The Daily Sceptic does not usually endorse commercial or investment opportunities, but this one is an exception. It’s simply too good to miss. At last, the global energy crisis has a credible, sustainable solution.
The radical new technology – an ingenious fusion of biochemistry and physics – has the capacity to provide zero-emission locomotive as well as static energy for the entire planet at only 0.8 cents per kilowatt-hour. I kid you not. It’s the real deal. You can trust me on this.
After almost a decade of intensive research at the gleaming laboratories of the Grand Academy of Lagardo, conducted in the greatest secrecy (we didn’t want the Chinese stealing the technology), we are at last ready to go public. Within less than a decade, when the first Small Modular Uplift Generator rolls off the production line at our Terafactory (formerly known as Texas) to the chink of decarbonised champagne glasses, all existing forms of energy generation and supply will have become entirely redundant overnight.
His Majesty’s Government, via the Sustainable Transition Unlimited Potential Industrial Development fund administered by the Department of Energy and Net Zero, provided the initial $4 billion in seed capital to get this radical and exciting new technology market-ready.
Inflation-Reduction-Act funding of $100 billion a year has been guaranteed by the U.S. Treasury. The Bill Gates Foundation has chipped in $40 billion. Elon Musk has taken a 3% stake for $50 billion. But we don’t want this to be an exclusively big-bucks project. Here, then, is your chance to get some penny shares while they are still affordable.
Market cap of the We Intend ZerO corporation is already well above $1.5 trillion. We are now at last permitted to go public, for we have just been notified that we will be listed next week on NASDAQ under the tetragrammaton WIZO. Readers of the Daily Sceptic are the first to know. We are letting you in on the ground floor. You’ll thank me, you really will.
Recently one of my noble friends, Lord Swift of Wetwang, sent his learned clerk, Mr. Gulliver, to the Grand Academy to report on our research, conducted under the able direction of Professor Sir Gradely Champion, PhD (Oxon.), FRS:
The first man I saw [the Professor] was of a meagre aspect, with sooty hands and face, his hair and beard long, ragged and singed in several places. His clothes, shirt and skin were all of the same colour. He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in warm, inclement summers. He told me he did not doubt, in eight years more, that he should be able to supply the Governor’s gardens with sunshine at a reasonable rate; but he complained that his stock was very low, and entreated me “to give him something as an encouragement to ingenuity, especially since this had been a very dear season for cucumbers”. I made him a small present, for my lord had furnished me with money on purpose, because he knew their practice of begging from all who go to see them.
Now, you may think this is all a joke. How can one get two sunshines’ worth of energy out of only one sunshine and a cucumber? Doesn’t that violate the laws of thermodynamics? Isn’t it a perpetual motion machine? Doing the sums on the back of an envelope, it looks to me, Monckton, as though you’re saying you could get seeds from the first cucumber and plant them and then get two sunshines’ worth of energy out of each new cucumber. Surely that’s impossible?
We often hear this from investors at first. But, as the Professor explains in his peer-reviewed paper on the subject, the law of physics that you can’t get summat from nowt (or, as he colourfully puts it, “nowt for nowt and b*gger all for sixpence”) simply does not apply where one is using crossover tech between the radiative physics of sunlight and the physical biochemistry of chlorophyll fluorescence in photosynthesis. It’s all a matter of the metabolic pathways, as every schoolboy knows. I mean, try it for yourself.
As head of marketing for WIZO, I can assure you that our business model is identical to that of many previous startups that achieved major market caps. Take Arrival, an exciting British startup of 2021. The brilliant idea behind Arrival was that White Van Man, with his mullet, his fake gold chain, his baggy Chinese Levi knockoffs and his Converse All-Stars, had not yet joined the mass movement towards Net Zero and ought to be brought into line.
So Arrival had what you can see was an idea almost as brilliant as ours. Its directors decided that it should use reliable, century-old technology for powering milk-floats with electricity, fitting white vans not with real engines but with enormous, heavy batteries whose sheer weight would help to improve the van’s grip on Britain’s slippery roads – an important health and safety improvement given White Van Man’s reputation for bad driving.
