Nothing is more hilarious than this list. If nothing else, it obviates exactly how delusional this crap is.
Hydroelectricity has been, and will remain for a long time, the world's largest, by far, source of so called "renewable energy" even if the environmental effects of rendering the Colorado Delta a desert, the pollution at the 3 Gorges Dam, the Destruction of Glen Canyon and Hetch Hetchy Canyon and, almost certainly, vast if ignored changes to the Saint Lawrence River system.
It seems to me every "renewable will save us" advocate, after having caused humanity to squander two trillion bucks in 10 years on wind and solar, ends up announcing how great "renewable energy" is when you include massive dams. This is because wind and solar's entire capacity, constructed over half a century don't even produce five of the 570 exajoules of energy humanity consumes. In the United States the entire wind industry constructed over all time can't even match the growth in dangerous natural gas in the last ten years.
So Burlington Vt. gets its electricity from the NY Power authority, which gets its electricity from the Saint Lawrence river. What's your guess, when Vermont shut it's nuclear plant because dumb shits were terrified by a few atoms of tritium, less than the equivalent of tritium in a tritium watch dial did the Saint Lawrence people build a new dam to replace the lost electricity.
Or did the Saint Lawrence River authority start selling electricity to Vermont instead of New York, with the result that New York burned more dangerous natural gas, dumping the waste directly into the planetary atmosphere where every damn future generation will have to deal with it?
Now, as it is, only 17% of the world's rivers run free, a disgrace actually, given that one can easily produce as much power in a few buildings with nuclear reactors without destroying quite as many ecosystems as dams destroy.
You were talking, not about a shell game being played in a backwater Vermont town, but in your last post referred to San Diego and San Francisco
You ever been to those cities? I lived in Mira Mesa and La Jolla in San Diego County for five years.
Where is San Diego going to get the water to provide another dam on the Colorado? What's your plan for San Francisco? Turn Yosemite Valley into what the Hetch Hetchy Valley has become, a lake?
Aspen is a joke, a place where every winter Land Rovers, BMWs, and Infinity Q5's get in huge traffic jams. It runs on "renewable energy?"
And of course, comparing Aspen and Burlington to San Francisco and San Diego is a joke, or would be a joke, if this kind of credulous horseshit continues to do the damage that the failed, expensive and useless so called "renewable energy" industry has done by generating more complacency and wishful thinking than energy.
We will never see 390 ppm of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere again. Not in our lifetimes, not in our children's lifetimes, not in their children's lifetimes...should humanity survive.
And if humanity doesn't survive, the reason will be writ large. The reason will be that we had a set of people, awful people, who carried on mindlessly because 63 extra uranium miners who happened to be members of a Native American tribe that lived, almost for its entire history, on a natural uranium formation, died over a forty year period from lung cancer. These same people, the people with the uranium miner fetish, are same people didn't give a shit that seven million people die each year from air pollution.
Nuclear energy might have saved these lives, numbering in the tens of millions, in a normal human lifetime, hundreds of millions, were it not for fear and ignorance and the kind of mentality that thinks Aspen Colorado is a city just like San Diego.
I would laugh, except what is really appropriate, if one thinks how every future generation will suffer as a result of this ignorance, I am only left to weep.
Have a nice evening.
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