Environment & Energy

In fifteen to twenty years it's going to be a nightmare, especially if we use batteries in the way that many solar and wind proponents enthusiastically promote.

There will be much celebration of recycling. Unfortunately it will be just about as effective as plastic recycling now is.

We will have trashed the world for naught, leaving our children and grandchildren to clean up the mess... if it's even possible.

As an aside, I was struck by the unnatural color of the water in that photograph. That's an environmental horror story too. The natural lakes and gravel pits in this area of Bavaria have no outlets and had became so polluted by nutrient rich runoff from surrounding farms that they were becoming hypoxic. They've been artificially oxygenated starting in the 'seventies to prevent them from going completely foul and anaerobic. This takes energy.

There's a song many of us learned in kindergarten: There was an old lady who swallowed a fly...

It did not end well for the woman.