Tim Spring

Husband, son, father, brother, uncle, grand-dad, thus strong supporter of women’s rights. Interested in energy, politics, justice, advanced driving, backgammon.

[Tim Spring @TimSpringGX]

@MaggisNystrom @ChrisSandstrom @Per_K Further, the addition of intermittent (and unreliable) capacity has the double whammy effect of making dispatchable, firm energy more expensive (or u economic) and makes balancing supply and demand (which MUST balance or grid breakdown will occur) exponentially harder.

[Tim Spring @TimSpringGX]

@JenKteach I wholeheartedly support the principle of single sex-spaces changing rooms for women’s safety and dignity. But can suggest that “private” and “privacy” are the wrong words. A communal, single-sex changing room is not “private”. It is and should remain “single sex”.

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@HiNdU05019434 Wonderful 💙

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@runthinkwrite Trans identifying men rarely pass as female without notice so the rule could be that a runner registered in the female category can be required by organisers to produce evidence of sex at birth; failing that records will be expunged.

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@Real_Gene_Genie @sappholives83 @TerfSchool Good question. It’s unsettling - horrifying - to realise that there is a sizeable number of men capable of casting aside human decency to the extent manifested in these crimes - the husbands/partners principally but also the subsequent participants and, no doubt, onlookers.

[Tim Spring @TimSpringGX]

@chicksonright From where did you get the idea that there are general health benefits to circumcision? There are none. It is (very) occasionally medically necessary.

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@TheMcMullan Superbly clear and comprehensive exposition of the ideas that are the foundation of western civilisation. 👏👏

[The McMullan @TheMcMullan]

In response to the clip going around with the African lady saying 'WHAT WHITE CULTURE!?!'

Because I can explain it in more detail than anyone else... here are the main things that create western civilisation.

The principle, the law of nature that is an adaptation to and what operation it creates in our civilisation.

THE WESTERN CIVILISATION STACK

Western civilisation can be understood as a set of adaptations to the laws of nature that allow millions of people to cooperate, solve problems and innovate together.

1. SOVEREIGNTY — Let people act.
Law of nature: Knowledge and ability are distributed among individuals.
No ruler or institution can know everything everyone knows. Sovereignty gives people freedom to choose, experiment and solve problems for themselves. That creates millions of independent problem-solvers instead of waiting for one authority to find the answer.

2. RECIPROCITY — Don’t impose your costs on others.
Law of nature: Cooperation survives when it benefits both sides.
Freedom cannot mean freedom to steal, defraud, injure or force others to carry your costs. Reciprocity means pursuing your interests while respecting the same right in others. It turns conflict into cooperation and makes peaceful life among strangers possible.

3. RESPONSIBILITY — Make people accountable for consequences.
Law of nature: Every action produces consequences.
Freedom works when the person making a decision also bears responsibility for its results. When people can keep the benefits of their choices while forcing the costs onto others, cooperation breaks down. Responsibility reconnects choice with consequence.

4. PROPERTY — Make control and consequences clear.
Law of nature: Resources are scarce and cannot satisfy every competing use at once.
Property establishes who controls something, who may use or exchange it, and who bears the consequences of those decisions. That reduces conflict, encourages people to improve what they possess, and makes investment and long-term planning possible.

5. TRUTH — Correct error faster than reality punishes you for it.
Law of nature: Reality does not change because we believe something false.
Truthful testimony, open criticism and evidence allow people to discover mistakes before those mistakes become catastrophes. A civilisation that can criticize and correct itself can learn faster than one that protects comforting falsehoods.

6. CONTRACT — Make cooperation possible across time.
Law of nature: Cooperation requires predictable future behaviour.
Promises backed by reputation and law allow strangers to trust one another enough to cooperate. Contract lets one person invest today because another can credibly promise performance tomorrow. That makes enormous networks of specialization, trade and investment possible.

7. RULE OF LAW — Replace arbitrary power with predictable rules.
Law of nature: People have conflicting interests, and power creates opportunities for predation.
Law provides a common procedure for resolving disputes without violence or personal rule. When rulers and citizens are both constrained by known rules, people can cooperate, invest and experiment without constantly fearing arbitrary interference.

8. DUE PROCESS — Test accusations instead of trusting authority.
Law of nature: Human beings are biased, mistaken and sometimes dishonest.
An accusation is not proof. Evidence, defense, confrontation, impartial judgment and appeal create an adversarial process for discovering error. Due process protects both society from wrongdoing and individuals from arbitrary punishment.

9. DECENTRALISATION — Let many solutions compete.
Law of nature: No one knows in advance which adaptation will work best.
Families, firms, towns, institutions and governments can try different solutions to different problems. Failures can remain local while successful solutions spread. Decentralisation therefore turns society itself into a continuous experiment.