The first, crucial step in this field of research, of course, is to get AU to generate a shiny-looking image of what the finished product might look line. Arrival did this beautifully, as you can see, though perhaps they might have added a little color:
Next, the marketing team planted a series of stories in willing news media. Here are a few:
- March 2021: ‘Federal policies, local production – Arrival is meeting the American moment‘
- April 2021: ‘Mindful sustainability – for a clean, circular and equitable future‘
- July 2021: ‘Making Safety Equitable‘
- July 2021: ‘Anaheim PTO partners with Arrival to secure a $2 million Clean Vehicle Grant‘
- August 2021: ‘Arrival’s autonomous driving technology achieves major AU advancement‘
- August 2021: ‘Arrival co-developing its Automotive Open Data Platform with Microsoft‘
- October 2021: ‘UPS and DP World delivering world-first Electric vehicles charged using off-grid solar power at Expo 2020 Dubai‘
- October 2021: ‘Arrival hand-picked by UK Government to showcase at exclusive Global Investment Summit in London‘
- November 2021: ‘Arrival aims to transform fleet servicing with Global Service Network Programme‘
- December 2021: ‘Arrival reveals its first Electric Car designed to transform the global ride-hailing industry‘
- December 2021: ‘Arrival begins proving ground trials of its electric Bus‘
- May 2022: ‘Arrival achieves EU bus certification milestone‘
- June 2022: ‘Arrival produces first production verification van in Microfactory‘
What a roaring success! By this stage, Arrival’s market cap was $15 billion. It had not sold a single vehicle, but who needs to, these days? That business model is way out of date.
By January 2023, it became plain that, because Arrival had not yet adopted WIZO’s Small Modular Uplift Generators, it was not going to be able to compete in the ever-more-competitive market for electric buggies. From then on, the headlines were different in tone:
- January 2023: ‘EV company Arrival to cut workforce by 50% in third restructuring effort‘
- February 2023: ‘Arrival announces a $50 million equity capital commitment and exchanges $121.9 million of debt for equity‘
- March 2023: ‘Arrival announces $300 million equity financing line and provides 2023 outlook‘
- April 2023: ‘Arrival advances U.S. commercialisation plans through business combination with Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp‘
- May 2023: ‘Arrival reports first quarter 2023 business update‘
- June 2023: ‘Arrival to convert Antara’s $20 million loan into equity‘
- July 2023: ‘Arrival and Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp. agreed to terminate business combination agreement‘
- July 2023: ‘Nasdaq grants Arrival required extension to file its annual report on Form 20-F‘
- August 2023: ‘Arrival to report second-quarter 2023 business updates in early September 2023‘
- September 2023: ‘Arrival’s secured bridge financing accelerated and terminated‘
- September 2023: ‘Arrival reaches agreement with lender on exit fee‘
- November 2023: ‘Notice of delisting or failure to satisfy a continued listing rule or standard‘
- January 2024: ‘Arrival receives Nasdaq notification of non-compliance with listing rules 5250(c)(2) and 5620(a)‘
- January 2024: ‘3.8 times around the Earth. Van trials 2023 results‘
- January 2024: ‘EV maker Arrival’s shares slump on Nasdaq delisting notice‘
- February 2024: ‘Electric van maker Arrival calls in administrator for U.K. arm‘
By this stage, you may well have deduced that Arrival was an invention, complete with its own bogus website.
Unfortunately, like so many other gee-whiz startups in the Clean Green Circular Mindful Ongoing Sustainable Equitable Crossover Meeting-the-Moment Transformative Open-Data Modular Showcase Global Energy Transition Synergy Partnership Sector, Arrival was a genuine attempt at a corporation. Like far too many others of its kind, from Solyndra via Virgin Hyperloop One to Britishvolt, Arrival gobbled up billions and spat out nothing before disappearing up its own tailpipe. Just another example of Lomborg’s Law: green investment is neither green nor an investment.
