Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On 14/12/2024 18:11, D wrote:

  On Sat, 14 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

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About 12 years ago I wrote a paper detailing why I thought renewable energy would never work except as an add on. Because in every case the nuclear power option was cheaper *overall* and less environmentally destructive.
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It had nothing to say about climate change. I was merely looking at a future beyond fossil fuels...
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But the moment I put it on line, using a name I had never used before in the Internet, and put a link to it, I discovered that I was already 'a well known climate denier' ...'in the pay of big Oil'!!
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At that point I started to look closer into climate change to see why an independent retired engineer writing about energy should arouse such a false response.

 Really? How come you were already known as a "climate denier"?

The fact was that I wasn't known at all, but my paper against renewable energy was seen by some zealot as contrary to the One True Message of Good People.
So he dissed me by calling me out as a climate denier, which at that time I absolutely was not.
But the fact that my paper scared him enough to do that raised deep suspicions that if that is the only way to propagate climate alarmism, there was something  very dubious about it altogether.
James Delingpole - a  art student but with a brain, came to the same conclusion for the same reasons. He called them, watermelons. Green on the outside and red on the inside.
Look at the wikipedia article on him which is a near identical piece of 'cancellation' by a green Marxist author.
Political ideologues, not scientists  or neutral commentators.
Everybody who expressed even the slightest doubt that 'Climate Science' and 'renewable energy'  was 100% right was a 'climate denier' and shouldn't be listened to and should be cancelled.

Was that  without your knowledge?

Yup.

Have you written a lot of articles or published academical papers?

Nope. I wrote that as a way to encapsulate a process of discovery about renewable energy. That I thought might be helpful for others to read. It was the very first thing that had my real name on it on the internet.
I didn't even publicise it as my own, as I always post under 'noms de blog' on the Internet. I referred to it as 'something that might be of interest'.
Instantly the GreenTrolls were in there making sure that the Faithful needn't read it as I was this 'well known climate denier'. And IIRC 'in the pay of Big Oil' ...If only ....
But the general message of 'if you want to decarbonise  electricity, then its cheaper and more effective to  build nukes and forget windmills and solar panels, and here is why' hit some nerve.
I recognised it all from people I knew in the 1960s and 1970s who were communists. The same technique of social isolation  and calling out people who disagreed with the message they wanted to have put over. AgitProp and emotional arguments. No pragmatism. All idealism.
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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
Mark Twain