Comments by "bighand69" (@bighands69) on "What's Wrong with Wind and Solar? | 5 Minute Video" video.

Nuclear is a great option but it simply is not viable for the US to switch the whole system over to nuclear. Clean coal, natural gas and oil should be the backbone of the system.
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Those figures are not real nor are they true. They are an accounting exercise that uses very cleaver data capturing techniques to try and make it look better.
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Nuclear has its place but it is not suitable for national energy in the US.
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There are only a few countries on earth that are viable for Hydropower at a national level.
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It does not work like that and Fusion is nowhere near an engineering reality.
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@EkinYalvac Nuclear is not viable for the US or for the world. For the US that has a deep reserve of natural gas and oil it can creates its backbone from hydrocarbons and then use Nuclear and Renewables for redundancy.
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@mattritchie6628 I know exactly what it is. it is filtering and scrubbing the particulates and gaseous forms after thermal processing. When it comes to clean coal plants 100% of the soot can be filtered and about 80% of carbon in gaseous molecular form and there is no reason as to why 90% could not be achieved with todays chemical engineering technologies. To build out the whole power generation system on that would be very expensive hence why it should be used in line with natural gas, nuclear an renewable. There are other options open as well such as using coal to form gases that would be similar to natural gas but that is not needed in the US but could be used in places like the UK or continental europe to help fill in gaps in natural gas supply.
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@mattritchie6628 it does not mean that the coal is clean but the actual technology that generates the energy is clean on out put. Carbon Dioxide can be used for industrial processes including concrete production and other applications. This does not mean the whole system would be based on coal generation as that would be too resource intense but it would have its place. If Germany had of done that 15 years ago they now would not be burning lignite and coal and pumping it straight into the atmosphere.
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Electric cars and renewables are the future but the engineering and technology is simply not there. Governments cannot will it into place with regulations. Companies like Tesla have to be allowed to develop the market place and it takes time. Clean energy really should be the approach.
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@justsomeguy934 US taxpayers do not subsidize the oil industry. I you are referring to the middle's then that is about military and geopolitical security. Nothing else.
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There is no evidence to back the abiotic theory even though it is interesting.
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That is simply not viable for the US and the world. It can work in regional areas where the environmental conditions are suitable.
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