest one in the world it would take them 500 years 500 years for that factory to make enough batteries to store just one day's worth of america's electricity needs i'm going to say it again 500 years to make enough batteries to store one day's of america's electricity needs so that explains why wind and solar currently still supply less than 3 percent of the world's energy after 20 years and billions of dollars in subsidies now if we put aside the economics right if your motive is to protect the environment so let's put aside the money and let's look at protecting the environment then you might want to rethink wind and solar and batteries because like all machines they're built from non-renewable materials consider some of these numbers now a single electric car battery weighs about half a ton okay fabricating wind requires digging up and moving and processing more than 250 tons of earth somewhere else on the planet to get the materials we have to dig up and move 250 tons of earth somewhere on the planet building a single 100 megawatt wind farm that could power about 75 000 homes requires some 30 000 tons of iron ore 50 000 tons of concrete and about 900 tons of non-recyclable plastics for the for the huge blades so to get the same power from solar where the amount of cement steel and glass needed is about a hundred and fifty percent greater so we need about 150 more to get it from solar than we would from wind then there's the other minerals that are needed including elements known as rare earth metals okay but current plans the world needs an incredible 200 to about a 2 000 increase in mining to get these elements we don't have them what am i talking about i'm talking about cobalt lithium dysprosium i mean just to name a few right so where is all this new stuff going to come from well of course it means massive new mining operations now of course these giant mines digging huge holes in the earth of course none of it really happens in america but it does happen in some other important places so for example places that are very hostile to america like china so we're going to continue to put all our business in china or maybe some places we want to protect like the rainforest and amazon for example now australia's institute for sustainable futures cautions that a global gold rush for energy materials will take miners into remote wilderness areas that have maintained high biodiversity because they haven't yet been disturbed and of course who's doing the mining let's just say that they're not osha approved unions right let's just say that they're not union workers with union protections or any of that amnesty international paints a actually a much more disturbing picture and they say the marketing of state-of-the-art technologies is a very stark contrast to the children that are be carrying bags of rocks that's what happens in the mines in third world countries kids working in the mines carrying bags of rocks up and down and then the mining itself requires massive amounts of conventional energy right so diesel to go in the tractors et cetera and have regular electricity to process all the stuff right it requires a massive amount of conventional energy as do the energy-intensive industrial processes needed to refine the materials and then build the wind the solar the battery hardware and then we have even a bigger problem after that and that is the waste wind turbines solar panels and batteries have a pretty short shelf life as a matter of fact they're they're good for about 20 years conventional energy machines like gas turbines that would take natural gas and convert to electricity last about twice as long so we every 20 years we have to replace them with current plans the international renewable energy agency calculates that by 2050 the disposal of worn out solar panels will constitute over double the tonnage of all of today's global plastic waste and then on top of that we have when uh the worn out wind turbines the batteries and that's going to add millions more tons of waste all right it's going to be it's going to be a completely new environmental challenge that we have and the fuels that make our marvelous modern world possible in technology is making it easier to acquire a cleaner and easier way to use them every day now the following comparisons are typical and instructive right it costs about the same to drill one oil well as it does to build one giant wind turbine and while the wind turbine generates the energy equivalent to about one barrel of oil per hour the oil rig produces 10 barrels per hour and it costs less than 50 cents to store a barrel of oil or its equivalent of natural gas but you would need 200 worth of batteries just to hold the energy contained in one barrel of oil so 50 cents to store it in a barrel or 200 to store it in batteries plus all the mining and the rare earth elements and the disposal that it takes to build those batteries all right think about it so unobtainium it works it works great in the movies but we don't live in the movies we live in the real world but this doesn't stop the politicians from moving forward with their plans now house speaker pelosi from california is determined to nationalize california's experience as she released an ambitious package of climate proposals that calls for a combination of government mandates tax incentives and new infrastructure aimed at bringing the u.s economy's greenhouse gas emissions including carbon dioxide and methane to zero by 2050. now the proposals would mandate electric utilities be net zero emitters of greenhouse gases by 2040 and automakers produce only electric cars by 2035. this all sounds great and i love it and we're all for it but is it realistic does it work well that doesn't matter as a matter of fact that's just a minor inconvenience they want you to believe that your inconvenience of having to go without electricity for a few hours a day is well worth the trade-off of saving the planet and it doesn't just stop there as a matter of fact the far-reaching plan that um i guess isn't ambitious enough for the pelosi side we have the democratic's new left wing which is led by alexandria ocasio-cortez aoc and she's calling for getting all of the nation's power from renewables and zero emission sources ten years sooner than the plan from the house democrats now i just think that before we launch history's biggest increase in mining digging up the world digging up millions of acres of pristine areas encouraging childhood childhood labor create epic waste problems maybe just maybe we should just stop and reconsider our almost inexhaustible supply of natural energy and maybe we should just ask ourselves are we okay living in a world with rolling blackouts leave me a comment down below and let me know what you think do you see the trade-offs before you call me uh out on this and say bs put your argument in the comments and i'll try to respond to every single one of them that's what i got for you today to your success i'm out [Music]

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Length: 16min 20sec (980 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 15 2020