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...to adjudge the value of the stupid claim that nuclear energy has a carbon footprint that is comparable to any other form of energy.
As for cost, we have just spent half a century on the expensive and essentially useless so called "renewable energy" solar and wind energy scheme, spending nearly two trillion bucks in the last ten years on that toxic and unsustainable garbage with the result that it doesn't produce 5 of the 560 exajoules humanity consumes each year.
I note that none of these realities have stopped the chanting nonsense that it is remotely sane to continue to repeat these failed strategies.
By contrast, more than 30 years ago, in less than 20 years, people were educated enough about basic engineering to construct more than 400 nuclear plants that produced for a period of close to 30 exajoules a year for half a century with an extraordinary low loss of life, this while airheads carried on out about "insurance," even though nobody bothers to insure the 7,000,000 people who die each year from air pollution.
The dead from air pollution don't count, of course. But some theory that someone might die someday from a nuclear event - an event that will trigger thousands upon thousands of air pollution deaths so dumb people can power their computers to prattle on about the great tragedy - is important.
There's nothing more annoying than an atheist chanting faith based pablum that is not even remotely connected to reality.
The so called "renewable energy" scheme is a plan to entrench natural gas mining and burning until the last molecule of it finds its way into the atmosphere.
You do know what the fastest growing source of energy on this planet is, don't you?
It's um, natural gas. A basic chemistry book would explain what natural gas forms when it burns, and a cursory search in the scientific literature could tell you about the radium and radon released by fracking for it so we can run our computers at midnight on a windless night at the winter solstice to mutter stupid complaints about the form of energy developed by oodles of Nobel Laureates and their close colleagues.
If you can't open a scientific paper or book to read the contents, you could at least open the link for the carbon dioxide content of the planetary atmosphere: As of December 24, 2015 we're over 402 ppm
And what do we have here? A declaration of "victory" for so called "renewable energy." Some "victory!" The "renewable energy" "victory" reminds me of the time that they let Admiral Doenitz out of Spandau prison and asked him what the world should remember about Hitler, and he replied, "The vundervul vay he solved ze unemployment problem in Germany."
History, should it survive climate change, will never forgive anti-nuke stupidity, fear and ignorance.
Merry Christmas. Enjoy the holiday weekend.
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