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Wind and solar are not going to come even close to solving our energy needs and they aren't as environmentally friendly as claimed.
by ThomPete 8y ago
Wind and solar are not going to come even close to solving our energy needs and they aren't as environmentally friendly as claimed.
- ip26 8y agoThey can certainly fill a lot moreof our need than they do today, and there is still nuclear as well. More or less environmentally friendly than climate change? I'm surprised for someone pro growth and all, you aren't interested in the opportunity to build all this out. Why not?
- ThomPete 8y agoI am interested in solving the basic problems with energy which means finding a base source that fulfills the following 5 parameters: Cheap, plentiful, reliable, scalable and clean. Only Nuclear solves that today but there is a huge anti-nuclear sentiment by the environmental organizations and thus politically against nuclear which of course is absurd as that's probably the only energy form that actually can deliver on the no-emission promise which is the one everyone claims to be so worried about. I have nothing against wind and solar but they are just inferior to nuclear and hopefully in some distant future fusion and in a less distant future thorium but the current sentiment makes that even more filled with friction. To give you an example of the absurdity. This summer the weather was amazing in Denmark, the result no wind which in a country largely based on wind energy means they are relying on other countries to provide energy in this case Germany. Germany who also had a great summer and has been focusing on solar. What happened? Germany used coal. And now that they are closing their nuclear powerplants that will only increase and is a good example of the consequences of a ideologically driven rather than a rationally driven energy policy. Thanks but no thanks.