[Dilbert San Diego]

No, no. Greta shreiked “how dare you” at us. That’s it, end of discussion. Greta has weighed in, and some Democrat presidential candidates praised her message and courage.

[EnglishOnly]

Nuclear Power was/is/will always be the Energy for the 21st Century.

[ctdonath2]

Solar nets 10 watts per square meter (give or take a fraction).
That’s it.

Ergo 1 square mile for 25 megawatts.

Math accordingly.

[CincyRichieRich]

Yes, it defies all those variables of logic...so...STOP looking at climate change in those terms.

Atheists and the Godless, are those true believers in climate change...it is their religion and cause, sans any presence of God, much less, Jesus.

So if someone questioned you religion, what would you say?

That’s why.

[RayChuang88]

A HUGE issue few people want to tackle is how to store all the power generated by solar and wind power for times when the Sun is not up and wind speeds are not appropriate for wind turbines to operate. It may be a couple of decades until power storage systems are reasonably cheap and viable.

[BuffaloJack]

Just start collecting unicorn farts as a renewable energey source.

[Secretmtcman1]

As I’ve said before. Our energy supply needs are like a cake. All wind and solar can ever be of be is the frosting.

[from occupied ga]

While the article accurately points out the many flaws of the so-called renewable energy sources, the authors are obviously not as familiar with fusion as he should be. Practical usion power has been a couple of decades away for the last 50 years. plus the authors state

There is no significant waste

This is NOT true. Various fusion reactions occur at different temperatures, The easiest to achieve is tritium/deuterium. This releases a neutron which then goes onto activate something. The first likely thing to be activated is whatever the shell material is surrounding the plasma. Lithium would be good insomuch as it produced tritium whe hit with a neutron, but its far to soft and has way too low a melting point to be the material that provides the first wall of the reactor, so while the reaction itself doesn't product radioactive isotopes as residual waste, it produces copious quantities of neutrons that go on to transmute everything in the vicinity into radioactive isotopes. Neutron bombardment also mechanically degrades materials so the life of the fusion reactor itself it not going to be particularly long.

[_Jim]

re: “The Rush To Renewable Energy Defies Science, Economics, And Common Sense”

AND ignores the continued progress of Dr. Randell L. Mills ...

[USS Alaska]

The use of nuclear power, natural gas, oil and coal will power the demands for generations to come.

When the next, cost efficient method is discovered/developed the world population will adopt it with no gummint force, because it is cost efficient.

People are smart and make decisions that benefit themselves.

PERIOD.

[William Tell]

My daughter's house next door is thirty years younger than mine and much more efficient. The walls were built using two-by-sixes instead of two-by-fours so that extra insulation could be installed. Her house stores the cooler night air and stays cool all day. Mine yields to the heat on the hotter days at around 6pm.

Years ago I disable the heating in my all-electric house when our monthly bill exceeded 275 dollars. Since then we built a sun-room addition which provides solar heating to the interior during the winter and additional insulation from summer heat.

I don't think the average home in the U.S. has exhausted all of the possible energy reductions that technology will make available. I'm slowly replacing incandescent and florescent bulbs with LEDs.

I recall that prognosticators were predicting that New York City was going to fail due to the build up of horse manure in their streets. The predictions completely failed to predict electrical distribution and gas-powered vehicles.

If our so-called educators wanted to educate our youth to the resilience of human beings, they could do so. It simply doesn't fit their agenda.

I'm pretty sure that my ninth-grade English teacher, Mister Hurley, has passed on by now. I thank him for the wisdom he showed in educating his students in the use of propaganda. It's really pretty easy to spot once you learn the tricks such as the appeal to emotion and the intentional exaggerations. Thank you, Mister Hurley.