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Hello Flammable Ice; Bye Bye Renewables – Enter the Greenies' Worst Nightmare
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China is on the verge of unleashing an energy revolution which will destroy pretty much forever the green argument that "we are running out of fossil fuel."
At the heart of this revolution is a miracle substance, sometimes known as "flammable ice", made up of deposits of frozen gas concentrate in the ocean bed. The substance – methane hydrate – is incredibly energy intensive: according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration one cubic foot of flammable ice holds 164 cubic feet of regular natural gas.
It is by far the world's most abundant reservoir of fossil fuel, as the Global Warming Policy Forum has reported.
According to one conservative academic calculation, Earth's conventional reserves of natural gas hold 96 billion tonnes of carbon. Earth's reserves of oil contain 160 billion tonnes. Earth's reserves of coal contain 675 billion tonnes: Taken together, 931 billion tonnes of fossil fuel. But Earth's methane hydrates contain 3,000 billion tons of carbon.
Or more. Methane hydrates are found at larger and larger volumes the deeper you drill. ConocoPhillips drilled 830 metres for its field test at Prudhoe Bay. At this level, you calculate the reservoir of methane gas in the hundreds (100s) of trillions of cubic feet (tcf). Drill deeper and you calculate reserves in the thousands (1,000s) of trillion cubic feet. Drill deeper still and you calculate reserves in the hundred-thousands (100,000s) of trillion cubic feet. Earth's reserves of this resource could theoretically reach millions (1,000,000s) of trillion cubic feet.
Though methane hydrate is not a newly discovered phenomenon – various countries are researching its potential including the U.S. and Japan – China's announcement via its state media agency that it has made a "major breakthrough" in successfully collecting the frozen fuel means that it is one step closer to being used commercially.
This won't be good news, long term, for the U.S. shale gas industry.
Read the rest at Breitbart.
Posted on May 25, 2017 May 26, 2017 Author JamesCategories BreitbartTags Big Government, china, Environment, Flammable ice, Methane hydrate, National Security, Peak Oil myth, renewables, shale, U.S. Energy Information Administration, Wind farmsLeave a comment on Hello Flammable Ice; Bye Bye Renewables – Enter the Greenies' Worst Nightmare
Report: Wind Industry Riddled with 'Absolute Corruption'
A Mexican ecologist has blown the whistle on the corruption, lies and incompetence of the wind industry – and on the massive environmental damage it causes in the name of saving the planet.
Patricia Mora, a research professor in coastal ecology and fisheries science at the National Institute of Technology in Mexico, has been studying the impact of wind turbines in the Tehuantepec Isthmus in southern Mexico, an environmentally sensitive region which has the highest concentration of wind farms in Latin America.
The turbines, she says in an interview with Truthout, have had a disastrous effect on local flora and fauna.
When a project is installed, the first step is to "dismantle" the area, a process through which all surrounding vegetation is eliminated. This means the destruction of plants and sessilities – organisms that do not have stems or supporting mechanisms – and the slow displacement over time of reptiles, mammals, birds, amphibians, insects, arachnids, fungi, etc. Generally we perceive the macro scale only, that is to say, the large animals, without considering the small and even microscopic organisms…
….After the construction is finalized, the indirect impact continues in the sense that ecosystems are altered and fragmented. As a result, there is a larger probability of their disappearance, due to changes in the climate and the use of soil.
Then there is the damage caused by wind turbine noise:
There is abundant information about the harm caused by the sound waves produced by wind turbines. These sound waves are not perceptible to the human ear, which makes them all the more dangerous. They are also low frequency sound waves and act upon the pineal and nervous systems, causing anxiety, depression (there is a study from the United States that found an elevated suicide rate in regions with wind farms), migraines, dizziness and vomiting, among other symptoms.
But the wind turbine operators are able to get away with it because the system is so corrupt.
What happens is absolute corruption. I have to admit that generally there are "agreements" behind closed doors between the consultants or research centers and the government offices before the studies are conducted. They fill out forms with copied information (and sometimes badly copied), lies or half truths in order to divert attention from the real project while at the same time complying with requirements on paper. Unfortunately, consultants sometimes take advantage of high unemployment and hire inexperienced people or unemployed career professionals without proper titles. Sometimes the consultants even coerce them into modifying the data.
Research centers, pressured by a lack of funding, accept these studies. It is well known that scientists recognized by CONACYT (National Counsel on Science and Technology) accept gifts from these companies, given that they need money to buy equipment for their laboratories and to fill their pocketbooks to maintain their lifestyles. This is the extent of the corruption. Upon reviewing these studies, it is clear that the findings are trash, sometimes even directly copied from other sources online. These studies tend to focus on the "benefits of the project" and do not include rigorous analysis.
The Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) does follow-up to the studies, but everything can be negotiated. The bureaucrats have the last word.
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Posted on September 21, 2014 April 20, 2017 Author JamesCategories BreitbartTags Mexico, Patricia Mora, Wind farms
Greenpeace and the Guardian: Yet Again, Sticking up for the Bad Guys
Not quite the scoop it pretended to be
When is a scandal not a scandal? When it comes via Greenpeace and is splashed over the front page of The Guardian, I'd say.
While obviously I'm delighted that The Guardian and Greenpeace think I'm so powerful that I have the ability to effect a 180 degree shift in government onshore wind policy just by the mere threat of standing in a by-election, I do think a little examination of news priorities might be in order here.
In an op-ed for tomorrow's Daily Telegraph (which will probably appear online later this evening), I explain – not for the first time: but hey repetition is always useful if you want to get your idea across – why it was that I chose to stand in Corby as the anti-wind farm candidate. It's because I honestly believe that the Great Wind Energy Scam is by far the greatest scandal of our age. As I've argued time and again, in articles like this, this, this, and this, the wind industry is a very expensive solution to a non-existent problem. It makes no sense economically, ecologically, politically or environmentally. It kills wildlife, needlessly drives up energy prices, causes fuel poverty, blights property values, creates Low Frequency Noise which makes people ill, ruins the landscape and enriches the already rich at the expense of the poor. It even increases carbon emissions.
The only reason the industry exists at all is because of the vast sums of money made available to it through hidden tariffs consumers are forced to pay on their energy bills. Greedy rich landowners and even more rapacious corporations (most of them foreign-owned) are making a fortune at the expense of ordinary people by making a useless, environmentally-unfriendly product – unreliable, intermittent energy – which would be worthless in a free market and which causes enormous misery and damage to humans, to wildlife, to the landscape and the economy.
This oughtn't to be a party political issue. It ought to be a scandal that concerns everyone, even Guardian readers, even Greenpeace members, so why instead of investigating it are they using their considerable influence and their vast resources to try to keep this evil scam going?
Perhaps they've bought into the myth that wind energy is clean and green. That's certainly what wind industry propagandists like RenewableUK would tell you. But it only takes an hour or so's reading to find more than enough hard evidence to dispense with these beautiful lies. This is what troubles me about the Greenpeace and the Guardian line on this subject: are they really so bound by ideology that they never want to expose themselves to the truth? Why are they so determinedly sticking up for the bad guys?
If my on-off role in the Corby by election was responsible even slightly for helping spare one or two communities in rural Britain the misery of having wind farms plonked on their doorstep, then I would consider it a cause for pride rather than embarrassment. And if it made no difference whatsoever, well I'm happy with that too, because I didn't lose my deposit, I didn't take votes from my friends at UKIP and I met lots of nice people on the way including that rather hot yummy mummy whose baby I kissed.
It's not as though there aren't more than enough real scandals to concern ourselves with right now. This one for example.
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Posted on November 15, 2012 April 12, 2017 Author JamesCategories telegraphblog, UncategorizedTags Greenpeace, The Guardian, Wind farms
The Orgy of Greed Spoiling Our Countryside: Why I Campaigned in Corby
The troughers at Ovenden Moor
From Thursday's Daily Telegraph
The Yorkshire moorland that inspired Wuthering Heights is about to be blighted by nine 377ft wind turbines, each one the height of Salisbury Cathedral.
Do you need to be a rabid, bat-crazy, monomaniacal, classical liberal loon to find this upsetting? I hope not, I really do. The vandalisation of Ovenden Moor, near Haworth, in the heart of Brontë country should concern us all, regardless of which way we vote or what newspaper we read.
Caring greenies ought to be dismayed by the widespread environmental havoc it will wreak: the kestrels it will slice and dice, the protected bats it will cause to implode, the huge concrete bases, the poisonous rare earth minerals mined under the most atrocious conditions in China. Bookish Left-leaning wimmin in glasses with large, red plastic frames ought surely to be concerned by the blighting of the landscape which inspired Emily – and Charlotte, and Anne.