10. MARKETS — Let reality select among competing solutions.
Law of nature: Evolution advances through variation, selection and retention.
Markets allow people to try different products, services and ways of organising resources. People select among them through voluntary choice. Successful solutions attract resources; unsuccessful ones disappear or improve. Markets turn millions of choices into continuous social learning.

11. SPECIALISATION — Let differences become advantages.
Law of nature: People differ in knowledge, ability, resources and circumstances.
Instead of everyone doing everything badly, specialization lets people become exceptionally good at different things and exchange the results. Cooperation converts human differences from a source of conflict into a source of increasing productivity.

12. SCIENCE — Institutionalise error correction.
Law of nature: A false model eventually fails when tested against reality.
Science turns doubt into a productive institution: observe, propose, test, criticize, replicate and correct. Knowledge therefore does not have to depend upon authority or tradition. Every generation can discover where the previous generation was wrong and build upon what it got right.

13. CAPITAL — Preserve successful adaptations.
Law of nature: Progress compounds only when successful adaptations survive.
Tools, businesses, infrastructure, institutions and knowledge allow yesterday’s successful experiments to become tomorrow’s starting point. Each generation does not begin again from zero. It inherits accumulated solutions and adds another layer.

14. EDUCATION — Transfer accumulated knowledge between generations.
Law of nature: Individuals die; knowledge does not have to.
Writing, schools, apprenticeships and universities allow discoveries to survive their discoverers. Instead of every generation rediscovering mathematics, engineering, medicine and law, it begins with thousands of years of accumulated learning.

15. COMMONS — Build things that make everyone more capable.
Law of nature: Cooperation can produce benefits no individual could produce alone.
Courts, roads, standards, security, scientific knowledge, infrastructure and trustworthy institutions multiply everyone's ability to act. A successful civilisation does more than protect private interests: it continually creates shared capital that makes future cooperation cheaper and more productive.

THE RESULT
These principles form a system:
Sovereignty creates experimentation.
Reciprocity makes it peaceful.
Responsibility makes it sustainable.
Property makes interests clear.
Truth corrects error.
Contract creates trust across time.
Law suppresses predation.
Decentralisation preserves alternatives.
Markets select successful solutions.
Specialisation multiplies productivity.
Science accelerates discovery.
Capital preserves what works.
Education transmits it.
Commons multiply everyone's capabilities.

That is the deeper logic of the Western stack:
Stable rules + distributed freedom + relentless error correction = cooperation at scale and accelerating innovation.

[Tim Spring @TimSpringGX]

@zadiginfinity @jk_rowling @lnmackenzie1 Awarding women’s rights (or privileges) to a sub-group of men is clearly ‘zero sum’. It increases men’s rights at the cost of women’s rights.

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@Bernard_Lane Signed

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@nomcebo_mkhali 💙

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@sappholives83 “Adora”ffs. Shouldn’t that be “Adoreme”?

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Nuclear is the technology you need when you are not having a meltdown.

It's the best commercial heat engine ever built: uses compact fuel, produces dense heat and steam and drives a turbine generator. A large unit is about 1 GWe and it runs regardless of weather conditions.

Fuel arrives in a few truckloads a year, not trainloads of coal or square kilometres of solar panels.

A plant occupies a modest site — just a few square kilometres, including a buffer zone — and it can run for 40 to 80 years. The spent fuel is solid and small in volume, and can be stored on site or in dry casks. If every pellet discharged since the 1950s were melted into one block, it would be a cube a little over 30 metres on a side.

The world runs about 440 reactors, which supply roughly 9% of electricity, and they set generation records in 2024 and again in 2025.

Three Mile Island in 1979 injured no one off-site. But licensing was frozen almost overnight and the rules changed and multiplied. Plants already under construction were torn open and rebuilt. US construction times went from a few years to decades, and costs jumped several-fold. Opponents no longer had to prove it was dangerous. They used red tape.

Chernobyl was a Soviet design without Western containment, plus there were operator violations: tens of direct deaths and a modelled, still-disputed excess-cancer trail. Fukushima was an earthquake-caused tsunami that shut down the cooling; public radiation deaths were effectively zero. The evacuation and the stress killed far more.

The core physics and the operating record are settled physics. The power punch is indisputable. The waste is small. The accidents are few, and not the whole story the public was sold.

[Tim Spring @TimSpringGX]

@Jonatha18937714 @PeterDClack There is no prosperous society that didn’t become prosperous by generating plentiful, affordable energy. None of them became more prosperous by reducing energy usage. Lower energy use will make any society poorer and result in lower living standards. This is axiomatic.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Wind and solar cannot replace coal, oil and gas as the world’s power workhorse. It's because of the physics, the slogans and empty promises.

