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I'm pretty sure they're way

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 08:39:46 +0000

In reply to PP, did you see this (I ran

I'm pretty sure they're way underestimating the deployment costs for millions of solar & wind installations, including land costs for these farms (& the unsightly mess as it grows), etc., etc.

Try this one to see part of the problem:

How many major nuclear accidents over 60 years - 3? How many dead? Compare that with fatalities in global oil operations & transport, Mideast wars, et al. Along with the next to 0 greenhouse gas emissions from nuclear. Ain't computing for me. Sure, with a better grid we can build plants farther away from populations. It's much cheaper to revitalize nuclear plants than to build new ones (though some risk, but for sure regulatory hurdles are much fewer).

http://www.mining.com/web

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 01:06:29 +0000

In reply to Will note before I read it

http://www.mining.com/web/viable-alternative-lng/ ???

Will note before I read it

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 00:58:28 +0000

In reply to PP, did you see this (I ran

Will note before I read it that I'm highly skeptical.
Also, there could be a new generation of liquid-based nuclear that the French would excel at.
Covering Bourgogne, Biscayne & Bretagne with windfarms?

PP, did you see this (I ran

artappraiser — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 00:15:41 +0000

In reply to No, you're mangling it. The

PP, did you see this (I ran across it and thought of posting it here but then thought again: Peter ain't gonna take any French gummint report seriously, so why bother) But now that you are getting into it, just a ICYMI:

France would save $44.5 billion by halting nuclear and betting on renewable energy, a government agency says https://t.co/KhaRbcR4j4 (#RT)
— Peter Eriksson (@peteroferiksson) December 11, 2018

Fracking 2.0

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 00:02:31 +0000

In reply to No, you're mangling it. The

Fracking 2.0
http://time.com/5187074/fracking-energy-oil-natural-gas/

No, you're mangling it. The

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 23:20:37 +0000

In reply to Solar and wind may be great

No, you're mangling it. The only problem with wind and solar is it's too small still, but they've bent the price curve wonderfully the last 3 years. Australia's talking about saving huge amounts of money with new battery storage infrastructure that delivers the power when people need it. I've talked to German power companies who are redoing their grid to handle plus contribution nets - homes and businesses selling back their own unused renewable energy. Again, it's just not enough yet to dent fossil fuels, and electric cars are still too few. But mid- and long-term, it's great and needed

It's possible that making

ocean-kat — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 22:57:08 +0000

In reply to view from the eyes of a

It's possible that making some changes to house processes might have a marginal effect but that's not the problem. I think it's obvious what the problem is though you'll never get a republican to admit it. Republicans are so afraid of being primaried by someone more conservative they are unwilling to compromise at all. There's numerous examples but the Rubio immigration bill is emblematic. Four democrats and four republicans got together and came up with a compromise bill that I hated because it was so far skewed to the right. Rubio fought and struggled to get support from the republicans until he finally gave up and to protect his own election chances came out against his own bill. This was a bill that I thought was so conservative that I could barely support it. It was barely a compromise. But it wasn't the democrats that killed immigration reform. Republicans are completely unwilling to compromise. Until that changes no amount of rule or process change will end the gridlock.

view from the eyes of a

artappraiser — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 21:13:17 +0000

In reply to "I Served in Congress Longer Than Anyone. Here’s How to Fix It."

view from the eyes of a relative newbie:

As I wrote in @TheAtlantic, Congress cannot get anything done because it is not equipped to get anything done. We must reform the processes and power structures of Congress or we will further tear our country apart.https://t.co/pKAicWQgDS
— Rep. Mike Gallagher (@RepGallagher) November 13, 2018

Solar and wind may be great

Peter — Sat, 08 Dec 2018 20:18:00 +0000

In reply to Not quite sure what jive you

Solar and wind may be great for the few who profit by making it but not so great for the many who are forced to use it and pay for it. The globalist elite love it because it drives their collectivist agenda and virtue signaling. The Germans are learning this reality when they see their excess solar/wind power, produced at the wrong time, given away for free while they are charged more and more for the power they need when they need it.

I'm not alone in shucking away the Green camouflage from the Club of Rome agenda exposing its true colours and that's no jive.

Not quite sure what jive you

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 08 Dec 2018 17:54:00 +0000

In reply to Europe's trams, buses and

Not quite sure what jive you're shucking, buy Europe's rejection of fracking is hurting it. Solar and wind are great, but not in the short-term, and the German decision to abandon nuclear was premature.