Some ideas are dumb, and some are dumber. This goes above and beyond and into the category of dumbest.
The Club of Rome, the Malthusian communists who want all of you “extra humans” to die, have a massive new green jobs program. For the Arabs. Seriously. It’s called Desertec.
Desertec is a concept for making use of solar energy and wind energy in the deserts in North Africa and Middle East proposed by the Desertec Foundation. This concept will be implemented by the consortium DII GmbH/ Desertec Industrial Initiative formed by a group of European companies and the Desertec Foundation. The Desertec concept was initiated under the auspices of the Club of Rome and the German Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy Cooperation (TREC).
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Double the cost of electricity for Europeans, and in exchange, they’re hooked on energy from the same countries producing oil right now. Is this genius, or what?
Hilariously, in the wiki article, under criticisms, we start out with this brilliant observation:
Centralized solar energy plants and transmission lines may become a target of terrorist attacks.
Duh? And they go on to point out another chapter of Captain Obvious:
Some experts fear that generating so much of the electricity consumed in Europe in Africa would create a political dependency on North African countries which have corruption and a lack of cross-border coordination.
No way!
There is a fear that due to the large scale cooperation necessary between the EU and the north African nations the project may be delayed due to diplomatic and bureaucratic red tape and other factors such as expropriation of assets, license agreement reneging and corruption.
Not to mention that there’s no way they can ever settle this without first settling the Palestinian issue. Moving from the geopolitical to the technical, we have this lulu:
Transmitting energy over long distances has been criticized, with questions raised over the cost of cabling compared to energy generation, and over electricity losses. Investment may also be required within Europe in a ‘supergrid’. In response, one proposal is to cascade power between neighbouring states so that states draw on the power generation of neighbouring states rather than from distant desert sites.
I won’t go into why, but that is dumb on wheels. I’m shaking my head in disbelief that even wiki could print something that dumb (any EEs here, I’m sure are ROFLing in disbelief at that one).
This is your future with your intellectual betters making decisions that are good for you. Grab your ankles, and check your brain at the door.
Tags: Neo-Feudalism
