The Viability of Germany’s Energiewende: Mark Jacobson Answers 3 Questions

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32. I call it "refining my understanding of the situation"

Don't worry, I'm, not trying to convince you. I use your posts mostly as incentive to develop my thoughts further. I don't expect you to like what I say, or agree with it. Instead, I expect negative feedback from you, and frankly use it to help me with my "mission" as you put it. You're consistently helpful that way.

I understand that what I think of as realism, you see instead as "fearmongering". That's fine, there are plenty of people on your side of the fence to counterbalance my views. A few pessimistic voices should be expected on such a fraught issue. They do little harm, especially on a side-issue board with a small readership on a web site devoted mostly to very different topics.

IMO it's a good thing to have an open marketplace of ideas, so those who read these views can make up their minds in the presence of as wide a range of opinions as possible. You think I'm uninformed, I think you have your head so far down in the weeds that you've lost sight of the big picture. I don't see any problem at all with that difference of opinion, and I'm quite happy to let others make up their own minds one way or the other.