Space and renewable energy April 27, 2025

If you want to get a new image of the universe different from the one we grew up with, go to YouTube and search for “James Webb telescope recent pictures” – you will have to sit down and have a glass of moonshine 😁

I was also watching some evolution program on TV, and apparently, beetles were the first to come up on land – with their exoskeletons.

When I was growing up, it was the coelacanth, which they even found a living specimen of.

Well – scientists were guessing based on the information they had at that time, but how fun is it to confidently teach children about evolution before the program and then have the TV say something completely different 😶

“Dad, that wasn’t the coelacanth, you were completely wrong.”

When I was growing up, space was black and white, and all planets were gray – space was dead, completely dead. It wasn’t until adulthood that I understood it was black and white TV and that even the planets in our solar system are like a whole palette of colors.

The idea of life on other planets was out of the question, and those who said so were laughed at.

We were simply alone in the universe, and UFO conspiracy theorists had a hard time – it’s always tough to be a bit ahead of your time, ask JK Rowling.

I remember that SETI and someone I have now forgotten, maybe Carl Sagan, in the 90s created a mathematical formula that concluded there are 4000 planets in the universe with the potential for life. I felt there was probability involved, but it was quite outside the accepted then, and if you tried to discuss it, you would get reactions like “sorry for your loss” from the group you were socializing with at the time.

I follow a couple of accounts on Twitter that post about Mars, and the planet’s North Pole looks like ours.

And here is an interesting photo from Mars 🧐

Recently, they found water on some moon in the solar system, there is an atmosphere on planets, and I believe there is water on Mars – and this is just within our system and the closest planets.

A photo of how it looks in space – far from dark, black, and a few stars. The oblong ones are galaxies with billions of stars each 😶

Recently, a solar system very similar to ours was discovered a few light-years away.

And now, what we’ve been waiting for – a planet completely covered in water with the type of gases in the atmosphere that biological life in the water emits, +120 light-years away.

The moon landings were not fake because China and India have photographed a couple of Apollo landers on the moon’s surface – I didn’t believe it, but some still claim it, and now we have evidence.

Jeff Bezos did everything right – women and half minorities for his “space trip” stunt but was immediately hated by almost everyone.

And now Elon is the most hated person on the planet, and environmental movements smash Teslas as soon as they lay eyes on them.

But these are private space initiatives, even if they don’t understand why diversity, girl power, and environmental friendliness no longer make them celebrated but only hated, things are moving too fast even for these elite entrepreneurs.

(Tip – it’s important to belong to the right group, ask all those who have been branded as “Uncle Toms” in Sweden about the good hate).

And India + China are making their way straight into space.

And here’s the real kicker – try to grasp that in just our galaxy, the Milky Way, there are HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF PLANETS WITH CONDITIONS FOR LIFE.

How many galaxies are there?

And how many billions of planets are there with conditions for life?

As I mentioned, I delved into the evolution of our planet, and when I was growing up, there were a few fossils that shaped how everything happened, but now we know that there was a vast diversity of species pushing forward. Then there were probably five mass extinctions where either CO2 levels rose or fell, causing warming or cooling that killed over 90% of Earth’s species.

The first mass extinction was unclear to me why it occurred, but two more were caused by volcanic eruptions, one of which was the dinosaur extinction.

The biggest threat to us is probably if CO2 levels skyrocket and the world’s oceans become a rotting soup, making the air toxic perhaps.

But then it’s important to remember that movements happen over tens of millions of years, and the planet has already gone through the wildest phases, I guess?

For example, NASA has concluded that Earth will be uninhabitable in 1 billion years, plenty of time to move.

I really like Google AI because it quickly summarizes all the information available and then lists everything, allowing you to start applying some probability to it. There is a lot for those who are willing to Google around about which astronauts reported what during their flights.

My hope is, of course, that the world turns OUTWARD to space instead of engaging in interstate wars and that we seriously start the colonization of space.

My second hope is that renewable energy is seriously addressed – you may not know that there are about 10-15 countries that already have 100% of their energy from renewable sources, but it’s often some small country that got lucky with a big river and managed to convince the West to pay for a hydroelectric power plant and a few other things.

