jedrider wrote:Nothing to worry about: Life is improving all the time! The money supply is increasing all the time!
I was responding to a
particular claim that is simply
not factual. Responding with straw-man attacks like the following does you no credit.
Crashes don't happen anymore. The climate crash has been banished by the Trump administration - we only need to go out to 2050 for our climate models now, by Presidential decree.
I take climate change very seriously, which is why just today I was summarising the following video from a panel of experts to show the only real answer is nuclear.
FIVE POINTS AGAINST RENEWABLES:-
Marc Jacobson's famous 100% renewables plan for America calls for:-
* 5 Megawatt wind turbines standing 100 meters tall. How many? Only half a MILLION of them! Yup, 500,000 gigantic wind turbines.
* 18 BILLION square meters of Solar PV panels, with an eventual replacement and recycling volume (starting in 25 years) of about 1.23 MILLION solar panels recycled every single day, forever!
* These will be scattered into about 50,000 wind and solar farms scattered across America.
* 75 MILLION residential rooftop systems
* Will cost over $15.2 TRILLION dollars (plus backup and storage which could take it out to over $22 TRILLION) and take till 2050.
5 POINTS FOR MOLTEN SALT REACTORS:-
* But if America just built MOLTEN SALT REACTORS they would build 1515 GW of factory-built MSRs exactly where the power is needed.
* It would cost $3 TRILLION.
* But if MSR's aren't ready yet build today's AP1000's to get the job done at about $6.7 TRILLION and then in 60 years switch to the perfected breeder reactor, whether MSR or IFR.
* Molten Salt Reactors CANNOT melt down as they are already a liquid, have other passive safety features like overheating liquid fuel expanding as it heats to spread atoms out that then cannot fission, and of course being a breeder reactor the MSR 'eats' nuclear waste.
Job done. Break out the beers. 24 minute youtube by the panel of experts here:
http://tinyurl.com/yxqbak8u* In addition to the video above, I've been reading Dr James Hansen, and abandoned my hatred of nuclear power. Hansen is *the* climatologist that diagnosed our climate problem — but he says believing in 100% renewables is like believing in the Easter Bunny or Tooth Fairy. Renewables are intermittent and too unreliable to do the job. It's nuclear power or climate change.
https://tinyurl.com/yclaf2sn