There's something sort of, um...um...um...faintly Republican about this claim, since there is very clear data on the reliability of all this trillions of dollars worth of solar and wind junk.
For instance, let's look at that coal burning shithole Germany, "renewable energy" nirvana and see how the solar industry is doing this evening.
Electricity Map Germany (Accessed 03/02/23 2:30 Berlin Time, 03/01/23 8:30 EST (US)).
Let's see, in percent talk, the solar behemoth in Germany, all 64.3 GW of installed capacity is producing 0 watts of power, 0%, in the "percent talk" that antinukes use all the time, of the rated capacity.
Antinukes seem to believe that I give a shit about their endless soothsaying, that they managed to scam a law through that someday French parking lots will be covered by solar junk that will need replacement every 25 years.
As for the rivers drying up, some of us - we're called "environmentalists" - find it tragic that rivers are drying up because we squandered trillions of dollars on solar and wind to help save the coal industry in places like Germany by shutting perfectly operable nuclear plants in service to fear and ignorance.
Well the fear and ignorance squad has certainly won, haven't they?
How about a victory lap?
February 28: Unavailable
February 27: 421.62 ppm
February 26: 421.23 ppm
February 25: 420.27 ppm
February 24: 419.99 ppm
Last Updated: March 1, 2023
Recent Daily Average Mauna Loa CO2
Let's talk about arsonists complaining about forest fires...
The Electricity Map also gives yearly data. Here it is as of this evening:
The solar industry in Germany produced over the last 12 months, an average continuous power of 1.15 GW using a capacity rated at 64.7 GW.
As I noted elsewhere, the Brown's Ferry 2 reactor, in contrast to solar junk in Europe, operated at 99.5% capacity utilization over a period of almost two years: Browns Ferry 2 Nuclear Reactor, Set a Record for Reliable Operation With 3D Printed Parts. It's a best for Brown's Ferry; other reactors have done as well or better.
Of course, anti-nukes are free to cheer for the possible destruction of the Tennessee River so they can impact that performance, given their arsonist complaining about forest fires hypocrisy.
I understand that anti-nukes can't do math which is why they are so blissfully unaware of the contents of science books, so let me put 1.15 GW out of 64.7 GW (peak) capacity in "percent talk," using the stupid little language they use so prolifically while cheering for climate change, the destruction of French Rivers, whatever else goes on in their tortured little imaginations. It works out to 1.78% capacity utilization.
The last three nuclear plants not destroyed by fear and ignorance in anti-nuke nirvana, the coal burning hellhole in Germany, in three small buildings, 2.33 GW of average continuous power over the last 12 months, more than all the solar junk distributed all over Germany.
At one point, before the Gazprom executive Gerhard Schroeder, Putin's pal who used to be Chancellor of Germany, announced the "nuclear phase out," Germany had 22,985 GWe of nuclear power.
Despite what barely literate anti-nukes say about rivers they helped destroy by caring more about the fear someone might die from radiation releases at Fukushima than they do about the destruction of the planetary atmosphere, worldwide, the capacity utilization of properly maintained nuclear plants is typically on the order of 90%. Thus the average continuous power would have been around 20,000 GW had they not be destroyed by anti-intellectual vandalism.
Over the last 12 months, the average continuous power of the coal plants in Germany, running flat out, killing people with the waste they directly inject into the atmosphere, was 18.7 GW.
If one gave a shit, or was remotely educated, one could do the math and figure out how much coal they would have burned were it not for the (literally) pyrrhic victory of anti-nukism, but again, anti-nukes are very, very, very, very bad at Math.
Excuse me if I find the happy dance over the destruction of the world's riverine systems, the glaciers on which billions of people depend for their water supplies, people dying from extreme heat, while Neroist fiddlers sing lullabies to French car parks as the world burns, to be disgusting.
I say I care about humanity. I say I value it over cute horse shit about some day in some fantasy future where there are mountains of batteries to rival the Alps, or alternatively, to call up another bit of sheer stupidity, billions of cars running on hydrogen, any of the tiresome stupid shit that's been flying around the last 50 years while things get worse and worse.
As for the car parks, soothsaying about French solar car parks is just that, soothsaying. It's all the fucking anti-nuke community has ever offered the world, other than the money hole that sucks resources away from doing useful and sustainable things, soothsaying.
There are pictures all over the internet of vast tracks of land covered by semiconductor based solar cells, vast bits of former wilderness trashed into industrial parks for wind turbines. To my personal disgust there are actually people with their heads so far up their asses as to worship these pictures of industrial parks. It makes me want to weep personally, but that's just me.
Have a wonderful day tomorrow.
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