Yes let’s make an argument based on a report from 13 years ago. Certainly technology hasn’t advanced at all in that time, right?
“That sounds sustainable.”
So how does it compare to decommissioning other forms of energy plants? I’m sure you’ve done this research, right?
“an article by that untrustworthy bastion of right-wing rhetoric, Forbes.”
Said article was written by Michael Shellenberger. You don’t think he has his own biases? As for the issues with wind turbines killing birds, you ignore both the improvements in design to lessen them, and the fact that far more birds are killed by other forms of infrastructure including communication towers and power lines. Did you ever stop to think maybe the Audubon Society knows a little bit more about it than you? Wait, I think we all know the answer to that.
“As anyone who isn’t neuro-divergent knows, 90 percent of electric vehicles are charged by coal or natural gas burning plants.”
One would think anyone making such a strong statement in a published article would at least do a simple google search. In the US, electricity generation is roughly 60% fossil fuels. It is also the only form of energy we can generate cleanly. As for the “step downs” in converting energy, you also neglect to consider how much more efficiently electric power is versus combusting gasoline.
“One megawatt powers about 400-1,000 homes per year, depending on which side of the solar debate you stand”
Wtf does that even mean? You can look up the average electricity usage of a home. It has nothing to do with “what side of the solar debate you stand”.
“No congressmen get to give out billions of dolalrs (sic) in subsidies to private sector companies.”
In 2019, the Environmental and Energy Study Institute found that the US government spends $20 billion a year on direct fossil fuel subsidies. And bro, you really need an editor.
When the “green” militant climate change folks start looking at the waste produced and the plastics polluting the planet then I will start siding with them but as of now all the EV, solar and wind people are all about the $$$$$ nothing more…..
You can pay a therapist and not air your personal issues so publicly. Fools names and fools faces are often seen in public places, my grandmother used to say. Your vitriolic story about the time you used google to confirm your preconceived and notably inconsistent views about the environment is so boring I couldnt get past the part about how great environmentalists are….
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“I did find a report”
Yes let’s make an argument based on a report from 13 years ago. Certainly technology hasn’t advanced at all in that time, right?
“That sounds sustainable.”
So how does it compare to decommissioning other forms of energy plants? I’m sure you’ve done this research, right?
“an article by that untrustworthy bastion of right-wing rhetoric, Forbes.”
Said article was written by Michael Shellenberger. You don’t think he has his own biases? As for the issues with wind turbines killing birds, you ignore both the improvements in design to lessen them, and the fact that far more birds are killed by other forms of infrastructure including communication towers and power lines. Did you ever stop to think maybe the Audubon Society knows a little bit more about it than you? Wait, I think we all know the answer to that.
“As anyone who isn’t neuro-divergent knows, 90 percent of electric vehicles are charged by coal or natural gas burning plants.”
One would think anyone making such a strong statement in a published article would at least do a simple google search. In the US, electricity generation is roughly 60% fossil fuels. It is also the only form of energy we can generate cleanly. As for the “step downs” in converting energy, you also neglect to consider how much more efficiently electric power is versus combusting gasoline.
“One megawatt powers about 400-1,000 homes per year, depending on which side of the solar debate you stand”
Wtf does that even mean? You can look up the average electricity usage of a home. It has nothing to do with “what side of the solar debate you stand”.
“No congressmen get to give out billions of dolalrs (sic) in subsidies to private sector companies.”
In 2019, the Environmental and Energy Study Institute found that the US government spends $20 billion a year on direct fossil fuel subsidies. And bro, you really need an editor.
When the “green” militant climate change folks start looking at the waste produced and the plastics polluting the planet then I will start siding with them but as of now all the EV, solar and wind people are all about the $$$$$ nothing more…..
“EV, solar and wind people are all about the $$$$$ nothing more…..”
You live under capitalism. What else do you expect?
Thanks for the tacit admission that the free market cannot and will not solve global warming.
Yeah, congress doesn’t give fossil fuels subsidies, oh no sir!
You can pay a therapist and not air your personal issues so publicly. Fools names and fools faces are often seen in public places, my grandmother used to say. Your vitriolic story about the time you used google to confirm your preconceived and notably inconsistent views about the environment is so boring I couldnt get past the part about how great environmentalists are….