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16. I have a more intelligent comment.
Thu Dec 12, 2024, 02:33 PM
Dec 2024

Let's choose a form of energy, conceived by the finest minds the world has ever known, that survived decades of mindless vituperation, specious attacks, and insipid scsre mongering from anti intellectual uninformed clowns and has functioned at a high level for decades.

The nuclear industry exists, in spite of ignorant attacks on it, saves lives and is independent, unlike solar and wind, of the fossil fuel industry. One must be clueless indeed not to know that it consistently produces more primary energy than solar and wind combined, has done so from decades.

Of course there are a lot of clueless people who have prevented the growth rate of the existent industry matching its previous success, with specious reasoning, if one can call insipid selective attention "reasoning." Their ignorance killed people.

There are now 64 nuclear reactors under construction around the world. This is near the pace set in the late 20th century when we built the reactors that serve us still. The triumph of ignorance, if surely not in politics then at least in energy technology, is drawing to a close.

We should stop funding the reactionary and wasteful cult of so called "renewable energy" that soaks up trillions of dollars for no result other than accelerating the use of fossil fuels and the destruction of the atmosphere. I note that the wind and solar industry failed to slow extreme global heating in an atmosphere of wild bachnalian but stupid cheering for them. The bill has come in for this idiot's party. The planet is in flames. Waiting for the "renewable energy" nirvana that did not come, is not here and won't come, is now purely out of absurdity theater, pure Beckett, "Waiting for Godot."

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