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The brainwashing by the renewables industry has been very effective. When debating with a friend over the intermittent and weak wind and solar "farms" and how they will always need 100% back up from conventional fuels, the friend was not swayed one bit. "Even if they don't work, they're a symbol of what we should be doing." That was the response. If all those renewable subsidies had been sunk into nuclear power, we'd be eons ahead of the game. Nuclear waste must be recycled, as France is doing, and small modular reactors need to be build the way Russia is building and selling them now.

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Don Runkle's avatar

John,

Renewable has always been a strange and mostly poorly defined word. It amused me during the “peak oil crisis” that every time we studied oil reserves, we found we had more oil than the last time we studied it (lots of reasons for this). One explanation might be that fossil fuel production is higher than our use. Plants and animals still die everyday and yes, evil CO2 gets absorbed everyday…all of which eventually turn into evil fossil fuels…oil, coal, gas, etc. Thus, fossil fuels must be renewable.and the result of natural CO2 absorption….maybe one might call this nature’s sequestration. Where do the pseudo scientists think fossil fuels come from…some alien visiting Earth eons ago and inserting them into Earth?

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