Environment & Energy
In reply to the discussion: Renewable generation surpassed coal and nuclear in the U.S. electric power sector in 2022 [View all]NNadir
(37,298 posts)I oppose any use of dangerous fossil fuels, something I make clear.
It has never escaped me that the sunlight is not constant, nor is the wind, and that it is appropriate to waste energy and kill people because people have been hyping unsustainable, unreliable, expensive material and land intensive junk for half a century while the atmosphere collapses.
The battery/hydrogen fantasies only make the material, pollution and land costs of so called "renewable energy" worse. Replacing all of the world's energy infrastructure every twenty years because there are assholes who think that disposing of a reactor core will kill someone in the 25th century should be, for any ethical person, absurd.
Of course, anti-nukes are not only disinterested in environmental issues, including climate change, they have no sense of ethics, which is why they've never bothered to learn a fucking thing about energy justice, social costs and sustainability.
And of course, we always have anti-nukes cheering for gas; they think fracking the shit out the continent so that future generations will have fucked up groundwater to go with a destroyed atmosphere, vast stretches of wilderness rendered into rotting industrial parks, and all the world's best ores mined and rendered into diffuse landfill is all wonderful.
Here's the real, real, real, real "amusing" thing - if solipsism is really amusing - about this set of bourgeois car and battery worshiping self absorbed fools: They complain endlessly about so called "nuclear waste" even though there are zero cases among them who can show that the 70 year history of used nuclear fuel has killed as many people as air pollution will kill in the next six hours, about 4500 people. Nor do they give a shit about the death and destruction associated with extreme weather.
Every fucking word out of this set of soothsaying nincompoops shows as much.
We're pushing 421 ppm of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and it's getting worse faster than ever, and still we have the "renewables will save us" cults demonstrating, like anti-vaxxers, that no amount of information will change their minds.
I repeat, not that antinukes give a rat's ass about the environment:
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The fact is that there has never been a country that has enough wind or solar garbage trashing vast land areas to embrace stupid fantasies like say, hydrogen.
Every so called "renewable energy" system requires redundant systems, almost always gas in the United States, because we have so many assholes willing to cover the destructive and permanent fracturing of the continental bedrock - through much of our waterr travels.
And then we have assholes who want to waste energy by attempting to store it.
Here's the only fact that matters, the one about which illiterate anti-nukes couldn't care less:
March 27: 420.91 ppm
March 26: 420.95 ppm
March 25: 420.73 ppm
March 24: 420.82 ppm
March 23: 420.75 ppm
Last Updated: March 28, 2023
Recent Daily Average Mauna Loa CO2
It took 7 years, 10 months, 30 days days since we first saw readings over 400 ppm, in the week beginning 05/26/2013 until the week beginning April 25, 2021 when we first saw values over 420 ppm.
It took 9 years, 1 month, 22 days, to go from the first reading over 380 ppm in the week beginning 04/04/2004 to the aforementioned first time we saw readings over 400 ppm.
It took 11 years, 10 months, 11 days to go from the first time we saw readings over 360 ppm, in the week beginning 5/24/1992.
It took 12 years, 2 months and one day to go from the first time we saw readings over 340 ppm in the week beginning 3/23/1980.