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So as the nephew of nuclear power plant engineer, that means I'm the in-house expert & last word? *NM* Cannoli Send a noteboard - 19/04/2019 04:08:45 AM

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The real reason they hate solar and wind, is that it means the "hippies" may be right for the hippies were advocating for those things 4 decades ago.

Now people who are "not hippies" admit Global Warming is real but they still hate "solar and wind" for it was a "symbol, a sacred cow" they associate with those dirty vile hippies.

By advocating for Nuclear they can say they are against the Hippies and they can have the "emotional pride" saying they were right all the time.

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My point here is people use symbols and passions all the time and it is not limited to one side. 98% of the people who are talking about the economics of solar, wind, nuclear, do not know the numbers and instead they are just advocating for what they think is the best symbols for their goals.

98% of the people are not engineers, or accounts, and do not have the "specialized" knowledge which will actually be needed to solve the problem, yet these 98% of the people are convinced that there side is right and their side is just.


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The Real Reason They Hate Nuclear Is Because It Means We Don't Need Renewables The Shrike - 18/04/2019 07:33:37 PM 852 Views
It would be even better if more widely adopted. LiterateDog - 18/04/2019 07:44:28 PM 462 Views
And according to Stan Lee, we will get superheroes out of it! *NM* Cannoli - 19/04/2019 03:55:21 AM 220 Views
Definitely agreed. The Shrike - 19/04/2019 01:08:14 PM 456 Views
I agree with a lot of this, though there's also stuff that irks me. Legolas - 18/04/2019 08:56:01 PM 491 Views
Re: I agree with a lot of this, though there's also stuff that irks me. Cannoli - 19/04/2019 03:53:24 AM 452 Views
Re: I agree with a lot of this, though there's also stuff that irks me. Legolas - 19/04/2019 06:56:30 PM 450 Views
You keep making points better than I could. I agree with your criticisms of the article. *NM* Ghavrel - 19/04/2019 10:07:10 AM 216 Views
True The Shrike - 19/04/2019 01:07:06 PM 471 Views
I'd say yes, but the devil is in the details... *NM* Legolas - 19/04/2019 06:57:07 PM 231 Views
Do you think the GND would have been proposed or even cooked up if the president was a Democrat ? AgentApple - 20/04/2019 05:04:47 PM 424 Views
I assume then there would've been a less half-baked plan, indeed. Legolas - 24/04/2019 06:20:52 PM 422 Views
I've never really connected the two... Jeordam - 18/04/2019 10:32:34 PM 458 Views
I never had much regard for that argument Cannoli - 19/04/2019 04:02:12 AM 471 Views
The real reason they hate solar and wind Roland00 - 19/04/2019 03:04:44 AM 445 Views
So as the nephew of nuclear power plant engineer, that means I'm the in-house expert & last word? *NM* Cannoli - 19/04/2019 04:08:45 AM 216 Views
You are the last word if we want to have a productive internet discussion Roland00 - 19/04/2019 04:18:08 AM 441 Views
They didn't mention the oil & coal industries. Cannoli - 19/04/2019 04:07:16 AM 480 Views
We still lack a long-term nuclear waste repository. Vodalus - 19/04/2019 08:10:23 AM 528 Views
No, we don't lack it. You pointed that out. Yucca Mountain is perfect. Tom - 23/04/2019 02:20:06 AM 434 Views
There's no political willpower to fund it. Until that changes we have no repository for n-waste. *NM* Vodalus - 23/04/2019 07:46:10 AM 236 Views
Doesn't matter what the "willpower" is. We have it The Shrike - 23/04/2019 07:18:27 PM 472 Views
The checkbooks. Kind of hard to do anything without someone having the “will” to pay for it. *NM* Dunstan - 23/04/2019 08:34:58 PM 208 Views
The Republicans aren't the enemy. They're the opposition... Roland00 - 23/04/2019 09:02:30 PM 425 Views
The facility was never completed. Vodalus - 23/04/2019 11:08:27 PM 484 Views
I don't think that it would take that long to complete. Dakaling - 24/04/2019 10:59:35 AM 513 Views
The other part of creating new nuclear facilities will probably take longer than this part. *NM* Roland00 - 24/04/2019 07:27:40 PM 195 Views
The Left wants to establish a direct connection between climate change and the evils of capitalism damookster - 20/04/2019 12:13:49 AM 422 Views
Perhaps it is the opposite? Roland00 - 20/04/2019 01:10:18 AM 435 Views
Perhaps not damookster - 20/04/2019 04:17:34 AM 438 Views
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