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NeoGreen

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6. There is only one answer to our future energy supply conundrum...

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Fri Sep 6, 2019, 12:07 PM

Sep 2019

...we will use less.

Much, much less, whether we want to or not.

Nothing we do will save our current level of energy use life styles and expectations.

We are victims of the Mr. Strauss's promise of electricity that would be "too cheap to meter". The chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission lead us down the path that brought us to this world of excessive and copious consumption of electricity.

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Hours of the Top 50 CAISO Electricity Loads in California, July 2019. [View all] NNadir Sep 2019 OP

great! let's put a chernobyl in every back yard! nt msongs Sep 2019 #1

Or we can use sensible fact based science rather than defacto7 Sep 2019 #4

Because history shows that every nuclear plant is Igel Sep 2019 #8

Even as more renewables come online, total demand still grows. Beartracks Sep 2019 #2

Intermittent forms of energy are an environmental disaster. NNadir Sep 2019 #3

Nuclear is not the answer... NeoGreen Sep 2019 #5

Worth repeating... NeoGreen Sep 2019 #7

Which is why Igel Sep 2019 #9

There is only one answer to our future energy supply conundrum... NeoGreen Sep 2019 #6