But WIZO is different. It really is. Truly. Cross my fingers and hope to get away with it. Let me end with the statutory warning before you send me your very large check: “Investments can go up, and up, and up, as well as up.”
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You provide answer based upon close scurtiny of past events. Given that our whole understanding and epistomelogy is falling apart and that this is the meaning of our times and that Apocalypse means the lifting of the veil. There will be deeper discreditings than this one. But what is all of this tryng to tell you? It is trying to guide you to the realm of the spirit where no one can help or guide to to get there. Just listen to the vibe of our time and the feeling in the air and try to find resonance.
The only way to see the past or present or future is through clairyoyance. And that is a difficult and rocky path for all those who are called to it. Doesn’t matter that is the beauty of our species. Our humanity shines stronger than ever in this time in my view. In a time of unveiling I think that clairvoyance will be shared with everyojne.
That sounds esoteric, but it’s true that there is a lot that we don’t know.
Do you not see the permanent damage that you are doing the mythos of your country. You really have and you really are. I am not a particularly nationalistic person but people like you make me feel sick. Perhaps you desire a call to arms. I would advise against it.
The future can never resemble a model because a model is essentially a projection of a trend. Each moment in the future is blest with its own magic. Nobody knows it. Anyone who tells you that they do is heading for a fall. I have learned that. There are forces which give us pictures or projections but if you listen closely they tell you to listen to more important things. I am sure that I don’t need to mention them. All I can say is have a realistic estmation of your own abilities.
could do is make the meeting hall where you choose to get together, to be as beautiful and resonant as possible. Then when you have them beguiled you can charm them with your words. It doesn’t matter. No gentleman can support such action.
Have you been drinking all night and not been to bed?
This statement annoys me. It suggests that what I think would be good for me is equivalent to what someone else thinks is good for me.
During COVID – and constantly. in public life – there are people who think they have the authority and right to make decisions for everyone. Those people should have more humility and accept they don’t know what is best for everyone. But they don’t.
I have every right to decide what is best for me – be it buy a petrol car or an electric one, wear a mask or not, go out into the street or stay at home – and to reject someone else’s opinion isn’t per se a lack of humility.
And that seems to me the essential difference between the two camps – it’s not a simple difference of opinion about what the “right” thing to do is, but a difference of opinion about the proper limits on the ability of the collective to impose their will on the individual. We need a different country.
The author seems to assume that “something had to be done” and the poor old government had to make a choice, probably made a mistake but it was a genuine one. There’s a base assumption that the state has every right to make such decisions, even if they turn out to be wrong, as long as they are entered into honestly.
Not just the right but the obligation. It’s reached a point where to do nothing just isn’t an option. Deciding to stay out the way and let people decide things for themselves is nowadays is gross negligence and a dereliction of duty by the state. Something must be done. Anything. And like you say even if it’s a catastrophe, as.long as it was in good faith, all good.
Indeed, obligation, good point.
I don’t want to be in the same country as people who believe that. I don’t feel I have much common ground with the majority of people I know personally.
I had lunch with my ex last week.
It was clear that she’d forgotten that I’ve never been jabbed, have never worn a mask, have never taken any notice of the moronic rules/guidelines.
Which strongly suggests that I’m the only person she knows who has behaved in that way.
Other than people I’ve met through sceptic forums, I only know five people in real life who did not take the “covid vaccine” and two of those are me and my Mrs.
I know only two, my niece and her husband. Depressing.
Bloody hell I thought I had it bad.
Very sadly I have to agree with you tof:
“I don’t feel I have much common ground with the majority of people I know personally.”
What is missing is one statement of fact, namely that governments everywhere acted in unison. This has nothing to do with stupid modellers and confused politicians because in truth they had all been given their scripts.