The way solar panels are built today is just a hailstorm away from leaking all the highly toxic chemicals into the earth, and apparently, the market is completely dead according to SVT.

https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/krasch-for-solceller-hundratals-bolag-i-konkurs-helt-dott

Wind power is a mess after 15 years, and the government is considering whether it should be the responsibility of landowners who rented out the land when the company goes bankrupt.

Electric cars like the ones Tesla is now building are not good at all for the child laborers in Congo, and alternatives like fossil-free steel or carbon capture are just advanced scams – Stegra will definitely go bankrupt soon.

But it’s undeniable that the major oil companies actively seek out new environmentally friendly technologies that could have a big impact and pay researchers a tidy sum for the technology, then stash it away in a safe that collects dust in the basement.

They have also paid researchers to write positively about them, just as cigarette companies did in their time – it’s just business.

Ironically, it seems that China has taken the lead in green thinking, even though they are also the world leaders in emissions, so both sweet and salty.

But they can produce everything in such large quantities that they can afford to do real research.

Our research has been in decline for quite some time, and when the most important questions of the last fifteen years, you know which ones, hit like a tsunami, research funding has been allocated to things that polarize society instead of the next important technological leap.

China is the country that has replanted the most forests in deserts in the world, as half the country is desert.

They have also started working on sodium-ion batteries, which don’t work for electric cars but for storing energy in homes, for example.

Then, of course, hydropower and nuclear power are the two natural complements to the above, but the Chinese have been experimenting with something that seems to be coming now – using cheap energy to move a large mass that is then released during expensive-electricity-time, or nighttime, to generate electricity.

Dams high up, a tower with a weight in it, mining shafts, and surely something more.

Since we have day-night, it’s not a bad idea, right?

And then what the Chinese are doing – sodium-ion batteries that don’t require Congolese child labor to bridge day-night.

What Sweden needs to do is solve December – February, and if we achieve that, we win.

Reducing electricity consumption is not possible because it is increasing significantly due to electric cars, so we must significantly increase electricity production instead. Yes – we must also improve efficiency, but consumption is increasing whether we want it or not if we are to electrify.

The smaller nuclear power plants are the nuclear power lobby’s number one target of hatred because it could potentially make municipalities completely debt-free and not hundreds of billions in debt and energy monopolies.

More hydropower is a given, but last time around, the Green Party wanted to shut down our hydropower to ensure the fish’s spawning grounds.

And instead of spending tax money on environmental scams, we should, of course, fully resource basic research before China buys up all the researchers worth their salt.

If we solve the energy issue, we also solve the water shortage because water can be desalinated.

Tree planting is an important step in reclaiming our desert areas, and as soon as the land becomes usable, people in the area will start farming – voila, they have food.

We don’t need stronger unions – we need nation-states in loosely composed unions because then it becomes harder to start wars.

And instead of a unifying war – imagine if we could have another space race between the EU, USA, China, and India that drives the colonization of space?

The world would forget about wars, and then different dominant countries would take responsibility for their neighboring areas, where the EU offers Africa fair trade agreements – voila No.2.

Criticizing environmental scams attracts a lot of criticism, what one should do is allocate a large sum of money to basic research and give researchers complete freedom – that’s how you become a winner, not an environmental scam loser where our pension funds are wasted on things that sound nice.

Researchers have been quite vulnerable in the last 20 years, and we have reached a point where telling the truth can lead to employment problems, as many have experienced.

JK Rowling was financially independent and didn’t need to worry, but working researchers depend on grants, so you simply have to avoid certain topics.

Like in the 80s when claiming that there was life on planets other than Earth was controversial 😶

Or those who criticized Northvolt when all the money started pouring into their company account – Christian Sandström, for example.

There are always (often publicly funded) individuals whose task is to drive an issue/agenda, and torpedoing a qualified researcher to achieve that is small potatoes – mafia methods to steal our tax money.

Sweden has long had an emigration of competent researchers and a lack of status in society, canceling and control are some of the reasons.

In fact, today a majority of researchers lean towards the belief that there is intelligent life in the universe if they can answer anonymously in opinion surveys 😀

If I were a dictator, I would launch a violent space program in Sweden and the EU as a priority, but maybe we first have to combat Russia. The goal of the program is to start colonizing space.

What would unite the world more than a joint space program that takes us into space seriously?

A moon base is probably step one, and some kind of elevator up to the moon, and then we can start expanding.

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