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The thing that really pisses me off is that governments in the past worked SO HARD to argue that renewable energy could never work.
by trefgin 5y ago
The thing that really pisses me off is that governments in the past worked SO HARD to argue that renewable energy could never work.
- afterburner 5y agoCorporate lobbying
- tohmasu 5y agoWhat government would that be? Hydro has been a mainstay for 70+ years.
- macspoofing 5y ago>The thing that really pisses me off is that governments in the past worked SO HARD to argue that renewable energy could never work. Nobody ever denied the fact that Hydro is viable. You're getting confused by the misleading title because you think that it's wind and solar that is powering Costa Rica .. it isn't. It's hydro.
- robertlagrant 5y agoIn this, possibly the best possible environment for it, it works 80% of the time.
- asdff 5y agoNixon actually wanted to build 1000 nuclear power plants in the U.S. by the year 2000. Today there 60. Governments of the past didn't argue against renewable energy, they gave up on renewable energy in the face of political opposition, which ironically at the time came from the anti-nuclear left.
- ncmncm 5y agoNixon wanted to build nukes because nuke construction projects are almost ideal conduits for graft. When a nuke plant construction project goes 400% over budget and 3x over schedule, do we get 400% more nuke plant? No, but every penny goes into somebody's pocket. The ratepayers invariably end up paying through the nose. This is part of why small-scale factory-built nukes never found a foothold in the US. There just isn't the scope for wholly-legal corruption to generate the institutional support that big nukes got.
- asdff 5y agoWhy is a nuke plant an ideal conduit for graft versus any other government contractor project? Is there evidence for this?
- ncmncm 5y agoTrue, many other government contractor projects have been effective graft vehicles. The F-35 jet and the SLS rocket are other, very current examples. People have begun to catch on about nuke plants; they started out as a scam to make the uranium economy more favorable for weapons work, and that has been baked in. Notable recent exceptions include solar and wind farms, partly I expect because people can tell how much they should cost: N panels x $P per panel, N turbines x $P per turbine. Also, people doing them tend to be idealists; they want the most power out that money can buy, anywhere else if not here.
- stjohnswarts 5y agoGOP has fallen a long way since Nixon('s policies), now they're out for a single party system controlled by them to the point of sending a mob after Congress. I miss the old GOP, I even voted for some of them in times past, now they are but a looming shadow on democracy.