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Originally Posted by el_draco
Normal gross generalisation and unsupported claims Renato? You STILL haven't made the slightest attempt to answer the question I've asked you a dozen times by the way... When you can, let me know.
My beliefs are not about the use of coal at all. Unlike some, I look at a global perspective, which most conveniently forget to do. Yep, we need to, and will be forced to, dump coal despite your commentary. Yep, we need diversity in power generation and it WILL happen despite your commentary. Yep, that'll include wind, nuclear and a host of other options, despite your closed mind. Yep, we WILL have population control by choice or by default but it WILL happen, despite the fact that you cant face basic realities.
The only "strange solution" here is one that defends the burning fossil fuels and conveniently ignores the damage to our environment when the overwhelmingly vast proportion of scientists and data and simple logic say exactly the opposite. Its like someone saying the Arctic Ice is mass is growing when all the data says its volume, extent and thickness is decreasing at an alarming rate. Go figure???  |
Good to see that you are now a proponent of nuclear energy. However, I still think you are deliberately ignoring what is plain and unambiguous in the articles posted and linked to here.
A stable grid requires baseload power generation. Coal plants can't be turned off, nor can nuclear ones, so that all that money spent on expensive wind and solar to supplement them is a waste of time and money.
That huge amount of money that was spent on wind farms hasn't actually much reduced the use of coal generated power at all - it can't. Gas fired stations could reduce the usage of fossil fuels because they can be turned off when renewables pump in power at peak periods.
But you don't want to address that. You instead like to stew in alarmism. Scientists tell Al Gore the Arctic ice will disappear by 2013, and he spreads the Holy Green Gospel. Then 2014 comes along - still plenty of ice at the supposedly ice free Arctic - and instead of reevaluating what you previously believed because of the dud scientific prediction, you just keep hanging in there with the faith.
Reminds me of the Jehovah Witnesses who have predicted the definite end of the world on three or four occasions in the last 100 years, but it didn't happen - yet they're still out there believing and knocking on doors.
Regards,
Renato