Red meat socialists ought to be spitting blood at the injustice the Great Wind Scam perpetrates against the common man. It takes money from the poor and funnels it straight into the pockets of greedy, often toffy landowners and rapacious, mostly foreign-owned energy companies.
Here, roughly, is how the spoils will be divided among the troughers at Ovenden Moor. The landowner will be paid £401,000 pa, index-linked, for the next 25 years. The developer will get an income of around £2,679,300 pa, index-linked, over the same period. The vast bulk of this will come straight from the taxpayer in the form of compulsory subsidies, payable even if the turbines produce no power.
And the energy that will emerge from this orgy of greed and destruction? It will be neither green, clean, abundant or useful. Wind power requires full back-up from fossil-fuel-powered stations. It doesn't save CO2, nor provide energy security, nor contribute anything to the base load power Britain so badly needs to keep the lights on.
These are just a few of the reasons why I consider the Great Wind Scam to be the biggest political scandal of our generation, and why I accepted an invitation by local wind-farm protesters to stand as their candidate in the Corby by-election.
As I said right from the start, the very last thing I wanted was to be an MP: my wife would divorce me. But what I didn't want to do either was to let down my cause with a really crappy showing on election night. That's why my strategy was to play the whole thing by ear. If I thought I stood a chance of becoming one of those Martin Bell-type outsiders who sweeps the board, well, whoop-di-do, I'd risk the divorce and spend two years in Westminster doing what I like best – really peeing my enemies off. If I could achieve more with a tactical, last‑minute withdrawal, well that would suit me too – not least because I'd no longer be letting down my friends in Ukip.
I love Ukip. There's barely a single one of their policies I disagree with. Inevitably, there was much upset among my Ukip pals when I announced I'd be standing against them: they were worried that I'd take away votes from their excellent candidate, Margot Parker. This I didn't want to do.
Equally, though, I had a lot of sympathy for my local Conservative MP, Chris Heaton-Harris, whom I got to know and like at a Tory conference in Windsor in September and who is masterminding the Tory campaign in Corby. Chris is the kind of Conservative who would have me voting Tory again: small-government, anti-EU, massively anti-wind. He, too, was worried I'd steal Tory votes – gosh how nice it is to feel important! – and was keen to show me that his party was at last seeing sense.
For example, he was the one who drew my attention to the anti-wind speeches made by Owen Paterson and the new energy minister, John Hayes, at the Tory conference. It was newspaper reports of some even stronger anti-wind remarks by Hayes which gave me just the excuse I needed to withdraw from the election with honour, claiming victory.
The timing was perfect. Obviously, I totally love the idea that the Coalition rewrote its entire energy policy because of me – and if the Guardian and Greenpeace wish to credit me with such mighty powers, as they did yesterday, then great. But politics is a bit more complicated than that. George Osborne is known to be fiercely anti-wind; Cameron, it is rumoured, appointed Hayes and Paterson quite deliberately to placate all those shire Tories mortified at the bat-chomping eco-crucifixes ruining their views and wiping out their property values. So while I'm proud to have played my small part in the war to defeat the great wind menace, I think it's more likely that I was only ever a humble Sancho Panza rather than the true Don Quixote.
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Posted on November 15, 2012 April 12, 2017 Author JamesCategories telegraphblog, UncategorizedTags chris heaton harris, john hayes, Ovenden Moor, UKIP, Wind farms
Why the Prince of Wales's letters shouldn't be kept secret | James Delingpole
From: HRH Prince of Wales
To: David Cameron
As you will surely be aware having no doubt followed with close interest my trip round Britain on my bio-fuel-powered royal train, my landmark speech to the European Parliament on the theme "Why we must end this capitalism thingy now and retire to our agreeable Scottish estates and go fishing with our ghillies" and my speech in Rio warning that we have just 100 months left to save the world, the planet is in grave danger. As your future monarch, here is what I command you must do:
Build more wind farms. Lots of them. Especially offshore ones. That's because the sea belongs to Mummy and money accruing to the Crown Estate is good money because one day it will fund my tireless crusading on behalf of Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Fund and Friends of the Earth and also pay for the upkeep of my Aston Martin which, don't you know, is powered entirely by biofuels.
Stop everyone indulging in the frightful practice of breeding. You are doing an excellent job with the employed classes, having created an economy where it is all but impossible for anyone to earn enough to pay for their own upkeep let alone afford more children. But with the underclass there is much work to be done. Is there not some way you might persuade MI5 to slip bromide – or better still, some form of sterilising agent – into the batter on the chicken at… (Note to Perkins: please look up the name of the frightful place where the underclass consume their hideous prole food and insert). (Note to HRH from Perkins: Nando's, sire.)
Encourage everyone to wear tweed. Tweed is splendid. Besides being robust, thorn-proof, and ideal for stalking in, it also keeps one warm in the chilliest of climes and therefore saves enormously on the cost of heating one's various homes.
Rid me of the turbulent Delingpole. He delighteth me not.
Yours, etc,
I have no idea whether these are the exact words of the secret correspondence which the Attorney General has decided we're not allowed to see. But I expect it's pretty close. What are the Prince of Wales's main political obsessions? Greenery is one. Easing Britain's progression into the Caliphate is the other. It's quite likely, I imagine, that both subjects would feature in his private letters to ministers. Which would surely explain why Dominic Grieve is so keen to keep them secret. After all, Charles's future role as a constitutional monarch will expressly forbid him from meddling in the nation's political affairs. It would hardly encourage much public confidence in our future king if he were revealed as a barking meddler who wants to drive up our fuel bills, ruin our countryside and undermine the established church, would it?
But perhaps the Prince of Wales's suggestions were entirely sweet, sensible and unobjectionable. If that's the case, surely it will do no harm releasing his correspondence.
And if they weren't, well, all the more reason that we should know. After all, if Prince Charles is using his position to lobby (H/T Ian Whittaker) for policies which will affect us all then it ceases to be a private matter and becomes very much a public one.
Prince of Wales to give up his Aston Martin, two Jags, two Audis and Range Rover to save planet. Not.
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Posted on October 20, 2012 April 12, 2017 Author JamesCategories telegraphblog, UncategorizedTags attorney general, constitutional monarch, Dominic Grieve, eco-loon, letters, Prince Charles, Prince Of Wales, Wind farms
Wind farms: even worse than we thought… | James Delingpole
The face of the enemy
The Global Warming Policy Foundation has produced yet another devastating report: this time on the economics of wind farms. Turns out they're even worse than we thought.
Not only do the Bat Chomping Eco-Crucifixes (TM) ruin views, kill birds, cause bats to implode, destroy the British film industry, frighten horses, enrich rent-seeking toffs like David Cameron's father-in-law Sir Reginald Sheffield Bt, drive up electricity bills, kill jobs, create fuel poverty, cause old people to die of hypothermia, wipe out property values, drive people mad with strobing and noise pollution and enable smug liberal idiots to spout rubbish like "Oh, I don't mind them. Actually I think they're rather beautiful", but also by 2020 they're set to drive up consumer bills in the UK alone by £120 billion.
This is about ten times more than it would cost if we stuck to gas. (Which we have in abundance, just waiting to be exploited, in places like the Bowland Shale).
In the latest Spectator, Matt Ridley delivers the coup-de-grace. Here's a taste:
To the nearest whole number, the percentage of the world's energy that comes from wind turbines today is: zero. Despite the regressive subsidy (pushing pensioners into fuel poverty while improving the wine cellars of grand estates), despite tearing rural communities apart, killing jobs, despoiling views, erecting pylons, felling forests, killing bats and eagles, causing industrial accidents, clogging motorways, polluting lakes in Inner Mongolia with the toxic and radioactive tailings from refining neodymium, a ton of which is in the average turbine — despite all this, the total energy generated each day by wind has yet to reach half a per cent worldwide.
If wind power was going to work, it would have done so by now. The people of Britain see this quite clearly, though politicians are often wilfully deaf. The good news though is that if you look closely, you can see David Cameron's government coming to its senses about the whole fiasco. The biggest investors in offshore wind — Mitsubishi, Gamesa and Siemens — are starting to worry that the government's heart is not in wind energy any more. Vestas, which has plans for a factory in Kent, wants reassurance from the Prime Minister that there is the political will to put up turbines before it builds its factory.
Some readers may occasionally detect in my coverage of wind farms a mild hint of contempt for those involved in the wind farm industry whether as lawyers (that means you Mrs Nick Clegg), paid propagandists/disrupters (see commenters, below), rent-seekers (yep, Sir Reginald) or corporatist blood-suckers feeding off the backs of innocent taxpayers.
One thing is certain: the arguments against wind farms are so abundant and well-known that ignorance is no longer a plausible excuse. If you're involved in the wind farm industry, you're a weapons-grade tosser, simple as that.
