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Promethean Science • Iran Oil Shock & Green Energy Lies
The Iran crisis has green propagandists claiming wind and solar are cheap and secure. The data proves the opposite. More renewables = higher prices. Every time. Here's why the physics guarantees it.
The Iran conflict has green energy propagandists salivating—pushing claims that wind and solar are now the cheapest electricity and the answer to energy security. The data says otherwise.
In this episode, Ben Deniston of Promethean Action cuts through the coordinated green messaging with hard evidence: real-world data from California and 30+ European countries showing electricity prices rise as wind and solar scale up. He exposes the "levelized cost of electricity" as a deliberate accounting trick that hides the massive overhead costs of intermittency—backup generation, storage, transmission, curtailment, and grid balancing. When those costs are included, 100% wind or solar in Texas costs 6 to 10 times more than natural gas.
But cost is only half the problem. Wind and solar are fundamentally low power density—requiring 10 to 25x the materials of reliable systems for the same energy output. And that's not a solvable engineering problem—it's the physics.
The episode closes with the deeper principle: increasing power density isn't just good economics—it's a universal law of progress, from the first ocean predators 530 million years ago to the nuclear frontier ahead. Green energy doesn't just raise costs—it pushes civilization against the current of natural law.
00:00 Iran Crisis Green Spin 01:41 Coordinated Renewables Push 02:54 Prices Rise With Renewables 03:38 Europe Scatter Plot Evidence 04:59 The LCOE Accounting Trick 07:04 Full System Cost Reality 08:00 Intermittency Threshold Effects 08:24 Low Power Density Limits 09:16 Materials and Land Explosion 10:25 Power Density as Natural Law 11:33 Ocean Evolution Power Density Tour 13:08 Final Takeaways and Call
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