Category: Energy

very good.

BUT neither Democrats nor Joe Biden want good things in terms of energy. So it won’t happen.

Thanks, Democrats. Waaaay to go…

that is true.

EVs can be fine as a little commuter car to travel the five miles to work and back, to be then plugged in overnight.

But there are indeed problems. You simply can’t use them for road trips. And in an emergency, they may well leave you stranded. With a hurricane coming! And what if there are power outages?

BUT, they are indeed “torquey”and fun to drive. That is, if you can just not think of the child slaves that strip-mined the cobalt needed for your batteries so you can sleep at night!

countries, plus Japan, move toward a nuclear power future.

Good. It’s the only wise move, here. Wind and solar SUCK! They can’t even function without government subsidies! They butcher wildlife and use exorbitant land and other resources. Clean, reliable nuclear power is the obvious answer.

be a small niche product. Unless there is a qualitative change in battery technology and widespread adoption of clean, modern nuclear production, it will never be more than maybe 5% of cars sold. Yes, government can pressure people into getting them, but even so they will only ever be a small niche. They are just not feasible without HUGE government pressure.

The bottom line is that wind and solar just suck! Hydroelectric is good, but not exactly a nationwide option.

oh please!

I think there is NO question that molten salt reactors are the future (at least until nuclear fusion is a realistic option). Solar sucks. As does wind. Solar and wind are both very inefficient and unreliable/intermittent. And they are both HUGELY damaging to the environment both in the eyesore volume that would be needed and in the HUGE amount of toxic, unrecyclable waste that they produce.

And we haven’t even talked about the battery technology that we would need. Lithium mines are an environmental disaster and the needed cobalt is obtained through slave (often child) labor. It is scientifically untenable, environmentally horrible, and morally disgusting.

No thanks. I’m a scientist, a real environmentalist, and a moralist. And all three of those things make it so I am against solar and wind power. I am disgusted by the pretentiousness and utter obscenity of the solar and wind energy proponents!

Stop the fear-mongering, Leftists!

explanation.

Bottom line?: There is no free lunch.

Basically, hydrogen itself is a great, “clean” fuel. But to get it requires a lot of “dirty” input. So yes, the hydrogen itself is very clean, but the ONLY way to get it is, like solar, through very dirty processes (though yes, solar is way worse in that regard).

But you make hydrogen fuels with fossil fuels! And it is immensely cheaper to just use the fossil fuels at the get-go, and jettison hydrogen altogether.

Folks, there IS no free lunch!

is serious about zero-emissions electricity is serious about nuclear power.

Anyone.

are starting to prevail in Japan.

In a reversal, the new policy says nuclear power provides stable output and serves “an important role as a carbon-free baseload energy source in achieving supply stability and carbon neutrality” and pledges to “sustain use of nuclear power into the future”.