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4. Really? All this percent talk for the last half a century has prevented climate change.

I am aware of the laws of thermodynamics.

I am also aware that the sun goes down, and the wind sometimes doesn't blow.

Now, if you were aware of the laws of thermodynamics, you might contemplate how much energy is wasted when a gas plant shuts down for two hours because the wind is blowing, and then needs to be fired up again.

You might also contemplate, if you were thinking about math, whether it is easier to grow "by 1.2%" something that is 3.12 (of anything) or 1.2% 97.7.

1.2% of 97.7 is 1.17 which is 37.5% of all the wind and solar energy we have on this planet, where, in case you haven't noticed, the concentration of dangerous fossil fuel waste as represented by only one of its constituents, carbon dioxide has reached 411 ppm, as of May of this year.

I'm an old man. My whole damned life I've been listening to this horseshit "percent talk" about wind and solar. I even used to take it seriously.

Right now it's 2018. Expensive redundant trash that is not sustainable - I'm referring to wind and solar - that has experienced half a century of wild cheering and can "boast" of producing amounts of energy so trivial that no one would notice if they disappeared, which they do regularly because they're unreliable, is a failure.

Big time.

History will not forgive us, nor should it.