Comments by "" (@rstevewarmorycom) on "The Rubin Report"
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When some yoyo gets the idea he should have the right to open the airlock for some fresh air on a space station, we toss him out the airlock. This is the state the earth is getting to, whether you like it or not. You can't just do any fucking thing anymore, get used to it. Peak oil is well-established. We will HAVE to build renewables, like it or not. It isn't the same people who realize this and who want their view and their property values. 95% of bird strikes are on windows, wanna ban windows? Abortion isn't murder, the fetus is NOT a person, a person has a personal memory of the story of its life, or else it does not exist as a person. We do not recall ever having been a fetus. This means WE WERE NOT THERE!! Late term abortion is only used when the fetus is not viable, usually a structural failing like anencephaly, a fetus with no brain.
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It's not that simple. When I got out of school (physics) I was selected for hire to run a nuclear plant. I finally turned it down. Not because it was so dangerous, but because of its lousy track record at performing economically and managing cleanup of waste.
Every reactor in the country has underperformed expectations and cost waaaay more than they anticipated to build, to run, and to clean up afterwards. All the firms who operated them had had to spin them off as separate concerns so they could then let them take the fall and go bankrupt!! EVERY ONE! That way they could just walk away from the cleanup obligations, nobody left to sue! And then they'd just go build another one under another fake corporate identity. Meanwhile guys like me are stuck in the spinoff corp, watching it die and looking like a failure, a schmuck who couldn't manage money well enough to get it cleaned up!! Not good for you CV. I went into other parts of the power industry and stayed away from that depressing fate!
Meanwhile solar and wind were getting cheaper at a startling pace. It was in 2009 that wall st noticed that nukes weren't profitable anymore and that wind and solar was pulling up alongside and then leaving nukes in the dust! Right now, you can get a kW-hr of wind in Texas for 3.5 cents, which beats even coal, and not even considering the eco-disaster that mountaintop removal for coal has been!! Now solar has surpassed methane in price, the other main contender. At under 5 cents per kW-hr solar is eating the lunch of everything but wind!!
ANY community that wants cheap power, the lowest cost on the planet, will now go for wind and solar, and they are so complimentary that they nearly do away with the need for base load. Amory Lovins of RMI fame and his engineers have the working models that make diversified wind and solar more reliable for your grid than fixed power plants which break down for months at a time, while wind and solar are repaired in a day for solar, or a few days for wind. Wind is always blowing somewhere. He's shown that modeling that on a grid is easier than more fragile plants!
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Nothing he says about solar and wind are true. Solar and wind are FOUR times cheaper than ANY kind of nuclear, per kW-hr. That means a given amount of money can buy 4 TIMES the energy. And his claim about toxic waste from solar and wind is ALSO bogus, proved so by the DoE itself!! The solar panel industry is one of the greenest and most effective users of rare metals and elements. The amounts of them used in solar cells are in the parts per MILLION, the rest is silicon, which is sand. He's right that nuclear when managed properly is safe, but the BIGGEST argument against nuclear is simply cost, and the fact that it funnels money like son of a bitch to rich people ONLY!! The cost of the grid alone, when it could be MUCH smaller with distributed wind and home solar, limits the cost benefits of centralized nuclear plants. Then you have to factor in the cost of fuel production, huge mining damages and reprocessing, transportation on our highways, and the risk of terrorism and hijacking. Solar doesn't have that. We could even make solar panels that are 93% as productive of energy using COMMON NON-TOXIC elemental dopants in the Silicon. People never mention that!! And wind turbines are as non-toxic as large children's toys. Solar concentrator plants can heat molten salts in insulated vats that produce super-heated steam for power generation all night. Seville, Spain is powered by such a plant. Wind turbines can pump water uphill to store energy for outages. This piece of shit declines to state his party affiliation. Betcha I can guess!!!!
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Eddy Gerina
No, battery investment for homes, and existing pumped hydro, and electric cars used as home storage, and solar concentrator plants using insulated molten salt vats are more than capable of meeting our genuine needs, and inexpensively. See Amory Lovins, on the Myth of Baseload and Storage. Sure, you may not have 24-7 massive power, but since when do you stay up all night and use power? Why do you have to? A $200 generator used for high current usage and only as needed intermittently can meet unexpected needs. Low cost totally green energy that will save the planet till we can saturate the world with wind and solar should require some personal attention, rather than unthinkingly flipping switches like a dufus. People who just want massive infinite power at the cost of our survival on this planet should take a pill, or we should bang them good upside the head.
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Marmocet
No! Totally WRONG!! We don't have enough time to build the required reactors safely. That would take, by DoE estimates, 35-40 YEARS!! We can begin TODAY converting car plants into wind turbine plants and solar PV panel plants, and start replacing the coal fired plants and installing PV on a widespread war-time like footing. Solar and Wind are three times cheaper and easily seviceable in under a day or two, whereas a downed massive plant takes MONTHS! The cost for Wind energy now, equipment installation included, is 3.5 cents per kW-hr. Cost for PV is 4.5 cents per kW-hr. Reactor power is 8-9 cents per kW-hr and you wind up paying a profit to A CLASS OF NON-WORKING RICH DRONE PEOPLE ALL OVER AGAIN!! The whole job of converting this nation to renewables can take as little as 5-7 years, according to the DoE.
No, reactors are sort of safe, but you don't consider all the mining and transport to fuel refining centers that are massive, the dangerous refining process, and then on top of it the massive increase in the steel and concrete needed by the transmission grid, when solar and wind can be local and only exchange backup power with adjacent power neighborhoods in a low power network. Nuclear is THE MOST expensive form of power!!
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@FergusScotchman
No you're not. Unless you're a professor in a non-Science. Music? English? French Horn? Water polo? Taxi driving?
Excessive CO2 in the atmosphere causes desiccation of plants and excessive temperatures that hinder reproduction of flowering plants that humans rely on for food. Back 300 million years ago, when the sun was 20% weaker, the very high CO2 made ferns and cycads grow to enormous sizes, but only dinosaurs could eat them, and only by fermentation in their enormous multiple stomachs. Back then the equator was a dead zone because the heat was too great for either plants or animals. All life was near the poles or in the oceans. European greenhouse simulations of higher atmospheric CO2 resulted in plants that were reduced in nutrition and reduced in yield, both of fruit and of seeds. We require higher protein higher fat plant products to live, both for our mammal food animals, and for ourselves. People who try to live even on nothing but equatorial fruit nowadays get severe deficiencies, that's because higher protein and fat plants don't grow well in the tropics in the weak sandy soil. You could heat up and raise CO2 in the Amazon, and turn it into a fruit forest, but the number of people who live on the Amazon now would starve to death eating only that fruit. Ask an agronomist. I'm a retired physicist but I was also a Missouri farmer.
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