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> Do you want people freezing to death Have you ever had a useful discussion after accusing the other side of wanting to kill people?
by wumpus 4y ago
> Do you want people freezing to death
Have you ever had a useful discussion after accusing the other side of wanting to kill people?
- HyperSane 4y agoIt is a legitimate risk of your proposal.
- wumpus 4y agoDid you reply to the correct comment? I didn't propose anything.
- bigfudge 4y agoNuclear power plants also have a low probability catastrophic failure mode. If it was a risk we’d engineer to mitigate it.
- lazide 4y agoThe referenced plan was to explicitly not do so. And ‘happens every decade or so in the US’ is a lot more frequent than meltdowns, and not very far down the tail as far as such things go.
- lazide 4y agoWhere is the accusation exactly? I was pointing out the real risks involved, and asking them if they were ok with them. Statistically, such a plan would result in that outcome pretty quickly. Personally I just assumed they had no idea, not that they didn’t care.
- wumpus 4y agoRoughly 0% of experts behind more renewables and storage agree with you. But maybe you don't realize that, given that you'd driven them away with this style of argument.
- lazide 4y agoReally, 100% of experts think we need only a few hours of storage and reserve if we connect all the grids? Cites appreciated! I currently see zero.
- wumpus 4y agoNo, no one said that but you.
- lazide 4y agoIt was literally the comment I originally replied to.
- wumpus 4y agoYou replied to > I heard recently of a study that found 2-4 hours is sufficient along with an interconnected grid. That, literally, is not the same as: > Really, 100% of experts think we need only a few hours of storage and reserve if we connect all the grids? Again, you're not going to have a good conversation if you keep on doing this.
- Dylan16807 4y agoI don't see the difference either*. I would also appreciate you elaborating. * The parts describing the grid look the same to me, and the percent of experts came from you, when you said 0% of experts agreed with their skepticism.
- lazide 4y agoI take it I hurt your feelings? Tell me where those two statements you quoted are materially different (keeping in mind I was including the 0% of experts reply later), if you’d like to continue. Or don’t.