Reply #4: Really? Like Amory Lovin's backyard molten salt solar plants? [View All]

[NNadir]

Oh well.

It's sort of like the anti-nuke fundie's "nuclear power is dead" hoax.

Most anti-nukes have very, very, very, very selective criteria for attention to "hoaxes."

Directly storing sunlight or wind—or, for that matter, electricity
from any source— is indeed difficult on a large scale. But it is easy if
done on a scale and in an energy quality matched to most end-use
needs. Daily, even seasonal, storage of low- and medium-temperature
heat at the point of use is straightforward with water tanks, rock beds,
or perhaps fusible salts. Neighborhood heat storage is even cheaper.
In industry, wind-generated compressed air can easily (and, with due
care, safely) be stored to operate machinery: the technology is simple,
cheap, reliable and highly developed.

-Amory Lovins, "The Road Not Taken, <em>Foreign Affairs</em> pg 83, October 1976.

Um Amory? Can we buy one at Walmart?

The number of new types of nuclear reactors required to make nuclear power the world's largest, by far, source of climate change gas free energy: Zero.

The number of back yard fusible salt solar toys to make solar energy get to one exajoule:

Several million.

Of course, the fact that Amory Lovins has always been a paid (off) hoax has not effected a single anti-nuke a whit. They are still in a cult that is trying to destroy the world's largest climate change gas free form of energy because, well, they are dolts.

Rod has some very, very, very, very enlightening comments on Uncle Amory, by the way.

No one could suffer from reading Rod's writings, of course, but I rather think that the members of the anti-nuke cult read Rod Adams the same way that other fundies, like Kurt Wise for instance, reads geology texts.