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Yes it is competitive, i would challenge you to find any evidence thst solar and wind can provide energy enough for the worlds needs, otherwise you are just a v

Yes it is competitive, i would challenge you to find any evidence thst solar and wind can provide energy enough for the worlds needs, otherwise you are just a victim of you own blind ideology.

pfdietz 8y ago
Your self-delusion would be sad if it weren't so hilarious. Anyone with the slightest familiarity with current market conditions and costs would know that nuclear is dead technology walking. Attempts to build new reactors in the US and Europe have failed, and failed spectacularly. They are not even close to economically competitive. Even in China, where costs are opaque, there's now a move away from new reactors. Deluded fools such as yourself confabulate conspiracy theories to explain away this reality -- Greenpeace is a common supervillain invoked here -- but that's flat-earth level nonsense.
- ThomPete 8y ago
  The only flat earth nonsense here is people believing that solar or wind is actually realistically a solution to the worlds energy needs.
  - JoeAltmaier 8y ago
    It works in certain places. Here in Iowa we get a third of our electricity from wind.
    - ThomPete 8y ago
      And in denmark they get more but its not reliable which means you have to support it with other more reliable sources such as coal. Which happens all the time. Plus you use it for almost zero percent of your transportation.
      - JoeAltmaier 8y ago
        Ours is pretty reliable, out here in the 'plains states'. It's blowing pretty much every day, most of the day. And our 'support' source is nuclear, curiously.
- dang 8y ago
  Yikes, comments like this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18755090 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18755090 are bannable offenses here. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and keep your comments civil, substantive, and thoughtful, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you believe they are. And please don't post in the flamewar style to HN! We're trying to avoid having this place turn into scorched earth, the internet default.
  - pfdietz 8y ago
    Very well. The person I was responding to was posting obviously false comments and ignoring correction, though, which seriously compromises the SNR of this forum.

Yes it is competitive, i would challenge you to find any evidence thst solar and wind can provide energy enough for the worlds needs, otherwise you are just a victim of you own blind ideology.

pfdietz 8y ago

Your self-delusion would be sad if it weren't so hilarious. Anyone with the slightest familiarity with current market conditions and costs would know that nuclear is dead technology walking. Attempts to build new reactors in the US and Europe have failed, and failed spectacularly. They are not even close to economically competitive. Even in China, where costs are opaque, there's now a move away from new reactors. Deluded fools such as yourself confabulate conspiracy theories to explain away this reality -- Greenpeace is a common supervillain invoked here -- but that's flat-earth level nonsense.

ThomPete 8y ago
The only flat earth nonsense here is people believing that solar or wind is actually realistically a solution to the worlds energy needs.
- JoeAltmaier 8y ago
  It works in certain places. Here in Iowa we get a third of our electricity from wind.
  - ThomPete 8y ago
    And in denmark they get more but its not reliable which means you have to support it with other more reliable sources such as coal. Which happens all the time. Plus you use it for almost zero percent of your transportation.
    - JoeAltmaier 8y ago
      Ours is pretty reliable, out here in the 'plains states'. It's blowing pretty much every day, most of the day. And our 'support' source is nuclear, curiously.
dang 8y ago
Yikes, comments like this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18755090 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18755090 are bannable offenses here. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and keep your comments civil, substantive, and thoughtful, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you believe they are. And please don't post in the flamewar style to HN! We're trying to avoid having this place turn into scorched earth, the internet default.
- pfdietz 8y ago
  Very well. The person I was responding to was posting obviously false comments and ignoring correction, though, which seriously compromises the SNR of this forum.