And if it was all headless Chickens panicking all over the place, and some point the panic driven cock-ups would go in our favour. But as we say, every crisis was an excuse to suck individual liberties and reward to the state.
Every penny paid in tax is a decision taken out of your hands.
Often those decisions are made by people who actively hate you.
“Often those decisions are made by people who actively hate you.”
That feeling is becoming mutual…
“That feeling is
becomingmutual…”Apologies tof.
And now they want Council taxpayers to pay for their heating because they’re mostly working from home!
Governments though are given responsibility to supposedly look after what is best for all individuals. ——-If they think it is best to go to war then they will do that. If they think it is best to double your electricity bill based on assumptions about the climate they will do that. If they decide everyone should wear a mask then they will do that. ——Governments cannot be expected to make decisions based on what individuals think or believe otherwise they would never do anything because we all have different world views. Our only hope is that governments do the right thing based on what is best overall and they do that honestly taking all information into account. ———–Alas governments today are less trusted than ever before and many are realising that they have agenda’s other than what is best for their own citizens and now pander to unaccountable Supra National Institutions (UN, WEF, WHO etc) rather than to the people who vote for them
“…the problem was that politicians were confronted with scientists who in reality didn’t have a clue what to do, were floundering around, giving conflicting advice, and generally causing mayhem. As usual, real events didn’t pan out according to the plans and predictions.
To be fair, what else would one have expected? Who would or could have known what to do?”
Seriously? Words fail me.
“Yet “it was both politicians and scientists making mistakes”…”
God give me strength.
Mistakes?
Lockstep, dictated from somewhere (WHO or beyond). Scientists and politicians knew exactly what to do, and did it – ditch long-standing plans which amounted to doing very little (which is what had always been done and would have been the correct thing to do) and shut down the world, and sell everyone an untested “vaccine”. Yeah, floundering.
“Who would or could have known what to do?”
The people who had drawn up the established response.
Which was replaced by opposite policies on the basis of no evidence or reasoning process whatsoever.
Sweden, the people who wrote the Great Barrington Declaration.
All just a cockup.
Does the author not read the other articles on this website. Plenty of evidence of collusion just like with Swine Flu in 2009.
It was a full 180 on the flick of a dime, but yeah, just cock-up FFS. Why are they all rewarded for failure is a reasonable question.
There is a central issue which everyone needs to address, which can vaguely be described as the understanding of the paramaters of consciousness. I don’t want to go into it given the gravity of our geopolitical situation I just want to say it doesn’t matter as lomg as you’re honest. We might get chastised or deleted but we probably won’t get a 2000 lb bomb dropped on our head. There were some severely damaged chidren after thhose weeks of Israeli bombardment and some had made tentative recoveries only to hear the bombardment again. Take it from me, this event is probably the most important event in 4000 years in terms of the feelings that are evoked. I never take refuge in prejudice but all of my friends, all very well-educated people, have said that they will feel nothing but loathing for Jews in the future. I mean total peacenik types I would’ve never imagined they aould talk that way.
If you just spend a few months studying the philosophy of science you will see all of these issues brought out into the daylight. In Norway for example there is a basic philsophy course which you have to take in order to underpin any degree, which includes philosophy of science. I think that this is a wise idea. On the other side philosophers care little for science which leads to its own occlusion.There is no way to point people in the right direction we just owe it to make the attempt.
Modelling appears to be the modern equivalent of scapulimancy.
The Naskapi Tribe used to heat up the bones of a dead animal on the fire until the first crack developed. That crack would be used to indicate the direction in which the next hunting party should set off.
And, of course, both modelling and scapulimancy suffer from the same weaknesses, susceptibility to interpretation and manipulation.
That being said, burning some old bones is a great deal cheaper than Professor Pantsdown’s stipend so I recommend that the government sacks all its modellers and gives the Tribal Chief of all the Naskapi, Chief Theresa Chemaganish, located, I believe, in Kawawachikamach, a call….
