A German online magazine specializing in trends of the future says green power grids still have a ways to go. Meanwhile, a new study suggests vegans have better love lives, and that meat-eaters smell bad and have near-zero sex drive!
According to German Trends of the Future, switching over to solar and wind energy from fossil fuels won’t be as easy as many green energy proponents think, and that “much remains to be done.”
The aim is to reduce CO2 emissions by 80% by 2050, which means the elimination of most fossil fuels, will take much longer.
Hat-tip: Die kalte Sonne
The site, which believes man-made climate change is a real problem that needs to be solved quickly and writes that prominent energies like the wind and sun share the same problem: “They are not available on a regular basis”.
Unstable supply and high costs
The report sees problems with the storage technologies that are available today, such as Tesla’s Powerwall, or the larger scale technologies for entire power grids, citing high costs.
That cannot be realized today, especially for a power grid that is 100% supplied by sun and wind energy and outfitted with storage technology, [which is still quite a ways away].
The report thus writes that it will not be possible “to completely rely on renewable energies over the midterm”.
However, Trends for the Future adds that green energies have become “an important factor in our power mix” and is able to curb the share of fossil fuels” (although fossil fuel consumption globally continues to climb even today).
Vegans Have Better Love Lives!?
And now for the comedy science of the week from the German edition of the Huffington Post, which has an editorial praising the virtues of veganism – the radically kooky diet that rejects all animal-based foods like “milk, eggs, cheese, and yogurt. And, God forbid, meat!
Not only does veganism offer positive aspects with respect to climate, animal welfare and health, the German HuffPo commentary claims, but it cites a new study that suggests vegans have better love lives!
The HuffPo cites a study commissioned by nutrition portal “nu3”, which looked at the love lives and lifestyles of low-carb, gluten-free, vegan, and paleo-diet followers. The result, according to the study: vegans by far have the best love-life.
Vegans separating from stinky meat-eaters
The HuffPo adds that the study found: “Vegan women are averse to having sex with meat-eaters, or even having a relationship with them.”
The HuffPo adds:
About 30% of vegans would leave their partner if he or she returned to meat eating!
Near zero sex drive
According to the New Zealand study, the main reason for the aversion to meat-eaters by vegans is the “supposedly unpleasant odor” that meat-eaters have. In short, vegans think meat-eaters stink too much.
The HuffPo commentary also wrote that people who consume a lot of meat “have to use a lot of energy for digestion. They feel lethargic, heavy and the desire for sex tends to be near zero.”
Really? 🙂
Fact: Meat eaters more sane, happier
Okay, maybe us meat eaters don’t smell as nice as you flower-scented, animal-hugging, climate-rescuing vegans, but at least according to one recently published University of Graz study, we carnivores are more sane, healthier and happier overall.
And we are also quite content finding ourselves at the top of the food chain, thank you.
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The biggist problem with vegans is every time they sit by the window they start leaning towards the sun
Liberals often do flawed “scientific” studies. It is my speculation that those looking into sex lives failed to account for age. The average vegan is younger than what is average for the general population. Unless taken into account, a statistical artifact of such a study is that younger people have better sex lives.
PETA kills animals up to 85 to 90% while yammering about Compassion i’m in favor of eliminating introcuded rats on those islands to save the birds
Sorry, Genghis Kahn. Looked up Spurwing Plover. I love all of the avians but mostly the Raptors which the insane wind towers are killing. See Lord Monkcton.
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Histories infamous vegans Ganghas Khan,Adolph Hitler,Pol Pot,Charles Manson SCREW PETA and the Huffington Compost
According to German Trends of the Future, switching over to solar and wind energy from fossil fuels won’t be as easy as many green energy proponents think, and that “much remains to be done.”
Ya think? Any sentient being could have told them that and yet the greens continue to push solar and wind as the answer to our power requirements. I guess that’s true if we want to go back to the stone age. I myself prefer generating electricity from low cost continuous sources such as coal, nuclear, natural gas, etc.
Yes, any sentient being could have told them that switching over to solar and wind energy from fossil fuels won’t be easy. The significant thing here is someone in the green movement has acknowledged it. Normally they just ignore anything that doesn’t support their agenda.
With current technology the only way to produce power on a dark windless night would be to use two reservoirs. Water is pumped from the lower one to the upper one when the wind is blowing and the sun is shining, and then use generators to produce power by running water from the upper to lower reservoir when needed.
There is another solution no one has considered that would be a complete paradigm shift. Have it be normal for a society not to have utility power when renewable energy wasn’t available.
Of course the best course of action is to use sources of power that can run all of time such fossil fuels or nuclear.
Stinky??? Hitler was a vegetarian and suffered from chronic flatulence. Beans, beans, the wonderful fruit. The more you eat the more you TOOT.
LOL