Environment & Energy
In reply to the discussion: Nuclear power and the French energy transition: It’s the economics, stupid! [View all]NNadir
(38,091 posts)won the day.
Although commercial electricity in France, according to the EU, is the lowest in Europe, about half that of the gas and coal hellhole in Germany, the liars in the fig-leaf-for-the-gas-and-coal so called "renewable energy industry" keep insisting that the world's largest, by far, source of climate change gas free energy is "too expensive."
Why?
Because fig-leaf-for-the-gas-and-coal so called "renewable energy industry" membership requires that none of its members be able to do math.
Last year, 2012, was the second worst year ever recorded in human history for increases in the dangerous fossil fuel waste concentrations in the atmosphere, second only to 1998, when the shit-for-brains anti-nuke Joe Romm was running the climate office.
We are now into our 60th year of hearing from the shit-for-brains anti-nukes about how so called renewables will save us.
The failed effort, which has sucked hundreds of billions of dollars, euros, yen, yuan, etc out of government programs that might have provided for the educations of future engineers, decent sanitation for the 3 billion people who don't have it, real environmental protection and productive nuclear energy, can't even power the servers dedicated to telling us how wonderful solar energy, for example is.
After 60 years of hearing about how great solar energy is, the EIA figures show that the entire solar industry on the entire planet, despite having released some of the most potent climate forcing gases known, can't even produce a third of an exajoule of energy on a planet - again with 3 billion people living in squalor - that consumes 510 exajoules a year.
And of course, to repeat, 2012 was the second worst year for climate change gas increases ever recorded, not only for carbon dioxide, but also for the real fuel being pushed by the "renewables will save us" liars, methane, dangerous natural gas.
But let's face it: The anti-nukes are winning. One should never underestimate the power of ignorance.
Heckuva job anti-nuke:
You must be very...

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proud.
Congratulations on your Pyrrhic - literally - victory.