Wind Farms: the death of Britain
Official: wind farms are totally useless
Posted on March 9, 2012 April 12, 2017 Author JamesCategories telegraphblog, UncategorizedTags Global Warming Policy Foundation, Wind farms
Aaaaaaaaaghhh!
Before I got sidetracked this morning by my sublime irritation at the Coalition's latest ludicrous foray into Nanny Statism, what I'd meant to blog about was this.
Some of you will have seen it already. It's by the great Kevin Myers, it ran in yesterday's Irish Independent (not the English one, for reasons which are bleeding obvious) and it's the best piece anyone has written, EVER, about wind farms.
Here's a taste:
Russia's main gas-company, Gazprom, was unable to meet demand last weekend as blizzards swept across Europe, and over three hundred people died. Did anyone even think of deploying our wind turbines to make good the energy shortfall from Russia?
Of course not. We all know that windmills are a self-indulgent and sanctimonious luxury whose purpose is to make us feel good. Had Europe genuinely depended on green energy on Friday, by Sunday thousands would be dead from frostbite and exposure, and the EU would have suffered an economic body blow to match that of Japan's tsunami a year ago. No electricity means no water, no trams, no trains, no airports, no traffic lights, no phone systems, no sewerage, no factories, no service stations, no office lifts, no central heating and even no hospitals, once their generators run out of fuel.
Modern cities are incredibly fragile organisms, which tremble on the edge of disaster the entire time. During a severe blizzard, it is electricity alone that prevents a midwinter urban holocaust. We saw what adverse weather can do, when 15,000 people died in the heatwave that hit France in August 2003. But those deaths were spread over a month. Last weekend's weather, without energy, could have caused many tens of thousands of deaths over a couple of days.
Why does the entire green spectrum, which now incorporates most conventional parties across Europe, deny the most obvious of truths? To play lethal games with our energy systems in order to honour the whimsical god of climate change is as intelligent and scientific as the Aztec sacrifice of their young. Actually, it is far more frivolous, because at least the Aztecs knew how many people they were sacrificing: no one has the least idea of the loss of life that might result from the EU embracing "green" energy policies.
This is not to do down all the other fine articles which have been written on this subject, many of them by Christopher Booker. But sometimes it takes an outsider, someone who hasn't been covering the story day-in day-out for years, to conjure the full and hideous magnitude of a scandal.
What I love about Myers's piece is the concentrated rage – and the Swiftian disgust with all those who have been pushing the renewables scam or benefiting from it. It chimes perfectly with how I feel. Of all the miserable specimens on this planet, no category repels me quite so much as those parasites involved with the great renewables boondoggle. I've said before that I'd rather break bread with someone who manufactured land mines for his living than someone involved in rent-seeking from solar power or wind farms. At least with land mines a reasonable case could be made – despite their vile, random destructiveness – they offer some practical value for force protection. As Myers recognises, there is no argument for wind farms whatsoever: they're just an emblem of the green religious faith, perhaps too a symbol of the environmental ideology's geographical and political dominance, nothing more useful than that.
Incidentally, I notice that the greenies are now changing their tune on wind farms. Where before the bat-chomping eco crucifixes were spun as a vital part of "energy security", they are now being repositioned as a kind of carbon-friendly bolt-on which is nice to have around and generally acts as an occasional substitute for fossil fuel when conditions are right.
Have a look at this debate between pro-renewables campaigner Jonathan Pyke and Mark Duchamp of the European Platform Against Wind Farms in The Earth Times and you'll see what I mean:
Q: How accurate is the argument that wind turbines have to be 'backed-up' by alternative sources of power, eg nuclear or coal, due to the irregularity of wind?
Jonathan: It's not accurate and I think it stems from a misunderstanding about what wind energy is for. It's better to think of wind as the back-up for gas, allowing us to make much better use of our existing fossil fuel power plants than relying on gas alone. There's no need to burn gas when the wind is blowing, which National Grid can predict extremely accurately. So comparing it to nuclear or coal is misleading because wind serves a different purpose; every time it blows there's a substantial decrease in carbon emissions, volatile fossil fuel costs, water for cooling, manufacturing and pollution. The 'back-up' argument just isn't valid.
R-i-g-h-t. So what you're saying, Jonathan, is that the ONLY reason we're carpeting some of the world's most attractive wild countryside in horribly costly, economically inefficient, bird-liquidising, noise-polluting, view-blighting, rare-earth-metal-exploiting, property-debasing, horse-frightening, rent-seekers' uber-horrors, is to save the odd tonne of CO2 emissions, as and when, despite the fact that the science increasingly suggests that the difference this will make to global climate will be so negligible as to be beyond measurement?
I genuinely don't understand how the people involved in this scam can sleep at night, really I don't. But I do know what their punishment should be. They should be forced to spend the rest of their lives living in one of the many newly vacant properties at the foot of the nearest wind farm.
I don't need my ice cream to 'educate' me about the glories of gay marriage or wind farms
Sorry, but wind farms are useless even against vampires
2 thoughts on "The best article on wind farms you will ever read"
Martin Lack says:11th February 2012 at 1:29 pmHi James, whilst I sympathise with your misgivings about wind farms (because I don't wan't to see the industrialisation of our country side), I do not share your blind faith that we can do without them. However, I do wish the government would put much more effort into investing in all forms or renewable energy (rather than pulling the rug from under people's feet w.r.t. feed-in-tariff subsidies).Where our views diverge massively, of course is that, despite the absence of any discernible scientific understanding, you have convinced yourself that Anthropogenic Climate Disruption (ACD) is a scam; whereas I understand that most relevantly-qualified scientists are convinced that ACD-denial is a scam.
Good luck with that! Let's hope the people behind Climategate 2.0 are not so stupid to repeat their stunt a third time, the joke is wearing a bit thin now – most intelligent people have seen it for what it was – a mendacious attempt to discredit climate science and scientists by publishing data-mined, cherry-picked quotations devoid of context, etc., etc..
Martin Lack says:15th February 2012 at 3:10 pmBREAKING NEWS:Anthony Watts has been unmasked as a master of a Heartland Institute-funded misinformation campaign? What will it be next? Will we discover that the Heartland Institute was behind Climategate itself? I for one would not bet against it.
http://deepclimate.org/2012/02/14/heartland-insider-releases-budget-and-strategy-documents/
http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute-exposed-internal-documents-unmask-heart-climate-denial-machine
Posted on February 9, 2012 April 23, 2017 Author JamesCategories telegraphblogTags bat-chomping eco-crucifixes, Earth Times, Jonathan Pyke, Kevin Myers, Wind farms
Green Jobs? Wot Green Jobs? (pt 2/2)
A glimpse inside David Camerons head
The Global Warming Policy Foundation has published a report into the future of "Green Jobs" in Britain. It is damning indeed. Though it doesn't actually say as much the GWPF is too austere and restrained for such flippancies this Government's green policies are the equivalent of trying to pay off the national debt by breeding unicorns to sell to Chinese millionaires.
Among the conclusions of The Myth of Green Jobs by Gordon Hughes, Professor of Economics at Edinburgh University, are:
1. "Green jobs" are a chimera. Though diverting taxpayers money into the renewable energy sector may indeed "create" jobs in the renewable energy sector, it will cost many more jobs in the broader economy.
2. Policies to promote renewable energy will add 0.6 to 0.7 per cent per annum to core inflation from now till 2020. This is equivalent to a rise in the same period of the Consumer Price Index by 6.5 per cent. if the Government sticks to its inflation targets and applies restrictions on speed of growth through higher interest rates, then the "sacrifice cost" ie what the economy could have made, but was prevented from doing so by monetary policy is £250 billion.
3. These same policies will, on top of that £250 billion cost, reduce GDP by 2 per cent to 3 per cent for at least ten years. This will cost Britain the equivalent of 60 per cent of the amount the government spends each year on primary and secondary education.
4. Renewable energy will cost £120 billion making it 9 to 10 times more expensive than energy from conventional sources.
5. Claims about "innovation" and the development of "new industries" are a nonsense. "Almost every country in the world wants to claim the same benefit so the numbers do not add up.For the longer term, there is little doubt that the primary beneficiary will be China. That is already apparent from the way the market is developing."
6. Not only is there no evidence to support lobbyists' and government ministers' claims that green "investment" will create green jobs, but also such a policy will result in lower real disposable incomes and higher prices. Little thought appears to have gone into considering the real consequences of this government policy. Indeed, all these claims about green jobs "seem intended to divert attention from the consequences of setting arbitary and poorly considered targets for renewable energy."
Not, of course, that we didn't know all this already. I've written before about those non-existent "green jobs" here, here (the one where we learned that for every "green job" created in Britain 3.7 jobs are lost in the real economy) and here (my evisceration of the beyond-dismal Climate Change minister Greg Barker). What's more significant, though, surely, is that for all the overwhelming evidence out there of the environmental and economic damage being done by the Government's green policies, the Government is making no effort whatsoever to change course.
