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If you look at this you will see they do have enough money to build flood defenses, especially with federal funding. https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/finance/downloads/pdf/reports/reports-tax-expenditure/ter_2020_final.pdf
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I'm a denier. I'm a climate change denier denier.
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Build hundreds of wind turbines which are unreliable at best OR build a single nuclear power plant which is reliable, much cleaner and requires much less space.
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All i can say is i'm watching this video on my laptop which is powered by a lithium ion battery. As we speak my laptop is plugged in as it always is because if it wasn't i would not be watching this video. I can't use the damn thing for very long without plugging it in. And now you want me to do that with an electric car? Hell no. And thats not even the real problem with electric cars. Theres the money, the limited resources, the logistics, the economic feasibility, and the fact that electric cars are just coal burners that do nothing for the environment and are just a way for knit hat wearing liberals to feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Electric cars are a pipe dream, hydrogen is the future.
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Oh no, the Earth warmed by 0.8 degrees. What in the world are we going to do? Why not invest in nuclear power instead of solar and wind? Why not start investing in biofuels instead of electric coal burners? The solution starts with nuclear and ends with electric cars using solid state batteries. But yet we are still shutting down nuclear power plants and building no new ones. If you care about the environment then shouldn't you want the BEST solution and not the "hippest" one. Electric cars are great but they will have to wait for cheap solid state batteries and a power grid that is nuclear. Plus all of the infrastructure like charging stations. Biofuels are like fossil fuels in many ways but they can be produced from organic materials so they're sustainable and they produce half as much CO2. Thats like going from 40 mpg to 80 mpg as far as emissions are concerned. So biofuels are the perfect transitional fuel. Yeah it would be great if we could power the world with sunshine, but its not feasible. First of all we would have to cover an area the size of the Sahara desert to generate enough power and thats at current rates of consumption. By 2100 that rate will increase by 3 times at the very least. Secondly the number of batteries we would need to store the excess energy would be immense. For anyone thinking that nuclear power is dangerous, just consider this. More people have died by falling on solar panels that people who have died from accidents related to nuclear power plants. They're getting much safer as well. Thorium molten salt reactors are designed in such a way that a meltdown is physically impossible. Its safe clean energy thats available at the flip of switch unlike solar which is only available when the sun shines.
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I can't brain today.....
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The missing link in renewables? They're complete shit. Nuclear power is the only answer. You cannot power the world with sunshine and a breeze. Watch Michael Moore's documentary "Planet of the Humans".
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I have 2 digits of pi please. Pecan if you have it.
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Seriously the EU is going to fine you for not reducing emissions? No wonder the UK left that fascist neo-USSR. Don't worry about emissions as much as finding a REAL alternative energy source. Climate change is happening yes, but its not because we tiny humans are burning some fossilized dead shit. Its extremely arrogant to assume such a thing. The earth changes, this tiny amount of change we have lived through is actually very tame compared to what has happened before. Guess what, when those radical changes happened we were around burning fossil fuels, so what the excuse then? We need to find an alternative to fossil fuels, but we have to find an alternative that works. Solar panels, wind farms and oversized RC cars aren't it. Hydrogen is the future.
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The chart at 1:18 says it all. Hydrogen is the future, not coal burning battery cars.
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Hydrogen is currently made using electrolysis but scientists are working on a chemical process that will produce hydrogen fuel using no electricity. Hydrogen has 3x the stored energy of gasoline and 6x as much as natural gas. Its that potency and its dynamic versatility that makes it the fuel source of the future. Say hypothetically we can replace all cars with battery electric cars, how do we power all of them? We would have to burn 25-30% more coal to power all of them. Solar power simply isn't enough to replace fossil fuels. The world consumes about 17 terawatts of power, while the Earth receives about 100 terawatts. It sounds adequate until you account for the fact that we would have to cover 17% of the Earths surface in solar panels to harness enough energy. That is clearly impossible due to the fact that theres not enough silicone on Earth and not enough money. Not to mention to USA and Europe use roughly half of that 17 TW. With more of the world gaining access to electricity, that number could rise to over 30 TW by 2100. So with that in mind, electric cars are not only coal burners, but they also only eliminate one source of greenhouse gases. About 25% of greenhouse gases come from motor vehicles, 60% from power generation and the rest from various other man-made and natural sources. Meaning we need to focus on the biggest source first. Hydrogen can be burned in converted coal-fired power plants, used in motor vehicles and replace natural gas for heating and cooking. It is a single fuel source for everything.
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Well not so much. Bio fuels are the immediate future. Ethanol and bio-diesel produce half the greenhouse emissions of gasoline and diesel. The best part of it is we don't have to completely redesign our energy infrastructure like we would with electric cars. Most grades of gasoline are already a certain percentage ethanol, all we do is gradually increase that grade until its 100% ethanol. While this is being done we can work on ways to produce hydrogen fuel cheaply.
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@mexa_t6534 You alright BOAH?
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