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NNadir

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14. Bullshit. They don't stop pumping when the wind isn't blowing and the sun isn't shining.

Thu Jul 10, 2025, 09:56 AM

Jul 10

However, it is true that the industries are intimately connected inasmuch as the advertising and trillion dollars squandered on solar and wind has done zero to arrest the use of fossil fuels.

So called "renewable energy" has always been lipstick on the fossil fuel pig.

Wind and solar are trivial forms of energy that can't match, after close to half a century of tiresome bullshit, in their total output (in units of energy, the Exajoule) the annual growth in the use of dangerous fossil fuels.

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This is good news for renewable energy [View all] Old Crank Jul 10 OP

G.O.P. will hate on this BoRaGard Jul 10 #1

GOP response, vibrations from turbines killing dolphins. Emile Jul 10 #2

And are making the whales gay! newdeal2 Jul 10 #9

And the Dolphins transsexual airplaneman Jul 10 #16

😱😱 electric_blue68 Friday #21

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I get the riff on the windmills, but it isn't silly to expect that some marine impact studies would be done... hlthe2b Jul 10 #12

However, so called "renewable energy" isn't good news for the planet. NNadir Jul 10 #3

It was time to wake up years ago MadameButterfly Jul 10 #4

I disagree emphatically. Nuclear energy is the only acceptable form of energy. NNadir Jul 10 #6

The opposite is likewise true: the oil/gas industry (esp TX) is increasingly reliant on wind/solar for oil field pumps. hlthe2b Jul 10 #13

Bullshit. They don't stop pumping when the wind isn't blowing and the sun isn't shining. NNadir Jul 10 #14

I never said they did. Bullshit right back to you! Tell it to Reuters and others reporting on it. hlthe2b Jul 10 #15

Abuse is what pro-fossil fuel posters do, it's their schtick... Think. Again. Friday #28

Oh, look, it's Mr Atoms. I do reserve the right to change my mind about nuclear power, but not so far. electric_blue68 Friday #23

There are people who care to see, and people who love being blind. I am, of course, know which I have chosen to be. NNadir Friday #25

nuclear is the way forward purple_haze Jul 10 #5

It is definitely ONE OF the clean energy technologies we will need to transition to. Think. Again. Friday #29

Current human population is 8.2 billion. multigraincracker Jul 10 #7

Bingo we have a winner. The Elephant in the room airplaneman Jul 10 #17

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Yep, humanity is overcrowding the planet like an invasive species. Think. Again. Friday #30

If we don't, nature has a way of doing it for us. multigraincracker Friday #40

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Didn't President Jimmy Carter Mtnmama Jul 10 #8

They were solar water heating panels. NBachers Jul 10 #11

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I was marching for renewables back in the mid 1980's. Effing Ray-gun. electric_blue68 Friday #22

What is the cost ....... dumbcat Jul 10 #10

Don't know. Since this was a pilot project. Old Crank Friday #27

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How is this trashing it? Old Crank Friday #26

Once upon a time that bit of ocean was a wild place. hunter Friday #37

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That would be good. Old Crank Friday #39

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