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NNadir

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4. Decades of these kinds of momentary 100% reports demonstrate...
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 10:22 AM
11 hrs ago

...precisely why so called "renewable energy" is a useless affectation.

If nothing else they demonstrate why the atmospheric collapse is accelerating since this expensive unsustainable junk is unreliable and capricious.

It's 2026. I've personally been hearing this "percent talk" for decades while observing, almost daily, the concentration of the dangerous fossil fuel waste rising faster and faster. We hit, for the first time ever, a daily concentration reading over 433 ppm on Monday at the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory. It was under 370 ppm at the dawn of this century.

The enthusiasm for so called "renewable energy" has nothing to do with arresting the use of fossil fuels. In fact it depends on access to fossil fuels. It was, is, and will remain until the last forest burns all about attacking the last best hope of humanity, nuclear power.

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We could learn a lot from our European friends if we would get our head out of our ass. walkingman 12 hrs ago #1
It has NOTHING to do with our heads up our asses. Conjuay 11 hrs ago #2
Both are true. yardwork 11 hrs ago #6
Scotland regularly generates an electricity surplus over its own requirements Emrys 11 hrs ago #3
Decades of these kinds of momentary 100% reports demonstrate... NNadir 11 hrs ago #4
This isn't a "momentary" surplus, nor is it unreliable. Emrys 11 hrs ago #7
Nonsense. It isn't rocket science to understand that the wind doesn't blow continuously. NNadir 10 hrs ago #9
I was just thinking the other day I hadn't seen an NNadir pro-nuke post in awhile AZJonnie 9 hrs ago #10
Wind power will only prolong our dependence on fossil fuels. hunter 9 hrs ago #13
Yes I've read many dozens of NNadir's posts over the years, you don't have to get me up to speed AZJonnie 9 hrs ago #15
The best ways to halt human population growth are not coercive. hunter 7 hrs ago #16
Nuclear power will have a similar effect Emrys 7 hrs ago #18
Low wind and no sunshine cause renewable energy shutdowns constantly. hunter 4 hrs ago #20
Hence my emphasis throughout on a MIX of resources Emrys 3 hrs ago #23
Bullshit. Hickley C will be saving lives half a century after every wind turbine in Scotland has become landfill. NNadir 3 hrs ago #21
Oh, bullshit yourself. Emrys 3 hrs ago #24
Nonsense yourself. I think you fit very well the description of an ideologue Emrys 9 hrs ago #12
Could it be that's what the fossil fuel industry wants you to think? hunter 7 hrs ago #17
I don't know why you think that. Emrys 7 hrs ago #19
Human ingenuity sometimes (not often, but sometimes) Torchlight 11 hrs ago #5
really good DoBW 11 hrs ago #8
They will need to be bombed over this and their regime changed. Too threatening to Big Oil. (SARCASM). artemisia1 9 hrs ago #11
Gee. Who WOULDN'T want that for the USA and planet earth? Kid Berwyn 9 hrs ago #14
Wouldn't it be great to read, United States of America temporarily ran entirely on wind power... Passages 3 hrs ago #22
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