Reply #29: role of efficiency and conservation are integral to the renewable strategy

[kristopher]

The last I heard the role of efficiency and conservation are integral to the renewable strategy. No one anywhere has claimed it as a "drop-in solution for our current energy crisis"; but that is PRECISELY what the coalCCS/fission promoters are claiming we need because that it precisely what coalCCS and fission can do - provide an easy to visualize, "drop-in" answer to energy worries for those without the time to do real research on the issue.
When you use that phrasing you are implanting a sentence that has built in dissonance that is resolved by the reader thinking "That isn't true, nuclear is a "drop-in" solution; we can keep everything we have with nuclear".

So that begs the question of how you translate a positive belief in efficiency and conservation into a constant stream of posts that undermine renewables while giving attaboys to fission?