Comments by "Dan A" (@DanA-nl5uo) on "TED" channel.

A tipping point means you don't go back. For him to say we will cross the tipping point then go back in a few decades is magical thinking.
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More likely to see 3C by 2050 than 2100. Those late stage doubling speed things up far faster than they admit
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So the cost is roughly equal to the USA military budget. I can we allow voters to choose which one we fund? I would rather fund drawdown then military build up.
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@hardtruthhall7777 stop listening to the oil companies they are lying to your for their profits.
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The UK has bid out twice the capacity in off shore wind power at half the cost of Hinkley point c and half the development time. Nuclear power has lost in the free market. Renewable plus storage is faster and cheaper
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Anyone calling for more nuclear power plants has learned nothing from either our nuclear waste problem or the recent issues of having nuclear power plants in a war zone.
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@ATROFlAR wow so 99% of all scientists are in agreement that climate change is man made but you believe it is a political hoax to get votes for Democrats. Amazing how all the scientists are politically motivated to be Democrats. Did the a Koch Brothers fund your logic?
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What is unthinkable is people not understanding that offshore wind is half the cost of Hinkley point c and half the time to develop. With non of the spent fuel pools to become targets like we have in Ukraine at the moment.
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@MrWildBrew I would be completely in favor of closing the loophole the oil industry uses. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/07/oil-tax-break.asp There are some we could start with. But unfortunately the GOP seems to think taxing the little people and removing taxes for the wealthy is the right solution judging by they last round of taxes law.
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@stephenwilliams7799 so you want to pay more simply because it last longer even though it takes twice as long to bring on line??? Brilliant. With all the batteries being made for the EV market we have a solution to storage a home will run for a week on the stored charge of a single EV parked in the driveway
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@stephenwilliams7799 Per google There were a total of 275,913,237 vehicles registered in the USA. Considering we have 350 million Americans that is definitely close to one per person and definitely enough batteries to ballance the grid even for you to live in an apartment without a vehicle. Like I said someone will be happy to profit off your lack of personal storage.
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@stephenwilliams7799 so long at the profit motive rules our gird there will be people willing to rent you their batteries for a profit. As to the numbers being for the USA that is also where NYC is located which was your example
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@truthboom wrong on the cost of the nuclear waste being offset by the revenue there isn't one example of a nuclear power plant that has paid for their decommissioning and long term waste storage from their own profits. The tax payers always end up paying those costs not the corporations
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Salterino Kripperino why do you think rebuilding our energy economy based on local renewable energy will distort the USA? Solar now employees 200,000 Americans alone as apposed to 50,000 in the coal industry and the solar industry doesnt kill it's workers with black lung. Tesla makes the most American made car in the Model 3 unlike GM that is closing factories in North America and shipping jobs to Mexico to build Blazers. So who is destroying America? Oh right the ff Industry that pollutes our air our ground water and kills it's workers by filling their lungs with coal and quartz dust.
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100% agree the UK had proven that off shore wind is less expensive and faster than Hinkley Point C to bring on line. Solar is also faster and cheaper.
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This is basically the same idea as the Marshall plan at the end of the second world war which was the best investment the United States has ever made.
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@kokofan50 really? So we didn't start building pumped hydro grid level storage last century to support nuclear power plants inability to ramp up and down to match the load? Those Tesla grid scale batteries in Australia and the USA are what actually located in orbit? Clearly you are totally wrong
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@MrDoobysm 🤣🤣 because we never had peaker power plants to deal with the inability of "base load nuclear power plants and coal plants" to match the fluxation in loads. We never had to build pumped storage to deal with it for nuclear power plants. You act like nuclear power plants can supply the entire grid 24/7 with no other systems to help them out.
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@kokofan50 70% of renewable energy is from methane gas? Wow I didn't realize those emmisions had causes so much increase in wind speed to power our wind turbines.
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@stephenwilliams7799 I don't think we can avoid the vast majority of society owning cars and trucks. If you happen to be one of the few people who don't own a vehicle and depend on public transportation don't worry there will be a billionaire like Elon Musk more than willing to rent a battery storage facility to you at a profit.
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@ElderberryThee3rd the operating costs for the solar panels on my lawn is exactly zero dollars per 25 years with a warranty of 80% output at the end of 25 years and they will continue go make power for the next 25 years making 60% of their rated power at the end of 50 years as the degradation is linear. So 50 years in I have spent $0.00 on operating costs tell how do you get all those workers to go to the nuclear power plants for 50 years and pay them less then I paid to operate the solar panels on my lawn? Do they pay you for the privilege of working in your nuclear power plants? Because that is the only way I can see it being less operating cost than zero
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@ElderberryThee3rd like I told someone else you live with the spent fuel rods in your back yard and I will live with the solar panels in mine. Let's see who lives longer
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@stephenwilliams7799 lol you didn't read my reply about Billionaires renting you a battery storage facility apparently. But tell me how do all the goods get to the stores in the city? Do you think they are lugged by hand from the factory to the store where you buy them?
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@ElderberryThee3rd because the production of cement for nuclear power plants and the production of nuclear power rods is green????
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@stephenwilliams7799 we don't need weeks worth of storage if people learn to use energy when it is available we assume we will keep our modern 24/7 power hungry lifestyle as the ff era ends. That is not inline with the reality of life before we entered the carbon pulse.
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@stephenwilliams7799 the end of the ff era will handle the implementation of life style changes without requiring I do anything. See the German version play out in real time this winter as they adapt to the lack of ff imports from Russia. Or the people in Pakistan who are forced to adapt to climate change induced floods now. Nature bats last. You can deny the end of the carbon pulse now or you can adapt to post carbon lifestyles now while the ff era ends. Either way it will end because you can't have limitless growth on finite resources.
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@caesarsalad1170 sure because those oil spills never kill a bird 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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@ATROFlAR I am willing to bet you have never read a IPPC report on the topic or you would know. That the scientists are not paid as you put it. The ones infact who are paid are the oil company think tanks which spreed misinformation on the topic. That would either by your boss or the people you get your misinform from.
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This is a great idea. We need to consider how all of our money is working and what businesses we choose to do business with. https://www.aspiration.com Is a good way to do ethical investing.
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@mithrylmoonlight more funding for nuclear when offshore wind is already half the cost and twice as fast to bring online? Why throw good money after bad? Oh and if we have failed to solve our nuclear waste problems in over half a century I am willing to bet more money isn't the solution
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@mithrylmoonlight the USA just put what $58 billion into Ukraine in the last year. It didn't solve the problem of a nuclear power plant in a war zone infact it has provided some of the weapons which have been the problem. So tell me how does putting more money into war zones make nuclear power plants safer?
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@truthboom solar panels waste problem??? Really you compare waste glass to nuclear waste???? I know which problem I would rather have as the solar panels can be recycled with far less cost and hazard
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@truthboom you can live with spent fuel rods in your yard and I will continue to live with my solar panels on my yard. Let's see who lives longer...
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@mithrylmoonlight I listed two problem nuclear waste and nuclear power plants in war zones. You said we can solve them with cash. So do tell how do you plan on solving nuclear power plants in war zones with cash. Oh right you now claim you didn't say that. Nice try but we all saw your post. I am still waiting for you to tell me why you want to waste money on problems we haven't solved in over half a century of running nuclear power plants when the alternatives are cheaper and don't have radioactive waste problems.
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