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Stop coal, blackouts will roll

Stop coal, blackouts will roll

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[–] • 4 pts

The administration, which has a goal of achieving 100% carbon-free electricity by 2035, is also drawing up a suite of regulations to crack down on coal plants after the Trump administration liberalized rules.

A person who really, actually believed in man-made climate change and that really believed we needed to cut carbon emissions would be working to make carbon-free energy so cheap that the economics make it happen.

You can tell these people are only interested in destroying Western civilization by crippling energy supply because they're attacking existing supply rather than encouraging new supply.

[–] • 3 pts

What did the US have before candles?

Electricity.

[–] • 2 pts

Energy sources are preferred in the reverse order of fuel storage capability.

Coal: You can easily store coal in large stockpiles on site for future use. Can be delivered by ship, rail, truck. Bad.

Oil: easy to build large storage tanks to have bulk on site fuel storage. Rail, ship, truck and pipeline delivery options. Bad.

Nuclear: no idea about this one.

Gas: more challenging to store gas in quantity - it would need to be liquified to store in bulk. Centralized pipeline delivery only without LNG gassification facility. LNG could be delivered by ship, rail, or truck. Better.

Solar and wind: no fuel storage possible to smooth out the supply gaps. Best. What the fuck?

[–] • 0 pt (edited )

Nuclear involves ores. Uranium is relatively stable in it's natural state (mostly U238), can be enriched to fuel. It can be treated like normal rocks until its enriched (U235). Natural uranium's chemical properties as a heavy metal are more dangerous than it's radioactive properties (weakly radioactive). So you can stockpile the ore before it's milled into cake, and enriched through hex.

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I am going to say that the refueling cycle for nuclear power is rather slow, and thus bad. A plant can operate for a time between refuel events. Thus, like coal and oil, plus not being able to interrupt production easily, they are bad. The "popular" options are unreliable or can be externally interrupted.

[–] • 1 pt

Let's gooooooooooooooooooooo

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It's so dumb that all these environmentalist idiots want to put wind farms and solar panels everywhere. Do you know how fucking ugly those things are? They're littered all over the American deserts and they're ugly and they destroy land. I don't know why if they're so hell bent on continuing to do these stupid things that they don't put them in new home developments. My God they make shingles that are solar panels, use those. Put a fucking wind turbine in a brand new neighborhood. Get them out of the public areas, get them out of the beautiful deserts. But oh no not in my backyard. So typical of those Sierra club pussies.

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Energy could be cheap and free to everyone on earth. Can't alloy the goyim to have that much power at their fingertips, so nuclear power is demonized along with hydro electric.

[–] • 0 pt

In my old home state they damned up one of the major rivers for hydro in multiple places. Now that river is only used as backup power when they want to sell it on the grid for higher profit.

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Wind turbines can unpredictably spin apart and sent giant blades hurtling toward the ground. And when they are operating normally, they're basically a fucking sky blender for birds.

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This is true. Then they should just go to solar panels on residential roofs. Not the ones that are the big dumb looking panels but the shingle type. Some of them look really nice too. If we're supposedly in this horrific climate catastrophe then this should just be mandatory, no questions asked, who cares if you're a bazillionaire, you get no special treatment. So clearly it's not.

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Exactly, and nearly every state has all these extra rules and regulations about solar panels and how you connect to the power grid when you have solar. You'd think they'd encourage people to go completely off-grid, but it's practically illegal in most places.

And because solar panel installation is so expensive, it only makes financial sense if you get a discount in the form of government rebates. But those aren't guaranteed either, and I haven't found a solar company that will back up that rebate if for some reason I get rejected from the government. I know someone who had it happen after he had solar installwd.. For various reasons, he didn't qualify for the federal or stare rebates.