Modelling can surely be useful but the key thing is to keep checking whether what the model predicted actually then comes to pass, and continually refine it if it proves inaccurate. That’s clearly not always how it is used…
Of course models are useful, I agree, but, as the man said, they are all wrong.
I think we all know that disreputable chancer modellers, of which there are not a few, pretty much make it up (manipulate to get the desired ‘right’ answer) as they go along…..to fit the narrative given by the financier, very much like pollsters…..
Far cheaper to burn some bones and get the same answer anyway.
Presumably you’ll get him on the dog and bone.
Home sweet home….
Coup detat’s true identity revealed
Much of ‘science’ is 100% junk. Much of ‘the science’ terrain is in dispute. Newtonian gravity vs shadow gravity, Einstein’s abstract maths and STR which are so full of holes it makes swiss cheese look solid, bang religion, climate fascism, the flu fascism, the shrew to you theology, endless ages – most of these are metaphysical projects and much of it evil.
Speaking of history I will say this – I get more of a ‘renaissance’ imbibing Aquinas, Bonaventure, Assisi and Buridan – than I do from the ‘enlightenment’ where abstractions replace reality, proofs eschewed for hand-waving, all the way down to Einstein.
As for models – laughable. These idiots can’t model what happened yesterday and as Mann et al and Climategate proved – most of them are bullshit. As Rona elaborated, worse than bullshit, more like horseshit. Data fraud and make up propaganda is now science. Show me the flying virus from the air, with the dna of the ‘disease’. If you can’t show it, shut up.
As someone who has built complex data models I know that ‘my peers’ don’t have a fracking clue and anything I build will be approved. So much for consensus.
And as for “Germ Theory”……… Utter nonsense
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/first-do-harm-a-sorry-tale-in-the-daily-mail/
Daily Mail obviously under paid instruction to go after a doctor who happens to be operating in the best interests of her patients. No surprises.
What’s the TLDR version?
BTW Engineering modelling works, if you don’t believe so then don’t fly or drive anywhere. QED is the most accurate physics model according to Feynman.
Modelling outside the hard sciences however is usually performed by people not up to hard science.
https://x.com/kimdotcom/status/1730230555000574003
From Dr Mike Yeadon’s Telegram.
A Whistleblower has put out the fact that the Pfizer “vaccines” were deliberately tainted.
An epidemiologist has stated that “the vaccines are the pathogen.”
Indeed. So much for “scientists” “floundering”.
I’m afraid much of this article seems like re-heated cockup theory to me.
The alternative to serial cock-ups all in the same direction all over the world at roughly the same time by fundamentally well-meaning people has implications so horrific that people like Guy just dare not consider it
I think there’s a good deal of denial going on, and wishful thinking. I don’t seem to be capable of this – the future looks pretty bleak to me.
I agree.
I’d say history begins the moment something is past.
From that point onwards, it is a matter of opinion, not fact.
Prophecy, the history of the duture, scripturally, is different. The prophet is either 100% accurate or is not. In the Old Testament, the rules for false prophets were severe.
Modelling is NOT science. ———Does anyone think a pocket calculator is mathematics? ———The calculator is a tool that helps you do calculations quicker than you would do them yourself. It does not provide the answer to things whose variables and parameters you don’t know. Similarly with a climate model if you do not understand the effects of clouds, or water vapour, or the correct value for Climate Sensitivity to greenhouse gasses and you simply enter a guess or an assumption into your model the answer you get will not be worth anything. That is shown to be true by the fact that climate models have all been way off the mark till now and they cannot even hindcast climate that we know has occurred. I recall a Lead Author at the IPCC saying that “There has to be something fundamentally wrong with our models as a 20 year pause in warming does not appear in any of them”. ———-He still thinks there is global warming and believes that to be true, but believing things are true is religion, not science.—-Modelling is not science
Is the truth what we think it is, or the present activity of thinking ? It seems to be thought that creates the subjective reality of time, within whose contextuality we think we live. Modelling seems to be what we do all the time…