I haven’t been able to come up with a better title and am apparently less lazy than I thought. I was planning on doing this yesterday so I’m still lazy.

Now what’s this rant about? As one of you know and I have commented about before, in the case of chemical reactions and chemical processes there is a thing called mass balance. It means that absent a nuclear reaction, matter cannot be produced or destroyed. Basically if 100lbs of shit goes into a process then 100lbs of shit has to come out. It will certainly be different shit than went in but it will be 100lbs of the new shit.

Prior to Einstein that was scientific dogma. As you know he postulated and has now been proven correctly that in fact mass can be destroyed and converted into energy and a really big amount of energy because the mass destroyed is multiplied by the speed of light squared and that’s a huge number. I am sure that my readers know this but having seen all the street interviews and I would postulate that only about a quarter of the people in this country know what E=mc2 means and that’s sad.

So what I would like to see is something like the mass balances I did in school with respect to the global warming carbon neutral nonsense on the left. It can’t be done because the atmosphere is not a closed circuit like a chemical process and the factors involved are not necessarily related.

For one example, let’s look at EV’s v gasoline powered cars. It has been definitely shown that EV’s have a much bigger carbon footprint than gasoline powered vehicles. The mining to get the rare earth minerals that are necessary for their batteries involve massive use of fossil fuel vehicles and then recharging them requires massive amounts of energy that comes overwhelmingly from fossil fuels. And then the destruction of their batteries results in gross pollution of the planet.

Now for the real issue. The reason that we can’t really do a mass balance is because there isn’t a direct balance between their nonsense and reality. Diverting water into the ocean to protect fish no one cares about is not part of a carbon balance. However reality is that doing that resulted in wildfires emitted thousands of times more carbon into the atmosphere than all nonsense prevented. People one major volcanic eruption totally destroys all their bogus predictions.

Mother Nature rules and we don’t control the environment.