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Blues Heron

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20. So we should keep these windmills but not build any new ones?
Wed Apr 5, 2023, 09:31 PM
Apr 2023

do you think we should stop building windmills? If they are so bad shouldnt we stop building them?

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I thought they were employing large robots to dismantle the cores and remove them lapfog_1 Apr 2023 #1
Truth is there will be disasters for lifetimes and very, very expensive ones. Tikki Apr 2023 #2
Global warming will be substantially worse. hunter Apr 2023 #8
Correct, my grandchildren will not be inheriting my panels, batteries and cars.. Tikki Apr 2023 #10
I couldn't make your math work. hunter Apr 2023 #11
10,000 years from now the waste will still radiate orthoclad Apr 2023 #12
You do not "run on solar now." hunter Apr 2023 #14
No orthoclad Apr 2023 #15
Life by and large deals with radiation just fine NickB79 Apr 2023 #26
Sun Zia wind farm will produce 3500 MWs womanofthehills Apr 2023 #16
1/4 of 3500MW that is actually available at ALL TIMES Hugh_Lebowski Apr 2023 #23
Gates/Buffet and nuclear power cbabe Apr 2023 #3
I think all the robots were killed by the radiation cynical_idealist Apr 2023 #4
That was a pie-in-the-sky "what if we tried this..." plan that was floated. NullTuples Apr 2023 #5
That's just Reactor 1. There are two more reactors in melt-down. Kid Berwyn Apr 2023 #6
I wonder if all the oil and Gas folks have any remorse about quashing (clean air and sun) energy. flying_wahini Apr 2023 #7
They are the same evil clowns who promote wind turbines as the answer to all our energy problems. hunter Apr 2023 #9
So should we tear down the existing windmills, cover up the solar panels? Blues Heron Apr 2023 #13
Actually. The new wind farms being built produce more energy then the reactors womanofthehills Apr 2023 #18
Wind farms which are, and must be, backed by another CONTINUOUS energy source Hugh_Lebowski Apr 2023 #24
Did I say any of those things? hunter Apr 2023 #19
So we should keep these windmills but not build any new ones? Blues Heron Apr 2023 #20
All they'll do is prolong our dependence on natural gas. hunter Apr 2023 #21
arent they cutting into our dependence on natural gas? how could cutting half not matter? Blues Heron Apr 2023 #22
Yeah I don't get the logic of always hating on wind/solar for that very same reason Hugh_Lebowski Apr 2023 #25
It's the oil & gas folks building the wind farms. womanofthehills Apr 2023 #17
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