Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Can Green Energy Actually Work? (Exploring Clean Energy Economics) || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. SORRY PETER, but your economics of construction is a giant pile of BULLSHlT and if you bothered to ever talk to an engineer who actually understands project engineering and project management you'd know why. The rest of this is pretty good and your points on people NOT budgeting for the resources needed to construct this is spot on. Unfortunately on that subject if you try and tell the Greenies about the materials issues they freak out and respond in some pretty ugly ways. Here's some basics on construction versus operation. 1) When you are in construction YOU DO NOT BUDGET for operational costs like fuel and maintenance that is the job of others. 2) If you are going to compare construction costs then COMPARE construction costs not a mix and match with operational costs or you just confuse things which you have done. 3) When you build any power station you can start making money as soon as you have any of your generating units commissioned and connected to the grid. COMPARING SOMETHING LIKE A BIG NUCLEAR/COAL PLANT VERUS A BIG WIND FARM IS PRETTY SIMPLE With large nuclear or coal plants you have to wait until it is 100% complete before you can start earning money. That can be a huge amount of capital spent over several years (or even a decade) paying interest or not paying dividends before you even start earning money and even THEN YOU HAVE TO PAY BACK THAT CAPITAL BEFORE you actually break even. If you are building a 100 turbine wind farm (it makes the percentage sign easier to use). When you have the first turbine up you are 1% finished but you can start earning money to help pay for the rest of construction. When you are 10% complete you can earn 10 times the money you earned from when you are 1% complete. When you are 50% complete you can earn 50 times the money you earned from when you are 1% complete *AND YOU PROBABLY DON'T NEED ANY CAPITAL TO FINISH THE PROJECT. This is also part of the business strategy behind the Small Modular Nuclear Reactors. As soon as the first reactor is in it can start earning money and help pay for the other reactors. I love your work on geopolitics and strategies BUT PLEASE TALK TO SOME ENGINEERS. YES I know we are pains in the butt, but then do you want to be called out by one of us?
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