At first it seems like nothing new: an entrepreneur hooked up with some rich environmentalists to push renewable solar energy. 

So what? Does Time Magazine have nothing better to cover?

In the sleepy Swiss Alpine town of Rossinière, an energy revolution is afoothttps://t.co/edFfT4R0I8

— TIME (@TIME) September 10, 2024

Actually, no. Amazon is apparently paying for the story to be published, which is super kind of them, and I am sure that Time is thrilled to get money to print fake stories written by others for a few bucks. 

"Presented by Amazon" is a fancy way to say "not our writing" in MSM-speak. It's made to look like it went through Time's editorial process, but that is a slight of hand.

As is the whole "powered by the sun' pitch upon which the many mushy paragraphs at the beginning of this ridiculous piece. We get all sorts of warm and fuzzy woo woo about the wonders of the sun and solar energy from an engineer: 

Gentizon, you could say, worships the sun, though he does so in a rational, not religious, way. To the engineer, the burning star at the heart of our solar system is the alpha and omega of our energy equation. It is the key also, he believes, in our fight against climate change. And, the sun is fundamentally a public good to which no one has a monopoly. “It may seem like there is a lack of energy,” he told us. “But the first energy is the sun. Its energy is everywhere. The planet, it is only energy.”

As said, Gentizon is not religious in his worship. He is deliberate and scientific: when you observe energy in its purest form, you just realize it all starts with the sun. Consider the heat that makes up thermal energy: it comes from the sun. It is this energy that makes plants, trees, and vegetables grow, and that fuels us as people. Nature transforms heat into chemical energy in living beings, or in hydrocarbons, fossilized over hundreds of millions of years. But its origin is still the sun. So it goes for other types of energy. Geothermal energy, mechanical energy, or gravitational energy—none of them would be around in the first place if it wasn’t for the sun and the earth.

There is a point to starting Gentizon’s story with these solar considerations. Two, in fact. The first is that in this reading, a fundamental feature of energy is that it doesn’t belong to any one particular person or company. Like the sun itself, energy is the ultimate global common. It’s a far cry from how energy is owned and traded in our global economy, with just a handful of companies and countries dominating our current supply of energy. The second point is that solving the challenges posed by our current energy system isn’t all that complicated, if you start from a perspective of energy abundance. If energy is everywhere, in all kinds of forms, you just need to pick the extract right form of it, if you want it to benefit all.

There's a lot of communist propaganda thrown in about how energy is part of the commons and that our current energy production system is unjust because people own the means of production, but in the end we are left with this: we need to burn wood. 

No really. All this talk of the wonders of the sun and energy communism led up to a pitch for burning wood as the solution to global warming. 

Talk about on-brand for communists. It reminds me of the great joke: 

"What did socialists use to light their homes before candles?  Electricity.

Now I don't want to downplay the viability of wood as an energy source. You could certainly do it. Anything that generates heat when burned could be used to generate electricity. With all the subsidies from the federal government for "renewables," we are already essentially burning $100 bills to do so. We know it works. 

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It's just a dumb idea. A really really dumb idea. 

Wood is not especially energy-dense, for one. Especially when you gassify it, capture the carbon, and do all the magic necessary to make it environmentally "friendly."

Second, even with the replanting of trees, it would take quite a long time to create a "sustainable" energy infrastructure built around this kooky idea. You could cut down every forest in the world before you grew enough trees to keep on cutting down forests to fuel a modest civilization.

It would be a monumental waste of time, energy, and natural beauty in order to create an impoverished communist society. Build some nuclear power plants and you will be done with the problem. Recycle the spent fuel and you are good for millennia. And we get to save our forests. 

Win win win. 

The point, obviously, is not that burning wood is a good way to power a civilization. The point is that convincing people that wood is a viable fuel source undermines industrial civilization, which is the current goal of the transnational elite. 

One of the authors of this piece is none other than the inheritor of the Roche Pharmaceuticals fortune and Vice Chair of the Board. This is his plaything, and we are the people he wants to experiment on. 

Only a rich communist with too much time on his hands could come up with this kooky idea, and convince others to help subsidize the project. He's even convinced a local government to pour millions into this silly idea. Once it fails he will be able to walk away and shrug. The population of the town, on the other hand, will have burnt up a lot of wood and money, and be poorer for the experience. 

We need to take all these rich idiots and give them an island on which to perform their stupid experiments upon each other. Let them come up with alternative energy systems, weird forms of government, bug-raising facilities, and a social credit system. An Australia for the 21st century. 

Something tells me that the ex-convicts did better than these utopians would. It would be more "Lord of the Flies" than anything else. 

When I was growing up I was promised a 21st century powered by clean nuclear power, flying cars, space stations to which I could fly on Pan Am craft, and a dog named Astro. 

Instead, I am surrounded by techno-communists with too much money to burn and declining IQs caused by inbreeding among the elite. 

I have no problem with inbred communists with too much money. Life is never perfect. 

But keep them away from the rest of us. They ruin everything.