Short Quiz – Global-Warming Technology-Solutions Report Card

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Short Quiz – Global-Warming Technology-Solutions Report Card

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A. Intro

1. Does Daniel Yergin devote 24% (103 of 430 pages) of “The New Map: Energy, Climate and the Clash of Nations” to climate change and new technology?

2. Do you favor invading other countries to force them to use “green” energy that is uneconomic? Such as invading China to prevent it from bringing on stream a new monster-size coal-fired electronic-generation plant every week?

3. Have electric cars in the U.S. been a DISASTER from a climate-change viewpoint because the U.S. still has coal-fired electric-generation plants whose output exceeds the total electricity usage by electric cars?

4. In other words, if the U.S. suddenly banned all electric cars and shut down enough coal-fired electric-generation plants to equal the electricity usage by electric cars, would the nation’s carbon footprint suddenly shrink dramatically?

5. Are California and other states with seaports GUILTY of producing more carbon pollution than all of the nation’s vehicular traffic? Is this because ships in port continue to run their engines to produce on-board electricity?

6. In other words, could California reduce its carbon footprint substantially by simply requiring ships to shut down their engines while in port and accept electricity from the on-shore electricity grid?

7. BTW, with the world’s prevailing winds coming from the west, are the poorest of the poor and their children forced to live next to, and downwind from, California’s ports where their lungs are exposed to breathe air that is worse than smoking a pack a day of cigarettes?


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B. Solar and Wind

1. Have solar and wind ever been economic, in terms of costing less than oil & gas?

2. Is this why solar and wind virtually always require governmental subsidies?

3. Is this ever likely to change?

4. Was the adverse impact on a country’s economy and the standard of living of its inhabitants bridged in the Paris Climate Agreement signed by President Obama in 2016 (but never submitted to the U.S. Senate for ratification as required by the U.S. Constitution) by the U.S. agreeing to carbon-emission limits immediately – while the world’s two largest carbon polluters (China and India) were not required “to lift a finger” until 2030?

5. BTW, do you believe that after the U.S. has put itself at an economic disadvantage for more than a decade, China and India will finally “lift a finger” – or is this just another problem which can NOT be solved short of military invasion?

6. Is the Paris Climate Agreement similar to its predecessor (The Kyoto Protocol of 1997) which was signed by President Clinton but never submitted to the U.S. Senate for ratification as required by the U.S. Constitution?

7. Indeed, was the U.S. chief negotiator at Kyoto, Vice President Al Gore, instructed by a 95-0 vote of the U.S. Senate before departing for Kyoto that he should NOT agree to anything that exempted China or India, and that he should NOT agree to anything that adversely affected the U.S. standard of living?

8. Did Vice President Al Gore defy the U.S. Senate by agreeing at Kyoto to exempt China and India, and by agreeing to restrictions on the U.S. that adversely affected the U.S. standard of living?

9. Was Vice President Al Gore’s defiance of the 95-0 vote of the U.S. Senate the reason why the Kyoto Protocol was never submitted to the U.S. Senate for ratification as required by the U.S. Constitution?


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C. Hydrogen

1. Is hydrogen a 100% carbon-free fuel? In other words, does burning hydrogen (2H2 + O2 > 2H2O) produce only water?

2. For those of us who remember the Hindenburg dirigible disaster from high school history, can we testify that hydrogen is a potent, if not explosive, fuel?

3. Did the governments of both Europe and California construct by the early 2000’s a network of hydrogen-fueling stations that permitted hydrogen-powered cars to travel vast distances?

4. And were several manufacturers, such as BMW, selling standard models whose engines had been tweaked to run on hydrogen or, in the case of the BMW models, on either gasoline or hydrogen depending on availability at the moment/locality?

5. However, was the so-called “hydrogen highway” (and using hydrogen to produce all of the rest of the world’s power, not just vehicular) NOT practical at that time because there had been no economical source for the vast amounts of hydrogen fuel that would be required?

6. In other words, under the famous physics/chemistry “Law of Conservation of Energy,” doesn’t the tremendous amount of energy produced by burning hydrogen (2H2 + O2 > 2H2O) mean that it would take AN EQUIVALENT AMOUNT OF ENERGY to split water molecules back into hydrogen and oxygen (2H2O > 2H2 + O2)?

7. So if, historically, the principal method for generating hydrogen molecules which do not occur in substantial amounts naturally (less than 10 parts per million in the earth’s atmosphere at ground level) was water electrolysis (using electricity to split water molecules), is it easy to understand why hydrogen, despite all of its other virtues as a fuel, failed the economics test?