The story is the same in Obama's America, as described in this brilliant piece by Walter Russell Mead. HT Chris Horner. The examples he cites of Obama's green jobs quest what he calls "feeding the masses on unicorn ribs" almost beggar belief.
150 green jobs created in Southern Michigan, at a cost per job of $2 million.
$700,000 city and state investment in Green Vehicles in Salinas, CA, which has failed to produce a single car
Even the New York Times admits that Obama's Green Jobs aren't working.
Federal and state efforts to stimulate creation of green jobs have largely failed, government records show. Two years after it was awarded $186 million in federal stimulus money to weatherize drafty homes, California has spent only a little over half that sum and has so far created the equivalent of just 538 full-time jobs in the last quarter, according to the State Department of Community Services and Development.
Job training programs intended for the clean economy have also failed to generate big numbers. The Economic Development Department in California reports that $59 million in state, federal and private money dedicated to green jobs training and apprenticeship has led to only 719 job placements — the equivalent of an $82,000 subsidy for each one.
And earlier this week, a US solar company which had received a $535 million government subsidy filed for bankruptcy due to falling panel prices and global demand.
Solyndra is the third U.S. solar manufacturer to fail in a month as falling panel prices and weak global demand are driving a wave of industry consolidation. President Obama visited Solyndra's factory in May 2010 to promote investments in renewable energy and its closure will provide fuel to critics of his policies.
You bet they will. One of the questions these critics may well be asking Obama is: isn't squandering half a billion of taxpayers' money on a failed project a rather cheeky way of funding your election campaigns?
A solar energy company that intends to file for bankruptcy received $535 million in backing from the federal government and has a cozy history with
Democrats and the Obama administration, campaign finance records show.
Shareholders and executives of Solyndra, a green energy company producing solar panels, fundraised for and donated to the Obama administration to
the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Tulsa billionaire George Kaiser, a key Obama backer who raised between $50,000 and $100,000 for the president's election campaign, is one of Solyndra's primary investors. Kaiser himself donated $53,500 to Obama's 2008 election campaign, split between the DSCC and Obama For America. Kaiser also made several visits to the White House and appeared at some White House events next to Obama officials.
Campaign finance records show Kaiser and Solyndra executives and board members donated $87,050 total to Obama's election campaign.
Yep, it seems like there's one rule for the political class and its cronies and another one for the rest of us. If, say, you're Sir Reginald Sheffield Bt the father-in-law of the British prime minister you can make getting on for a £1000 a week from the wind farms on your estates; if you're the wife of the deputy prime minister Nick Clegg you can make hundreds of thousands of pounds as a legal adviser to the Spanish wind farm company whose unsightly bat-chomping eco-crucifixes are going to be wrecking the British countryside.
If on the other, hand you're an ordinary punter, you're expected to sit there and take it as the cost of your energy is doubled, your standard of living lowered, the countryside you love is ruined, and the destruction of your ailing economy is accelerated by the policies of a Government which no longer gives a damn what you think about anything.
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Posted on September 3, 2011 April 19, 2017 Author JamesCategories telegraphblogTags Barack Obama, Gordon Hughes, green jobs, GWPF, renewable energy, Sir Reginald Sheffield bt, unicorns, Wind farms
Flyers! The wind turbines have broken down. Again! said Caleb.
Alicia tested the blade on her throwing knife, which she could throw faster and more accurately than any man on the Watch, because that was the kind of woman she was. A strong woman. A fearless woman. Honed and lithe and taut and brilliant at rescuing you from the vampire-infested Mall on horseback with her special riding skills when all seemed lost though God knows what they were doing going into that Mall in the first place something to do with a room full of dead children which some other character in the book had been perversely attracted to, what kind of weird reason was that? The kind of strong female character, in fact, whos absolutely de rigueur for you to create if you're an English professor at Rice University in Texas who's slumming it in genre fiction, yet at the same time not slumming it because look what you can do you can treat the reader to SO much detail about the world you've created that its like reading Dickens almost, no, like Dickens with icing and cherries and hundreds and thousands on top because not even Dickens would go into so much detail about what the characters looked like, what they had for breakfast, their back story, their emotional history, their favorite color, their favorite character on Sesame Street, plus of course its got vampires, proper vampires, not your pussy vampires like the ones in Twilight but ones with so many teeth they rip you to shreds like torn up bunnies and –
Lish, get your taut, firm, desirable, simmering, as-yet-unfulfilled love interest ass over here NOW. The lights are down. The virals are over the fence. They're aiiieeeeee.
As some of you will have worked out, I spent my return flight from the US reading half way through Justin Cronin's bestselling vampire novel The Passage. I like vampires. Indeed, as I told my audience when I spoke at the Heritage Foundation if they didn't want to hear me talk about Climate Change I would have been quite happy talking on another of my favourite topics, viz, why vampires are the scariest horror creatures of all, especially the Master in Salem's Lot. But though Cronin's contribution to the genre has its superb moments, I think I may have spotted one or two flaws in it as the above excerpt intimates.
OK, so here, as I see it, is the fundamental problem. The vampires have taken over the Earth. (Something like 42 million of them in the US alone. Ri-g-h-t. So what are they feeding on once all the humans and farm animals and wild animals have been killed? Have they suddenly, like, taken up farming or something? Perhaps this question is answered later in the book. If it isn't then I'm sorry but I count this a serious flaw in the books schemata. As indeed I would if it turns out the vampires HAVE taken up farming. Yeah right, how likely vampire behaviour would that be?). In the second part of the book we're 90 years into the future after the vampire apocalypse, with a tiny colony of humans which have survived in their fenced settlement.
How have they survived in their fenced settlement? Why, because it is surrounded by bright lights which they turn on at night to scare off the vampires. How are these bright lights powered? Why, by wind turbines.
Look, I can just about buy the conceit that indestructible, multi-fanged, voracious leaping vampires have taken over the earth. (With those superpowers how could they not?) But what stretches the book's credibility far, far, FAR beyond breaking point is the idea that a) those wind turbines would still be operable 90 years into the future (they last 20 to 25 years at most) and b) given that they operate intermittently and at roughly 25 per cent of capacity that they would be capable of giving the survivors colony round-the-clock electric power.
Heres the truth: wind farms do not save you from vampires (or anything else). If wind farms are really all that stands between the survival of the human species and bloody, fanged extinction then we're doomed, I tell you, we're doomed.
URGENT UPDATE
It has been brought to my attention by a very senior editor oh, all right: Damian that the Telegraph Blogs Stylebook insists that no mention of Wind Farms is permissible without a reference to Britain's most distinguished Wind Farmer Extraordinaire, Sir Reginald Sheffield Bt. I apologise for having to rub salt into the wound of poor Sir Reginald who would no doubt prefer to be recognised as the father-in-law of the current British prime minister rather than just another of those rent-seeking landowners leeching off the back of the taxpayer by destroying the landscape with ugly, bird-chopping, heavily subsidised windtowers. But what can I do? Orders is orders.
Build Wind Farms in National Parks? Now we've REALLY lost the plot
Posted on July 5, 2011 April 21, 2017 Author JamesCategories telegraphblogTags Bt, deadly knife-throwing skills, firm buttocks, Heartland Institute, Justin Cronin, Rice University Texas, Sir Reginald Sheffield, strong female character, The Passage, vampires, Watermelons, Wind farms, wind turbines
Bird-crunching, bat-chomping menaces
Anyone think this would be improved by 600ft wind turbines?
I hope this photograph give you a good idea of why every summer for the last 12 years I have taken my family on holiday to mid-Wales, for me one of the most beautiful and special places on the planet. Its all the better for being so little known. You can go for a walk on those magnificent uplands at the peak of the tourist season and glimpse barely another soul. Note too, how completely unspoilt it is. But for how much longer?
This is why I have just signed the petition No To The Industrialisation of Mid-Wales and why Im wishing the very best to the protestors wholl be gathering at a rally outside the Welsh assembly this Tuesday to voice their outrage at the destruction of their countryside in which their elected representatives in Cardiff disgracefully connived. It was back in 2005 that Cardiff's joke quasi-parliamentary assembly of clownish second-raters otherwise known as AMs voted for huge swathes of the Principality to be covered in wind farms. But its only now that people have started to catch up with the environmental havoc this is going to wreak. (H/T Mike Blood who runs the Conservation of Upland Powys Facebook page, which deserves our support).
