A Commentary on Failure, Delusion and Faith: Danish Data on Big Wind Turbines and Their Lifetimes.

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16. I see you missed the part where I work in industry with high technology

I supply, maintain, and calibrate industrial instrumentation. Even nuclear power plants once in awhile. My work takes me into nearly every industry and requires me to work with everyone from operators to senior engineers. I have spent nearly forty years watching these industries cut corners, ignore needed maintenance, and flaunt their own guidelines when it suits them. You are asking me to trust people I know from nearly forty years of experience can't be trusted.

Nuclear power is not going to save our civilization. If we decided it was totally safe yesterday, made a commitment to spend every
spare dime building reactors today, and started construction tomorrow, and had no accidents or failures ever, there simply isn't time.

And historically, nothing about nuclear energy has ever worked out as promised. Remember when it was going to be "too cheap to meter?" Frankly it is a distraction we can't afford at this point. There are reasons nuclear never became more pervasive, and those reasons aren't just ignorance. At this point I see no point in arguing further and will just state that I understand your argument and disagree, and I understand you disagree with me. Let's leave it there.

And if you do believe in your argument -- let me put this delicately -- you might want to consider being less of an asshole about it in future discussions. Insulting people you disagree with does not further your case.