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Saturday, March 16. 2019

Why renewables can’t save the planet

This Greenie guy came to realize the environmental damage of "renewables." Good for him. (h/t SDA). I am all in for nuke power too, but not because of climate. Just because it seems so obvious.




Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 13:26 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

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The newer technologies of nuke power are by far the way to go and build mass produced smaller reactors to spread across the country to avoid transmission loss and very large transformers.
#1 indyjonesouthere on 2019-03-16 13:57 (Reply)
Our power comes from the Limerick Power Station, a twin tower nuclear power plant. Started delivering electricity in 1986, has worked fine ever since. There is something fundamentally wrong when people have solved a problem, then invent reasons to shun the solution. Some of the blame can be placed at the feet of our beloved Jane Fonda and her movie, China Syndrome, scared the whole country, as planned. Nuclear is the only real, long term solution.
#2 RJT on 2019-03-16 14:36 (Reply)
I have solar 4 years and love having it.
1. don't have to wait for others to decide nuclear or what.
2. cut my electricity costs to nothing (and I am now heating with electric!)
3. I like selling my extra solar to the utility.
4. planning on Tesla battery for house so I can store my own.

No loss of transmission energy.

Go Solar on your house and don't wait for others to decide for you!
#3 ns on 2019-03-16 17:23 (Reply)
Subsidized by our tax monies but it's all about you right?
#3.1 Zachingoff on 2019-03-16 17:42 (Reply)
Did you forget about the money you paid for the system? If you paid cash you lost the interest you could have earned as well as the use of that money for other things. You paid for 25 years of electric up front. If you financed you're likely paying the bank more every month than you paid the electric company.
You have forced the rest of us to share in the real cost of your solar through tax rebates
The electric company is forced to pay retail for your solar. The rest of us have to subsidies your power.
If you still have wires running from your house to the grid you're not solar at all. Throw your main off and get back to us 24 hours from now. But you wont be able to too because your house will be dark and quiet.
#3.2 FRP on 2019-03-16 20:34 (Reply)
I'm calling BS on this one, let's see the real numbers.
#3.3 CAPT CRAIG (Link) on 2019-03-16 21:15 (Reply)
"The better alternative is to tell the truth".
#4 Zachingoff on 2019-03-16 17:39 (Reply)
If only the green energy true believers cared about facts and feasibility.
#5 Jeff Brokaw (Link) on 2019-03-16 21:09 (Reply)
The reason we aren't building more nuclear power plants is that there is no political constituency to boost it and to gain from it.

Sure, a majority of the public are supportive but they aren't the decision-makers who put up the cash. They aren't the bureaucrats who make the environmental, legal, and financial rules. And they aren't the congress people who could arrange the playing field to make new nukes worthwhile to investors.

Increasing popularity to a degree to make a difference is a long lead time effort. I'm afraid that most Baby Boomers react to "nuclear" anything as they would a snake
#6 Whitehall on 2019-03-17 12:19 (Reply)

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