'Renewables' are built from costly and high-maintenance, low-yield technologies. They degrade from the day one and do not run when needed. Wind and solar harnessing devices are intermittent by their nature. They do not deliver baseload power. Whether they have delivered a net public return on the subsidies that built them, is a separate accounting issue; but the machines themselves do not.

They are not simple to build either. They are highly complex arrays of electronics, specialised glass, composite blades and concrete. Like any appliance, they wear out. For many early rooftop buyers, that has already happened: their panels are now roof junk.

A wind turbine cannot take all the energy out of the air that passes by. In 1919 Albert Betz showed why: if the blades extracted 100 percent of wind’s kinetic energy, the air behind them would stop, and new wind could not enter.

The theoretical maximum for an open-flow turbine is 59.3 percent. In the field, good machines reach about 45 percent, but only in ideal wind conditions. Over a year, global capacity factors sit roughly in the mid-20s to high-30s, depending on site. It's a built-in mechanical bottleneck.

Solar also hits a wall of its own. Standard silicon cells sit under the Shockley–Queisser limit of about 33 percent. Much of the incoming spectrum is either too energetic and is lost as heat, or too weak and passes through unused.

Nameplate claims of 'clean power from the skies' do not change this energy loss. Commercial arrays lose energy from the angle of the sun, dirt, heat and failing inverters. Rooftop capacity factors are often around 12–15 percent; commercial solar sits higher, but still far below promised production levels.

Because they only work 'sometimes', they need a second backup system, because they were not designed to integrate into the existing grid as dispatchable power. So to compensate, they created more wires, more backup gas and short-lived battery arrays.

On a net-zero path, BloombergNEF has put the global grid-upgrade bill at about $21 trillion by 2050. That is the price of redundant machines that cannot hold the load on their own.Homeowners discovered the rest.

Rooftop solar does not start a washing machine or a dryer after dark. As early subsidies and high feed-in tariffs fade, owners keep paying daily grid charges while output falls. Solar panels are warrantied for decades; but the string inverters are not.

Ten to fifteen years is a common solar lifespan. When it dies, power generation stops. What remains on the roof is expensive silent hardware. They promised power from wind and sunlight.

But the physics never allowed it.

[Tim Spring @TimSpringGX]

@Excellentsalvic WTF

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

It didn't matter how many wind turbines and solar panels were built and installed across remote corners of the western world.

They were never capable of delivering the baseload power that is essential to modern society. They did not have the dense energy to support heavy industry or manufacturing, or produce steel or power transport. They did not deliver baseload power—the bedrock of a modern, industrial electronic world.

Fossil fuels made the Industrial Revolution possible, lifting the world out of millennia of poverty and famine.

The result is a vast, visible structural overbuild: at least 1.3 million large-scale turbines of reinforced steel, concrete, rare metals, and composite resins, alongside billions of solar panels composed of silicon, glass, aluminium, copper and silver. These arrays are a symbol of failed ideology.

The concept of energy harnessed from wind and sunlight only ever worked at micro-scales—for boutique lifestyle choices in an off-grid cabin, but disastrous when scaled up to power modern industrial civilisation. The mammoth arrays corrode, degrade and stop working within a decade or two, turning landfill sites into graveyards for this ideology.

Furthermore, wind and solar present a glaring paradox: they cannot be mined, manufactured, transported or installed without the heavy grunt of diesel power and heavy industry. The raw materials required for this world-war-style effort place catastrophic demand on global metal reserves, driving up costs while relying entirely on the very hydrocarbon energy they seek to replace.

Intermittent power is fundamentally incompatible with existing global electricity grids. Managing it requires building a completely redundant second grid at an estimated cost of $21 trillion. This still is only a fraction of the colossal scale of this global spending spree, subsidised by meek, obedient, and some say traitorous, Western governments.

Despite four decades of this overbuild, costing trillions every year - hydrocarbon fuels still provide the world with roughly 86% of its primary energy.

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

They do this to little girls every single day because men won’t marry an uncut girl. In Somalia, they do it in private homes with no anesthetic. In the US and the UK, it’s done in doctor’s offices with modern pain meds, but that doesn’t make it any less barbarous.

This is what feminism was born to fight, but modern liberal feminists turn a blind eye because it goes against their narrative about how white men are the epitome of evil and Islam is a religion of peace. They ignore unimaginable female suffering because the people causing it aren’t the ones their ideology tells them to oppose.

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@sappholives83 @Bird_OnA_Wire 😭😭😭😭😭

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@feelgoodtale 😂