Why call it "clean energy" given the statement of the problem?

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4. Wind and solar, or are our anti-nukes including the biofuels that trashed the Mississippi delta...

...or the river ecosystems destroyed by dams?

One wonders when the assholes repeating this delusional shit ever bother to cite something called data.

Which of these numbers is too difficult to comprehend?



Source: IEA World Energy Outlook, 2021, page 294, Table A1A

How many times does one have to add 5.7 and 4.7 to get 10.4 and compare it to 29.4 before we stop hearing this tiresome bullshit lie? Are we still in the 5th grade?

Or have we just spent the 43 years hiding in our closets whining about Three Mile Island and wondering if everyone in Harrisburg is going to die?

Well?

We're half a century into this "solar and wind" are faster to build than nuclear delusional chant, and still, after squandering trillions of dollars, and still we are expected to believe Orwellian math, 10.4 is greater than 29.4.

As for this stupid shit about "free fuel" one would do well to read the editorial about mining to support this useless and dead fantasy, or perhaps pull one's head out one's ass to figure out what the environmental, human, and economic cost of the coal the Germans can't stop burning.

Germany Set to Increase Coal-Fired Generation in Face of Gas Crunch.

Free? Free, my ass. Everybody and everything that ever lives on this planet will be paying with flesh for Energiewende.

If we're talking about biofuels, the fact that half a century of prattling about them, climate change has placed the world food supply in danger.

I covered the environmental and moral cost of biofuels already in response to another "I'm not an anti-nuke" antinuke:

The Very Stable Genius of Biofuels.

The people who make excuses for the wind and solar industry's failure to produce significant energy anywhere on this planet, keep burying that failure by appealing to biofuels and hydro without bothering to notice what's happening to those systems because of climate change, which all the chanting, lying, misrepresentation, fantasy, cannot stop.

Numbers:

Week beginning on June 12, 2022: 421.03 ppm
Weekly value from 1 year ago: 419.00 ppm
Weekly value from 10 years ago: 396.07 ppm
Last updated: June 25, 2022

Weekly average CO2 at Mauna Loa

Which of these numbers is too difficult to grasp?

For the whole last decade, while the concentration of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide rose by 25.96 we've been hearing this shit, 10.4 is greater than 29.4, and it doesn't stop?

The anti-nukes who keep referring to Vogtle are, once again, fucking arsonists complaining about forest fires. Once again, to get it through their tiny brains, the United States built more than 100 nuclear reactors in 25 years while supplying the cheapest electricity in the OECD, for decades. They have routinely acted with contempt for engineering, contempt for science, did everything in their power to destroy nuclear engineering programs with nitpicking balderdash, ripped the shit out of virgin ecosystems for land intensive wind crap that will be useless junk in less than 10 decades, and yet, and yet, and yet, they are always willing to display that they have no sense of decency, no sense of shame.

Now, while people die all over the world from extreme heat, while Germany announces plants to burn coal and shut its industries there are young people who have taken Kathryn Huff's call to action, to rebuild our nuclear manufacturing infrastructure.

We have lost a lot of capability to build big complex engineering projects on time and on budget.

Why have we lost that capability, one might ask, when China just brought it's sixth reactor at Hongyanhe on line, the first four in six years, the next two in five. Why? Why is a nation that built 100 reactors in 25 years designed by engineers who basically worked with slide rules apply 1960's technology having delays at Vogtle? Is it just to give idiot anti-nukes another triviality to scream about when they take breaths between screaming about Three Mile Island and Fukushima while the planet burns, or does it reflect something more dire?

I know the answer to that question. Unlike the liars who want to tell me they're not anti-nukes, because being one is morally, intellectually, and factually the same as being an antivaxxer, although anti-nukes have killed more people, given the losses to air pollution and now, climate change, I'm literate.

As for nuclear engineering, I'm very aware of what's happening in the new world before us. My son's on the front lines to defeat the fear and ignorance that has literally, very literally, left the world aflame.

I don't chant. I back up what I say with data, with facts. It is a fact that 10.4 is not greater than 29.4.

Facts matter.

One should not be allowed to graduate from the third grade if one can't grasp that 29.4 is greater than 10.4. You certainly can't get into an engineering program if you can't compare those numbers and recognize which is greater.

Have a wonderful Sunday.