The wind farms are bad enough on their own. But to make matters far worse, as Christopher Booker reports, in order for these bird-crunching, bat-chomping, view-blighting, rent-seeking monstrosities to be connected to the grid a huge 400kv power line is going to be constructed all the way from Montgomeryshire through some of Britains most spectacular scenery to the equally beauteous Shropshire. Its not just happening in Wales, of course. Alex Salmond is wreaking similar havoc in Scotland. Cumbria is under threat; so is the Kent Weald; so are the Mendips; so is the Isle of Wight; so are dozens of other beauty spots: first will come the wind farms themselves, with their vast concrete bases; then the power lines, over 300 miles worth, 160feet high.
Its one of those subjects that makes me so upset it leaves me almost lost for words. Ours is going to be the generation forced to witness the most grotesque act of vandalism ever committed against the British countryside and what makes it so much more painful is that there is no reasonable justification for it whatsoever. From wind farms to solar arrays to biofuels, Britain is committing both economic and aesthetic suicide. Even if one were to believe the discredited theory that CO2 is a dangerous driver of climate change, even then the argument for wind farms wouldnt wash because being so unreliable and sporadic in their power generation they replace not one single conventional power station.
The sheer madness of Britains energy policy is beautifully captured by Matt Ridley in this must-read Spectator article.
Welcome to the neo-medieval world of Britain's energy policy. It is a world in which Highland glens are buzzing with bulldozers damming streams for miniature hydro plants, in which the Dogger Bank is to be dotted with windmills at Brobdingnagian expense, in which Heathrow is to burn wood trucked in from Surrey, and Yorkshire wheat is being turned into motor fuel. We are going back to using the landscape to generate our energy. Bad news for the landscape.
The industrial revolution, when Britain turned to coal for its energy, not only catapulted us into prosperity (because coal proved cheaper and more reliable than wood, wind, water and horse as a means of turning machines), but saved our landscape too. Forests grew back and rivers returned to their natural beds when their energy was no longer needed. Land that had once grown hay for millions of horses could grow food for human beings instead — or become parks and gardens.
Whether we like it or not, we are now reversing this policy, only with six times the population and a hundred times the energy needs. The government's craven decision this week to placate the green pressure groups by agreeing a unilateral and tough new carbon rationing target of 50 per cent for 2027 — they wanted to water it down, but were frightened of being taken to judicial review by Greenpeace — condemns Britain to ruining yet more of its landscape. Remember that it takes a wind farm the size of Greater London to generate as much electricity as a single coal-fired power station — on a windy day (on other days we will have to do without). Or the felling of a forest twice the size of Cumbria every year.
Why is this madness happening? Why is nobody in a position of power or influence save the odd brave soul such as Glyn Davies, Tory MP for Montgomeryshire doing something to stop it before its too late?
Simple: its because the very environmentalists who ought to be campaigning against such wanton destruction have instead been responsible for fostering the warped thinking, junk science, and knee-jerk anti-capitalism which made it possible.
Consider George Monbiot: the man lives in Machllyneth, just down the road from the wind farm development, for Gods sake, yet here is as far as he is prepared to go in his Komment Macht Frei column on the subject:
Three conclusions seem obvious. Unless the new powerlines are buried, the renewables programme will stall: underground cables must become a firm green demand, though they will add significantly to the cost. Even so, its now clear that theres a limit to how much more renewable power can be deployed before it clatters into a mountain of public opposition. This is one of the reasons why we should start considering other options for decarbonising the electricity supply: especially new nuclear technologies such as thorium, integral fast reactors or travelling wave reactors.
Do you see the pusillanimity and muddled thinking, here? He has neither the intellectual lucidity nor the moral courage actively to oppose this utterly pointless desecration of his local landscape. All he can manage is an unrealistic demand that the powerlines be buried (aint gonna happen: renewables are expensive enough already), followed by a tacit admission that his most serious objection to renewables is not that theyre expensive, environmentally destructive and dont work, but merely that they are likely to generate a climate of public resentment towards decarbonisation.
And what about the Prince of Wales? Where is he in all this? Doesnt he have some connection or other with Wales and her people? Isnt that why, er, he went through that ceremony at Caernarfon in 1969? Isnt there something in his current title I forget which, though Im sure sharper-witted readers will be able to remind me that suggests a special concern for Wales might be part of his job?
Yet what does the man have to say about the most grotesque crime committed by Big Government against the Welsh people since Llewellyn Ap Gruffydd? What efforts has this famed floral conversationist, this defender of old-school values, this ex-foxhunting, stalking-about-the-Highland-Glens-with-his-crooked-stick countryman made to prevent a 100 square mile stretch of Britains most glorious countryside being transformed into a sterile Golgotha of wind towers?
Zip. Nada. Nothing.
Or as they say in Welsh (and I must say the word does seem peculiarly apt where our future King is concerned):
What did our grandchildren do to deserve the Prince of Wales?
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Posted on May 22, 2011 April 18, 2017 Author JamesCategories telegraphblogTags Christopher Booker, joke quasi-parliamentary assembly of clownish second-raters, Llewellyn, Matt Ridley, Montgomeryshire, powys, Prince Of Wales, Wales, Welsh assembly, Wind farms


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Stephen Curry scores 24, but the return is not enough to lift the Warriors
Kendra AndrewsESPN
SAN FRANCISCO — Heading into Tuesday evening's sport, the Golden State Warriors had been assured Stephen Curry's return can be simply what they wanted to construct on the momentum they'd established earlier on their homestand with out him.
They lastly had their greatest participant again. Their beginning lineup — the league's greatest five-man unit — was complete for the first time since Dec. 3. They had been going through an undermanned, struggling Phoenix Suns crew.
Instead, the Warriors regarded like the same model of the crew they had been when Curry went down with a left shoulder subluxation, falling to the Suns 125-113.
"I believe with Steph and [Andrew Wiggins] again, we in all probability relaxed a bit greater than we must always have," Golden State guard Klay Thompson mentioned. "We thought with them displaying up, we would simply get the dub."
But each Curry and Wiggins have mud to shake off, and it was evident.
Curry, who missed 11 video games after being injured Dec. 14, wore a taking pictures sleeve on his left arm that stretched from his shoulder down to his wrist. He mentioned that bodily he got here by the sport effectively and wasn't fascinated about his shoulder throughout the motion — one thing that was essential for him to do to be cleared to play.
On Friday, Curry had mentioned he did not assume his conditioning took an excessive amount of of successful throughout his layoff, and whereas he performed 31 minutes Tuesday evening, he admitted enjoying underneath a minute restriction affected his skill to discover his rhythm.
Knowing he would play for under sure stretches, he mentioned there was a degree of strain to regain his type in a finite period of time, which he tried to steadiness whereas enjoying inside the circulation of the sport.
"It's hit and miss with how a lot rust you'll have and the way shut you may get to the velocity of the sport," Curry mentioned. "The first quarter, it felt good simply to be on the market, operating with our guys. … I felt like I obtained stronger as the sport went on. … In the fourth, the depth of the sport picked up. We had been enjoying very desperately making an attempt to come again and make some performs. I felt like myself once more."
Curry scored 16 of his 24 factors in the fourth quarter. He shot 8-of-22 from the ground, together with 5-of-15 from 3.
Wiggins, who was enjoying in his second sport again from an adductor pressure and subsequent harm, completed with 10 factors but did so on 5-of-16 taking pictures and lacked the aggression and rhythm he had earlier than his absence.
Thompson began the evening scoring 14 of his 29 factors in the first quarter then cooled off. In his first sport coming off the bench since Dec. 3, Jordan Poole scored 27 factors.
With simply over 4 minutes left in the sport, Curry hit three consecutive 3-pointers to breathe life again into the Warriors. Three minutes later, a Poole layup, a cease, a Poole 3 and one other cease had pulled the Warriors inside six after they'd trailed by as a lot as 27.
Out of the timeout, Curry obtained known as for a foul, sending Damion Lee to the line and giving the Suns a three-possession lead. Those free throws wound up being the dagger.
"I'm hoping that fourth quarter was the crew that I've come to know and love and acknowledge," Warriors coach Steve Kerr mentioned. "But we have now to present in the first quarter, not in the fourth quarter."
The fourth quarter, Curry mentioned, exemplified the "degree of focus, of togetherness, toughness, excessive IQ basketball" the Warriors maintain themselves to and what they know is wanted to win.
But the first three quarters noticed the Warriors' offense disjointed and their protection virtually nonexistent. Phoenix, enjoying with out Devin Booker, Chris Paul, Deandre Ayton, Cameron Johnson and Cameron Payne, closed the first quarter on a 10-0 run and by halftime held a 14-point lead.
"I've obtained to do a greater job of giving [the Warriors] the slap in the face that Phoenix gave us," Kerr mentioned. "One crew has the edge emotionally like Phoenix did, and so they set the tone immediately. That's all it takes."
