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NNadir

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15. Were one to engage in the reading of science books as opposed to watching fantasies...
Sat Feb 6, 2016, 07:34 AM
Feb 2016

...one would have an ethical right to hold a discourse on the subject of energy and the environment.

Of course, one might not be a dumb anti-nuke cheering for the tearing up of the planet's surface and mobilizing hundreds of millions of tons of toxic materials to search for an expensive and useless chimera, so called "renewable energy."

On the other hand, if one has routine familiarity with fantasy worlds in TV shows, has wasted one's life on them, and has obviously scrupulously avoided any diversion of said wasted time on becoming educated, one has no ethical position whatsoever to comment on the environmental tragedy before us on this planet.

Despite half a century of stupid remarks about the "exponential growth" of renewable energy - all made by people who one doubts passed 11th grade math in high school and thus are unfamiliar with simple mathematical functions - despite thousands of insipid comments about "the world's largest solar installation," one right after another, and despite ever more stupid proposals for um, things like solar roadways being funded in a paroxysm of mindless lemming faith, the month just passed, December 2015 just came in as the worst December ever recorded in terms of the increase of the dangerous fossil fuel waste, carbon dioxide, as recorded over the previous December.

The worst ever...

It's very clear that the apologists for so called "renewable energy," invested as they are in their Saturday morning cartoon version of the world, the majority of whom I imagine zoned out stoned in front of their TV sets watching B and C grade science fiction, couldn't care less.

Very clear...



Enjoy the weekend.

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I want nice things!!! tazkcmo Feb 2016 #1
It's a proven loser. Why are they doing it? Gregorian Feb 2016 #2
And you know that as fact how? nt kristopher Feb 2016 #3
Here's one reputable analysis. Gregorian Feb 2016 #5
Does that evaluate the technology that the French seem to be using? kristopher Feb 2016 #6
If you look at the video, you'll see it's simply the configuration of having them flat on the ground Gregorian Feb 2016 #7
I don't think you have nearly enough information to draw that conclusion. kristopher Feb 2016 #8
Watch the video. It's academic. Gregorian Feb 2016 #9
Repeat post 8 kristopher Feb 2016 #10
Proven? If it brand new technology - not the old failed stuff, I would not think it is a proven patricia92243 Feb 2016 #4
In ten years, we'll be seeing papers in all of the primary scientific literature about... NNadir Feb 2016 #11
Blah blah, nuclear great blah blah, love nuclear blah hate renewable blah.... kristopher Feb 2016 #12
Like a broken clock, you are again, correct, albeit rarely. NNadir Feb 2016 #13
Riiiiigggghhht... kristopher Feb 2016 #14
Were one to engage in the reading of science books as opposed to watching fantasies... NNadir Feb 2016 #15
Did you just use the word "ethical"? kristopher Feb 2016 #16
Um...um...yes I did. I would note that my process of understanding the word... NNadir Feb 2016 #17
You routinely and deliberately present data in a way you know is false. ** kristopher Feb 2016 #18
Well...well...well... NNadir Feb 2016 #19
You routinely and deliberately present data in a way you know is false. ** kristopher Feb 2016 #20
This is great, a good start KelleyKramer Feb 2016 #21
Actually we are installing renewables at a historically breakneck pace. kristopher Feb 2016 #22
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