8. So is it understandable why President Obama would cause America to turn away from “the hydrogen highway” being paved by Europe and California, and focus instead on electric cars?

9. On 8/19/2019, did Proton Technologies (a Calgary Alberta-Canada corporation) make a presentation to the Goldschmidt Conference announcing that it had invented (and obtained patents for) a method of obtaining vast amounts of hydrogen economically?

10. Did their invention involve injecting oxygen into reservoirs of heavy oil and tar sands, and into coal seams, in order to separate the hydrogen from the oil/tar/coal thereby enabling the hydrogen to float to the surface through hydrogen filters that trap behind all remaining material including carbon for sequestration in situ?

11. Is a report of their announcement available at https://phys.org/news/2019-08-scientist ... tumen.html?

12. Did we launch on 11/13/2019 one of our “Six Degrees of Separation” E-mail Campaigns aimed at sending 340 million e-mails each to the Assistant U.N. Secretary General for UNEP and the Director General of the United Nations’ World Intellectual Property Organization?

13. Was the purpose of that e-mail campaign to void the patents of Proton Technologies in the event that they were sold to, say, Saudi Arabia whose purpose in buying the patents was to kill the technology?

14. Does Proton Technologies (https://proton.energy/) appear to be developing their hydrogen business in good order?

15. Is the Proton Technologies hydrogen-production process (per https://proton.energy/proton-process/ > “How Affordable Is Proton’s Process?” from the FAQ’s menu) capable of producing hydrogen in high volumes at less than US$0.50/kg for high volumes appear to be economic in terms of costing less than oil & gas?

16. Does the Proton Technologies process appear capable of producing hydrogen in sufficient quantity to satisfy all of the world’s energy needs (heating, transportation, electricity, etc.)?

17. Did the Proton Technologies process receive an “honorable mention” in Daniel Yergin’s “The New Map: Energy, Climate and the Clash of Nations”?


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D. Thorium Fission and Bill Gates’ Uranium-Fission Campaign

1. Are nuclear energy and hydro-electric power the only two carbon-free energy sources that are cheaper than oil & gas?

2. Is hydro extremely limited in terms of the world’s total energy needs?

3. Was “the well poisoned” for nuclear energy by Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas in the 1979 Hollywood “scare piece” entitled “China Syndrome”?

4. Of the only three significant nuclear accidents in the world’s 76-year nuclear history, were ALL THREE the result of unpardonable human actions?

5. Did Al Gore lie to Congress in 2009 when he famously said that “nuclear plants only come in one size – extra large”?

6. In ignoring the zillions of nuclear-powered U.S. submarines and aircraft carriers, was Al Gore also oblivious to why U.S. civilian nuclear plants have such a good safety record?

7. In other words, aren’t virtually all U.S. civilian nuclear plants manned completely by U.S. naval personnel who have manned the nuclear-powered submarines and aircraft carriers and who then took early retirement after earning a Navy pension for 20 years’ service?

8. Is so-called solar power actually nuclear power?

9. In addition to the sun generating its power from nuclear energy, is the earth itself a giant thorium-fueled nuclear reactor whose core is 7,000 degrees Fahrenheit – hotter than the surface of the sun?

10. Is it any wonder that molten lava billows out of any fissure in the earth’s surface?

11. After a successful 18-month continuous thorium-fission-reactor demonstration project in the 1960’s at the U.S. National Nuclear-Research Laboratory at Oak Ridge TN, did President Nixon cause the nation to turn away from thorium (and toward uranium and plutonium) because thorium is incapable of exploding or being utilized to produce nuclear weapons?

12. Are thorium’s 7 other advantages over uranium catalogued in our 4/19/2019 letter sent to each of the Democrat presidential candidates which is available for download as the attachment to the 6/10/2019 letter to the debate moderators at viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1781&sid=571163c58 ... d3f3971c8d?

13. As noted in the 6/10/2019 debate-moderator cover letter just referenced, does Bill Gates support nuclear energy as the only realistic solution to global warming?

14. However, is Bill Gates a “johnny come lately” to the issue and does he promote uranium-fission rather than thorium-fission?

15. Did nuclear energy in general, or thorium fission in particular, receive an “honorable mention” in Daniel Yergin’s “The New Map: Energy, Climate and the Clash of Nations”?

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