Renewable generation surpassed coal and nuclear in the U.S. electric power sector in 2022

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16. The soothsaying about batteries is another way that the so called "renewable energy" scam...

...will represent an appalling attack on sustainability and the environment by people with low appreciation for, or total indifference to, social justice and environmental sustainability.

In general, whenever people are forced to pay for redundancies, the cost is not borne by the bourgeois assholes advocating for this stuff, but by the poor, and in the case of batteries, the enslaved.

(Please spare me the cobalt-free soothsaying, all this fucking soothsaying is not only killing people, it's killing the planet, not that antinukes have even a modicum of a smidgeon of a fragement of concern about the environment. The results of half a century of "renewables will save us" soothsaying are in:


March 29: 421.60 ppm
March 28: 421.40 ppm
March 27: 420.91 ppm
March 26: 420.95 ppm
March 25: 420.73 ppm
Last Updated: March 30, 2023

Recent Daily Average Mauna Loa CO2)

But no matter, trying to discuss ethics with anti-nukes is surely a losing cause.

This said, I have calculated the material implications of what a German effort at covering their months long real episode of Dunkelfluate would have required for this coal burning anti-nuke hellhole would have been.

The Number of Tesla Powerwalls Required That Would Address the Current German Dunkleflaute Event.

...The specifications say that each Powerwall® weighs 114 kg, meaning that 30,369,600,000 kg of Powerwalls® would be required just for Germany.

According to Forbes, 15% of the weight of a Tesla Powerwall is cobalt, mined by Elon's happy Congolese slaves, meaning that the happy Congolese cobalt slaves would be required to mine and isolate 4,555,400 metric tons of cobalt to make Powerwalls® to cover this instance of Dunkleflaute with batteries.

This is 31.63 times as large as the world production of cobalt in 2021 according to the US Geological Survey

I'm sorry!!! I forgot to use "percent talk!" The demand for cobalt to cover month long Dunkleflaute in Germany observed in Nov-Dec 2022 would be 3163% the demand for all the world cobalt supply in 2021.

The calculations are strictly "back of the envelope" but doing calculations of this type can, in my opinion, eliminate the risk of mouthing insane wishful thinking rhetoric...

Were they even to try this disastrous fantasy of building enough batteries to make that racist asshole Elon Musk even richer, build a range of mountains of Powerwalls® all higher than Zugspite in the German Alps, they would need to replace them every 20 years or so, not that anti-nukes give a rat's ass about future generations; clearly they don't, which is why they carry on so fucking insipidly about things like the cost of the Vogtle nuclear plants, both of which will be operating as the 22nd century approaches, and perhaps after it has started.

I suggest finding some uneducated idiot to believe this stuff; I wouldn't recommend trying it on well educated informed people.

By the way, "IIRC" this summer, during the climate induced extreme temperatures in both Texas and California, if someone looked at the grid status during that anti-nuke driven event - I did - both California and Texas were burning huge quantities of dangerous natural gas, the stuff antinukes like to praise as "green," and were dumping the waste directly into the planetary atmosphere with no plans ever to remove it.

Of course, if one looked at those grids during periods when the wet bulb temperatures were high enough to kill a human being without access to air conditioning in parts of California and Texas - as I did - one would understand something about demand curves.

Since there are people with such a limited base of information, who nonetheless feel smug enough to lecture with disinformation on the opportunity for solar energy to address demand peaks, we can assume that they did not look - as I did - at the grid situation on those days.

California and Texas are prime examples on why the "renewables will save us" scam put forth by antinukes is nothing more than dangerous fossil fuel apologetics. There are reasons that gas and oil mining companies put so much effort into pretending to endorse so called "renewables." It's a marketing expense to secure their business.

Have a nice day.