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That’s a bad example of a bad comparison. It’s a very good, mostly accurate and approachable way to get people to understand how much electricity is generated
by Ensorceled 8y ago
That’s a bad example of a bad comparison.
It’s a very good, mostly accurate and approachable way to get people to understand how much electricity is generated by a specific method.
Your demand that the mechanism for communicating “scale of electricity generation to the lay person” also include a mechanism for communicating the intricacies and vagaries of the power distribution system is ludicrous.
Unless, of course, you have a better way to communicate this information to my mom, a non-technical 75 year old?
- littlestymaar 8y agoThe thing is: the problem is complex, and hiding this complexity behind a misleading comparison doesn't help. It makes people think they understand, and now they have an opinion on the subject. Too bad if this opinion is based on a completely flawed understanding due to a poor comparison. But people aren't that stupid, they can understand a lot of this complexity if you take 5 minutes to explain it to them (we're not talking about quantum physics here). I've been teaching how the grid works to people in jail, and I doubt your mom has less ability than the average French inmate. Of course five minutes is more than the 3 seconds it takes to use the fallacious «energy» comparison, and I think the problem lies more in the laziness of the knowledgeable people than the lack of technical knowledge of the general population.