Both Kerr and Thompson mentioned Tuesday's contest wants to function a reminder to the Warriors that there aren't any simple video games in the NBA, irrespective of how wholesome their roster is or how depleted their opponent's is.
"You want a wake-up name," Kerr mentioned. "You want to perceive the degree of dedication to one another, to the sport it takes to win a title."
This is not only a reminder to the Warriors' youthful gamers and two-way gamers, who Kerr identified did not play in opposition to Phoenix, but to their veterans who've gained a number of championships.
But having simply performed their forty first sport of the season — the official midway mark — there have been different reminders of this, different video games after which the Warriors have shared the same sentiment: that they perceive they're not assembly their normal.
"We've been speaking about it for a very long time," Curry mentioned. "Eventually, you've got to do it or else time runs out. … We have 41 video games to determine it out — or else we cannot."
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Great Cake—Honest, Abe
Honestly, I don't know how it happens, but wherever I go, I inevitably end up in conversation about food with a chef, baker or artisan food maker. How else to explain a cake recipe discussion at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.? Browsing in the gift shop after the museum tour (also always on the lookout…
The Velvet Truth
Enough already. The out-of-control cupcake craze of the past few years has peaked, leaving a trail of overwrought treats in its wake. Perhaps the most collateral damage has been done to the reputation of the Red Velvet Cake, touted by many bakeries as the ultimate variety, the cupcake supreme. But an office celebration a couple…
Enough already. The out-of-control cupcake craze of the past few years has peaked, leaving a trail of overwrought treats in its wake (and the somewhat frightening prospect of a cupcake vending machine.) Perhaps the most collateral damage has been done to the reputation of the Red Velvet Cake, touted by many bakeries as the ultimate variety,…
Fresh Im-Pear-Ative
If I had any sense, I'd make pear butter and call it a day.
A weekend in D.C. for my birthday was in the plans; a hurricane was not. With event after event cancelled, including Kate's planned entry in the D.C. State Fair pie contest, and threatened by the potential wrath of Irene, there were only two things to do: put the gumbo pot on and mix up the…
Three Cubed: Caribbean Creamsicle
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Three Cubed: Cheers to the Royal Wedding
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First Feast: The Recipe Recap
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Blu-Ray commentary
JKristine35
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Post subject: Blu-Ray commentary
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I just saw the DVD commentary from the director, and wanted to post a few interesting points.
-Gans and Radha Mitchell did not get along. Originally, Radha had refused to take part in Silent Hill, but she later changed her mind due to her most recent film being a flop. This made Gans feel that she wasn't as interested in the movie as she should be.
- Problems cropped up with filming scenes of Radha and Laurie Holden together, due to their different acting styles. Laurie was constantly in character, but Radha needed several takes of each scene to get into character.
- The ending shot is meant to exhibit the melancholy in Chris's soul, as he remains stuck in one place, forever waiting for something that will never come.
- Radha tried to change one of Jodelle Ferland's lines, but Jodelle insisted it remain the same because of the line's Biblical reference.
- The scene of Chris calling the archive company replaced a previously filmed scene in which he goes to a library and looks for references to Silent Hill.
- Dark Alessa's appearance is not based in J Horror, but in ghosts seen in Italian horror movies.
- The scene where Rose sees Dark Alessa scribbling at her desk was meant to show that the darkness comes when Dark Alessa draws on paper. Gans called it "a massacre with crayons".
- Pyramid Head's attack on the door of the closet Rose and Cybil are hiding in is indeed meant to symbolically represent rape. Further, the Creepers pouring through the door represent sperm.
- Gans clears up the ending. saying that Alessa and Sharon "fused" and became one person.
- The hotel scenes were filmed in a real hotel, which was initially considered too dangerous to work in. To get around that, a special glue was applied to the floor to keep the dust from being kicked up into the air, because the dust contained dangerous spores. Because it was an actual abandoned hotel, very few props were used. Most of the set are things that were already in the hotel.
- Gans comments on the relationship between Alessa, Sharon, and Dark Alessa. He specifically states that Dark Alessa is Alessa's dark side and Sharon is her good side. He goes on to say that people who think Dark Alessa is the devil are forcing a Judeo Christian interpretation that she was never supposed to have.
- Alessa's torture scene was supposed to be much grislier, but Gans felt it best to leave things to the imagination, and cut it down substantially.
- Gans says that the pain from her burning transformed Alessa into a "superior being", who uses her powers to punish the people who hurt her.
- Laurie Holden had to go to the hospital while they were filming the fight scene with the cultists due to a severe hand injury inflicted when she punched one of the cultists.
- The church scenes all had to be filmed in a day and a half, so Gans filmed in wide screen to save time.
- Gans hated the scenes with Chris and Gucci. He did everything he could to get the studio to say the film was too long and to cut the scenes out, but they refused. He felt the scenes were useless, and not worth the time onscreen. The only exception was the scene where Chris and Rose meet in different realities in the schoolyard, but he stated that it wasn't worth it to have one good scene, if it meant clogging up the movie with a bunch of boring filler.
- The scene of Alessa ducking as the car passes through her was removed from the final film because Gans was afraid too many people would reach the conclusion that she was a ghost.
- The ashes in the Fog World represent ashes from Hell falling into Purgatory.
- The transformation of the town when the darkness falls is meant to represent a child holding a lighter to a wax doll. Gans says that the "melting" represents Alessa playing with the town as a cruel child plays with a doll.
- The scene of the cultists praying, which then converts into the children praying at the orphanage, was meant to represent Gans's view of "bad" religion versus "good" religion.
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chounokoe
Post subject: Re: DVD commentary
Missing since: 05 Aug 2012
JKristine35 wrote:
Is it a new commentary on the BD or the one included in the DVD Box-set. Either the Japanese Box-Set had a different commentary or this was a track I didn't watch. Shame on me.
Considering that SH is from Japan I would like to argue with him on that
But yes, I know where he's coming from, though the way he put it he is technically wrong or it's at least debatable.
The scene where Rose sees Dark Alessa scribbling at her desk was meant to show that the darkness comes when Dark Alessa draws on paper. Gans called it "a massacre with crayons".
That's actually something that made more sense in the original script, where such scenes could be seen. The way he put it in the final movie doesn't really lend to this interpretation very strongly, though of course it is valid. At least that would verify that in the director's eye, Dark Alessa had power over the darkness and how it comes.
This is interesting, but would also make some plotpoints questionable.
Pyramid Head's attack on the door of the closet Rose and Cybil are hiding in is indeed meant to symbolically represent rape. Further, the Creepers pouring through the door represent sperm.
What? Why? Male violence? Fear of men? Is he actually supposed to represent the janitor further than the janitor-monster itself? Was Alessa raped by more men than Collin?
Yes, considering the original meaning that the character Pyramid Head held was rape, but in the films context this sexualisation seems sorta out of place.
I'm really anxious to see how this will play out in Revelations. I just hope it doesn't lead to a "convenient amnesia" moment that serves no further purpose than to justify the plot. Yes SH2 had this kind of, but there it is at least justified in the plot why the character would erase his memory.
He goes on to say that people who think Dark Alessa is the devil are forcing a Judeo Christian interpretation that she was never supposed to have.
I know what he is trying to get across when he says that we are limiting our understanding of Dark Alessa if we simply see her as a or the Judeo-Christian Devil, but he used a fair share of metaphors pointing in a very similar direction, like the once in the other quotes.
A superior being, playing with the town (thus having power over it) that represents Purgatory and Hell, punishing the people who sinned against her. Of course she is not the Devil, but his argument is weakened when his metaphors point to her possessing equal qualities.
teosoleil
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Wow! Very awesome and interesting. Especially the tidbit about the wax doll. A very deep film, if I must say so myself, sadly I don't think Revelations will be as deep or thoughtful as Gans did the first one
chounokoe wrote:
It's from the French Metropolitan version of the DVD.
Dark Alessa isn't in the game. She is a creation entirely of Gans, who made her appearance based on the look of Italian horror ghosts.
He was in the same building as the one Alessa was raped in, and he's a strongly masculine figure that comes from the mind of a child who was sexually assaulted. It makes perfect sense for it to symbolize rape.
It's symbolism, and there's no rule that the symbolism must mean the same thing as the literal storyline. The film has two layers, a symbolic one and a literal one, one does not affect the other.
I'd still argue on that one since the hair is the only thing that was actually that much different about Dark Alessa and Alessa's visual appearance in the game.
I'd also like to know which "Italian horror ghosts" he's talking about, because I'm trying to think of an example. Did he give one? Or at least a director?
But he appeared again very much removed from the school and as I said, there is the Collin monster already, so why create another monster symbolizing that which is associated with another monster (while said monster is simply cast aside).
And I'm not saying that it does not make sense for there to be monster symbolizing rape and sexual assault, it is just the (admittedly very old) argument that this reason to have PH in the movie is weakened by already having a monster in association to rape that is cast aside in favor of a cameo-appearance.
