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>This is what I was talking about when I dissed Ha. Dissed? Is this high school? >These are engineering projects, not science projects. They are becoming prac

>This is what I was talking about when I dissed Ha. Dissed? Is this high school? >These are engineering projects, not science projects. They are becoming practical not because of huge advances in science fictional novelties, You equivocate between things that are ready and proven NOW versus things that may be ready in the future. This is a common method of argument with proponents of wind and solar. How about this: There are around a thousand cities in the world with a population of 750,000 or more. When you show me one of those cities powered by wind/solar/choose-favorite-storage (not even to 100%, but maybe to 90%), then maybe we can say that wind/solar can do the job. Right now that number is 0 (and there are no near to mid-term plans to change that) so I think you have to have a little bit of humility with respect to wind/solar viability.

pfdietz 4y ago
What's happening is that the environment in which these technologies have to work is changing. When fossil fuels were cheap and CO2 untaxed, it's really hard for renewables and storage to win. But that's not going to be the world going forward. Fossil fuels have to be phased out, which means raising CO2 taxes as high as needed to make that happen. In that environment, it's suddenly highly profitable to push these technologies, and they will go from nothing to dominant in very little time. The supposed advantage of nuclear, that it has already been demonstrated, means very little. Nuclear had its change to get better, and it got worse. It's already demonstrated it's a loser. The market is already making the judgment on how this will turn out, whether you like it or not. Money is flowing into renewables and storage; very little is going into nuclear. Nuclear is old, tired, and slowly dying.

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>This is what I was talking about when I dissed Ha. Dissed? Is this high school? >These are engineering projects, not science projects. They are becoming prac

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pfdietz 4y ago
What's happening is that the environment in which these technologies have to work is changing. When fossil fuels were cheap and CO2 untaxed, it's really hard for renewables and storage to win. But that's not going to be the world going forward. Fossil fuels have to be phased out, which means raising CO2 taxes as high as needed to make that happen. In that environment, it's suddenly highly profitable to push these technologies, and they will go from nothing to dominant in very little time. The supposed advantage of nuclear, that it has already been demonstrated, means very little. Nuclear had its change to get better, and it got worse. It's already demonstrated it's a loser. The market is already making the judgment on how this will turn out, whether you like it or not. Money is flowing into renewables and storage; very little is going into nuclear. Nuclear is old, tired, and slowly dying.