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No amount of insipid appeal to it will move me from my consideration of how pernicious this stupid solar/wind/gas/coal fantasy is.
"Where would we be if antinukes hadn't worked so hard to demolish nuclear infrastructure for the last 50 years?" is the question whose answer matters to me.
The fucking Germans shut over 23,000 MWe of reliable continuously operated nuclear power plants, plants capable of running without redundant fossil fuel systems because they thought that solar and wind weren't the garbage they proved to be.
That adds up to 0.7 Exajoules per year at 95% capacity utilization, the typical capacity utilization of nuclear plants.
There are no fucking places on this planet where solar and wind energy have provided enough power to shut all of the dangerous fossil fuel plants on a grid for a period of hours, never mind days, and thus every fucking battery on this planet on any grid that isn't French is being charged by wasting energy, energy provided by dangerous fossil fuels, to charge batteries, all of which will be electronic waste in less than 25 years.
No amount of soothsaying will change the 2nd law of thermodynamics? OK? Got it finally? No?
Where would we be if we hadn't squandered over three trillion dollars on solar and wind garbage in this century, but rather had used that money to maintain and expand nuclear manufacturing infrastructure rather than destroying it?
In 25 years, from 1960 to 1985, using primitive technology developed by engineers using slide rules primarily in the 1950s and 1960, the world built more than 400 nuclear reactors.
All the stupid, illiterate references to "MW" units of peak power for unreliable systems that operate, at best, at 25% capacity utilization, all requiring redundancy, will not change the fact that the unit of energy is the Joule, on a planetary scale, the Exajoule (EJ), 10^18 J.
In an atmosphere of obscene stupidity, those more than 400 reactors, many of which still operate, are providing, and have been providing in an atmosphere of screaming hostility, around 30 EJ, continuously reliably, and have been doing so since the early 1990s.
Solar and wind garbage has never not once, provided half as much energy. The unit, again, to repeat for the billionth time, is the Joule, not the Watt.
Let me say that again: The solar and wind garbage - all of which is lipstick on the fossil fuel pig, especially when fossil fuel electricity is being wasted to charge batteries promoted by functional idiots who deny the 2nd law of thermodynamics, don't produce half of that.
Antinukes shouldn't really try to do math, by the way. It makes them look even worse.
Again.
No. Sense. Of. Decency.
None.
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