Further questions include:
Why is it threatening her chosen mother with rape?
Isn't it supposed to be Alessa's executor? So why is it symbolizing one of the things she dreaded most and not something that her enemies would dread most?
No, that's why I said that I understand where he is coming from and I don't have a problem with the separation of symbolic meaning and plot meaning.
What I wanted to say is that, while I agree that calling Dark Alessa a devil is enforcing a Judeo-Christian point of view, it is nothing you can blame the audience for when you associate so many symbols connected to the religious field to her. Many of the viewers in the Western hemisphere come from a Judeo-Christian background or are at least influenced by said culture. If you intend the audience to reach an unorthodox conclusion you have to work for that.
He mentioned Kill Baby Kill specifically. Also, he's the one who thought up her character, who are you to claim he doesn't know where he got his own ideas from?
All of Alessa's monsters are the same: they blindly attack anything, while oozing symbolism at the same time. They all come from the mind of an extremely disturbed child, it doesn't have to fit into a neat little box.
He attacks Rose and Cybil because Alessa lets him. She's testing Rose, trying to ascertain how far she'll go to save Sharon. He doesn't literally want to rape Rose, he's just doing what he was created to do.
All of Alessa's monsters symbolize something from her mind, there's no reason why he can't exhibit her fears just as much as the other monsters.
I think I formulated this a bit too vague. I'm not doubting what he based his character of Dark Alessa on, so where he might have gotten his idea from, I want to say that subconscious influences are very strong as well and I'd argue she is not solely based in Italian horror.
There couldn't be any better example than Mario Bava's 1966 film Kill, Baby, Kill (Operazione Paura). This movie became a decisive influence on Japanese horror iconography and visual aesthetics that most J-Horror can also be traced back to the style and methods of this movie. Italian Horror has been very important for J-Horror even until today. When you visually quote a Japanese horror medium today, it is quite likely that you are quoting Italian horror along with it.
It is also quite astonishing that he named Kill, Baby, Kill as an influence, because it holds far stronger similarities to his Silent Hill film than the imagery of the ghost girl. Actually I'd say the visual similarity between Melissa Graps and Dark Alessa is minimal at best:
[Reveal] Spoiler: picture
They are kinda, sorta alike. But on a level that you could call any creepy spooky ghost child alike.
What is much stronger is the plot-based similarities:
A police officer is sent to a medieval village in the middle of nowhere, where strange deaths are recorded. There he finds that cultic rituals are conducted to ward of an evil spirit. He is also told that he should never go to a nearby estate, as the restless dead call it their home.
[Reveal] Spoiler: Kill, Baby, Kill
That spirit is the ghost of Melissa Graps, who at age 7 was trampled to death by the horses of drunken village people, leaving her mother, the baroness of said estate, bitter and broken. Now her insane mother is channeling the restless spirit to take revenge and draw the village people into a world between life and death from where they can never escape.
Especially the depiction of the Baroness Graps must have been an influence on how he wrote Dahlia Gillespie in his film.
I know where you are coming from and from one perspective I absolutely agree with you, but then again, why not use the Collin creature for that? If you have a monster depicting rape and the bugs depicting sperm, why the necessity to use PH and patch the rape imagery on him as well? Yes, he is capable of "cooler" imagery than the Collin creature.
My other points where more for arguments sake, but what I have to stick with is, if that is his purpose on the plot then I have to criticize it.
He said he based Dark Alessa from that, arguing about it is pointless.
What rule says every monster must only represent one thing? Further, what rule says that every concept must be limited to one monster? Pyramid Head as a whole does *not* represent rape, it's that one action that symbolizes it. And since it takes place in the school, it makes perfect sense.
Now come on, isn't it the tiniest bit interesting to you to scratch a little on the surface? Silent Hill won't break if you consider a little critical thinking.
Movie makers can say many things and they can be very right with it, but that's no reason not to look at it from several perspectives. And naming a movie like that to be an influence is perfect material to discuss.
There is no rule for the first at all, but it should be made clear in the text as well.
If you put a certain meaning to certain plot-objects (PH=rapist, sword=phallus, bugs=sperm, ripped open door=vagina) then you assign it to that object. It's as if Shakespeare had switched between Prospero being a metaphor for his writing process in one scene and a critique for 13th century politicians in the next, without a hint of change taking place.
There's also no rule regarding the second, but the problem I have is that the one monster was severely underused and considering this comment from Gans it seems that the reason for this was, that Pyramid Head had to be in the movie. It's as if you had seen a dead Abstract Daddy in the room where you meet Angela the second time, but finally it had been Pyramid Head who raped her. Or if Valtiel had his appearances in the background, but finally it would have been PH to drag Claudia under and prepare God.
There is nothing inherently wrong with what he did, but it is unnecessary.
Scanman22
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Agreed. Why PH? It makes no sense in the overall plot of things unless Gans is trying to say that Alessa is completely stuck on being molested and everything she does either consciously or subconsciously reflects that. But if this is not the case, then there is no reason for that at all. Use PH for something deeper. But when you do come to think about it - ALL of the monsters represent rape and/or sex in some way or another so possibly Alessa IS hung up on that more than being tortured and burned to death. Take a look -
1. Lying Figure/Armless creature - It looks like a penis in a condom then "sprays" like ejaculation.
2. The Janitor - A tortured molestor trying to "lick" Rose.
3. Pyramid Head - A strong forceful male monster with a giant phalic weapon "stabbing" things. Plus, he rips off Anna's clothes, grabs her breasts, and rips off her skin.
4. Creepers - According to Gans, they represent "sperm" attempting to get in the "womb" which is the room after PH sticks his phalic knife in the door. They try to chew, bite, lick, and eat their victims.
5. Nurses - Sexy body type women monsters. They move seductively and then punish each other by slashing one another! They are attracted to the phalic shaped flashlight and want and claw for it but ONLY when it is TURNED ON!
6. Grey Children - This one is a bit of a stretch, but they are victims because to Alessa, children are rape victims. They paw and claw at the adult because that is what they think they should do. But they are full of "firey" rage burning inside by being forced to touch things they don't want to!
7. Alessa Monster - She uses razor wire to viciously "rape" Christabella with the sharp wired tentacles! This one is pretty obvious...
But see what I mean? All of Alessa's creatures are based upon rape & sex either consciously or subconsciously. When you look at it this way, the entire movie is about Alessa coming to terms with what happened to her in the form of revenge and her creatures whom help her get her "satisfaction".
This could actually become its own topic discussion!!! Since this is a tangant based on the DVD commentary, if you wish to discuss this further I will start a new topic about this and the mods can add the posts from this topic that fit if they wish... or do whatever they think is best!
- Member of the Order -
~ The Sect of Valtiel ~
The Grey Children do not represent rape in any way, shape, or form. According to the director, they are Alessa's classmates, whom she killed and then turned into monsters so they would suffer as she did during the burning. A lot of what else you say is a stretch. The Armless Man is a pretty obvious reference to Alessa's inability to move or speak after being burned alive, which led her to build up a hatred so acidic that it bust forth from her. Neither the Creepers nor Pyramid Head entirely represent rape. The Creepers are symbolic of the way the cult attacks people (Gans confirmed this), and Pyramid Head is just Alessa's view of how scary she finds men to be. That one action represents rape, yes, but the creatures themselves don't. The only exception to this is the Janitor, who actually is the man who raped Alessa.
The only exception to this is the Janitor, who actually is the man who raped Alessa.
Sadly, his representation is rather weak compared to the argument Gans put behind Pyramid Head's and the Creeper's scene. His only action is flicking his tongue at Rose and after that he is left by the wayside and forgotten.
If the rape actually played a part in the film's subtext, why cast that character aside?
The Janitor was never supposed to be part of the movie. He was thought up less than a day before the scene was shot.
Where did you get this information? Is it stated on the DVD commentary?
Is that in the DVD commentary as well or do you have an interview in which this is said? And does it concern the whole character of the janitor or only his appearance as a monster in the other world. Because a total absence of the character would basically void PH of it's supposed meaning again.
It's stated in both the behind the scenes and the commentary. It may actually be in a couple of interviews as well. Even the production notes on the official site mention it, saying
The character of the Janitor was added during production
Originally, Rose was just supposed to find an empty stall, but Gans changed his mind about that shortly before shooting.
But wouldn't that completely remove the plot of Alessa being molested if the character was actually added during production and nothing more?
Or was PH actually supposed to be the only personification of her rape? He and the janitor were both played by Roberto Campanella, so it's possible to imagine that the Collin creature was just thrown in at the last minute because it looked cool. If the whole janitor affair was created later though, then I suppose that scene about PH implying rape and the bugs being sperm was added later as well.
Either way, one of the things is unnecessary.
Historical Society Historian
Missing since: 19 Jul 2007
Only if that information also applies to the flashback in which Colin is gazing upon Alessa. If that line is referring only to the Janitor monster, then the information is still there.
Kenji wrote:
Well, concerning that we know nothing more than that there was apparently no rape plot in previous versions of the script from 2004, but of course it's hard to guess when exactly it was added.
The janitor plot was not added until production, but I still disagree with you. It works fine as it is, and I don't see how either monster is under-utilized, nor do I see any reason why two different scenes can't represent the same thing.


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Stratis Kyriakidis (ed.), Libera Fama: An Endless Journey. Pierides, 6. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. Pp. 245. ISBN 9781443810999. $90.95.
Reviewed by Dorothee Gall, University of Bonn (dgall@uni-bonn.de)
Libera Fama's ten chapters deal with fama in its two central meanings: fama as rumour, including gossip and lying as well as truth, and fama as renown, glory, or fame.
Basic insights into fama's role and function in ancient literature were presented by Thomas Hardie in 20121 and, although Hardie's important monograph covers all facets of fama, it does not, of course, deal with all authors and texts to the same extent. Stemming from a conference based on Hardie's book and hosted at the University of Athens,2 Libera Fama adds to our understanding of the complex and often ambivalent phenomenon of fame and opens up new pathways in the study of ancient literature.
The book opens with a comprehensive introduction by Stratis Kyriakidis, who explains in detail the nine contributions that follow.
Myrto Garani's excellent paper deals with the antithesis of Epicurean contempt for fame and Lucretius' claim of glory for both Epicurus and his own didactic poem. Garani makes clear that, despite Plutarch's criticism of Epicurean neglect of glory, the philosopher accepts fame as a goal in life, as long as it helps to obtain individual security and is in accordance with one's nature. That is why Lucretius can disapprove of the craving for political glory but can at the same time attribute fame to earlier poets and philosophers and also strive for philosophical or poetic fame for himself and his teacher.
Elena Karamalengou finds the two concepts of fama united in Cicero's autobiographical epics De consulatu suo and De temporibus suis: fama-rumour, i.e. the evil judgements of Roman citizens about Cicero's political handling of the Catilinarian conspirators, will be overcome by fama-glory merited by the epics. Thus, as the poet and hero of his epics, Cicero gains the fame and dignity denied to him by his political opponents.
Séverine Clément-Tarantino's important essay looks for Fama in Virgil's Aeneid outside of the famous Fama- passage in Aeneid 4. Allusions to Fama (e.g. in phrases like fama refert, ut perhibent) constitute a kind of network throughout the epic and have a narratological function as transitions between different parts of the poem. At the same time, the reference to hearsay is a reference to the literary tradition and to the creative power of the narrator. Virgil's concept of Fama is that of a tragic messenger: she always delivers bad news.
Eleni Peraki-Kyriakidou's contribution gives a multifaceted interpretation of the Leuconoe episode from Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.1ff. that focusses on the metaphor of weaving and the issue of freedom in discourse and poetry, as well as the Hellenistic poetics of the text.
Andreas N. Michalopoulos provides an overview of Ovid's treatment of fama in his poems from exile (Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto): The exiled poet continues to deal with the theme of glory, albeit in a negative way: far from the Roman audience, glory becomes impossible or unimportant, but rumour still allows him to have some contact with Rome.
As Stratis Kyriakidis shows in his important and instructive examination of the Astronomica, Manilius closely follows the traditions of Latin literature, especially Lucretius, Vergil and Ovid, by stressing the difficulty of composing his literary work and by claiming for himself a place among the great poets. Unlike Ovid and as a true follower of the Stoa, he attributes the gift of glory not primarily to his own talents: gloria, though given by fate, is acquired by tedious labour, not by the judgement of the people.
Sophia Papaioannou's convincing paper focuses on the generic interactions between satire and epic in Juvenal's Saturae. The seemingly omniscient gossiping woman of Sat. 6 is modelled after Vergil's Fama. At the same time, she is a metaphor for the power of literature and a self-reference to the voice of the satirist. In a similar way, Laronia in Sat. 2.36-63 echoes Virgil's sibyl in Aen. 6 and stands for the satirist Juvenal. This type of reference to the great authors of the early empire is meant to Romanize the cultural multivocality of the present time.
Philip Hardie's dense study of Prudentius' Peristephanon is mainly based on Per. 2 (Laurentius), 3 (Eulalia), 10 (Romanus) and 13 (Cyprianus). Hardie demonstrates how Prudentius tracks the topoi of fame established in Latin literature, but develops new opposites, metaphors, and interpretations: the material world is opposed to the immaterial, that is to the world where true fame can exclusively be found. The wounds on the bodies of the martyrs are like written words proclaiming their fame. The flow of blood is like the flow of speech. Invidia, which always strives to obscure true fame, is Satan.
Gianni Guastella gives an important overview of the iconographic traditions reaching from the Vergilian monstrum horrendum to later illustrations of Fama-renown. She makes clear that, although there are some illustrations of the Vergilian Fama in manuscripts of the Middle Ages, an iconographic tradition does not exist until the first illustrations of Petrarch's Triumphi, where traits of the Vergilian Fama (many tongues, eyes and feathers) are contaminated with the trumpets that announce glory. This mixed picture even misled Cesare Ripa to add trumpets to the Vergilian Fama in his Iconologia.
At the end of the book, Hardie gives a short summary of the contributions, followed by a bibliography and two indices (index locorum and general index).
This is a carefully edited book, which not only widens our understanding of the power of Fama in ancient literature, but also deals with many aspects of ancient philosophy, anthropology, religion, and literary technique. All the papers are worth reading and help to elucidate the ambiguous nature of fama and the link between rumour and glory, both of which share in the complex nature of Roman memorial culture.
There are, of course, some questions and objections. I doubt that Karamalengou's distinction between the Jupiter of the introductory verses of De consulatu suo (being the logos-Zeus of Aratus and the Aratea) and the Capitoline Jupiter, who takes a stand for the imperium Romanum, is helpful. As Vergil will teach us about three decades later, the Romans have no problem connecting those functions. Peraki-Kyriakidou's reading of the Leuconoe episode is attractive and innovative, but it has little relation to the actual theme of the book. When Michalopoulos concludes from Ovid, Tristia 4.1-4, and 5.12.37-42, that Ovid has abandoned any desire for glory, he misunderstands the duplicity of the exiled author's words: His poems deny fame – but he sends them to Rome!
Even if the individual essays could be more closely related to one another, the continuity of the attempts at coping with true and false fame in Roman literature becomes quite clear. The restriction to poetic texts is compensated for by the broad time frame reaching from Lucretius to Prudentius, thus well justifying the subtitle "An endless Journey."
Stratis Kyriakidis, Introduction: Speech, Fame and Glory: Connecting Past and Future, 1-27
Myrto Garani, The Negation of Fame: Epicurus' Meta-Fama and Lucretius' response, 28-44
Elena Karamalengou, Poeta, Heros and Fama: Perplexities and Upsets in Cicero's Epic Fragments, 45-54
Séverine Clément-Tarantino, Wanderings of Fama and "fame's Narratives" in the Aeneid, 55-70
Eleni Peraki-Kyriakidou' The Ovidian Leuconoe: Vision, Speech and Narration, 71-93
Andreas N. Michalopoulos, Famaque cum domino fugit ab urbe suo: Aspects of Fama in Ovid's Exile Poetry, 71-94-110
Stratis Kyriakidis, The Universe as Audience: Manilius' Poetic Ambitions, 111-143
Sophia Papaioannou, Rumour and Satire: The two-faceted Mirror of Juvenal's World, 144-165
Philip Hardie, Martyrs' Memorials: Glory, Memory, and Envy in Prudentius' Peristhephanon, 166-192
Gianni Guastella, Pictures of Virgilian Fama, 193-202
1. Philip Hardie, Rumour and Renown: Representations of Fama in Western Literature, Cambridge 2012.
2. Recent German studies which would have been beneficial are not considered (Hans-Joachim Neubauer, Fama. Eine Geschichte des Gerüchts, Berlin 1998; Jürgen Brokoff, Jürgen Fohrmann, Hedwig Pompe, Brigitte Weingart (Edd.), Die Kommunikation der Gerüchte, Göttingen 2008).
Good to see the scholarly consideration of fama being extended beyond Philip Hardie's excellent book. But curious that the scope of this set of papers takes no note at all of the historians, who account for a very large proportion of mentions of fama (or fama et rumores) in Latin literature. The downside of fama, and its role as, simply, 'gossip' tend to get neglected - though Hardie was careful to distinguish fama-as -renown from fama-as-gossip in his book.


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